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
Existing Feature Improvements
Fixed Issues
Note: For changes in previous versions, be sure to see earlier versions of this document:
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 2.5.5
- [CS-9928] Quote button doesn't work when attempting to use as the first part of a reply in IE
- [CS-9817] Can't migrate to system blog
- [CS-9781] Upgrade with old wiki links can break the links
- [CS-9661] Attachments are deleted from the database
- [CS-9347] Images aren't rendered if encapsulated by italics wiki
- [CS-9344] Accessing a blog in a private space (that you don't have access to) causes 404 error
- [CS-8845] Revoking blog read permission does not work
- [CS-8827] HTML emails are not processed correctly via email gateway
Fixed Issues in 2.5.5
- [CS-9735] Integration of Clearspace with Openfire results in infinite update loop
- [CS-9843] First and Last name fields are editable when using LDAP even though they're externally managed.
- [CS-9842] First and Last name are null the first time a user logs in while using ldap and split first and last name.
- [CS-9813] Sorting Subjects, Usernames, etc. alphabetically does not work correctly for Chinese entries.
- [CS-9719] Publishing a link is dropping the context root of the link
- [CS-9654] Guest cannot post comments in space blogs
- [CS-9653] Can access URL for image from content when not logged in
- [CS-9649] Pending task process can throw NPE if task is assigned to a user that is banned
- [CS-9586] LDAP user sync process can fail with NPE if existing Clearspace user's email address in LDAP is made blank
- [CS-9575] Bulleted lists are adding new lines on every edit / publish
- [CS-9436] Cannot attach an attachment to a document when you have the permissions to
- [CS-7870] Clearing Cache will Clear Announcements on Oracle
- [CS-7516] Can't create two blog posts with different names when using local language
- [CS-9962] Manage group members search should not be case sensitive
- [CS-9957] Cannot delete search synonyms
- [CS-9942] Merge communities/spaces functionality is shown to space admins but can only be executed by a system admin
- [CS-9909] User picker is broken when German is selected as the default language
- [CS-9855] CLONE -Announcement RSS feed doesn't work
- [CS-9846] Search results page does not limit results for people matches which can end up making the results page unusable
- [CS-9833] Adding members to a group can take long time if there are large numbers of users in the group
- [CS-9803] Blog posts RSS feed uses author's username for email in the generated RSS
- [CS-9783] Formatted text widget displays escaped value for ampersand when showing link to content using ampersand in title
- [CS-9778] Not all HTML characters go from edit to publish correctly
- [CS-9761] Private messages in the Trash folder are not deleted
- [CS-9693] Using modification date min/max on document result filter in a webservice client does not work
- [CS-9579] Changing the color of text in a list in the text editor adds spaces to the content when published
- [CS-9539] Widgets lose localization if settings are edited
- [CS-9493] Remove option to move discussion to groups or projects
- [CS-9489] Without a cookie, advanced theme fails on first request
- [CS-9439] Date picker not working in Chinese locale
- [CS-9429] Many forumService methods are missing required @WebParam attributes and do not work with REST
- [CS-9388] Smaller Resolutions Can't Access All Global Permissions
- [CS-9185] Remove the "Clear" function on Log Viewer
- [CS-8959] Non-editable custom profile fields aren't visible
- [CS-6628] Removing & Adding New Attachment: Counts Towards Max Attachments Votes: 5
- [CS-4797] Database Migration Tool: Migrating from DB2 -> anything
- [CS-9952] getPopularThreads on the ForumService should be deprecated or use the right logic
- [CS-9943] HTTP Meta Refresh for short term query cache does not work in IE
- [CS-9705] Editable, non-visible fields not available on Edit Profile page
- [CS-9167] Task Completed: Due date changed to current date
- [CS-9131] Filter by Users option in Audit Log Viewer does not work
- [CS-8992] System error if you click Forgot Password more than once
