Affino 9.0.11.23 - The Capability Update

Preview Mode is one of the standout gains in the release. Whole new page designs can now be trialled against live pages before launch, including skins, design elements, share profiles, ad themes, and navigation changes. Guest reviewers can also be brought into that process without replacing the production experience.

Preview on the real page

The new preview controls let teams build and test a redesign against the live page it will eventually serve, rather than approximating the result elsewhere and hoping everything behaves the same at launch.

Share for guest sign-off

Guest preview links make it far easier to bring clients, stakeholders, and other non-logged-in reviewers into the sign-off process. That gives teams a cleaner route from concept to approval to go-live.

Launch with more confidence

By putting preview, guest review, and pre-live testing into the same workflow, this release makes major design updates much less risky to roll out.

What's included in the Preview Mode updates:

• Preview panel - channels now support preview-specific skins, detail skins, share profiles, and ad campaign themes.
• Preview Mode toggle - operators can switch preview rendering on for their own session.
• Guest preview access - preview links can be shared with guest reviewers for time-limited sign-off.

QR-based attendee check-in is a genuine operational gain in this release. QR-code emails, mobile-friendly attendee handling, and cleaner attendee creation and import workflows make it far easier to move people from sign-up through to arrival and attendance, especially on busy event days.

Designed for the door, not the desk

Attendees can be sent QR codes, scanned through a faster mobile-friendly check-in experience, and confirmed more quickly at the point of entry on a phone or tablet.

Better visibility for organisers

The wider attendee workflow gives organisers a clearer operational picture of who is due, who has arrived, and which records need attention, helping large event days run with less friction.

Built for end-to-end event flow

Taken together, the new QR, attendee-creation, import, and check-in improvements make the whole event path feel more connected from registration through to arrival and follow-up.

What's included in the event check-in updates:

• QR-code attendee emails - event QR emails now support stronger branding, colour control, and default messaging.
• Direct attendee creation from sign-up - event sign-up can now create attendee records directly.
• Event-linked attendee import - attendee imports can now tie records more clearly to the right event.
• Attendee workflow expansion - supporting attendee actions continue to improve operational handling around live events.

It is important to liaise with the Affino team to schedule an update window where they can be on hand to support the update.

If you have a staging site, review this release there first and run through your normal in-house release test plan before going live.

Run through the complete update process starting with the Affino Updater, followed by the sequence of the system and design updates laid out on the Control > Update screen.

Note - make sure you and your team clear the browser cache to see the latest version of the Affino Control Centre.

Specific to 9.0.11.23:

• Review AI and document-ingestion journeys - test chat speed, spreadsheet and PDF ingestion, and any AI journeys that matter to your team.
• Review Preview Mode before launch - test preview skins, design elements, navigation changes, and guest-review links on representative live pages.
• Review Dynamic Form placement - test article-related and display-related form placements wherever forms are part of your publishing or conversion journey.
• Review attendee journeys end to end - test sign-up, attendee creation, import, QR-code email, and check-in workflows if events are important to your operations.
• Run your own release test plan against core journeys - check your commercial, editorial, audience, and reporting journeys against your organisation's normal release plan, especially in a release of this size.

The headline AI story in this release is the new document-ingestion support and faster live responses, covered above. Beyond that tentpole, Affino's day-to-day AI surface is cleaner and more dependable, with chat polish, profile resilience, and supporting improvements that make the assistant easier to use in production.

Features and Enhancements

• Embedded and site AI chat - live chat polish and debugging support continue to improve rollout readiness.
• Connected AI services - supporting improvements continue to strengthen AI-led workflows.

Bug Fixes

• AI profile display - logo rendering now behaves more reliably across colour, ratio, and theme combinations.
• AI profile empty states - empty-profile edge cases no longer crash on zero-item states.
• AI chat polish - avatar, spacing, and input-panel issues have been tightened up across the live chat experience.

The headline content story in this release is Preview Mode, covered above. Beyond that tentpole, publishing workflows are broader and steadier: Dynamic Forms can sit more naturally inside article and display journeys, and a wide set of media, listing, search, and editorial fixes make day-to-day publishing more dependable under pressure.

Features and Enhancements

• Articles > Related Items - Dynamic Forms can now be attached directly to articles.
• Manually Related Design Element - Dynamic Forms can now surface through the display workflow as well.
• Search and structured data controls - search and schema handling are more dependable across live content.

Bug Fixes

• Embedded video and media handling - video, embeds, and media-item workflows now behave more reliably.
• Live-edit and article workflow reliability - article review, continuation, and related editorial edge cases have been cleaned up.
• Large listing performance - heavy article and event listings are more resilient at scale.
• Editorial UI polish - upload warnings, timezone handling, and smaller interface issues have been tightened up.

Commerce operations are cleaner and more dependable in this release. Subscription-linked catalogue items move more cleanly through import and export, pro forma order handling is more reliable, and product page schema is cleaner for search engines. The result is smoother day-to-day commercial administration with less friction around the details that usually slow teams down.

Features and Enhancements

• Catalogue item import and export - subscription-linked catalogue items now move more cleanly through import and export.

Bug Fixes

• Pro forma invoice contacts - adding invoice contacts from a pro forma order now works more reliably.
• Pro forma catalogue links - catalogue items on pro forma orders now open directly from the order view.
• Payment notifications - payment notification workflows now complete more reliably.
• Product structured data - product pages now generate cleaner structured data for search engines.

Automation is easier to read and easier to trust in this release. Zapier logs now identify the record involved more clearly, and test output is more accurate when you're checking methods and troubleshooting behaviour.

Features and Enhancements

• Zapier logs - logs can now show the code of the record being created, updated, or triggered.

Bug Fixes

• Zapier Test Tool - method listings now show parked or unsupported items more clearly during testing.

Subscription administration is quicker on larger data sets in this release. The main gain here is a faster Subscription Expiry report, making it easier to work with renewal and expiry data on bigger subscriber bases.

Bug Fixes

• Subscription Expiry report - reporting performance has been improved for larger data sets.

Messaging workflows are clearer and easier to operate in this release. Campaign setup is more straightforward, forum notifications carry better context, and technical forum posts can present inline code more cleanly where clarity matters.

Features and Enhancements

• Message-campaign setup - sender and channel settings are clearer across campaign and message workflows.
• Forum notifications - referred-from and referred-to context can now be included in outbound notifications.
• Technical forum formatting - forum posts now support more useful inline code styling for technical content.

Bug Fixes

• MyMessages Inbox - delete actions now return the correct success state to the UI.

CRM and Contacts gets one of the strongest operator-facing improvements in the release. Broader social profile support now reaches further across account, contact, and public-profile workflows, while registration journeys, external ID handling, and data integrity improvements make everyday audience operations more dependable.

Features and Enhancements

• Broader social profile support - Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube support now reaches further across account, contact, and public-profile workflows.
• Linked external IDs - Account and Contact external IDs can now open straight to the source system when stored as URLs.
• Safer security-group assignment - stronger validation and more flexible filters reduce the risk of broad accidental changes.
• Customer Signal operations - copy, sort, and messaging-side improvements make Customer Signal administration easier to manage.

Bug Fixes

• Login and registration journeys - guest login, required-field feedback, and malformed return-path handling have been improved.
• Contact data integrity - secondary email, mobile, and related contact values now persist correctly.
• Filter and copy behaviour - multi-topic contact filtering and Customer Signal copy behaviour have been tightened up.

Analytics is more dependable where teams feel it most in this release: article saves, article view recording, and multi-site reporting all behave more reliably, while email-client reporting covers a broader range of modern clients.

Features and Enhancements

• Email Client Analysis - reporting now covers a broader and more useful range of modern email clients.

Bug Fixes

• Multi-site content analysis - multi-site content-view reporting now aggregates more reliably.
• Article save reliability - article edits now save more reliably after changes.
• Article view recording - article views are now recorded more reliably in reporting.

The headline events story in this release is the improved QR-based attendee journey, covered above. Beyond that tentpole, the supporting event workflow is cleaner too: sign-up can create attendee records directly, imports are more event-aware, and connected attendee actions continue to expand.

Features and Enhancements

• Direct attendee creation from sign-up - Advanced Event Article sign-up can now create attendee records directly.
• Event-linked attendee import - attendee imports can now be tied more clearly to the right event.
• Event attendee actions - connected attendee workflows continue to expand around the wider events toolset.

This release makes Affino steadier under load and easier to recover when live issues do arise. Smarter page caching, clearer diagnostics, and stronger fallback handling all help live sites stay responsive and resilient at production scale.

Features and Enhancements

• Smarter page caching - tracking-link parameters no longer create unnecessary cache churn.
• Operational diagnostics - diagnostics and error reporting now make live issues quicker to isolate and resolve.

Bug Fixes

• Maintenance fallback - live data-connection issues now fall back more cleanly to a proper maintenance response.
• Article and publishing reliability - article write and HTML regeneration paths have been tightened up.
• Under-load stability - concurrency and background-processing issues have been reduced across the wider platform.

There are no major customer-facing removals to call out in this release. Supporting cleanup of retired legacy components continues behind the scenes as part of the wider reliability and maintainability work across the platform.

The main integration story in this release sits in the tentpoles and area sections above. This section captures the remaining workflow connection worth calling out separately.

• Catalogue Item actions - Zapier support now reaches further into catalogue-item workflows.

The third-party component story in this release is straightforward and important: key editing and interface libraries have been refreshed to improve security, compatibility, and long-term maintainability.

• TinyMCE - updated to 8.5.1, bringing stored XSS fixes as well as editing improvements.
• jQuery UI and jQuery Migrate - refreshed to reduce maintenance drag across older interfaces.