Recent ShortStack upgrades

In the never-ending fight against time zone-based confusion, we’ve tweaked entry exports so that the “created_at” time listed in the export is using the time zone selected by you in the Entries Manager.

The Template Gallery will no appear in a pop-up (instead of redirecting you to the Campaign Builder) when you click any of the following:

• The Campaign button from the Getting Started dialog
• The Campaign button on the Dashboard
• The New Campaign button and Legacy Templates link in both the Campaigns Manager and the Templates Manager

The Template Gallery now also uses more of your available screen real estate, so you can see those preview images nice and clear!

We’ve added a new option in the Entry Display Widget – to see it, open the settings for the widget and go to the Default Fields section. From there, click. the arrow next to Photo/Video(s). The default setting is “Open zoomed image in same window.” This opens a version of the entry image that is scaled to fit in a 2000 x 2000px box. If you change the setting to “Open original image in new window,” clicking an entry image in the pop-up will open the original, non-scaled image in a new browser window! Most browsers will scale this image to fit the window, but clicking on it will show it in its full, original size – including scroll bars, if needed.

A new drop-down has been added to the Entries Manager that allows you to change what time zone the entries are displayed in – this should help folks running contests in multiple time zones, or agencies running contests in a different time zone from where they are located.

The Help menu option at the top of the Dashboard and Campaign Builder has been updated for everyone! Instead of showing a drop-down menu with links, it now opens a pop-up with more in-depth explanations and options for your various support channels. Find the question mark and give it a click to check it out.

You can now filter entries in the Entries Manager based on custom field values (as long as you are using Form Containers and Field Widgets and not the old Form Widget). To get started, you’d simply click the “Choose Custom Filters” link at the bottom of the Filters section in the Entries Manager, then use the resource picker dialog to page through and pick the custom fields you’d like to use for your filtering.