Big release tonight, 9.2.40. It includes 5 fixes: - Fixed unparsed {BUMPSTODAY} in autobumping field description. This affects you if you have the bumps system on, normally used for classifieds websites that order by submission time. - Fixed lightbox on validate attachments page. Just cosmetic and only the admins see it, but it makes the process of validating attachments a bit easier and prettier. - Fixed display of attachments from other members on previewing editing listing.

One of the limitations to WSN's lightbox slideshow feature has been that it only worked manually. Now, as of 9.2.40 Beta 3, I've added a play/pause button. Look to the left of the slide title. Click play and it'll start flipping through the images automatically, then press the pause button (which appears in the location of the play button when play has been pressed) to stop. Want to change how long it pauses between images? Go to Admin -> Settings -> Files -> Slideshow Pause. Want to make slideshows autoplay until someone presses pause? Use the new Admin -> Settings -> Files -> Slideshow Autoplay?

Sometimes, users act before they think. Those big inviting delete buttons on their file attachments when editing a listing may get clicked without good reason, and then the file is lost. The solution? A confirmation yes/no dialog. The 9.2.40 Beta 1 release adds a new javascript handler function to help with this, named wsn_makeconfirmdialogajax. It takes two parameters: the first is the name of another javascript function which will be called when the user says 'yes' to the dialog, and the second is the value of a parameter to pass to that function.

Here's a little more detail on some of the changes in the 9.2.39 release (besides the hybrid field references discussed in the last blog): A new listing template variable {LINKLASTUPDATE} was added to all the scripts. It acts like a combination of {LINKDATE} and {LINKLASTEDITDATE}. If the listing has been edited it returns {LINKLASTEDITDATE}, otherwise it returns {LINKDATE} -- so it always gives you the most recent change date and is never blank. WSN Software Directory has a new option 'Require Purchase to Download Software?' at Admin -> Revenue -> Sales Settings.

The listing details page may be the most important page on your site, so you probably spend a lot of time customizing it. The grid-based display of field info on the listing details page in the last few series of WSN makes things simple for you. You can manage everything via the field manager, set the order automatically, and not have to mess with the template at all. But sometimes you want more control to make a unique and beautiful layout. So far, the way to do that has been to do things the old pre-field-manager way by putting the template variables directly in the details template.