Theme of 2.5: Social Networking

Clearspace 2.5 enhances the social networking capabilities of Clearspace by enabling people to find, connect, follow, and interact, and interrelate with others. Here's what's included in these notes:

New Features

Enhancements

Known Issues

Fixed Issues

Note: For changes in previous versions, be sure to see earlier versions of this document:

• Version 2.5.9 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.8 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.7 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.6 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.5 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.4 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.3 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.2 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.1 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.0.rc Release Notes

New Features in the 2.5 Series

• Groups - Member-created social communities based on members' areas of interest
• Connections/Friends - Connect with and follow other people's activity in the community
• Enhanced People Search - Easily find groups of people in the community based on similar profile attributes
• Invite a Friend - Add viral capabilities to your sites by offering members a quick way to invite others to join the community
• Configuration - Site and community admins can configure the look and feel of their site without the need for customizations
• Basic Configuration - Easily configure your site's color scheme and logo for simple tailoring of the look and feel
• Advanced Configuration - Download our developer kit, update the included images and CSS, and upload the the updated package to easily deploy custom themes
• Global Rename - Rename Clearspace features and concepts to meet your specific vocabulary or nomenclature
• Configurable Registration - Manage the fields that are displayed to new members when they register.

Enhancements in the 2.5 Series

• RTE Enhancements - An enhanced authoring experience that is consistent with commonly used tools and eases the use of advanced capabilities through simplified wizards
• Moderation - Consistent approach for moderation and report abuse across all content types
• Project Improvements - New project statuses; follow projects to easily see roll-up reporting; import and export task data to integrate your project with enterprise project management tools
• Cloud Sharing - Now your cloud participants can view attachments associated with documents that are being shared
• Blog Permissions - Group blogs now follow the permissions of the community, project, or group with which they are associated
• New Location Picker - Selecting the location of new content is simplified by an intelligent picker suggests the places (communities, projects, groups) that you use most often
• Tag Navigation - Narrow your focus when navigating content by progressively selecting tags that are used together

Here's a list of things to know about this version of Clearspace, including, improvements and fixes since the previous version, and issues you might find.

Known Issues in 2.5.10

• [CS-13005] Adding approvers to document has 'conflicting versions' error incorrectly
• [CS-12996] Accessing setup console always sets Allow user-created accounts to true
• [CS-12972] Reverting to a document to a version that has a status of ARCHIVED results in new version not being to users
• [CS-12963] Bulleted list in HTML widget does not show bullets
• [CS-12939] Web services call breaks next request (normal page or web services)
• [CS-12900] LDAP Profile Synch slowdown due to ProfileFieldValueCalculator
• [CS-12872] Project Calendar is missing translations
• [CS-12869] Revoking group invitation prevents further invites to that group
• [CS-12867] Revoking group invitations in IE6 and IE7 produces javascript error
• [CS-12857] social group with disabled users as members cannot be deleted
• [CS-12825] Adding document approver after one approver has already approved the document messes up the state of the document
• [CS-12816] If user's name is set to be hidden in their profile, Freemarker error results in content picker when clicking browse history tab
• [CS-12810] Having alternate email address on a user's profile, causes the vcard to fail with a Freemarker exception
• [CS-12803] Some users with Chinese usernames do not show in the People page (Oracle only)
• [CS-12779] Moderation queue entry for content that contains very wide image expands across the moderation screen hiding controls
• [CS-12771] Leaving a note on a moderated item causes it to remain in moderation queue after being moderated by another user
• [CS-12770] Double Framed Avatars in User Bar
• [CS-12768] Need to be able to create a Custom profile field that is both non-visible and editable
• [CS-12763] Short syntax for attachments in a link in content will cause the link to render as the full URL to that attachment when in the RTE
• [CS-12755] Root level space admin cannot see the full home page of a private social group but can view content from a private social group
• [CS-12753] Combining search boolean expressions with tags field operator in a search does not work
• [CS-12743] Social Group invitations should not be case sensitive on email address
• [CS-12707] Permission group membership cannot be modified concurrently in a cluster
• [CS-12704] document gets autoconverted into an html macro
• [CS-12696] Tasks can be run when app isn't in 'RUNNING' state
• [CS-12691] RSS Widget can cause page hangs
• [CS-12687] Linking to internal links with edit parameters doesn't work
• [CS-12676] Pagination problems with posts flagged for abuse
• [CS-12669] Unclosed macro in tag-widget FTL causes stack trace
• [CS-12653] Text disappears after mouse click at end of line with numbered list and color for all the text in IE7
• [CS-12643] Rejecting a document with a duplicated title throws an exception
• [CS-12633] DbGroupManager.update() can be extremely costly in a clustered instance
• [CS-12629] In RTE, Right Click -> Insert Image does not respect permission settings
• [CS-12627] Migrating blog to community doesn't add to entitlement
• [CS-12626] Recent Content will not pull up Blog Posts, Documents if you disable content type (Discussions are fine)
• [CS-12622] The PermissionService.addCommunityPermissionToGroup() web service method does not work because it is defined as a POST but uses GET style parameters
• [CS-12602] Announcements don't wrap gracefully if there are too many of them
• [CS-12585] Secret groups hiding results on groups overview page
• [CS-12576] "View' link is missing in uploaded document in IE6
• [CS-12474] Popularity determination task SQL includes extraneous table causing a nasty catesian product as a result of the non-join
• [CS-12319] Space creation not propagating through cluster members
• [CS-12298] Cannot view the attached document
• [CS-12156] Flags in WikiContentHelper set to true by default
• [CS-11922] CLONE -Moderator of a space cannot see tasks in a project in that space unless they are explicitly granted visibility to the space
• [CS-11853] Blog Reports are empty (admin console -> Reporting -> Reports)

Fixed Issues in 2.5.10

Bugs

• [CS-12660] Previously Escaped Titles Are Returning Double Escaped
• [CS-12659] Clearspace hangs when using RSS widgets with proxies
• [CS-12607] Admin must fill out required fields in user summary
• [CS-12587] ProfileService.setProfile() webservice method cannot be used because it is not defined properly
• [CS-12579] HTML Markup in RSS Feed Titles
• [CS-12578] Old wiki syntax for attachment links is not updated and then rendering such a link in 2.5 does not work correctly
• [CS-12574] Content title does not display as link, after inserting the link.
• [CS-12567] SocialGroupService.updateSocialGroup() method for webservices cannot be successfully called
• [CS-12563] Comments marked as moderated on a wordpress export are not marked as moderated when imported.
• [CS-12562] Blog comments marked as spam in wordpress export are displayed on imported blog posts
• [CS-12547] TagService createTag method incorrectly specifies GET parameters in a POST request
• [CS-12524] Filter on watches page doesn't respect settings for projects/groups being disabled
• [CS-12515] Unable to move blog from community or social group to system blog due to recent content issues
• [CS-12496] When user status is disabled it will still display on the reply page
• [CS-12490] ResourceLoaderServlet does not return a 404 for missing files
• [CS-12483] Images losing aspect ratio / not showing at all
• [CS-12412] macro links don't unline when pressing link [A] button
• [CS-12392] Space Blog associations are not carried over from 1.10.x to 2.5.x
• [CS-12383] One IMAP error kills Email Monitor until restart
• [CS-12380] Creating content with an invalid HTML comment in the HTML tab causes system error
• [CS-12367] Trackbacks post twice: Double Trackbacks created
• [CS-12348] Race condition in WatchManagerImpl.createWatch
• [CS-12346] Tall status icons cause the username and other information to get obscured by the image
• [CS-12318] Movable type import does not respect date specification
• [CS-12312] German translation incorrect for "TItle"
• [CS-12307] Twitter search rss feed not resolving
• [CS-12280] project and social group search borked
• [CS-12272] When there's no History, add an LI inside the UL to avoid UI issues
• [CS-12260] Groups and Projects starting with Uppercase not being returned in browse by letter
• [CS-12256] Blog Browsing By Month, Day, and Year Does Not Determine if Previous Posts Exist
• [CS-12238] Attachment content types indicated as allowed when they're actually not (only discussions)
• [CS-12235] Can't merge two spaces with space blogs
• [CS-12225] Emoticons do not show when viewing content as PDF when instance uses HTTPS
• [CS-12220] Web services do not work with WAS 6.1 and Clearspace 2.5.7
• [CS-12191] Backport - fixed NPE caused by thread race condition in DbCommunity.getInterceptorManager
• [CS-12166] User tooltip does not respect profile field privacy settings
• [CS-12154] User Admins cannot view email addresses from the front end
• [CS-12151] Fixed-width theme causes display problem with reply button in discussions.
• [CS-12128] Abuse reporting in a secret social group can cause "Unauthorized" for root space moderators
• [CS-12115] Report Abuse is Publishing awaiting for approval documents
• [CS-12091] IE6: Managing Group Members pagination not shown
• [CS-12052] People page filters contain values from users that are disabled
• [CS-11993] Removing the "Create Message attachment" permission at the root space does not remove upload box from social group
• [CS-11980] CLONE -Reflected XSS on Admin Console > People > Ban Settings
• [CS-11972] Problem entering emoticons from dropdown menu in IE
• [CS-11936] moving cursor up and down with arrow keys goes crazy in Safari w/ links on the page
• [CS-11866] class="jive-link-wiki-small" causes root context to be dropped on publish
• [CS-11770] Phone number profile field still shows on user short profile popup even when it is set as not visible
• [CS-11759] document changing document approvers automatically publishes document and leaves hanging approval item
• [CS-11742] Setting default avatar does not work
• [CS-11714] Need tri-state checkboxes for users and groups at the root level
• [CS-11678] RTE Link Picker does not respect user name privacy settings
• [CS-11619] Blog redirecting to home page after logging in if unauthorized
• [CS-11611] IE6 XSS exploit via JavaScript in a plain text attachment
• [CS-11575] When spell check is on in IE, "No misspellings found" dialog keeps coming up every so often when there are no misspellings
• [CS-11557] 1.10 content that uses {noformat} macro loses content inside the macro on display after editting document post upgrade to 2.5
• [CS-11541] RTE cursor jumps to top of text on [RETURN] after bulleted list
• [CS-11508] RSS feed for connection activity shows macros and escaped HTML for user tasks
• [CS-11501] All groups count totals Private Groups
• [CS-11449] Long announcement titles slip behind the announcement toggle buttons
• [CS-11353] several issues for TagService WS methods
• [CS-11310] Social group member management screen only shows total number of invites/members for the current paginated page at the top
• [CS-11231] focus not set in RTE when replying to thread in FF (bullfrog dev)
• [CS-11066] blackice / proventia blocking execution of JavaScript because of username / password in zapatec.js
• [CS-10989] Tabs: cursor interprets as text instead of link for IE
• [CS-10963] duplicate span tags being added to content, users can't remove extra spacing
• [CS-10942] More like this broken - no results
• [CS-10754] Removing an approver from a document sends 'X has approved document' email to the author
• [CS-10594] Extra URLS are available for anything ending in .jspa
• [CS-10580] Specifying a non numeric community id in the RSS feed for polls in a community causes an NPE to be logged to the error log
• [CS-10455] LastLoggedIn date not being set after account creation
• [CS-10399] SOAP services don't work on JBoss due to SAAJ library conflict
• [CS-10282] front end character validation doesn't apply when creating blogs in admin console
• [CS-10237] Plugin Init method getting called 3 times
• [CS-10185] Sql Macro doesn't display properly in PDF view
• [CS-10152] Email notifications are not sent with moderated document and blog post comments
• [CS-10144] Document and blog post link of a comment awaiting moderation is not working
• [CS-10120] Not all emoticons auto-convert in IE
• [CS-10104] Newlines inside <script> tags are removed in html widget causing problems if comments are used.
• [CS-10062] If invalid communityid given to the allcontent rss feed, stack trace is spit to the logs indicating result for INPUT not found
• [CS-9964] Cannot manage pre-existing sytem blog users after migrating blog to a community blog
• [CS-9903] Error processing RSS feed, on Projects
• [CS-9900] Spell check loses ignored words when saving a draft
• [CS-9830] Weblogic: Viewing content containing a table or font color as PDF will cause system error
• [CS-9744] Hover over links in IE does not show the URL in the browsers status bar
• [CS-9595] Add spaces between text and text/combo boxes in Create Poll
• [CS-9592] Lost content after copy/paste
• [CS-9377] shift+arrow loses selection
• [CS-9347] Images aren't rendered if encapsulated by italics wiki
• [CS-9217] LastLoggedIn not being set upon successful registration
• [CS-9171] Theming of one of the templates used in template.ftl decorator do not propagate across cluster
• [CS-8984] Reserved Names in Urls, or Creating a space named Blog doesn't work, and shouldn't be allowed
• [CS-8845] Revoking blog read permission does not work
• [CS-8793] Sharepoint widget causes timeouts if sharepoint instance not reachable
• [CS-7497] People filters: long occupation names don't scale well