Recent ShortStack upgrades

In S2 templates, Action Widgets now have the option of enabling an “Any” trigger! For example, if you have multiple Video Widgets and want something to be triggered when any of the videos are started, you’d just set up your Action Widget trigger to say “in Any Video Widget when the video starts.” This makes for less clutter in your Action Widgets (and potentially your Edit Widgets Panel).

The new Points for Actions feature is live for campaigns built with S2 templates! Currently, you can only award points for clicking links in the Navbar, Buttons, and Image Widgets (via hotspots), but this will be enhanced later to award points for additional actions. Points can be awarded either before or after form entry. Jump into your widget settings and start rewarding folks for clicks!

When editing an entry (submitted to a campaign using an S2 template) in the Entries Manager, you can now add, delete, and rearrange uploaded images and videos. Maximum files and file size limits are still enforced. This allows you to change the “main” image shown for an entry – you’d just move it into the first position, instead of depending on the order in which the files were uploaded.

Our new Instant Win configuration tool is live! Clicking the Instant Win tab in the Form Designer will launch this new tool. You can also access it from within the Instant Win section in the widget settings of the Form Widget (in S2). If you make any changes, or click the Redistribute checkbox under the graph and then click Save, the graph will update for your review – if it’s satisfactory, you can click Close. If the graph isn’t quite what you want, you can click Redistribute again (as many times as needed) until you’re happy with it. There’s also a new Advanced Settings section (available on the Agency Plan or higher) that allows you to tweak settings even further; the Prize Distribution Weight gives you a way to distribute more prizes in the beginning of your campaign, which is useful is you expect most of your traffic in the beginning. With a weight of 1 (the default), it distributes prizes evenly like normal. With weights from 2 to 5, prizes will increasingly be weighted more towards the start of the contest. The other settings allow you to limit when prizes are distributed to specific days of the week and/or a time range each day.

Multiple exciting Instant Win updates to talk about today: In the Custom Email Alert editor–accessible via the Form Designer–there is a new Instant Win merge code that will indicate if your entrant won or lost, and if a prize code was awarded it will show the code as well. When submitting test entries in Preview Mode for S2 campaigns, a message will appear in the lower right corner indicating why the test entry didn’t win; it will either say “Instant Win test result is set to Lose” or “Simulated time is outside of Instant Win date range.” If you expect a winning result and don’t get one, this will help you understand why. When submitting test entries, both the email alert (S2 only) and autoresponders (S1 and S2) will show the correct Instant Win result, including the prize code (if any) that was awarded. And even better – prizes/codes don’t get used up when in test mode.

You can now access the Publications Panel from the Campaigns Manager (for S2 campaigns). This means that campaigns can be published or deleted without having to open the Campaign Builder. Just open up the Campaigns Manager (click Campaigns at the top of your account’s Dashboard), then click on the number of installs for any of your campaigns – the panel will open in a pop-up, just like it does when you’re in the Campaign Builder.