What's New in Development From Map Dynamics in May 2020

• Posted by Austin Childers | Community Manager

Platform Updates (Friday - 5/1)

TOTAL BOOKMARKS
• Where sessions, presenters, and vendors appear - the number of users that have bookmarked this item also appears on the Desktop view.

ATTENDEES
• An attendees section has been added to the Desktop view

GENERAL DESIGN UPDATES
• The 'star' icon has been added to the Sponsor Headers


Platform Updates (Tuesday - 5/5)

SCHEDULE - FULL VIEW
• Related vendors designated as "sponsors" appear on the full schedule view as "Sponsored By..."
• New "Filters" panel and it includes filtering by bookmarks

MARKETPLACE - FULL VIEW
• Added a new Filters Panel. Includes business categories, bookmarks, and sponsors

MARKETPLACE - PROFILE
• Sessions the vendor is part of show up in a "Related Sessions" tab
• Personnel have been moved to the "About" tab"

ATTENDEE PROFILE
• Attendee profile is built
• If there's an email attached to the attendee the system cross-references all related vendor and speaker data to see if this person is related to vendors or specific sessions. If so - those listings appear on the Attendee profile.


Platform Updates (Friday - 5/8)

NAVIGATION
• If no booths, schedule, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, or attendees - those sections don't appear in the navigation

SPONSORS
• If attached to an exhibitor, program checks if either sponsor or exhibitor profile has a picture

ADMIN
• Clients with a "Yearly Events License" can now add events on their own through the "My Shows" screen.
• When a client adds a new show the account rep is also notified.


Platform Updates (Monday - 5/11)

CHAT
• A new "Chats" panel has been designed and is available in a similar format as the Bookmarks Panel

GENERAL
• All content areas (schedule, marketplace, attendees, etc.) have a 100 pixel buffer at the bottom to make sure all content is visible above the Chats and Bookmarks panel.


Platform Updates (Monday, 5/18)

GENERAL
• Map D favicon in the browser tab
• If on mobile, redirects to mobile
• If not coming from the map-dynamics.com domain (whitelabel) the Map D badge and booths outline are removed

LOGIN / MY ACCOUNT
• Users can log in
• If a user has not created a front-end user account the system checks the following areas: Attendees, Speakers, Exhibitors, or Admin Users
• When a corresponding user exists in these areas:
    - Admin Users, Speaker Logins, Exhibitor Logins: Creates an account using the existing password and logs them in.
    - Personnel Users, Attendees: Creates an account, sends a password reset email to finish the process.

Platform Updates (Wednesday, 5/20)

DISCUSSIONS
• Discussions can be posted along with responses
• If your attendee profile has been given access to "Start Discussions" then a green button with "Post New Topic" appears


Platform Updates (Thursday, 5/21)

DISCUSSION PROFILE
• Any attendee logged in can submit responses to posts
• Auto-refreshes every 5 seconds to bring any new posts into view
• Per-post there's an avatar of the attendee next to their name
• If the comments are from you it will say "Me" and the orientation switches to the right
• The list of "Who's participating" is a clickable list and you can see each user's attendee profile
• If you make multiple comments in a row the design groups them.


Platform Updates (Friday, 5/22)

SECURITY
• The "Event Password" functionality has been built into the Event Home Base

Platform Updates (Saturday, 5/23)

OPTIMIZATION
• Optimized parts of the code to load each page faster

SECURITY
• If the event has a password then all nav items open the "enter password" box when clicked and no content other than the Home is available to view

DASHBOARD
• An initial dashboard has been created with lead image, title, message, and sponsors

SCHEDULE
• Tracks now have a "Listed Order" field in the situations where there are ongoing events

DISCUSSIONS
• Attendees can have the option to start discussions based on config settings
• Even if you have an active User Account in the Map D system if you're not listed as an attendee on this event you can't contribute to the discussions

BOOKMARKS
• Bookmark titles and availability turn on or off based on navigation settings

PRESENTERS
• Sessions attached to presenters that have no date have been updated

Platform Updates (Tuesday, 5/26)

BOOKMARKS
• Bookmarks sync between devices if you are logged in as a user

EXHIBITOR PROFILE
• Contact form has been added
• "Title" and "Organization" have been added to the form

CHATS W/ VENDORS
• The chat program is in process and starting with just the vendors

Platform Update (Wednesday, 5/27)

TRACKING
• Visitor tracking has been added to the system on exhibitor, speaker, and session profiles as well as discussions and discussion profiles

ATTENDEE TO VENDOR CHAT
• Attendees can now start chat conversations with Vendors from the vendor profiles
• If a vendor meets the chat requirements a "Chat Available" tag shows up on the marketplace profile