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Content Sharing 8.1
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I. Release Notes

Current Version: 8.1
Requirements: Ossn >= 8.2
GDPR affected: Yes. The possibility of disclosing member activities outside of your community should be mentioned in the privacy policy.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Credits: https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ - for creating screenshot preview images

 

II. Purpose and Usage

This component is intended to share public content of your site - like posts, blogs, polls or images - in other communities or somewhere else on the web. Please note that it is NOT meant to share the content again inside of the same OSSN site you're currently logged in to.

It will add a Share Link entry below the content supposed to be shared, and when clicking this entry a link of a shareable page is copied to your clipboard and may be pasted anywhere.

Figure 1

The shareable page will look like:

Figure 2

A click on the green button at the bottom will redirect the visitor to the frontpage of your community, allowing her/him to become a member and participate. The first login will redirect the new member directly to the original content.

III. Changes

V 8.1

  • added a usage note to the 'Done' message box
  • added Persian and Singalese language files

V 7.1

  • fixed freezing bug while trying to create previews of embedded iframes other than youtube as reported by Arsalan. preview generating of iframes other than youtube is still unsupported
  • added Hungarian language file

V 6.2

  • added compatibility fix for ossn.lib.languages as of Ossn 6.5

V 6.1

  • html2canvas library updated to 1.3.2 - using minified version now
  • prevent loading of html2canvas on frontpage and admin backend
  • Ossn 6.x support
  • verified PHP 8 compatibility

Outdated Ossn 5.x releases

V 2.8

  • Added korean langauge

V 2.7

  • unset fixed height of "Done" messagebox on small devices

V 2.6

  • give redirecting priority to Login Redirect and / or First Login if these components are installed in parallel
  • slightly changed modal 'Done' popup code

V 2.5

  • made external content (videos, links, etc.) accessible on shared pages
  • added 'Join' button at the bottom of shared pages
  • added redirection to site's inner original content after first login (this may fail if FirstLogin component is installed (to be investigated later...)
  • reduced height of 'Done' modal popup

V 2.4

  • changed preview image creation from rest7.com to browser based solution (see details and LICENSE info on https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/documentation)
  • added preview image generating of youtube videos embedded in posts and blogs
  • added preview image generating of external images embedded in posts by LinkPreview component

V 2.3

  • fixed unavailable share links in clipboard buffer if rest7.com html2png conversions fails due to timeouts
  • stopped passing pure image content (=shared photos, profile covers, profile photos) to rest7.com

V 2.2

  • added placeholder image in case preview image generating fails

V 2.1

  • fixed cache issue (no Configure->Content Sharing page) on first time installation

V 2.0

  • first approach on creating usable preview images meeting the requirements of Facebook
  • usage of identical looking "Share Link" throughout Ossn below blogs, posts, polls and images

V 1.2

  • fixed bug that stopped the Share function of the Premium Share Post component from working
  • renamed 'Share Post' menu entry to 'Share Link' + moved that entry below the post as suggested by Phil

V 1.1

  • added support for sharing blog pages (requires Blog 2.19 minimum)

V 1.0

  • inital release