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1.5.82 – 22.09.2022

Fixed: Sanitization of submission data and email content were wrongly escaped

1.5.81 – 15.09.2022

Fixed: Sanitization of search title being wrongly escaped

1.5.8 – 17.06.2022

Fixed: Not registering what page to be redirected ( https://github.com/WPChill/kb-support/issues/223 )

1.5.7 – 31.05.2022

Fixed: Placeholders missing from text fields ( https://github.com/WPChill/kb-support/issues/222 )

1.5.6 – 23.05.2022

Fixed: Security, sanitizations and escaping
Changed: Removed bootstrap file calling from cdn and included the files in the plugin.
Changed: Replaced file_get_contents call on remote files with WordPress’s http-api.

1.5.5 – 18.03.2021

Changed: Remove license functionality

1.5.4 – 01.03.2021

Fixed: FontAwesome style and scripts
Fixed: compatibility with Zapier – https://github.com/WPChill/kb-support/issues/150

1.5.3

2nd February 2021

• New: Added option to flag tickets for attention. Flagged tickets are highlighted by a flag icon on the tickets list screen
• New: Added option within agent user profiles allowing selection of where replies are loaded on ticket screen. Before or after reply field
• Bug: Fixed issue whereby emails generated for agent assignment notification may not correctly replace email tags with customer information
• Bug: Fixed PHP warning generated by submission forms contextual help screen

1.5.2

26th January 2021

• New: Added an option within Tickets -> Settings -> Tickets -> Submission Settings to automatically create WP user accounts for new customers
• New: Added support for Google reCAPTCHA version 3
• New: Added agent filter to ticket list
• Fix: Saving a page with the [kbs_submit] shortcode returned a JSON error within the block editor
• Tweak: Adjusted how notices generated by the kbs_user_cannot_submit filter are displayed
• Tweak: Remove custom field metaboxes where they’re not needed
• Tweak: Switch to class when registering custom meta fields
• Tweak: Use custom helper function to retrieve post status label
• Tweak: Added a default class to all setting options
• Tweak: Ensure article pages are returned as true in kbs_is_admin_page()

1.5.1

15th January 2021

• New: Enable reCAPTCHA field for [kbs_register] registration form. Enable within Misc settings
• New: Added the /kbs/v1/forms/ REST route. More info.
• New: Added the /kbs/v1/forms/fields REST route. More info.
• Tweak: Added the kbs_ticket_form_submitted action
• Tweak: Corrected discount amount within promo sidebar on settings pages

1.5

12th January 2021

• New: The KB Support REST API is here! Interact with the REST API to interact with tickets, replies, customers, companies, agents, articles, ticket categories and departments. More info
• New: Zapier extension released. Integrate KB Support with over 1,000 web based applications and services via Zapier.com
• Tweak: wpmu_new_blog is deprecated. Now using wp_insert_site to run KBS install procedures when a new MU site is created and KBS is network activated
• Tweak: Added additional filters to the settings API
• Tweak: Spelling correction on upsell notice

1.4.10

16th December 2020

• Bug: Back to Tickets link did not work after updating a ticket
• Bug: Make sure we’re only filtering upload_dir if absolutely necessary
• Tweak: Added KBS_Display_Settings class
• Tweak: Enabled promotional sidebar on settings screen
• Tweak: Removed extensions page
• Tweak: Added campaign query args to some URLs
• Tweak: Incremented WordPress tested up to version

1.4.8

16th November 2020

• Bug: Submission form radio values were not being registered correctly

1.4.7

5th November 2020

• Tweak: Improved styling on licensing page
• Tweak: Improved styling on extensions page
• Tweak: Incremented WordPress tested up to version

1.4.5

18th September 2020

• Bug: Reverting release 1.4.4 which may have prevented the login form from being displayed on the ticket submission page

1.4.4

30th May 2020

• Bug: Error may be presented when trying to save a page being edited with the block editor if it contains the [kbs_submit] shortcode

1.4.3

5th May 2020

• Tweak: Added additional filtering during new ticket creation
• Tweak: Consolidation of some CSS rules
• Tweak: Allow extensions to parse JS parameters

1.4.2

7th April 2020

• Bug: Admin bar ticket count was not being displayed for non-agents. PHP warning may have been displayed
• Bug: Agent ticket count may display incorrect value for non support managers and admins
• Tweak: Only show the ticket Reply Status filters dropdown if there are tickets awaiting customer/agent replies
• Tweak: When either the View participants or View submission data action links are clicked, auto scroll to the respective element
• Tweak: Only display the Send Closure Email option on the edit ticket screen
• Tweak: Force the Closed status link to display last in the ticket status views
• Tweak: Adjusted class name for input labels within admin ticket screen

1.4.1

1st April 2020

• Bug: Ticket status may default to unexpected status when creating a new ticket within admin

• Tweak: Ticket statuses are now always in alphabetical order with the exception of Open & Closed which will display first and last respectively

• Tweak: Added post status colours to the status view links on the tickets edit screen
• Tweak: Also allow setting of status colour for tickets in the New status
• Tweak: Make sure the Open link is always first and the Closed link is always last on the edit tickets page
• Tweak: Added counts to reply filter dropdown on edit screen
• Tweak: If you are not hiding closed tickets, the ‘All’ view link now displays ‘All Tickets’

1.4

31st March 2020

Note: The view-ticket.php, ticket-history.php and shortcode-profile-editor.php template files have been updated. Please review changes if you have copied these files to your child theme and made customisations

• New: Agents can now update the ticket status during reply. Enable via Tickets -> Settings -> Tickets -> Reply Settings -> Agents Set Reply Status?
• New: Select the default status a ticket should be set to when an agent replies. Tickets -> Settings -> Tickets -> Reply Settings -> Agent Reply Status
• New: Ticket status colour indicators are now displayed on the admin screen and the customer front end ticket manager page
• New: The admin tickets list now displays who the last reply was from for each ticket
• New: Added reply status filter so agents can filter tickets by those awaiting agent or customer replies
• New: Added open ticket count to menu bar. Show Count on Menu Bar? must be enabled. Tickets -> Settings -> Tickets -> Show Count on Menu Bar?
• New: Customers can now choose how many Tickets per Page to load on the ticket manager screen by editing their profile and setting the Tickets per Page option

• New: Agents and customers can now select default ticket order by and order options within their profiles

• Tweak: Remove the Manage Ticket quick edit link from admin tickets list

• Tweak: Changed menu icon
• Tweak: Updated contextual help with new and missing items

• Tweak: Use new apply_shortcodes() function in preference of do_shortcode() per WordPress 5.4 guidelines

• Bug: Corrected pagination links on customer ticket manager page

• Bug: Corrected Show Reply/Hide Reply link for auto expanded replies on admin screen

1.3.6

4th March 2020

• Bug: PHP warning generated during customer ticket submission
• Tweak: Do not CC company contact if email matches that of of customer submitting ticket

1.3.5

12th February 2020

• New: Enabled support for the 3rd party forms. Ninja Forms extension coming soon!
• Bug: User profile updates fail if email address upper/lower casing do not match

1.3.4

7th February 2020

Note: The view-ticket.php template file has been updated. Please review changes if you have copied this file to your child theme and made customisations
* New: Admins can now set the Default Replies to Expand option to determine how many replies should auto expand on the view ticket screen for customers by default
* New: Customers can choose the number of replies to auto expand on the view ticket screen by changing the Replies to Expand option within their user profile
* New: Agents can choose the number of replies to auto expand on the ticket admin screen by changing the Replies to Expand option within their user profile
* New: Agents can now enable/disable the alert that is displayed if a reply is added whilst they are editing a ticket. The Ticket Reply Alerts option resides within each agents user profile and is disabled by default
* New: You can now choose to have agent article visits increment the article count via the Count Agent Views? setting option. Disabled by default
* New: You can now add a blank entry to any dropdown field within your submission form by enabling the Blank First option

• Tweak: Added monthly view count to article list screen

• Bug: The {agent} template tag may cause ticket notification emails to fail if no agent is assigned to the ticket

1.3.3

Friday, 17th January 2020

• New: KB Articles now count monthly views
• New: Display the total and monthly views for KB Articles within the KB Support dashboard widget

• New: Added Show Views on Dashboard option to toggle the display of article view counts within the KB Support dashboard widget

• Tweak: Removed excess whitespace from article links within KB Support dashboard widget

1.3.2

Thursday, 9th January 2020

Happy New Year!

• Bug: If only logged in users are allowed to submit tickets, account registration process may fail on submission screen

1.3.1

Wednesday, 30th October 2019

• New: New Reply Settings section added to Tickets settings tab

• New: Choose which status a ticket should transition to when a customer reply is received

• Bug: Article live search was not supporting foregin characters

• Bug: Remove PHP notice when DIVI theme in use
• Bug: New installations should not prompt for an upgrade

1.3

Wednesday, 23rd October 2019

IMPORTANT: This release adjusts the rules dictating which tickets an agent can view. Please read this article for more details.

• New: We’ve improved the way KBS utilises departments to support our new Advanced Ticket Assignment extension

• New: You can now add a new customer when opening a new ticket within admin

• Tweak: Cleanup when a department is deleted

• Tweak: Added the department name to the agent column if a ticket is assigned to a department
• Tweak: Added the kbs_company_metaboxes_after_contact_details hook
• Tweak: Added the kbs_pre_save_ticket hook

1.2.10

Tuesday, 15th October 2019

• New: Display URL from which ticket was submitted within submission data window
• Bug: Unable to deselect Agree to Privacy Policy checkbox

1.2.9

Friday, 11th October 2019

• The Ticket Source taxonomy has been added
• Ensure all ticket media files are stored within the kbs folder
• Upgrade procedures have been improved
• Corrected spelling of “Log in”
• Only enqueue KBS admin styles on KBS admin pages
• Mapping field option was missing from form when Department field was selected
• New ticket replies were not loaded if no existing replies existed

1.2.8

Thursday, 7th February 2019

New

• Added No Notification Emails setting option to the Ticket Logged setting screen within the emails setting tab. Addresses entered here will not receive acknowledgement of ticket receipt via email
• New replies are now monitored in real-time whilst editing a ticket. If a reply is added whilst an agent is on the edit screen, a notice is displayed where the agent can choose to reload the replies to include the latest
• Ticket admin post screen columns now display well for smaller screens

Tweaks

• Switched the title and dates columns position for easier identification on mobile devices
• Made company URL clickable on company listing screen
• Removed the slug metabox from the ticket post screen
• Added IP address in use during ticket form submission to the submission data on the edit ticket page

Dev

• Added kbs_ticket_received_to_email, kbs_ticket_reply_to_email and kbs_ticket_closed_to_email filters to enable filtering of the To address for respective customer emails

1.2.7

Saturday, 26th January 2019

Bugs

• Only query bootstrap JS functions when bootstrap is loaded. Caused loss of JS functionality
• PHP warning may have been generated whilst querying whether kbs_submit shortcode was in use

1.2.6

Friday, 25th January 2019

Note the following template files have been updated;

• view-ticket.php
• ticket-manager.php
• shortcode-login.php
• shortcode-register.php
• shortcode-profile-editor.php
• kbs.css
• kbs.min.css

New

• Updated front end ticket manager templates to make them more responsive to mobile devices
• Updated front end login, register and profile templates to standardise layout
• Agents can now delete replies that they have authored. Support Managers can delete all agent replies
• Customers IP address is now displayed within the form data section on the ticket page within admin
• Added the {ticket_url_path}, {ticket_admin_url_path}, {close_ticket_url_path} template tags
• Added Customer Settings setting option within General settings tab
• Added options to customize registration form fields
• Added option to choose username format for customers registering via the KBS registration form
• Added option to set the default number of replies to load for a customer on the front ticket page
• Added profile option for registered customers to choose how many replies to load on the front ticket page
• Added option to hide closed tickets on the Ticket Manager page for customers
• Added user profile option for registered customers to choose whether or not they want closed tickets displayed on the Ticket Manager page

Tweaks

• Removed SSL notice on submission page
• Added link to a customers WP user profile on the ticket page if they are registered

Dev

• Added the form ID and the ticket object vars to the kbs_show_form_data filter
• Added a number of hooks to the Customer Section meta box on the ticket page

1.2.5

Friday, 3rd August 2018

New: Added open ticket count menu bubble. Activate within settings. Tickets -> Settings -> Tickets

Bug: Removed incorrect Ajax trigger when adding participants which generated a Javascript error
Bug: Corrected spelling of Agreeements. Thanks to @garrett-eclipse
Bug: Corrected width of the system info textarea input

Tweak: Supported up to WordPress 4.9.8

Dev: Added the KBS_Agent class
Dev: Added hooks before and after agent ticket assignment
Dev: The KBS_Tickets_Query class now accepts the ‘agent’ argument to retrieve tickets by agent ID

1.2.4

Friday, 6th July 2018

New: Improved metabox display for tickets
New: Introduced the participants feature. A ticket can have multiple participants all of whom can access and manage the ticket. Learn more
New: Added the {reply_author} email template tag. This tag will output the name of the author to the last reply if it is saved in the database, or their email address
New: Added trash/permanently delete ticket option to ticket screen
New: Added customer data to ticket screen
New: Added customer last agreed to terms date to customer notes screen
New: Added customer last agreed to privacy policy date to customer notes screen
New: Added open ticket count to KBS Summary widget on the admin dashboard screen

Tweak: Fallback to company logo (if one exists) as avatar image if customer does not have an avatar

Fix: Corrected output for privacy policy acceptance

Dev: We’ve switched to array based email headers
Dev: Allow exclusion by ID when retrieving customers from the DB

1.2.3

Thursday, 21st June 2018

New: Added the {ticket_status} email content tag

Fix: If admins are not set as agents, Support Workers could not view all tickets
Fix: Front end ticket manager was not using translated text for ticket status
Fix: Custom input class was not being applied correctly to textarea fields on the submission form

Tweak: No need to wrap hidden fields in <p> tags
Tweak: Removed the Mine view within the trashed tickets list
Tweak: Make sure settings sections array is countable before counting as PHP 7 and above generates a warning

Dev: Added filters to overide when the Link KB Article button should be displayed allowing extensions to display the button

1.2.2

Wednesday, 30th May 2018

GDPR Features

New: Added GDPR Privacy Policy template
New: Added Compliance tab within Settings page
New: Agree to Privacy Policy setting forces customers to agree to the Privacy Policy before submitting ticket forms
New: Export KBS Customer data with WP user data when exporting personal data
New: Erase KBS Customer data with WP user data when erasing personal data
New: Select process for handling customer data when customers request to be anonymized or erased from your site

Other Changes in this Version

New: Added the ticket title column to the ticket history front end page
New: Search extisting tickets by post ID or ticket number. Prefix the search string with # to conduct this search
New: Add a description to the Terms and Privacy Policy acceptance fields via Tickets -> Settings -> Compliance
Tweak: Moved Terms & Conditions options to the Settings -> Compliance tab
Tweak: Adjusted the default chosen select search text to Type to Search and Choose an Option
Tweak: Improved the installation procedures for multi site
Tweak: Improved the uninstall procedures for multi site
Tweak: Removed unneeded filter during enqueuing of Font Awesome script
Tweak: Added advisory notice for discount of first extension
Tweak: Localization work
Bug: Count error on system tools page resolved

1.2.1

** Wednesday, 4th April 2018**

Bug: Fixed URL on welcome screen
Tweak: Updated extensions image on welcome screen
Tweak: Added KBS_Admin_Notices class for better admin notice management
Tweak: Request WordPress.org rating after 25 ticket closures
Tweak: Bump WordPress tested with version to 4.9.5
Dev: Added kbs_use_sequential_ticket_numbers() – returns whether or not sequential ticket numbers are in use
Tweak: Updated plugin tags and description

1.2

Wednesday, 28th March 2018

New

Better Company Integration

• Improved Company interface allows selection of customer as primary contact
• Added Copy Company Contact? setting within Tickets -> Settings -> Emails to copy company primary contacts into all customer ticket emails associated with the company
• Customers belonging to a company, can access all tickets already associated with that company. Customer who logged ticket must have already been associated with the company at the time of logging

Departments

Agents can now be added to departments via the Departments menu option or their user profile. Departments can only be managed by Support Manager and above roles.

Within core, tickets may only be assigned to departments via front end submission forms. Look out for our advanced assignment extension coming soon for additional options.

• Department dropdown field type added to submission form field types
• Department mapping added to submission forms
• Added the {department} email template tag which returns the name of the department handling the ticket
• Filter ticket list by department

Other

• Article search field on submission form now includes a delay before searching
• Added Initial Value option for the Submission Form hidden field type
• Agents can limit the number of replies initially loaded on the tickets screen via their user profile
• Agents can choose where to be redirected to when replying to tickets via their user profile
• Added reply count stats to admin dashboard
• For new tickets created via a submission form where terms and conditions were accepted, display the date and time the terms were accepted within the ticket form data thickbox

Tweaks

• Better validation of whether or not the submission page is displayed improves enqueuing of scripts
• Enable selection of customer as primary company contact
• Pass the Ticket ID to the kbs_ticket_received_disable_email, kbs_ticket_reply_disable_email and kbs_ticket_close_disable_email filters
• Log the timestamp for when a customer accepts the Terms & Conditions during ticket submission
• A KB search field on submission form is now a search input field type
• Email and URL values are now clickable links within the ticket form data thickbox

Bug Fixes

• KBS_HTML_Elements was not correctly passing the company variable to the kbs_get_customers() function
• Agents should not be able to add ticket categories

Dev

• Introduction of the KBS_Replies_Query class
• Added the $kbs_form and $form_id variables to the kbs_submit_form and the kbs_form_template() filters
• Added the kbs_form_submit_label filter
• Added the kbs_ticket_company_post_type_args filter

1.1.13

Saturday, 17th March 2018

New

• Allow agent to choose whether or not a customer email should be generate when a ticket is closed using the Update Ticket button
• Added Search Text option for submission form select fields using Chosen library
• Use Chosen library for ticket select fields
• Updated to Font Awesome 5
• Updated to latest version of Chosen library
• Added search placeholder to admin Chosen select fields

Tweaks

• Set width of select field to match all other input fields
• Added the search icon to the form fields table
• Do not store the reCAPTCHA response with submission form data
• Moved form-functions.php and class-kbs-forms.php to \includes\forms\

Bug Fixes

• 404 error may be displayed when navigating to am article parent category

Dev

• Added user_dropdown method to KBS_HTML_Elements class
• Added field_types_dropdown method to KBS_HTML_Elements class

1.1.12

Sunday, 11th March 2018

Bug Fix

• reCAPTCHA field was not validating successfully due to missing option

Tweaks

• Added kbs_ticket_url filter
• Added kbs_article_url filter

1.1.11

Friday, 23rd February 2018

Tweak

• Added kbs_add_agents_to_ticket() function
• Added kbs_remove_agents_from_ticket() function
• Additional filter for email headers

1.1.10

Monday, 19th February 2018

New

• Generate customer and notification emails when a ticket is created via admin
• Added HTML Basic email template with no formatting

Bug Fixes

• Generating a test email was adding a large number of attachments
• Manually adding a customer via the admin interface may generate a PHP warning notice due to expectation of company array key
• Ensure we only count() countable items as PHP 7.2 generates a warning otherwise
• Removed duplicate string within CSS class name for submission form fields

Tweaks

• Use chosen select fields within settings pages when there are a larger number of options to select from
• Improved CSS for chosen fields
• Run the email attachments filter after generating message content
• Added the kbs_options_page_section_url filter
• New wrapper function kbs_get_email_template() to retrieve the currently selected email template

1.1.9

Sunday, 11th February 2018

New

• Added the Attach Files setting within the Emails tab. If enabled, files will be attached to emails rather than listed as clickable links when using the {ticket_files} or {reply_files} email tags
• Added the {reply_files} email tag to attach/insert files from the latest reply into emails

Tweaks

• Changed trigger for submission form article search to keyup. String must be 3 or greater in length
• Added $args parameter to the kbs_insert_comment() function to override default args
• Corrected comment in email header template file
• Updated contextual help file for settings pages

Bug Fixes

• Corrected output from the {date} email tag
• Corrected output from the {time} email tag
• Validate the $form_data variable is an array

1.1.8

Monday, 5th February 2018

This update includes changes to a template page. If you are using a customized version of the template, you can review the changes here.

Bug Fixes

• Updated the view-ticket.php template file to correctly list file attachments
• Fixed ticket count for customers

Tweaks

• Tickets column is now sortable on the customers table
• Forced the Tools and Extensions items to the bottom of the Tickets menu

1.1.7

Monday, 5th February 2018

Bug Fixes

• Fixed width of the checkbox for the Restricted Access option
• Make sure the ticket ID is passed within the kbs_create_article_link filter to stop KB Integrations throwing PHP errors

Tweaks

• Force article links to open in a new tab to avoid navigation away from frontend tickets page
• Always capture the source by which a ticket is logged. Default to ‘website’

1.1.6

Thursday, 21st December 2017

New

• Enable submission form redirections per form
• Added option to allow customers to be able to reopen tickets by adding a reply

Bug Fixes

• Select fields did not display the placeholder field within submission form
• Make sure the checked param is honoured for radio fields
• Corrected email heading for admin reply notifications
• Don’t allow a zero array key value for select fields
• Corrected filter name for after reply content
• Corrected missing array key

Tweaks

• Enable customer ticket reply email notification if cron is running
• Field type select field is now searchable
• Added various hooks and filters to contextual help

1.1.5

Monday, 27th November 2017

Bug Fixes

• IMPORTANT: Support Agents unable to access admin when WooCommerce is installed

Tweaks

• Added filter kbs_ticket_closed_by
• Changed newsletter subscription button to secondary class on extensions page
• Added compatibility for users utilizing All in One WordPress Security who had renamed the login page
• Added admin form CSS classes

1.1.4

Monday, 13th November 2017

Bug Fix : Entering multiple strings into an article search chosen select field rendered no results even if the strings existed within the article title

1.1.3

Tweaks

• Ticket replies metabox overhaul with icon notifications and action links
• Register when a customer views an agent reply
• Numerous new hooks and filters for the reply fields enabling developers to extend functionality
• Private ticket notes metabox overhaul
• Better input field alignment within ticket metaboxes
• Added support for locally shipped translation files
• Added required PHP version to readme.txt
• Removed underscore from transient name

Bug Fixes

• Select fields that allow multiple selections within settings pages needed to store values as arrays
• Added spacing between ticket categories and tags within the tickets table
• Only a note author, or an agent with the manage_ticket_settings capability should be able to delete a note
• Removed duplicate CSS ID within admin CSS

1.1.2

Tuesday, 12th September 2017

Bug Fix

• Agents assigned as additional agents may not receive email notifications when a customer replies to a ticket

Tweaks

• Enable multiple select list argument when outputting a select field within settings API

1.1

Monday, 11th September 2017

New

• Sequential ticket numbers to ensure your tickets are always sequential with no gaps in the numbers
• Assign multiple agents to a ticket proving them with access to view and update
• Option to send agent notifications to all assigned agents when a customer reply is received
• Export tickets and customers to a CSV file

Tweaks

• Added kbs_update_ticket_meta_key filter that fires during ticket meta updates
• Filter the display of tickets when a category or tag is clicked within the ticket list
• Enabled removal of article excerpts during Ajax search
• Removed duplicated kbs_article_excerpt_length filter

1.0.9

Monday, 4th September 2017

Tweaks

• Enabled sorting of tickets by ID and date as well as title
• Added option to set Search Excerpt Length to 0 to have excerpts excluded from search results
• Filter ticket list by category/tag when a category or tag is clicked
• Removed duplicate kbs_article_excerpt_length filter
• Added kbs_update_ticket_meta_key hook for developers to hook in during ticket meta update
• Added the previous meta value to the kbs_update_ticket_meta_{$meta_key} filter

Bug Fixes

• HTML characters were not always correctly encoded during Ajax search which prevented all relevant results from being displayed
• Corrected option name which was preventing changes to excerpt length

1.0.8

Wednesday, 30th August 2017

New

• Created KBS_Knowledgebase class which manages the setup of the knowledgebase
• Added multiple filters during knowledgebase setup which allow for integrations of 3rd party knowledgebase tools
• Added Export and Import options for KBS settings

Tweaks

• If there is content in the reply field, request confirmation before saving ticket in admin
• Improvements to the article search query arguments
• Removed stray </label> tag from article post
• Fixed label alignment within article metaboxes
• Added $article_id var to kbs_article_view_count filter

1.0.7

Monday, 3rd July 2017

Bug Fix

• Logged in users may have still been unable to view restricted articles

Tweaks

• Updated cache helper. Do not cache articles that are restricted
• Updated cache helper. Refresh KBS page ID’s transient after 24 hours

1.0.6

Thursday, 15th June 2017

Tweaks

• Added row action to reset article view count
• Enabled hourly cron schedule
• Corrected coding on Extensions page

Bug Fixes

• Uninstall procedure failing due to incorrect exit command
• If a reply is submitted by a logged in, admin showed the reply as from Agent
• Corrected All Extensions link
• Ticket categories may have appeared in sitemaps
• Corrected output of templated files within sysinfo

1.0.5

Wednesday, 15th March 2017

Bug Fixes

• Require login if accessing ticket via ID and without secure key
• Corrected taxonomy name and post type within uninstall.php

Tweaks

• If guest submissions are disabled, require login when accessing ticket with key and display notice
• Add link to company on customer table
• Consolidate all company scripts within folder
• Removed company from sortable columns on customers table

1.0.4

Tuesday, 14th March 2017

New

• Articles can now be sorted by views on the edit post screen
• Added hook kbs_article_posts_orderby_by_custom_column_{$orderby} to allow for custom ordering on article post screen
• Added cache helper to tell caching plugins not to cache the ticket submission or ticket management pages
• Added before_kbsupport_init hook
• Added kbsupport_init hook which is run after the main KB_Support class is initiated
• Added kbs_articles_column_data_{$column_name} filter to allow for custom content within the KB Article edit screen
• Adjusted priority for the kbs_after_article_content hook
• Added kbs_agent_can_submit function. By default agents cannot submit tickets from the front end. Override by hooking into the kbs_agent_can_submit filter

Tweaks

• Added new notice for agents_cannot_submit to be displayed when an agent is attempting to log a ticket from the front end, but is not allowed to
• If an agent is submitting via the front end, do not auto complete customer name and email fields
• Do not search for existing customer/user email if an agent is submitting from front end
• Removed duplicate <a> tag from footer credits
• Removed <p> tag from within <span> in view-tickets.php template

Bug Fixes

• Corrected output of [kbs_ticket] and [kbs_profile_editor] shortcode. In some instances it was not contained within the page container

1.0.3

Wednesday, 1st March 2017

New

• Added logged date/time and updated date/time to update ticket metabox
• Added template tag {close_ticket_url} enabling 1-click ticket closures by customers
• Added filter kbs_validate_customer_reply_email
• Validate customers by customer->id property rather than customer->user_id property
• Search for existing WP users during submission and link to customer account if found
• Added KB Support extensions page

Tweaks

• Increased the height of the reply editor on edit ticket screen
• Remove scheduled task jobs during plugin deactivation
• Use WP constants to define time periods for scheduled tasks
• Moved welcome page CSS to kbs-admin.css file

Bug Fixes

• Ensure a ticket key is created when a ticket is submitted via admin
• Corrected scheduled task periods
• Potential PHP warning if company does not have a logo uploaded
• Corrected variable name $kbs_tools_page

1.0.2

Sunday, 19th February 2017

New

• Added KB Articles Categories front end widget
• Added KB Popular Articles front end widget

Tweaks

• Added most popular articles to KBS Ticket Summary dashboard widget
• Ensure agents always have access to restricted KB Articles

Bug Fixes

• Remove whitespace from start of file which may cause PHP notices with some server configurations

1.0.1

Thursday, 16th February 2017

Bugs

• Article view count was not being incremented for non-logged in users
• Random text being displayed under customer name on edit tickets page if no company assigned

Tweaks

• Do not display SLA Status heading on ticket screen if no targets are defined for ticket

1.0

Enhancements

• Added KB Support Ticket Summary dashboard widget providing easy to access statistics about your support business

• Service Level Tracking

  • Enable SLA tracking within Tickets -> Settings -> Service Levels
  • Define your target response and resolution times
  • SLA targets are calculated based on your open hours
  • The ticket edit screen will display the status of the SLA for each newly created ticket. Green is good, amber if SLA is nearing expiry, red if expired

• Company Support

  • You can now create companies
  • Customers can be added to a company
  • Email tags added for {company}, {company_contact}, {company_email}, {company_phone}, {company_website}, {company_logo}

Tweaks

• Remove all SLA related meta keys from DB as SLA’s were not tracked until this version
• Log the current KBS version number at the time each ticket was logged
• Ensure that the last modified date is updated for a ticket when a reply or note is added
• Add log entries when notes are added to tickets
• When a ticket is deleted, make sure to delete all associated replies and log entries from the posts and postmeta database tables
• Added ticket and article count to the At a Glance dashboard widget

Bug Fixes

• Corrected descriptions for email headers in settings
• Make sure $current_meta array exists to avoid potential PHP notices
• kbs_agent_ticket_count() was not always returning the correct totals

0.9.5

IMPORTANT

• Fatal error may occur when submitting a ticket from the front end if PHP 7.1 is running

0.9.4

Bug Fix

• Fixed an issue whereby new tickets created within admin were not set the correct status

Tweaks

• Ensure the trash view is displayed at the end of all views on the edit tickets screen

0.9.3

New

• Added Link KB Article media button to admin ticket reply form enabling quick and easy inserting of links to KB Articles from reply form

Tweaks

• Tidied javascript code
• Added draft updated message for articles and forms
• Users with manage_ticket_settings capability (Administrator & Support Manager by default) can now delete tickets
• Support Managers should always see all tickets, even when the Restrict Agent Ticket View? setting option is enabled

Bug Fixes

• Re-open ticket link failed to re-open ticket
• Don’t count agent views for articles
• Support Customers should not have the upload_files capability

0.9.2

Tweaks

• Added upgrade functions
• Additional hooks within the view-ticket.php template
• Added plugin links
• Increment tested with to 4.7.2

0.9.1

Tweaks

• Added filter kbs_user_profile_fields to enable plugins to register user profile fields within the KB Support section
• Added hook kbs_display_user_profile_fields to enable plugins to output user profile fields
• Added banned emails to tools page. Form submissions containing banned addresses will be rejected
• Added System Info to tools page
• Updated call to wp_register_style() to display version
• Added kbs_get_agent_id_from_ticket( $ticket_id ) function to retrieve an agent ID directly from the post meta table
• Removed dynamic do_action() calls from $_POST and $_GET submissions
• Only enqueue chosen menu’s on submission page

0.9

Release

Our initial release!