Milestone: Lemonweir was released on 11 March 2023. Significant changes are as follows:
Filestore previews for many more file types
A number of common document formats (including Microsoft Office, LibreOffice and OpenOffice), as well as some less-common image formats (e.g. .bmp and .tiff files), can now be previewed directly in the Filestore. The preview mechanism uses PDF, which doesn’t provide 100% fidelity, especially in complex documents, but should usually be enough to allow you to e.g. read a Word document from the Filestore even if you’re on a computer that can’t run Office.
Pronouns improvements
Additional options are provided to specify your pronouns via the “Pronouns” property, including:
- Support for people who use no third-person pronouns
- The ability to show a different message to humans viewing your Directory page than Three Rings uses when referring to you (e.g. you can tell Three Rings to use they/them but tell humans that you’re happy with both she/her or they/them)
- A live-preview mode to show how your pronouns might appear in a variety of contexts
Email Attachments
You can “attach” files to Comms emails: these aren’t attachments in the traditional sense, but they work a lot like them plus they have the benefit that you can audit which recipients actually opened the attachments as well as remotely-revoking them in case you send something you didn’t mean to. (Obviously if a recipient has already saved an attachment to their own hard disk then this can’t be remotely revoked!)
Text/background colours for Comms, News, and Wiki
New toolbar buttons allow you to customise the colour of text (and its background) in the visual editor used for editing news items, Comms emails, and wiki pages.
Search
A new generic search facility can be accessed by a search link in the header at the top of the window. It lets you search for volunteers (by name or username), volunteer (by Directory Properties), shifts (by date), roles, events, and files in the Filestore. (It is probably wise to untick some of the options when you are searching!).
Improved datepicker
Our datepickers are now friendlier: you can still use a “calendar” interface if you like, but you no-longer need to use sliders to select hours and minutes when specifying both a date and a time. You can use the keyboard to type (or paste) dates into fields now, too, and accessibility for screen readers is better.
Help content has been updated
We’re working on refreshing Three Rings‘ built-in Help pages with up-to-date content.
Bugfixes
Various bugfixes, including:
- Emoji now display correctly when loading text files from the Filestore
API improvements
Dates can be specified when fetching events using the API. See the API documentation for details.