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 2.5.11 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.10 Release Notes
• 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 This Version

• [CS-13424] PermissionService.isUserAuthorizedOnCommunity isn't correctly determining permission
• [CS-13412] Code macro when creating via email is converting characters incorrectly
• [CS-13411] Creating a social group with webservices does not set the default widget layout
• [CS-13405] document backchannel couldn't be queried for its document's container info
• [CS-13400] Changing approvers without changing content of document after first version has been approved leaves document in pending approval state but without a workflow
• [CS-13397] Parsing exceptions from Spring LDAP DnParser need to be caught
• [CS-13368] Can't call update on the pollService
• [CS-13366] Cannot successfully change approvers in a document after initial approval
• [CS-13271] Auto watch new tasks setting is not available in user preferences
• [CS-13266] Ordered list "type" attribute in HTML gets overridden by CSS to only allow numbers
• [CS-13256] EmailManager SENDING event should use fireAndWait instead of async fire event
• [CS-13255] HTMLFilter does not strip out base href tag
• [CS-13180] Digitally signed emails no longer work for email gateways
• [CS-13163] Updating project status in a private space shows up in recent activity everywhere
• [CS-13158] Leaving a note on a moderated document causes it to remain in moderation queue after being moderated by another user
• [CS-13144] 'Stop Email Notifications' JavaScript can show SQL query in error message
• [CS-13134] IE6 showing secure/insecure warning for container & user tooltip popups
• [CS-13132] Removing a friend does not correctly update labels
• [CS-13126] View as PDF does not work for specific content
• [CS-13123] Browse -> Groups can show incorrect number of groups
• [CS-13117] DocumentService methods missing required @WebParam annotations
• [CS-13091] RTE doesn't respond to down arrow with certain text input
• [CS-13086] Comment Policy: None, Still shows add comment option for editors/authors
• [CS-13084] Documents that are in draft state are visible in the popular document widget
• [CS-13043] Can't reference custom content type in a plugin upgrade task
• [CS-13039] FastDateFormat ignores locale
• [CS-13034] Recent activity does not handle comment deletions
• [CS-12996] Accessing setup console always sets Allow user-created accounts to true
• [CS-12995] Bad link for internal search queries containing colon
• [CS-12987] jsessionids printed in the middle of "Last Post" link when anonymous browsing turned on
• [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-12892] Wildcards don't work in search when a word has underscores
• [CS-12867] Revoking group invitations in IE6 and IE7 produces javascript error
• [CS-12831] User not found for ID -9223372036854775808
• [CS-12828] BlogPermHelper should not allow anonymous users to create blog posts
• [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-12803] Some users with Chinese usernames do not show in the People page (Oracle only)
• [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-12760] Webservices don't support multiple container (social group, project) content creation
• [CS-12752] Page compression enabled makes admin console unavailable in Safari
• [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-12703] Appsupport should include RPM data
• [CS-12702] we need a global state transition latch, currently causing timer tasks to fire incorrectly
• [CS-12696] Tasks can be run when app isn't in 'RUNNING' state
• [CS-12687] Linking to internal links with edit parameters doesn't work
• [CS-12655] Switching layouts can cause widgets to shift to wrong columns or disappear
• [CS-12652] PDF colors do not match what shows in content
• [CS-12630] Filenames with double byte characters will not save with the correct file name
• [CS-12629] In RTE, Right Click -> Insert Image does not respect permission settings
• [CS-12622] The PermissionService.addCommunityPermissionToGroup() web service method does not work because it is defined as a POST but uses GET style parameters
• [CS-12606] "Add Member" field for permission groups parses both username and user ID to load a user.
• [CS-12605] "Assign To" field in Create Task parses both username and user ID to locate user
• [CS-12588] Project Filter does not carry over to next page
• [CS-12585] Secret groups hiding results on groups overview page
• [CS-12564] HTML inside CDATA for macros gets expanded during render and WordBreakFilter can cause escaped html special characters to appear in content that is longer than max length
• [CS-12529] No placeholder image for Google Videos, Vimeo, etc
• [CS-12526] User can get to the standard link dialog for TinyMCE using Ctrl-k
• [CS-12502] Limiting a rendering filter to only subject, body, or properties does not work
• [CS-12499] Status level points should support unbounded values and the default upper bound for "Master" should be unbounded
• [CS-12481] Main Discussions Link dropping context
• [CS-12284] subject of content cannot be rendered when custom macro/filter is added to a subcommunity on renderplugin initialization
• [CS-12221] forum.thrd.helpful_answer.text has wrong plural for German
• [CS-12129] DocumentBodyStart html comment displaying inside of RSS feeds
• [CS-11986] Modification date on blog post not changing if save as draft
• [CS-11956] Theme uploader does not support phrase substitutions in theme.xml
• [CS-11838] Printing print preview page of a large document prints only title on first page and then only one more page of content
• [CS-11817] Clicking in table cell of RTE in formatted text widget in IE slides formatted buttons up resulting in them being hidden
• [CS-11759] document changing document approvers automatically publishes document and leaves hanging approval item
• [CS-11711] Recent documents widget not sorting on modification date
• [CS-11671] Searches for tags are case sensitive
• [CS-11599] Link in 'Manage Version' for a document redirects to the wrong version
• [CS-11531] RenderCache is not cluster-safe
• [CS-11525] Project Tasks inside
• [CS-11315] images shown in version comparisons are not correct
• [CS-11213] Modify Blog Post shows up as Recent Activity for author, not modifier
• [CS-11145] Group search pagination doesn't work
• [CS-10939] Uploaded documents do not respect Max uploaded document size
• [CS-10732] Adding a link to a thread with a query string returns invalid URL
• [CS-10588] Setting text color doesn't work with the formatted text widget in IE6
• [CS-10476] Binary document caching does not honor any filesystem size limit and can't be set from the admin console
• [CS-10464] Invalid character in content will cause NullPointerException and XML failure
• [CS-10461] Create new document with attachment that exceeds attachment size gives error about invalid token
• [CS-10436] Numeric tag issues
• [CS-10360] Blog posts scheduled for future publishing are published upon approval
• [CS-10350] Cannot access RSS feed for a secret group
• [CS-10305] documents with deleted versions don't show up in recent content or on the documents tab
• [CS-10296] system properties with < or > characters can mess up display when editing
• [CS-10286] Inconsistent file extensions and file name when selecting view as pdf
• [CS-10284] Keyboard hotkeys not working on Safari 3.2.1 / OSX Votes: 1
• [CS-10277] Large documents result in OutOfMemoryError heap when comparing/diffing
• [CS-10239] Avatars uploaded in the admin console are not displayed after settings are saved in a clustered environment.
• [CS-10154] When thread is marked for abuse enough times to make it hidden, the non root messages in the thread still show in the RSS feed for the thread
• [CS-10114] Documents being automatically approved when "changing" moderators
• [CS-10113] tag cloud doesn't work if using recursive option and modules are disabled on the community
• [CS-10106] HTML widget strips <style> tags when rendered
• [CS-10025] Inserting images with duplicate filenames
• [CS-9985] Editing a document with an attachment when you don't have attachment rights results in error
• [CS-9975] Using value that is set for jiveURL with trailier slash in a link URL in an announcement removes the value from the URL string on publish
• [CS-9973] Page that warns user that another user has modified a document at publish shows wiki syntax in difference view
• [CS-9967] Using "Restart Document Edit" button when warned that edits have been made to a document by another user does not work
• [CS-9966] Editing document that has draft by another author warns of non published changes but shows wrong content
• [CS-9764] PDF of documents that use headers inserts a lot of unnecessary newlines
• [CS-9724] Setting a cache to unlimited makes it uneditable in the Admin Console
• [CS-9677] Formatted Text Widget looks messy with lots of surrounding whitespace in IE6
• [CS-9618] Social Group images are orphaned when group is deleted
• [CS-9606] Move the thread archive setting doesn't maintain value
• [CS-9568] Group admin doesn't have "Jump to group" on Group Summary page
• [CS-9558] Quick Links lead to root space even if you cannot administrate the space
• [CS-9526] Cannot download vcard in IE with SSL enabled
• [CS-9416] getUserStatusLevel returns NullPointerError
• [CS-9363] Remove insert/edit link option from context menu
• [CS-9235] Branched thread, new title, caches not updated correctly Votes: 1
• [CS-9221] Still see 'Edit Profile to add image' even if you disable profile images
• [CS-9173] Watch a user widget is case sensitive
• [CS-9165] Possible to add a friend multiple times when running on a slow server
• [CS-9130] On browse blogs page, when the "A-Z" or "Newest" tabs are clicked, they are not highlighted to indicate they are selected
• [CS-8999] Project: Document count can be 0 even though documents exist and are viewable
• [CS-8837] 'Move Space' permission should be checked before button is rendered, not which it is clicked.
• [CS-8746] HTML markup in search results
• [CS-7456] URL Filter results in both email and link
• [CS-5119] thread.name in email templates xml escapes special characters
• [CS-4369] Can apply single node license to multi-node cluster
• [CS-4001] When quoting an original discussion message with an image, the image is not rendered in the quote.

Fixed Issues in This Version

• [CS-13268] sgroup.askjoin German translation updated
• [CS-13219] Merging and deleting communities can cause lft/rgt tree value corruption