Blog from July, 2022

Hello, everyone,

Yet another update of Sportal365 is live and it brings several benefits that will improve your work with tags, lists, as well as the way you create and edit content.

Also, version 3.33.0. introduces a new feature that lets you create custom applications, which you can integrate into the CMS. Part of the new features is the long-anticipated audit log functionality allowing several creators to work on the same content and see each other’s edits.

What’s new?

Lists separation: Editorial & Sports
Improvement to Tags search and reordering
Audit log
Custom blocks

Here are more details about the latest features and improvements.

Lists separation: Editorial & Sports

Let’s start with the improvement to the Lists functionality.

With version 3.33.0. of Sportal365 comes an update to the platform's Lists functionality.

From now, you’ll be able to create two types of lists:

Editorial Lists
Lists based on Tags and Sports connections

Editorial Lists

Editorial Lists is actually what the Lists feature used to be before; a way to group together only editorial content using the three major content types i.e. Articles, Videos, and Galleries.

The creation of such lists follows the already familiar flow of list creation.

Creating an Editorial List

To create an Editorial List:

Select Lists → Editorial.

2. Select the New list button and fill in the required info. When done, select Save list.

3. Then, to add content to your list, go back to the editorial lists dashboard, select the list you created → Edit content.

4. Select the type of content to add – Article, Video, Gallery -- in the Available content search box.

5. When you add the content to your list, select Save list.

List based on Tags and Sports connections

And here comes the new feature.

Unlike Editorial Lists, lists created using tags and sports connections let you group content based on, well, tags and sports connections you’ve created/added. Not editorial content such as articles, videos, and galleries.

By creating lists with tags and sports connections, you give yourself the chance to create sections with “hot topics” across your website portfolio. This means that when you click on a “hot topic” on your website, it will take you to a page with content only related to the specific tag/sports connection you’ve used to create your list.

Creating Lists using Tags and Sports connections

To create a Tags and Sports connections List:

Select Lists → Tags & Sports connections.

2. Select the New list button and fill in the required info. When done, select Save list.

3. Then, to add content to your list, go back to the lists dashboard, select the list you created → Edit content.

4. Select the type of content to add – Tags or Sports connections – in the Available content search box.

5. When you add the content to your list, select Save list.

Improvements to tags

Tags are an important tool in the arsenal of every content creator. Sportal365’s latest update introduces two improvements to tags that enhance your experience and bring order to your daily use of tags.

More Tags displayed in search

This is an update to the way you search tags in the tags section of the content properties available for optimization of Articles, Videos, and Galleries.

Now, when you search for a tag to add to your content, you will be able to view and access more search results than before.

Optimized Tag rearrangement

We know, and you know, that trying to change the position of a tag (when you have too many) created problems in the past. The experience was slow at best.

That’s why we roll out an improvement to optimize the process. To be able the smoothly change the position of a tag in your tags dashboard, you first have to activate the drag/drop feature.

Enabling change of tags position

To enable drag/dropping of a tag in your list:

Select Tags from the navigation.

2. Select a tag → Edit button.

3. In the Order Type box, select Order.

4. When done, select Save tag.

When you change the status of a tag -- from unordered to ordered --, the tag will be displayed on top of your tags list. Also, this will display a number in front of the tag, which you can use to change the tag's position.

Note that when a tag has an unordered status, you’ll not be able to drag/drop it, the number in front of it won’t be visible and it will be displayed at the bottom of your tags list.

Audit log

The introduction of Audit log allows several authors to work on a single piece of content without losing track of each other’s edits. Audit log enhances your editing efforts by giving a clear overview of a content’s edit history.

Audit log for a specific Article, Video, Gallery

To see the audit log for a specific article, video, or gallery:

Select an Article (Video or Gallery).
When you open it, select the Audit log icon in the top right corner.

Note that you can see all the details related to creating and updating an article.

Audit log for a specific author

While you can see the audit log for a specific type of content, you can also choose to see the entire edit history of a specific author based on the type of content they’ve created/updated/deleted, and when they’ve created it.

To do that:

Select Audit log from the navigation menu.
Select an Admin, Content type, Action, and Date from/to.

3. When done, select Search.

Custom blocks

Custom blocks allow you to develop and add your features to the CMS.

Custom blocks let you create external custom applications, integrate them into the platform and add them as blocks to the body of your content.

Creating Custom blocks

To create a custom block:

Select Custom blocks from the navigation menu –> New Custom block.

2. Type the name of your block in the Block name box.

3. Paste a link to an external application in the Application URL box.

4. Add an icon for your block following the provided link.

5. To be able to add your custom block to your content, go to General → Status → Active.

6. When done, select Save block.