Crystal Clear: Notice Anything Different?

Crystal Bruce · May 2018

There are a few new features in the Blackbaud Community. I'll make them Crystal Clear!You may have noticed a few improvements in the Community this week. We are excited to tell you about them.

What's New?

First, the biggest change is with the text editor. It's been upgraded!

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In addition to the functionality that was already present, the following features have been added:

HTML Source Editing: When you click source, HTML formatting and syntax highlighting will assist users in validating their HTML is correct.
Table Tools: You can now add tables without writing HTML by clicking the button in the text editor’s toolbar.
Links pasted into the text editor now automatically format as clickable links.
Changes to Content Pasting: Content must be pasted using CTRL-V or CONTROL-SHIFT-V.

What else is new?

There's now a spell check. You may notice red squiggly lines under a questionable word - no suggestions will be given (that's a feature request we put in).. but, you can hit the spell check in the menu to get a list of suggestions.

Keep Going!

Okay, we will. In your outlook or email inbox, you will see that the notifications are now from "Member's Name" via the Blackbaud Community.

More?

Yes! You can now paste clickable links in comment boxes.

More?!!!

One more thing! If you copy and paste a forum discussion or blog into your Facebook for social sharing - it will look a lot better. That's been optimized for social sharing.

Have you noticed any other changes? What do you think about the ones rolled out, so far? Let us know in the comments below!

If you can think of any features you'd like to see in this Community, check out the new Community feedback forum HERE.

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Moo Shoo is Mana-pleased!

Joshua Bekerman bCLO, bCRE · May 2018

Not sure the ""Member's Name" via the Blackbaud Community" would be considered an improvement. The "From" email is still community@blackbaud.com so I've searched for a way in Outlook to sort by email address instead of the From Name but haven't found a way to so it. Anyone know of how to sort by Sender's email address? Maybe the From Name can be switched to "Blackbaud Community from Member Name?"

Also still waiting for the ability to tag other members in posts. :(

Elizabeth Johnson · May 2018

Fan(freaking)tastic! Thanks so much for all you do to keep us communicating and productive!

Crystal Bruce · May 2018

Joshua... stay tuned for news on that front!

Joshua Bekerman bCLO, bCRE · May 2018

The suspense is terrible.

I hope it will last.

Carol Belair · May 2018

Wonderful improvements Crystal, especially the ability to includes links in comments. As a frequent Community blogger and content provider, I often am replying to Blackbaud and Target Analytics clients and this is a very helpful enhancement. Thank you for your awesome management of this incredibly valuable resource for Blackbaud clients and employees alike!

Patti Hommes · May 2018

More?

Yes! You can now paste clickable links in comment boxes.

Whaaaaaaaaat? That's a super plus! Thank you!

Susan Chomsky · May 2018

TY Crystal. I'm with Josh. . . "Blackbaud Community from Member Name" will help me sort through all the other stuff and get right to the community!

Peter Iles · May 2018

It is not an improvement until Google permissions can be handled by onCampus when submitting documents from Google Drive.

Daniel Bayer · May 2018

LOVE all of this! Thanks Crystal, for this and everything else you do for us every day here in the Community!

Monica Scholl · May 2018

Looks good.. getting better! Wish that when we use a query from a previous year that it would automatically change that day that you updated it or viewed it... not when you run the report. Also, when you go into the query it says.. Modified but it actually wasn't.. I just looked at it.. needs to say something other than Last Modified.. should read .. last viewed.. or... - Just because i get into the query doesn't mean i've modified it. Otherwise.. love working with etapestry!

Lisa Hensell · May 2018

Love the social sharing update!

Crystal Bruce · May 2018

btw, I just tried it - if you share this blog in Facebook ... the image is Moo Shoo! :-D

Karina Trujillo · May 2018

Great improvements. I have been getting emails with the members name. This is awesome.

Richard Snow · May 2018

@Joshua - Outlook does group all the messages together if you search on "Blackbaud Community". Also, if you want to go there, you can set up a rule to categorize these messages and color code them. Once they are categorized, you can do things like sort on the category by clicking in the categories header, or set a rule to assign a retention policy, etc. I like to assign a one week delete on regular marketing email, to tidy-up my inbox. Of course, rules require a little testing because they sometime catch unexpected messages. There's nothing as specific as regular expressions. Also, rules can access the internet mail header, which Outlook makes hard to find. (More than you wanted to know, but perhaps it helps?)

Tonya Higgins · May 2018

Crystal - Just an fyi, your Moo Shoo memes are contributing to our office "Pun Board". Thanks so much! Tonya

Harry Frank · May 2018

Yay! And yay Moo Shoo!

Karen Tuecke · May 2018

Great job with the improvements!!

Joanne Felci · May 2018

Great improvements Crystal!! I've also noticed some more menu items under products, so it is great that Community is growing. Now where is the share button - am I blind?! Or do you you mean if you copy/paste the url in Twitter or whatever (sharing that way). Go Moo Shoo!!