Release 15 - May 2008
The following product changes were introduced in Release 15:
New Features:
Comment Permissions
- Site administrators can now determine who can add comments to their site by using the Administrator Settings page, found under Site Settings.
- The following options are available:
- Administrators and members can comment.
- Administrators, members, and guests can comment.
- You can save your search criteria and share it with others by clicking on the 'Link to this page' link. It will generate a URL that you can post anywhere on your site.
- Search results can now be viewed in either a List or Thumbnail view. You can also select the size of the thumbnails.
- Prior to this release, when you joined a site, your personal preferences were automatically set to the default settings (i.e. Display personal information, Daily Site Notifications, etc.). To change the settings, you would have to go to the My Memberships page.
- Now, when you visit a myfamily.com site for the first time, a screen will appear that allows you to set your nickname, choose your notification preferences and determine whether or not to display your email address, mailing address, phone number or birth date.
- Before, only site administrators could remove people from sites. You can now remove yourself from a myfamily.com site by going to the My Memberships page and clicking on the "Remove me from this site" link for the site you'd like to be removed from.
- Before, if you were the last site administrator of a free myfamily.com site, you could not remove yourself from that site. Now you can, and removing yourself from the site will also delete that site.
- If you are the last site administrator of a paid myfamily.com site, you will need to contact Customer Support to delete your site.
- When you view a single photo from an album of photos, you'll now get additional album details. This includes the album name and links to start the slideshow, set the photo as the album cover and remove the photo from the album.
- You can now add a photo to an album straight from the single photo view page by clicking on the "Add to album" link under Photo Options. Before, you could only add photos to an album from the All Photos page.
- All site administrators and members can now add photos to any album on the site. Before, the only people who could add a photo to an album were site administrators and the person who created the album.
- The options that used to appear below an item on the single item view page have been moved to the right side of the screen to increase their visibility to users.
- When viewing a single item, the avatar of the person who added it is now also displayed. If you click on that avatar or name, you'll be taken to a search results page that shows you all the items of that type added by that person. This works for photos, videos, discussions, SnapGenies and files.
- When adding photos, videos and files to your myfamily.com site, the 'Upload' button is now always active. Before, this button was disabled until the user had chosen content to upload. Periodically, the button would remain disabled even after content was selected, so we changed it to always keep it active. If you click on the active 'Upload' button without selecting anything to upload, you'll simply get a message telling you that no content has been selected.
- If you click on a comment in the What's New section, you will be taken directly to that comment's location in the comment list, rather than top. If that item has a lot of comments, it was often difficult to find the one you clicked on in the What's New section.
- When you visit the What's New page, the 'Show All' filter is now the default, rather than 'Show New' because most users were switching to 'Show All' upon landing on the What's New page.
- Improved performance and accuracy of the previous/next links when viewing single items
Release 14 - April 2008
The following product changes were introduced in Release 14:
New Features:
1. Invitation Permissions
- Site administrators can now select which user types can invite people to the site by using the Administrator Settings page, found under Site Settings.
- The following options are available:
- Only administrators can send invitations
- Administrators and members can send invitations
- Administrators, members and guests can send invitations
- Clicking on any tag will take you to a page that displays all content items on that site that contain the same tag.
- Modify your search results by using the following filters:
- Display specific item types
- Display items added by specific members
- Search for multiple tags
- If you have created more than one myfamily.com username with a single email address, you will see a message appear on the start page that contains a link to request a list of these usernames.
- The email will contain all of the usernames associated with your email address, as well as a list of all the myfamily.com sites your usernames belong to and links to change your usernames and/or the passwords associated with them.
- By checking the 'Remember Me' box when signing in to myfamily.com, you will automatically be logged in with that username and password the next time you visit the site, so long as you do not sign out.
- Leaving the 'Remember Me' box unchecked will require that you log into your account again the next time you visit myfamily.com.
- Upgraded text editor used in discussions and comments to resolve various bugs that had been reported.
