Blog Entries
Updated the Single Signin Window and other changes

We have applied an update to make the RPX window for single sign in transparent. Thus allowing it to match with your website better.

RPX now (www.rpxnow.com) allows you to offer alternate signup methods to future members of your website. For more info on Adding Single Sign on to your website please read our knowledge base article.

We have also corrected a problem pointing out that allowed people to post CSS into the shout box on profiles. This problem was corrected. The Member Shout box no longer allows any HTML to be posted when posting a shout.

Please remember, when you report problems to use, you not only help solve an issue you might be experiencing but you help others that use our platform as well. The proper way to report problem is via a support ticket. Support tickets allow us to properly track and resolve issues. Report all bugs in a support ticket.

Skysa App bar is integrated with your website member system
Category: Community News

If you have not heard about Skysa yet, Skysa is a website app bar you can install on any website or blog. Some of the Apps include a Chat Room, Twitter, Facebook Group, Games, Annoucments and more.

On thing that is cool about Skysa is some of their apps are member orientated and require login, such as the Chat or Commenting apps. But, when using the bar on your Spruz powered website if your member is logged in they will be able to use the member related features of the Skysa bar without having to create an account with Skysa as well.

You can add Skysa to your website by going to www.skysa.com. You will notice we have added the Skysa bar to the owners community as well.

Chat room is ready for you!
Category: Community News

Today we have applied a new update that now allows you to add a full chat room to your website. The chat room feature is integrated with your member system for a seamless experience and has a number of other nice features for you and your members to enjoy. Like anything new, there may be bugs, problems and/or glitches. Please report all issues using our bug report support tickets. This completes the addition of our new IM and Chat Features. We will be expanding these systems over time once bugs and usability issues that may occur are identified and fixed. We have a long list of features we would like to add IM and Chat, but things take time.

To add the chat room, enter your website management mode, then click on Site> New page and select Chat Room from the features list.

 

Fixes and Improvements Applied:

  • The white box bug for IE7 users has been fixed. This corrects and issue where a large white box would appear at the page footer of your website.
  • We have increased the idle timer on the live features like IM and Whos Online Tracking to 10 minutes from 5 minutes. This feature places a user offline if they have not moved their mouse or typed a key after a length of time. This is done to reduce page load since once a user leaves there computer the page still polls for activity. This action is has the highest resource demands on our servers. Our goal over the next few months is to achieve an idle timeout of 30 minutes, as long as performance holds.
  • Fixed the IM and chat room time stamp to reflect the correct time based on the viewers location.
  • An issue has been corrected with Alerts in the Management bar that prevented you from seeing all older alerts, thus preventing you from reading them so they can be flagged as read.

 

We hope you will enjoy the new chat room, please free free to give us your feedback, so we can see what improvements you and other members would like to see first in the future.

Happy Holidays,
The Spruz Team

Custom Smiles are back and other improvements

We want to first thank those of you that have reported problems and issues. Today in our most recent update we have applied the following fixes and improvements

  • A new improvement has been added to the new IM bar, when viewing your friends list you now have an Arrow that when clicked will take you to the page your friend is currently viewing
  • We corrected a problem with forum topic subscriptions. In some cases when subscribed to a forum topic email notices were not getting sent when a new reply is posted.
  • On Videos Box element when changing the display type it now now properly changes the item formatting
  • Custom Smiles are back! You should now see your custom smiles when clicking on the smile button on any editor that has the smile option.
  • We fixed a few typos that were pointed out to us on the new IM bar

Coming Soon... "next 1-6 weeks"

  • Chat Room is almost ready for release, should be by the end of this week!
  • Spruz home page revamp
  • A couple new elements for site photos, and the link directory
  • Plus we have been working hard on several other new additions such as the Wiki/Content Page system finished and a new audio type gallery with player.

If you do not see a new feature that we mention, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh your site. Remember as you report bugs or usability issues to us using support tickets not only helps you with your issue but improves our website platform for everyone.

Friendlier custom page URLs and other improvements applied today

Today we released a platform publish that has several improvements and fixes. Now when you add a new custom page you can set your own page name, thus no more http://yourdomain.com?display=longtext. The new page naming makes for a friendlier naming structure so that your pages can now be just http://yourdomain.com/mypage.htm or whatever you want to use.

We have made the following fixes:

  • Corrected a problem on the Live Shout box and Who’s Online box stuck on “loading…” issues.
  • Better IM bar Friends online support for Older browsers.
  • Hopefully solved the problem with some IM messaging getting posted to the Live Shoutbox
  • Theme Modifier Fixes
  • Management Bar usability tweaks
  • New Site Stats Chrome/Safari/Webkit loading issues.
  • Fixed a problem when Adding Elements when in Site Offline Mode
  • Undocked Element “Snap to Grid” improvements.
  • Site Stats graphs covering manage bare menu issue.
  • Element Management performance improvements
  • Appearance Editor header height bug that effected people using a custom header.
  • Fixed a problem with linking for the top downloads element. This element should now link over to the downloads page correctly.
  • Corrected a display problem with the sorting box on the downloads page
  • We fixed a problem when adding more then one Blog Headline element to a page, headline elements after the first element would not display headlines

We appreciate you sending in your bug reports. In most cases when an issue is located, it not only corrects the problem for you, but other users of our website platform. Bugs can be typos, errors, dead links, styling glitches or just strange issues that occur under a certain set of conditions. Remember the proper way to report an issue is to use our support ticket system. With our support tickets you can track you issue, and we can compare issues to more effectively locate a real problem and correct it for everyone.

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