DAP v3.8 & LL v1.3 (Beta)

Here’s the final list of what’s in DAP v3.8 & LiveLinks v1.3.

* [NEW] Product Chaining
* [NEW] (New Config Field) SECRET_KEY: Secret Authorization Key used when interfacing with external systems
* [NEW] (New Config Field) SHOW_COMMENTS: Show comments on protected WP content
* [NEW] (New Config Field) DEFAULT_AFF_LANDING: URL of default landing page for Affiliate links (when not redirected). Default: / (home page)
* [NEW] (New Config Field) DEFAULT_PASSWORD: This gives you the ability to generate a “Default Password” – like ‘dap’ – for all new users. Which means, if you have say, integrated Aweber or an external email system with DAP, now you can send out the welcome email along with the password (simply use the same default password into your Aweber email as the one you have set in DAP Config, that’s it!). You could even bring the user back to your login page and say something to the effect of “Please use the email address you just used during purchase, and the password ‘changethis’ to log into your account right away! Just be sure to change your password soon after logging in.”
* [NEW] DAP will no longer allow deliberate or unintentional deletion of admin users. You must change their account type to “User” (from “Admin”) first before you can delete the user.
* [NEW] 1-Click Delete-All functionality to delete all protected content in a Product
* [NEW] Warning presented and asks for confirmation when you click on “Delete Product” (even though DAP already won’t delete a product if there is even 1 user associated with a Product. Just another confirmation in addition to what was there before).
* [NEW] Display of User Links (sorting order): Within a given day, if you have multiple links dripping (say, on day 1 itself you have multiple links), then they will show up on the “User links” page in the exact same order in which it shows up on the Products page.
* [NEW] DAP Logs displays only 1000 rows now
* [NEW] Content URL field length increased from 100 to 200
* [NEW] Affiliate Info Page now fits well even into narrow themes.
* [NEW] Logout link in DAP Dashboard (under “My Account”)
* [NEW] When you add a blog post/page to a Product, it retrieves the post/page’s title, and the page title is what your member will see in the “Links” section of a product.
* [NEW] Product Specific Logged-in URL
* [NEW] dap/inc/content/userfacing.css – can be customized by renaming it customuserfacing.css
* [NEW] Ability to completely customize CSS of User-facing pages – like affiliate links, user links and user profile
* [NEW] List of Affiliate Link Referrers are now in a scrollable div so as to save real estate
* [NEW] WP Widget to show Products Purchased on sidebar
* [NEW] New merge code %%PRODUCT_DETAILS_<id>%% to show Product-specific Links on a page
* [FIXED] LiveLinks: Last name merge tag wasn’t functional.
* [FIXED] Removed “http://” from second link in affiliate “redirection” link

This is a closed beta for now – which means, we’re not making it available to everyone just yet.

So if you’re interested in actually installing the beta, please add a comment below using your DAP Signup Email Id and we’ll make it available to you on a first-come-first-served basis. We expect a lot of people to request this, so appreciate your patience.

Feel free to comment below.

- Veena Prashanth

77 comments ↓

#1 Graham on 06.08.10 at 9:27 am

I like idea of a default password, I haven’t got that far in my config yet though!

#2 Dominic on 06.08.10 at 4:55 pm

Aha!
No sooner do I post a question about 3.8, and Veena points me to here. Either you know what I want, or I posess some cazy DAP mystic powers.

Product chaining is key for me – I want to be able to get free members on to a paid membership and have them moved from one email list to the next.

Just to check, when would my next paid upgrade be? V.4.0 of DAP?

#3 Steve on 06.09.10 at 12:08 am

Hey,

This update will be simple and won’t effect the current sites I hope!

Sounds great!
Steve

#4 Britt Malka on 06.09.10 at 9:31 am

Hi

Thanks for your continuing updates to my favourite membership script :) I would like to try the beta, please.

#5 Neil Marsh on 06.09.10 at 10:07 am

Ravi,

I will install 3.8, thanks…

Regards

Neil

#6 JSaeler on 06.09.10 at 10:08 am

I’d like to test the beta out if I’m not too late!

#7 Graham Paris on 06.09.10 at 10:10 am

Yes I would like to install this as I am ’setting off’ with dap, save updating when all is settled and scared to do so!

#8 Bob Jenkins on 06.09.10 at 10:18 am

Bring it on! :)

#9 Mark Mason on 06.09.10 at 11:02 am

I am bringing up a new site now. I am actually interesting in paying for you to upgrade my current install to the beta, if that is an option….

#10 Konstantinos Bimplis on 06.09.10 at 11:08 am

I want to install and use 3.8b,

thanks in advance

Konstantinos

#11 David Scarborough on 06.09.10 at 12:16 pm

Great job, you guys rock. Please send a copy when you can.

thanks
David

#12 Michael on 06.09.10 at 12:17 pm

I would love access to the beta

#13 Ed on 06.09.10 at 12:21 pm

This is hot…

#14 Bill on 06.09.10 at 12:30 pm

I’m going to be installing DAP on several new sites within the next couple of weeks, and would like to start out with the newest version. Thanks.

#15 Jim on 06.09.10 at 12:31 pm

sounds great! can’t wait to test it

#16 Ray Lance on 06.09.10 at 12:55 pm

I would like to test it, of course, Veena.

#17 Veena Prashanth on 06.09.10 at 1:05 pm

Thanks all for your support !

We are going to be really busy the next few days :-)

We will send out an email with the next steps to those of you who have requested DAP 3.8 beta access later tonight.

#18 Chris Cobb on 06.09.10 at 1:17 pm

I’d like to get a head start on 3.8 before my site goes live.

#19 Shannon Herod on 06.09.10 at 1:32 pm

Bring it on. I am ready to put it through the ringer!

#20 Joyce Jagger on 06.09.10 at 2:00 pm

I would appreciate it if you could install it and just charge me for it.
Thank you Veena, I really appreciate it.

#21 Graeme on 06.09.10 at 2:08 pm

We’re a week away from launch, so this is perfect timing! Product chaining is going to change the way we market, so bring it on!

Thanks for the hard work guys. Honestly, the best money I think I’ve ever spent!

#22 tony lynch on 06.09.10 at 2:27 pm

Thanks to you guys for the software, the live webinar and the updates.

Tony

#23 Steve Jankowski on 06.09.10 at 2:30 pm

I’d love it too!

Also, do you have an plans to include more metrics…..such as opened emails on broadcasts and a way I can see the traffic affiliates are sending?

#24 Marian on 06.09.10 at 2:32 pm

Hey Ravi & Veena,

Great to have access to v 3.8! I’m looking forward to three pieces of added functionality:

1) Product Chaining
2) Default Passwords (1 welcome email instead of 2 for new users) <–Thank goodness
3) Products widget

Thanks for all you've invested to make DAP better!

#25 Glenn Muhr on 06.09.10 at 2:34 pm

1 word…

AWESOME…

Count me in for the 3.8 Beta…

Thanks.

#26 Anita Johnson on 06.09.10 at 2:34 pm

Would appreciate having the beta version too. Need to stay abreast of the changes to better support my clients who are using DAP.

Also looking forward having the product chaining to resolve one of the issues I’ve been having.

Thanks!

#27 Jim on 06.09.10 at 2:36 pm

I would like to get in on the beta for 3.8 as well.

Thanks

#28 Linette Daniels- The Youth Success Doctor on 06.09.10 at 2:41 pm

Add me to the list too!

Thanks

#29 Lars on 06.09.10 at 3:33 pm

Thanks for the improvements to DAP. Please add me for Beta.
Regards / Lars

#30 Tomas Michaud on 06.09.10 at 3:40 pm

I’d like to be on the list for the beta.

#31 Donna on 06.09.10 at 4:08 pm

Yes, please. Will you have a video on using these new features? Thanks!

#32 TJ Marrs on 06.09.10 at 4:13 pm

We would love access to the upgrade. The product links in the widget is exactly what we wanted! Thank you!

#33 Ashley on 06.09.10 at 4:26 pm

Will the new Secret Key interfere with custom payment integration?

#34 Janice on 06.09.10 at 4:37 pm

Would love to test it as well :-) Add my name to the list.

Merci!

#35 Lou Dalo on 06.09.10 at 4:37 pm

ready when you are

#36 Sheldon on 06.09.10 at 4:56 pm

I hope it’s not too late to beta test it :)

#37 SKP on 06.09.10 at 5:00 pm

Please add my name to the 3.8 Beta list. Thanks!

#38 David Castle on 06.09.10 at 5:01 pm

I am happy to be in the company of such ardent programmers and fellow marketers to boot!

Open the flood gates and let us swim in the DAP river!
Ok to much drama just watched the Ken Burns Lewis and Clark movie

Lovin the DAP program and the beta’s as well
I’d like a copy thanks in advance

#39 Salvador on 06.09.10 at 5:05 pm

Thank you. I will also try out the beta version.

#40 Niels on 06.09.10 at 6:04 pm

These new changes sounds really good.

Just to throw in my 10 cents, I would like to see DAP have the ability to organize files inside the protected files area in either alphabetical order or numerical order.

I have 48 files which are being drip feed over 6 month.
It is a home study course which need to be consumed in the right order.

The files are named so they start with 001, 002, 003… and so forth. It comes up nicely organized inside the file manager on my hosting account, but when I load them up into the protected file area inside DAP they get all mixed up and out of sequence, which means when I come to set the individual drip feed it doesn’t give me an easy organized overview. Hope this will be addressed in a future upgrade.

It is good to see all the protected files can now be deleted with one click.

The best part of this upgrade is the userfacing.css which was not possible with earlier version and caused a lot of headache trying to make the user profile and members area look presentable with Thesis.

#41 Brian on 06.09.10 at 8:05 pm

Getting ready to add DAP to a new site. Just purchased. Would love to start withthe best and be part of your test group.

Thanks!!!

#42 Rick on 06.09.10 at 8:19 pm

I would love a chance to play with the beta!

#43 Eric Bobrow on 06.09.10 at 8:52 pm

I’m just configuring my first site for use with DAP, and would love to start out with the latest version. Please add my name to the list. Thanks!

#44 Catherine on 06.09.10 at 11:37 pm

i would like you to add my name to the list. Thank you for the uograde and the great work

#45 Leondras Jackson on 06.10.10 at 12:19 am

Yes, I am interested in installing the Beta DAP v3.8 &LL v1.3

Is this going to be a free upgrade?

Leondras

#46 Marc on 06.10.10 at 12:25 am

Veena the DEFAULT_PASSWORD is a great idea!

WP Widget to show Products Purchased on sidebar looks interesting but why not showing in the same widget how many days until the next post/page/article will be unlocked?

In the prospect mind will be very difficult to cancel the membership if he sees “hello ravi, in 3 days you will get access to the next module of the “how to juggling cat in 30 minutes a day”

#47 Marian on 06.10.10 at 6:32 am

@Marc – That’s a great idea regarding informing # days before next module gets unlocked! I like it b/c it sets the EXPECTATION for current members of what MORE they get when they CONTINUE their membership…

Who knows, for the “eager”, you could even set up an incentive to unlock the module sooner (there are eager high achievers out there!)

#48 Dan Ford on 06.10.10 at 7:19 am

Please sign me up for the beta. Can’t wait for the product chaining!

Thanks

Dan

#49 Marc Eglon on 06.10.10 at 10:34 am

I’m so glad you’ve got a nicer solution for using aweber. I’d actually just asked my programmer to modify the dap-aweber.php file today.

If you let me in on this beta, that’ll save a lot of work.

btw. what happened to creating dedicated landing pages inside the members area for different products?

Is this still something I should customize myself?

#50 Veena Prashanth on 06.10.10 at 10:41 am

Marc,
Product level login is already part of DAP 3.8.

#51 Veena Prashanth on 06.10.10 at 10:45 am

Marc,
>> WP Widget to show Products Purchased on sidebar looks interesting but why not showing in the same widget how many days until the next post/page/article will be unlocked? <<

Great suggestion. We have this on our ToDo list now. Hopefully, we can get to it sooner than later.

#52 Marc Eglon on 06.10.10 at 10:45 am

Amazing – sorry, I overlooked that line in the excitement. That changes the game entirely.

#53 Marc on 06.10.10 at 12:14 pm

Hey Veena i’m glad you liked my suggestion :D

BTW speaking of requests there’s a thing i would really love to see in the coming dap releases and it’s the drpping content destination.

Let me explain, at the moment when you add content to a product your only choice is to show the content on the user’s homepage or not. I would LOVE being able to drip content on other pages and why not also in the sidebar.

Let’s say you have platinum membership and diamond membership. I would like to have only one link from the homepage pointing to mysite.com/platinum page and then drip platinum content in this page.

Do you think something of this kind could be obtained with DAP?

This level of flexibility would be amazing!

#54 Christian DeMeco on 06.10.10 at 12:33 pm

Hope it’s not too late. I want the code too. :)

#55 Dominic on 06.10.10 at 2:15 pm

Would love the code to try…

The site you’ve been looking at a little for me which we hope to launch soon will require product chaining – as we’ll have free memberships who we’ll want to upgrade to paid memberships – therefore need to move people off one email list to the next.

Would like to get this in place for when we launch in hopefully a week or so now…!

Cheers,
Dom

#56 Brian on 06.10.10 at 4:27 pm

Marc, I second! Would love to have variable destination for dripping content too!!

(But I’d be stoked to be on the beta in the meantime!!!)

#57 Jason Cheng on 06.10.10 at 5:09 pm

All these updates are just awesome, I can’t wait to have a test-run on it. Please add me to the list. Thanks.

#58 Stephen on 06.11.10 at 8:51 am

Can you give us a few setup examples on how to use thi s ?(New Config Field) DEFAULT_PASSWORD:

#59 YM on 06.11.10 at 2:40 pm

Please add me to the list

#60 Josh on 06.12.10 at 4:56 pm

I’d love to be added to the list as well!

Thanks!

#61 Francis Clemens on 06.13.10 at 2:09 pm

Is the Beta still available?
Thanks.

#62 Zane on 06.13.10 at 6:14 pm

yes please send me the link

#63 DR NET on 06.14.10 at 7:27 am

Please send me the beta of 3.8 if you are still offering it

Thanks

#64 Tawnya on 06.14.10 at 1:29 pm

I would like to try.

#65 Peretz on 06.17.10 at 7:21 am

I would love to install the 3.8 & 1.3 BETA

#66 Jason on 06.17.10 at 5:11 pm

I just bought DAP a few days ago, and product chaining looks like it is the one feature I am desperately in need of.

If you still have some open slots to test the BETA, please include me.

#67 Peretz on 06.18.10 at 6:09 pm

Can you point me to an explanation of Product-specific Links?

* [NEW] New merge code %%PRODUCT_DETAILS_%% to show Product-specific Links on a page

Thanks,

Peretz

#68 Josh Nankivel on 06.19.10 at 5:30 am

They enabled curl and fsockopen as Ravi suggested, and now my site is down. Help!!

Fatal error: Class ‘PDO’ not found in /home/thepnan6/public_html/learn/dap/inc/classes/Dap_Connection.class.php on line 19

#69 Josh Nankivel on 06.19.10 at 6:04 am

I added these lines to my php.ini and it fixed the issue:

extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so

#70 Benjamin Higginbotham on 06.19.10 at 11:51 pm

I was just wondering if there is an estimated time for a public beta / final release date for DAP 3.8 and LL 1.3? While I can install beta products on my production site, I really prefer they are flushed out first and I am eagerly awaiting the ability to turn comments back on again!

#71 Molly Ogren on 06.20.10 at 6:30 pm

Hey Veena!

Is it too late to get my hands on the 3.8 beta? As you know it has JUST what I need with the product-specific redirect. I am late to the party because my house was hit by lightning and my hard drive crashed. Living in the middle of nowhere, it took me a while to get a replacement hard drive delivered!

Please tell me I can still try it out!

Thank you so much :) .

Molly

#72 Quentin on 06.25.10 at 12:56 am

Eager to try this out on a brand new website. Product chaining sounds like just what I need. Thanks in advance for sending the code.

#73 Tynus on 06.27.10 at 3:28 pm

Hi Veena, Is it too late to get my hands on the 3.8 beta?
Really looking foreward to it.
I just Love DAP!

Thanks so much :-)

#74 Scott on 06.28.10 at 5:36 pm

Sounds great! I’m just getting my member site up and I’d really like to have the product chaining feature in this beta.

#75 Leili on 07.01.10 at 6:59 pm

I am interested in the new version…

#76 webworld on 07.02.10 at 3:40 pm

please send, im also interested in the beta version

#77 Wayne Cochrane on 07.03.10 at 11:20 pm

Hello Veena,

Is the 3.8 Beta still available?

Woul love a copy!

Thanks,

Wayne.

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