Keyboard shortcuts are they easiest way to do things faster.  They can save you time by keeping your fingers on the keyboard instead of moving to the mouse to perform certain tasks.  Shortcuts are also very precise!  You know exactly what will happen when you press a key.  Several shortcuts were updated in Mautic 1.4, including one really important one!

Mautic Keyboard Shortcuts

Global Shortcuts:

shift+d: Load the Dashboard
shift+right: Activate the Right Admin menu
shift+s: Global search
shift+c: Load Contacts
shift+n: Show Notifications

Contact Pages

a: Quick add a New Contact
c: Activate Card (or Grid) view
t: Activate Table (or List) view

The Important One!
shift+?: Opens the keyboard shortcut reminder screen in a modal window

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This release includes more than 6,771 new code additions and 1,142 deletions over a total of almost 800 commits. Digging deeper these changes represent 20 completely new features, 18 enhancements, and 21 bug fixes.

Terminology/Menu Updates:

• 
  
  Leads  are now Contacts.
• Lists are now Segments.
• A new dropdown called Components contains assets, forms and landing pages.
• A new dropdown called Channels contains emails, along with two new features: SMS/Text messaging and Web Notifications.
• Manage Fields moved to the admin menu as Custom Fields (click the gear on the top right side of your administration window).

New Features:

• A drag and drop widget based dashboard
• SMS/Text Messaging.
• Web Notifications.
• Social Login form field.
• Javascript based tracking (in addition to the tracking pixel).

Watch the video to see the changes then head over to https://github.com/mautic/mautic/releases/tag/1.4.0 to see the full details and change log.

A big thank you to the following community members for contributing to this release: @Dcoutelle, @FarhadF, @hissy, @jkuchar, @kuzmany, @LAN-Laurene, @nickion, @nithinga, @pelboxsolutions, @rafas, @Salamek, @sandergo90, @teobogdan87

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Joomla! is the second most popular content management system in the world.  It powers sites such as the Eiffel Tower, the Guggenheim Museum, the United Nations Regional Information Centre and millions more.  So of course, Mautic integrates with Joomla!

Installing the Plugin

Its a simple process:

1. Download the plugin. (Joomla! 2.5x & 3.x)
2. Install it as you would any other extension (extensions -> manage -> install)
3. Configure the plugin with your Mautic URL.

Once the plugin is installed and configured, you can embed forms anywhere on your site.  You’ll also begin to see contact information populating your leads.

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Drupal is a world-class content management system used by governments (whitehouse.gov), schools (harvard.edu), business (weather.com) and even other open source projects (redhat.com & opensource.com)!  So of course, Mautic integrates with every major version of Drupal.

Installing the Module

Its a simple process:

1. Download the version of the module for your version of of the CMS.
2. Install the module (admin/modules/install)
3. Configure the module with your Mautic URL.

Once the module installed and configured, you can embed forms anywhere on your site.  You’ll also begin to see contact information populating your leads.

Watch the video for step by step instructions.

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This is the first in what we hope will be a long list of short tutorials on different aspects of Mautic.  Today’s tutorial answers a question I received from a user last week.

There are two kinds of forms:  “Campaign” and “Standalone”, each with its own characteristics.  How do I know which one to use?

Choosing the Right Form

Campaign forms allow you to send people straight into a campaign and be the source for that campaign.  These can be edited even after a campaign has begun. Any actions you might want to perform at the time of submission, are handled by the campaign itself, and that can be limiting.

Standalone forms can also allow you to kick-off a campaign. The main difference is that the form submitter must be added to a list as one of the form actions.  The form itself cannot be used as a campaign lead.  You can perform any number of actions on a standalone form!  For instance, if you want an email sent to an administrator when the form submits, then you would use the standalone variety.

Campaign Forms:

• Push the lead directly into a campaign.
• Can not perform other actions outside of the campaign workflow.

Standalone Forms:

• Can not initiate a campaign.
• Can perform actions at submission such as:
  • adjust a lead’s points
  • modify lead’s lists (which must be done if this form starts a campaign)
  • modify lead’s tags
  • download an asset
  • push lead to integration
  • send email to lead
  • send email to user
  • send form results (such as another administrator)

If you’d like to suggest a topic, please head over to the #support channel and message @imrodmartin.