Here are the exciting updates that have come out with MusicIDB 2.5
Before and After Gallery of Template Updates for Company, Venue, Event and Artist Pages
For All Users
- Redesigned Artist, Event, Company and Venue pages for easier access to information and events are higher up on the pages
- New Releases Featured on Right Sidebar
- Session Cookie so you will not be booted out of the site and need to log back in when our development team redeploys new updates for MusicIDB
- When viewing integrated venue calendars, or events on your dashboard, you can now scroll through the artist cards with little slider arrows visible in the pop-up card of the event details
- Integrated Drag and Drop Image Uploading so you can see the new images in place for posters or when adding artists on a new show
- Like/Love Artists Experience had bugs that have been fully resolved. Try going through “Undecided” on Artist List and picking out favorites to easy view them later – i.e. Show me artists I love within 15 miles of Boston
- Some responsive mobile bugs have been resolved
- Fixed an issue for Firefox users where typing in forms would get stuck occasionally
- Removed annoying javascript alerts which are replaced with a clean and green confirmation message
- Country field always defaults to US when adding new artists, venues or companies
- Increased maximum image upload allowed to 2000 x 2000px
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For Artists
- Event Listings now have FB RSVP links
- Your artist listing and social links appear as a hover-card on all pages that list events with you tagged as an artist
- Your social links are now visible on list view and calendar view of any integrated venue or company webpage using the MusicIDB Events Widget.
- Ads removed from Artist pages, more space for artist information
- All information editable on the Edit Artist pop-up now displays back on the template, mostly in the right sidebar area for a given artist’s page
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For Promoter and Bookers
- Event Listings now have FB RSVP links
- Duplicate Events – just click on an existing date, and select new dates in the date-picker on the left to save the event on other dates
- Quick-Edit Events – Adding New Events and Clicking on an Event to open it in the Pop-Up Editor are now identical, so you can edit any field of any event with the pop-up Editor
- Hover Cards on Dashboard Calendar so you can more quickly jump to manage a show and check if you have inserted FB link, ticket link, and see what images are being used
- Hover Cards for each event on Dashboard have links to Pop-Up Open/Edit Event, Setlist Manager, Event Records
- Event Listings have a new Ticket Price field allows extended information (in addition to door cover charge field), for example “$17 GA / $20 Balcony” could be entered
- Age field now visible on all listings
- Rich Text characters previously appearing as a ? in event descriptions and other Rich Text areas are now rendering correctly
- Fixed a bug with Open Dates showing on Calendar when the option to hide them was enabled
- It is now possible to pass a number as a limit on how many events load in the sidebar events widget
- Calendar view on venue and company integrated pages will load as list view for mobile users instead of calendar by default, this option can be turned off with a parameter
- &toggleView=true
- &toggleView=false
- Links in a Rich Text area now open in a new tab when displayed within an integrated Venue or Company webpage
- Images improved in calendar integrations
- Added event descriptions to integrated pages which expand collapse and can be expanded or collapsed by default for all events
- &descrip=visible
- &descrip=hidden
- Now possible to add new artist’s social links while adding events from the calendar – if you forget to put http:// before each one, MusicIDB will still make sure they work properly
- Booking is now off by default when adding new gigs from the calendar, to allow more quickly adding events that are not open for booking
- Add from calendar revamped to only require tagging the venue prior to being able to save. When tagging new artists, only required field is at least 1 genre (maximum of 3). The field for artist genre will be properly highlighted red if you forget.
- Events with multiple Artists will now always display in the order they are set on the Manage Gig screen