Insert Link box and Login-able Email Links
There is now a dialog box for inserting a link to a web page.
This applies to activity descriptions,
event self-signup instructions, your group's About Us link, forum messages, and
email messages.
Additionally
on email pages, this dialog box can be used to insert a login-able link to your group's home page.
Conversely the Insert Event->Web Address menu item has been
removed from the UI, since Insert Link... supercedes it.
Login-able links work as follows:
- When a non-privileged user clicks on a login-able link for the 1st time,
an explanation of Email Logins is displayed (see below).
- When a non-privileged user who allows email logins goes to Self-Signup Home via
a login-able link, s/he is logged in if necessary.
- When other not-logged-in users go to Self-Signup Home via
a login-able link, there is still a benefit compared to now.
Specifically, Self-Signup Home will include a Login form
and the user's email address will be pre-filled in.
- A user can turn email logins on/off using the down-arrow dropdown menu to the
right of the Logout button.
We recommend including login-able links in group and event announcements.
Also putting them in signup confirmations facilitates
a user cancelling a signup when necessary.
Note: this website update does NOT convert
existing home-page email links to login-able links.
This is because, for your announcements to continue to sound right,
you also need to update the wording
around the links (see here).
The 1-time message people in a group with passwords will see:
Should a Login be automatically done whenever you get here this way?
If YES, click on the down-arrow
after the Logout button & select Allow Email Logins.
But note that anyone using your login-able link would
be logged in as you.
So don't do the Allow if there is a risk
someone else might use your email screen to forward your link.
The 1-time message people in a password-less group will see:
Should a Login be automatically done whenever you get here this way?
If NO, click on the down-arrow
after the Logout button & select Turn Off Email Logins.
Other Changes in this Update
Security-related changes:
- After a user changes his registration info or password, an email message
describing the change will now be sent to the user. This is an anti-hacker feature:
the message tells the user how
to "unhack" his PRESTO account if s/he was not the one made the change.
- Buddy login shortcuts have been removed from the Login Shortcuts dialog
box (but existing buddy shortcuts will
continue to work). This is being done because sharing messages containing
login-able links is now the preferred way for 1 person to do signups for others.
If you disagree, please let us know.
- When Import or admin-Register creates a new user with a Basic/Auto password,
they will no longer try to base it on the new user's phone number.
Instead the fallback of setting it to a 4-digit random number will always be used.
Link-related usability changes:
- If you email an announcement containing a login-able link and the current
event's stage is not Published and the event is not yet over, the command-completion
message will inform you of this. In other words, this is to help you if you happen to
announce an event and forget to publish it first.
- If a group's About Us contains only
a link, a click on About Us will display the web page you identified (rather than
a little box containing the link).
This save-a-click feature also applies to activity descriptions and event instructions.
- If your group's name and the name for Link 1 are the same, your group's footer
will now just show the name once.
Other usability changes:
- Update Signup Form now shows the activities and events that the form is assigned to.
- The Name field in Make Signup Form's Add Field box is now a dynamic
menu. This was done to help you
avoid misspelling a name or accidentally using the same name
to mean different things.
- Made it easier for people to contact your group's webmaster for group-related support,
by adding the webmaster's email address to the Help/Support page.
- A group's webmaster can now be made an event chair or coordinator.
(If you feel that
a group's webmaster should be even more like a real user — e.g.
allowed to signup for activities, please let us know).
- Audit trail messages that show forms no longer include lines for blank fields, except
when the user's action was to change a non-blank field to blank.
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