Special Feature
The new capability is for individual items in a List to display separately in the center column. This can be seen in the Help iLab (follow the "Help" link from the main page at http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu ), and in the Bioinformatics Seminar course site (http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/biosem/).

In each of these, a list is displayed in the left column, using "show_all_small". To the right of each individual item is an icon (currently a chain-link) which can be clicked on to bring up the particular item from the list, in the center column.

The new feature provides this capability in a much more straightforward way than before, when it was necessary to create the content of each detailed item as a separate Text Display Panel brick, and use a URL field in the List brick to point to the direct URL for that Text Display brick. It's of course still possible to display entire lists in the center column; you can click the new detail permalink next to a particular item there to display it separately.

Using a List Tool for displaying different bricks in your iLab
You can follow the same instruction for setting up a list and include the URLs of different bricks in the URL field of a list. Please Remember: after you have organized your bricks in a new list tool, DON'T delete the brick, you just make them invisible using Arrange Bricks.

Displaying a year
Select the "short text" field type for your date field (rather than the "date" type).