ThePort's Product and Technology blog. We'll share helpful tips about the platform, talk about upcoming releases, and maybe on occasion share a story or two on how awesome the team is here.
What's Coming in the October Release
Welcome to the inaugural post from ThePort Labs! We'll be using this monthly column to talk about our platform, new functionality coming in releases, and sharing tips and guidance on how best to use our platform.
With our first column, we're pleased to announce some great additions to our platform with our 4th quarter release. With FeedRolls 2.0, users now have the ability to add their own feed rolls to their profile or user dashboard. These feedrolls allow a user to add up to 10 RSS 2.0 or ATOM feeds to a single module that will then aggregate the data together. Want to news from CNN, Rolling Stone, and your favorite baseball team all rolled into one? You can do that with FeedRolls 2.0. In addition to being available for end users, this same tool will be available to our Social Spaces technology. Now, you can deliver fresh and relevant content to groups or businesses.
Another helpful new feature will be our Document Sharing 1.1 release. In this release, we now have the ability to organize documents into folders. These folders even get their own custom URL to make navigation easier!
With the Q4 release, we officially unveil our new and improved search engine. Our site search will allow users to easily and quickly search across users and social spaces. Search results are partitioned to make it easy to toggle between all results, user results, or social spaces results. Coming in future releases will be the ability to search photos, documents, and events. We're also looking at exposing search functionality via our REST APIs to allow a developer to pull content remotely or even inject search engine content.
Lastly, we're rolling a new user interface to our user profile pages. This new UI will bring a crisp new look to a user's pages as well as a better overall experience for the user. Additionally, the UI is built on our new user-interface design, which sets the foundation for even better modules, widgets, and functionality in releases to come.
This month's helpful tip: Our RESTful API library has a community documents function that allows you to fetch documents in JSON or XML format. It's a great way to create a community documents module.
