Product Changes

Zerista continually works at improving our products. Below is a list of some of the more recent changes. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your project manager, or email us at support@zerista.com

January 20, 2012

• Android – Add support for message archiving
• Admin – Augment broadcast message to allow moderators to send messages to attendees with a certain membership state (for example, speakers or exhibitors).
• Networking – Add Follow Me button to attendee profile pages, not just on the attendee listing page
• Mobile Web – Simplify my 1-on-1 meetings page
• Mobile Web – Fix bug where title and position were displayed twice on profile page
• Mobile Web – Upgrade to latest version of jQuery mobile, improve look-and-feel
• Mobile Web – Upgrade mapping functionality

January 13, 2012

• iPhone/iPad – Release version 1.2 which includes local caching of attendee, exhibitor and session information
• Collateral – Enable support for linking to videos from sites other than YouTube.

January 6, 2012

• Mobile Web – Improve display of agenda page
• Atendees – Fix up rendering glitches for search icon in Internet Explorer

December 30, 2011

• Mobile Web – Use new comment icons
• Social Networks – Add support for LinkedIn to chatter page
• Data – Add in additional fields to Atom feeds so conference organizers can have additional live content on their conference home pages

December 9, 2011

• Mobile – Release 1st version of native iPhone and iPad apps that provide full access to Zerista’s functionality
• Mobile – Release 1st version of native Android app that provide full access to Zerista’s functionality

December 2, 2011

• Social Networks – Add support for Facebook to chatter page
• Social Networks – Add support for Twitter to chatter page

November 18, 2011

• Attendees – Update print personal schedule should to only display events from current conference

November 4, 2011

• Discover – Show first three matches
• Admin – Enable moderators to directly update login pages
• Search – Fix Country Sorting Performance Issue
• Attendees – Show last names if person is public

October 28, 2011

• Sponsorship – Improved support for OpenX ad server
• Mobile – Fix issues with location links
• Mobile – Align map popup windows

October 21, 2011

• Attendees – Improved user signup for users attending multiple conferences

October 14, 2011

• API – Update documentation
• Attendees – Follow button missing on user profile page
• Mobile – Additional mapping functionality, including bigger maps, new exhibitor booth and session room links
• Mobile – Add in ability to follow exhibitors
• Mobile – New automated test suite
• Exhibitors – Add phone number to Exhibitor page
• Search – Improved performance

October 7, 2011

• Documentation – Create new dev.zerista.com site – the one you are now using!
• Admin – Change new login default template
• Networking – Improve message reply and archive buttons
• Mobile – Make day and time pickers easier to use
• Mobile – Add to session pages who else is attending
• Mobile – Update to latest jquery mobile prerelease

September 30, 2011

• Mobile – Support maps
• Networking – Added ability to share chatter posts on Facebook.
• Networking – Messages on the site can be archived.
• Login Page Changes – New default for login assistance (need help logging in?)
• Infrastructure – .CSS Pipeline changes – Updates to current conference sites using c_[name].css
• Admin – Maps can be hooked up using admin, local guide descriptions can be added
• Admin – Ability to invite and change membership role for created users

September 23, 2011

• Mobile – Access to speaker list

September 9, 2011

• Enable all sites to have both the list view and the grid view. Users will be able to see both views.
• You can customize an alert message for individual sessions that will provide a pop-up message when attendees add the session to their schedule.
• Moderators can edit set the RSS feed for the home page through the admin tool.
• Added ability to create users manually via the Admin tool.

September 2, 2011

• Ability to see recent changes to the platform from the Admin tool.
• Support <a href=”http://www..zerista.com”>www.<conference_name>.zerista.com. If a user types in the wrong url for the conference, they are taken to a branded Zerista page to aid them finding their conference.
• Improved event listing performance; faster load times.
• Addition of my.zerista.com page

August 26, 2011

• Ability to assign colors to tracks in grid view through the Admin tool
• Ability to switch to a 24-hour clock through the Admin tool
• Improved Exhibitor and Event loader through Admin the Admin tool; similar to the People loader
• New error pages
• Added new my.zerista.com landing page page to show all your conferences
• Updated Zerista branding on my.zerista.com.
• Updated default notifications. Default notifications can still be customized by the moderators.

August 5, 2011

• Updated login page with new lightbox functionality
• Customizable login page editable via admin.
• Update notification page language (end user, not admin page)
• Customizable sign up link on home page and login page, editable admin
• Mobile – Support account activation

July 29, 2011

• Cvent integration
• Ability to change track colors via admin
• 2x performance gains across all pages
• Mobile – New s.* sites for blackberry (m.* is for newer mobile phones)

January – June 2011

Admin

• Add export attendees
• Add export sessions
• Moderators can now lock and unlock accounts. Attendee accounts are locked after a specific number of incorrect logins
• Manage exhibitor contacts
• Allow moderators to edit attendee and speaker profiles
• Add ability to broadcast messages to all attendees
• Specify rate limits (# of messages, meetings, etc.) per attendee

API

• Ability to delete users
• Support attendee photos
• Allow existing fields, like an attendees description, to be set to blank

Attendees

• Add visitor attendee type. Visitors generally have limited access to the site can be used for registered guests or spouses.
• Add press attendee type

Conversations

• Rank and display the most active conversations at the top

Exhibitors

• Add support for exhibitor sessions
• Sort by stand

General

• Add support for YouTube’s new iframe embed codes (previously supported object embed codes).
• Add in conference states, allowing conferences to be “turned on” and “turned off”
• New favicon
• Added embed functionality
• Add powerpoint as supported file upload type

Mapping

• Add support for multiple buildings containing exhibitor/sponsor booths
• Enable attendees to print a customized map showing the exhibitors they are following
• Display multiple exhibitors per booth in map tooltips where appropriate
• Support mobile pdf maps

Mobile

• Improved Blackberry support (versions 4.6 and higher)
• Add ability to create meetings
• Add in ability to view all meeting requests (confirmed and requested)
• Participate in conversations
• Custom icon for phone home screen
• Support customer “terminology” the same was as desktop

Profiles

• Allow user to add or edit their full address information

Search

• Add search by building
• Add advanced search to enable more powerful searches
• Normalize tags by capitalizing them
• Added global search on home page
• Add search for conversations
• Add alphabet bar at top of attendees page

Sessions

• Support multiple concurrent sessions per track
• Support 5 minute time increments (previously it was 15 minutes)
• Make track names hyperlinks
• Much improved agenda view
• Add track name to session listings
• Printable schedule
• Allow attendees to create their own sessions/events (this can be turned on or off per conference)
• Allow separate twitter hash tags per sessions
• Make the starting day on the agenda customizable per conference
• Add track column to admin column listing

Speakers

• New speaker management page for moderators

Web

• Add support for Internet Explorer 9
• Add support for Firefox 4