Release notes:

Includes new “Impersonate Member” feature, asset/image share restrictions and enhanced video capabilities.

Status: Released
Release date: BTv4.0.32 – 13 May 2024, v.33 – 31 May,
v.34 – 2 July 2024, v.35 – 1 August 2024

Impersonate Member

Task 1081 – Umbraco Member Login package

The new “Impersonate Member” feature allows site Administrators to log into and experience the frontend as another member.

In “impersonation mode”, the Administrator will only see the pages, images and assets that that member is allowed to view and/or download.

This is a particularly good tool to troubleshoot any issues the member may have accessing content. It’s also very useful for experiencing the site as a member of a particular member group. In this scenario, an Administrator can simply create several accounts under different member groups and view the frontend content that that member group would see — without needing to log in/out of their other membership.

For further info, view the Brand Toolbox “Impersonate Member” user guide page.

 

Table of Contents

Task 1106 – Contents Page SubList (sort order)

The new “Contents Page Sub List” macro enables you to add a Table of Contents listing the published sub-pages of the page the macro is added to.

Prior to 1 August 2024, there were no options available on this macro (e.g. adding the macro created a contents page sub list in “Z scan” order). However, the macro now allows you to choose between two options:

For further info, view the Brand Toolbox “Rich text editor > Macros” user guide page.

 

Video sizing

Task 1104 – On-page video macro width

The on-page video macro should now automatically resize the video player to the column or table cell width. If the video does not automatically resize, we’ve added a resize field to allow editors to set a video width.

Only the video width in pixels (whole numbers only) needs to be entered if wanting to downsize the video proportionately within the column or table cell.

For further info, view the Brand Toolbox “On-page video playback” user guide page.

 

Asset & image sharing

Task 1074 – Turn off “Share asset/image” device

Several customers have requested if the ability for logged in members to share assets and/or images with external members can be turned off, and we have complied with a configurable setting.

Toggling the “Allow Image/Asset Share” property “ON” allows logged-in members to share Photo/Asset library images and/or assets with external (non logged-in) people.

When toggled “OFF”, all image and/or asset share buttons across the site will now be hidden.

For further info, view the following Brand Toolbox user guide pages:

• Photo library settings > Allow Image Sharing
• Asset library settings > Allow Asset Sharing

 

Reset records dashboard

Tasks 1058 & 1080 – Dashboard: Clear records and member notifications

Enhance the backoffice dashboard to purge (clear) the following additional user records:

• Clear asset and image lightboxes
  Allows the Administrator to clear the stored Asset & Image library lightboxes. Purging items will delete both member lightboxes and lightboxes other members have shared with them.
• Clear image and asset request records
  Allows the Administrator to clear any asset download requests or requests for high or low resolution non-watermarked images made by members who do not have permissions to access them. Once purged, the granted access rights will no longer be available.

For further info, view the Brand Toolbox “Reset records” user guide page.

Task 1095 – Members list view changes

The list view on the Members screen now displays the following additional data:

• Last login date (date and time member last logged in)
• Verified status (has the email address been verified)