April 2022 - Version 3.62

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Breaking Changes

Event Preview Page Update

The ability to switch between languages within an Event Preview page is now available. Users can switch between languages (translations) within an Event Preview by using the same method (language picklist) they use when viewing an Event Page URL.

Enhancements

Front End

• The title “Session registration” on the AttendeeLink was updated to “Session Registration”.

• The following changes only apply to Translations using Google’s API:

  • If a Source Language is set on the Event Settings, the Event Page URL will automatically be displayed in that language. Language can be changed by the Language Selector (if enabled).
  • If a Source Language is NOT set on the Event Setting, then the Event Page URL will automatically be displayed in the language related to the user’s browser locale setting. Language can be changed by the Language Selector (if enabled).
  • If a Source Language is set on the Event Setting related to an Event Group, then the Event Group URL will automatically be displayed in that language. Language can be changed by the Language Selector (if enabled).
  • If a Source Language is NOT set on the Event Setting related to an Event Group, then the Event Group URL will automatically be displayed in the language related to the user’s browser locale setting. Language can be changed by the Language Selector (if enabled).

Static Translations Feature

When an Attendee selects a language on the Event Page URL, all records related to that language will be queried. Each Translation Salesforce record has a lookup to the related Events’ object; for example, Event, Speaker, Event Item, Sponsor, and Form Element.

Back End

• When using the Event Item screen in the Event Wizard, the user will see that the heading “Session” has been changed to “Sessions”.
• To maintain consistency between front-end functionality and Salesforce, the following fields on Event Settings have been deprecated and replaced with Data Dictionary entries:
  • Attendee Label
  • Contact Us Label
  • Content Label
  • FAQ Label
  • Pay Later Label
  • Session Label
  • Speaker Label
  • Sponsor Label
  • Venue Label
  • Waitlist Label
  • Wifi Label

Donations & Products

• Three new fields were added to Donations and Products.
  • Event Item Type on the Line Item. This field shows the type of Event Item.
  • Donated on the Attendee. This field is a Checkbox.
  • Purchased Products on the Attendee. This field is a Checkbox.
• Two record page tabs, titled “Donations” and “Products,” were added to the Event page layout. All Donations and Products purchased will include the following fields on these record page tabs: Line Item Name, Attendee, Attendee Full Name, Event, and Unit Price.
  

Donations

• If an Event includes a free Event Item (Ticket) and a Donation Event Item, a Payment Gateway is required in order to publish the Event.
• If a Donation is added on the Event Item, it will be carried to the Line Item on the Invoice.
• The following updates have been made to the checkout process for Donations.
  • The Event Item Type for a Donation is “Donation”.
  • Registrants can either choose from a list of pre-selected amounts or enter a unique amount for a Donation.
  • Images are now supported during checkout.
  • A Donation’s information is added to a selected Attendee when the Donation is added to the cart.
  • If a Donations’s information has not been added to an Attendee, the Donation’s Information will be added to the first Attendee.
  • Donation data will be added to the checkout payload.
  • Custom Forms are supported for Donations (they are not supported for Products).
• A new field was added to Event Settings. The picklist field is Create Opportunities For Donations (create_opportunities_for_donations_c), and the default setting is “No”.
• If Create Opportunities For Donations is set to “Yes” in the Event Settings, an Opportunity record will be created for each Event Item where Type = “Donation”.
• Each new Opportunity will include the following information:
  • Account Name = Attendee or Donor full name
  • Close Date = date the Donation was made
  • Amount = amount of the Donation
  • Opportunity Owner

Products

• If a Product is added on the Event Item, it will be carried to the Line Item on the Invoice.
• The following updates have been made to the checkout process for Products.
  • The Event Item Type for a Product is “Other”.
  • Images are now supported during checkout.
  • A Product’s information is added to a selected Attendee when the Product is added to the cart.
  • If a Product’s information has not been added to an Attendee, the Product’s Information will be added to the first Attendee.

Static Translations Feature

• The following sections are available on the Translations object:
  • Event Translation Fields
  • Event Item Translation Fields
  • Session Translation Fields
  • Form Translation Fields
  • Form Element Translation Fields
  • Form Element Condition Translation Fields
  • Form Big List Option Translation Fields
  • Speaker Translation Fields
  • Sponsor Translation Fields
  • Track Translation Fields
  • Custom Event Tab Translation Fields
  • Event Content Translation Fields
  • Event FAQ Translation Fields
  • FAQ Category Translation Fields
  • FAQ Question Translation Fields
  • Keywords Translation Fields
• If an Event Admin tries to create a duplicate Translation record from a related record with the same Language, they will be unable to save the record and will receive the following error message. “Only one Translation record can be created per parent record and language, such as one Translation per Session’s or Event Item’s language.”
• The Language field is a required field on the Translation record.
• When an Event Admin creates a Translation record from a record related to an Event, both the Event lookup and the parent record lookup record are set automatically.
• After creating a Translation record from a record related to an Event, the user will be blocked from setting more than one lookup on that Translation record.
• Forms, Form Elements, Form Element Condition, Form Big list Option, and Keywords cannot have the Event lookup since each of the items listed can be used by multiple Events.

Bug Fixes

Front End

• To prevent an Attendee from registering for an Event that occurred in the past, the ticket selector on the ticket selection page will be disabled if the Event has expired.
• Registrants will no longer be able to try to register for an Event with a GoToWebinar when the Event and webinar are in the past.
• If an Attendee registered for a Session that is now Sold Out and later navigates to their AttendeeLink, the button next to the Session will now say Registered. The Attendee can click the Registered button to cancel the registration.
• Attendees will now be able to register for an Event when the Event Item has a custom value for Type.
• After an Attendee registers for the last ticket for a Session, the Quantity Remaining for that Session will update correctly to “0” in Salesforce, and future registrants will see that the Session is “Sold Out”.
• If the UI Experience set to “Full-Width“, and a potential Attendee first clicks the AttendeeLink and then clicks No in the banner to decline the invitation, the Attendee’s prefilled information will be deleted from checkout. The Checkout Form is now ready for a new individual to register for the Event.
• The “Waitlist Only” label will now only appear when the Maximum Quantity of tickets is equal to the Purchased Quantity of tickets and the Waitlist Enabled box has been checked.
• A deleted Event that is part of an Event Group will no longer appear on the Event Group page.
• Conditional Form Elements/Conditional Questions that were added to an Event will appear in the pre-determined order when an Attendee completes the checkout process.
• Community Users with the relevant permissions can now upload an Event Banner (image) via the Event Wizard.
• When using Spreedly to register for an Event on an Apple mobile device, the registrant will now be able to input their credit card and CSV numbers.
• Discount Codes applied to unpaid Event Registration Invoices will now correctly apply only to the applicable Events Items based on the related Code Eligibilities.

UI Experience

• When a user opens an Event Group’s calendar, where the Event Group UI is set to “Calendar”, the calendar will default to the current date/month instead of a previously used date/month.
• When the UI Experience is set to “Full-Width”, the Event End Date will be added to the Event Page URL if the Event End Date is different from the Event Start Date.
• For Events with the UI Experience set to “Full-Width” and an Event Item that has a Sales End Date in the past, the Event Page URL will now include a “Sale ended Sales End Date” message.
• The page title in the browser tab for an Event with the UI Experience set to “Full-Width” will now be ”Overview ⋮ (name of the event) ⋮ Blackthorn ⋮ Events” to match the format of the Simple UI and Tabbed UI.
• In the Full-Width UI, when an Attendee starts the check-out process for an Event Item that is not on sale yet, the warning, "Event Item not available for checkout" will now be displayed.
• If a user creates an Event Item with a Public Item Name in the Simple UI and then deletes the Public Item Name, the accompanying star symbol will also be removed.
• If the UI Experience is set to “Simple” and an Event has an Event Item with the Sales Start Date and Sales End Date set in the future, the Sales Start Date will be visible on the Event Page URL.
• If the UI Experience is set to “Simple” and an Event has an Event Item with the Sales Start Date and Sales End Date set in the past, the Sales End Date will be visible on the Event Page URL.
• To ensure ERS records process correctly when the UI Experience is set to “Simple” and a field on an Event Item is set to required, Attendees will be unable to complete the checkout process until all required fields are filled.
• When the UI Experience is set to “Aspen” and the registrant clicks on an Event Group URL, they can now select any number of the available keywords.
• An Image URL added to an Event record will now display correctly within the margins when the UI Experience is set to “Simple”.

Back End

• The Post Event Questions field on the Attendee record will be updated automatically when the Post Event Questions field is changed on the Event record.
• Timezone mapping from MST to MT was removed from Event records using GMT -7 (Arizona/Phoenix) since Arizona does not switch to MDT.
• The Date Format and Show 24 Hour Time Format options chosen for the Event Settings will be applied to both the Event and the Event’s Sessions.
• If an Event’s Capacity is set to “0” and the Waitlist is also set to “0”, a user will not be able to register for the Event. When the Capacity is set to “0”, the Event will be treated as sold out.
• Form Elements will no longer reorder themselves after their Sort Order has been set by an Admin.
  Note: If two Questions on a Form Element have the same Sort Order position, the Question added first will be shown first.
  Known Bug: On the “Form Preview“ section, if a Question’s card is dragged to the right, it will disappear. Until the page is reloaded, the custom sort order can not be saved and the Question’s card can not be recovered.
• After an Attendee registers for a paid Event, the Customer field on the Invoice will now be populated with the name entered in the Name on Card field of the Payment Information section during checkout.
• Turning off the Payment Gateway Customer Matching/Duplicate Rules in Payments will prevent errors from occurring and ensure the Contact’s Primary Email is defined on the Attendee record and Invoice.
• Users can now register an Attendee from either a Lead or Contact object via the Attendee Registration Lightning component.
• A Failed ERS record will no longer occur when an Attendee registers for an Event and the Attendee’s Full Name is marked as “Required” on the Event Item.
• When changing the selected font in the Font field on the Event Setting to a new font in the Font dropdown, the Event Page URL will now reflect the new font.
• The Country Code will now appear on the Phone dropdown list on the Attendee Registration Component like it does on the registration form during checkout.
• If an Event is added to an Event Group, the Error: 2006 will no longer appear when the Event is viewed on the staging domain.
• Clicking the Send Email button on an Event will now allow users to create an email template and send it en masse to the Event’s Attendees.
• If an Image URL for an Event is invalid, the Event Name will no longer appear in the Image Section.

Permission Sets

• Users with the Blackthorn | Events (Limited Access) permission set now have Read/Edit access on All Event Object Fields (except formula fields).
• When a user with either the Blackthorn | Events Admin or Blackthorn | Events (Organizer) permission set, the Events preview tab will open successfully.

Event Wizard

• After adding the first Speaker to an Event in the Event Wizard and using the “+” sign in the top right corner to add additional new Speakers, the Search for Contacts field will be blank.

Donations and Products

• Ticket Type = “Main event ticket” must be included in the Event Items in order to publish an Event with either a Donation Event Item and/or a Product Event Item.

Field, Object, and Layout Changes

New

• Three new fields were added to Donations and Products.
  • Event Item Type on the Line Item. This field shows the type of Event Item.
  • Donated on the Attendee. This field is a Checkbox.
  • Purchased Products on the Attendee. This field is a Checkbox.
• The following sections are available on the Translations object:
  • Event Translation Fields
  • Event Item Translation Fields
  • Session Translation Fields
  • Form Translation Fields
  • Form Element Translation Fields
  • Form Element Condition Translation Fields
  • Form Big List Option Translation Fields
  • Speaker Translation Fields
  • Sponsor Translation Fields
  • Track Translation Fields
  • Custom Event Tab Translation Fields
  • Event Content Translation Fields
  • Event FAQ Translation Fields
  • FAQ Category Translation Fields
  • FAQ Question Translation Fields
  • Keywords Translation Fields

Deprecated

• The Event Item Purchase object and its related fields have been deprecated.
• To maintain consistency between front-end functionality and Salesforce, the following fields on Event Settings have been deprecated and replaced with Data Dictionary entries:
  • Attendee Label
  • Contact Us Label
  • Content Label
  • FAQ Label
  • Pay Later Label
  • Session Label
  • Speaker Label
  • Sponsor Label
  • Venue Label
  • Waitlist Label
  • Wifi Label

Mobile Check-In App

Enhancements

• Users can log out of the Mobile Check-in app by returning to the Events menu screen, swiping from left to right to bring up the main Menu, and then tapping Log Out. A new user can then log in to the app. This process will also re-authenticate a user when the OAuth has expired.

Bug Fixes

• After a photo is added to the Attendee Badge in the Mobile Check-in app, the Print button will now work correctly.
• An Attendee’s Title and Company will now be visible on the individual’s Mobile Check-in App badge if the toggle is turned on in the Badge Settings.
• To ensure a Mobile Check-in badge’s information scales correctly and the paper’s width and height measurements change the badge size, the following updates were made.
  • The html2canvas package was upgraded.
  • The div element was replaced with the img element for displaying the profile photo.
  • An invisible border was added to specify the exact printable area.
• When there are multiple Events in an Event Group with the same start date and the UI Experience is set to “Calendar”, the Events will now be aligned to the left.
• To prevent timeout errors when large amounts of data are being processed on force-refresh requests, the following update has been made. If the API request takes longer than 25 seconds, it will send a response to the user containing the data that has been cached so far, and it will continue to process the remainder of the data in the background. For requests that take less than 25 seconds, the data will be returned as soon as the process is complete.
• When viewing an Event Group URL on a mobile browser, Events with very long names will be displayed with ellipses at the end of the available space if the name is too long.
• Indentation changes made to the text in the Description field of an Event will now display correctly when viewing the Event Page URL.
• Only published Events in a recurring Event series will be visible on the Event Page URL. Unpublished Events in the recurring Event series will not be visible.
• When registering for an Event with Create Opportunity From Checkout enabled on the Event Setting record, the Opportunity Lookup field on the Transaction record will now be populated, and the Transaction record will be linked to the Opportunity record.
• When the UI Experience is set to “Tabbed”, previously added Sponsors with a Status set to “Confirmed” will be visible on the Event Page URL’s Sponsors tab whether or not there is an image.
• When an Event is in an Event Group with the UI Experience set to “Aspen”, the Event Name will now appear directly under the Event image on the Event Group page.
• The positioning of the Profile Image and QR Code on a badge is now adjustable when the badge is printed on an iOS device.

Admin Upgrade Instructions

To upgrade Events to the newest version, go to the Blackthorn Candy Shop.

Blackthorn has adopted Salesforce’s managed package installer to simplify the installation process.

Since Payments is already installed, the installer will install Base Package and make sure the correct version of Payments is installed before installing Events.

For step-by-step instructions, click here.

Testing

From now until 05/24/22, the directions below will teach you how to test the new front-end features, enhancements, and bug fixes until they are automatically pushed.

To Do
You will need to replace the Event Page and AttendeeLink URLs 'events.blackthorn.io' domain to a test domain.

TEST DOMAIN: https://preview.events.blackthorn.io/

For example, when you create your attendee, an AttendeeLink URL is generated with the "events.blackthorn.io" domain like this one:

https://events.blackthorn.io/2E12oua7/attendee/ty2W6t9awokrDMaLWi8Mf4sLMedhdrWSBHw6HS7kqVnJ0kKmCK63yl0IxWpbAUBo

You'll then click on the attendee URL so it opens in a new page. Remove "events.blackthorn.io" and replace it with "preview.events.blackthorn.io" so it looks like this:

https://preview.events.blackthorn.io/2E12oua7/attendee/ty2W6t9awokrDMaLWi8Mf4sLMedhdrWSBHw6HS7kqVnJ0kKmCK63yl0IxWpbAUBo

If you have any questions about this or need help with testing, please don't hesitate to reach out to us through our support form.