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

Fixed Issues

Known Issues

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

• Version 2.5.17 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.16 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.15 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.14 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.13 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.12 Release Notes
• 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.

Full Fixed Issues List

Improvements

• [CS-15226] Install Blue Ridge for JavaScript Testing

Bugs Fixed

• [CS-15615] Disabling notifications using jive property watches.enabled has no effect
• [CS-15246] Community blog posts not included in tag cloud query
• [CS-15235] Ldap synchronization task runs even when not enabled if user sync page viewed in admin console
• [CS-15222] Background images with Gamma information (esp. PNG) cause color mismatch in the UI
• [CS-15143] REST SocialGroupService: searchSocialGroups fails 500 error
• [CS-15106] Unprintable characters in a piece of content can break SQLCode macro's regex and cause a stackoverflow/hang a thread
• [CS-15056] Adding options to a poll shows always number 3 (IE8)
• [CS-15051] Cannot expand task details using IE8
• [CS-14908] Active Blogs widget on Main Blogs page only shows personal blogs
• [CS-14877] Quoted messages do not include full username when appropriate.
• [CS-14821] quoting all text in a table cell moves quote to outside of table
• [CS-14769] Invalid HTML inserted by Firefox bug breaks content rendering
• [CS-14673] oudent button are still enabled after fully outdenting
• [CS-14647] XSS on /admin/group-members.jsp
• [CS-14645] RTE: Spell checker is not pulling locale from Root / Space or User setting
• [CS-14630] Links to documents with title including ">" are not well displayed
• [CS-14625] Synonyms don't work in profile fields
• [CS-14610] cursor jumps to top when adding new paragaphs at bottom of document
• [CS-14505] Clearspace can't read XML documents with byte-order marks
• [CS-14499] Poor formating of add friends widget (German) in IE6 and IE7
• [CS-14233] Tabbing in a Table doesn't consistantly add row
• [CS-14232] HTMLFilter does not filter object tag's data attribute by default
• [CS-14028] Invite people UI not showing fine in IE8
• [CS-13998] In the spaces settings, the scrollbar is shown when it shouldn't
• [CS-13969] classid being stripped from embed code
• [CS-13958] Incorrect German translation for forum.thrd.thisQuestionIs.text
• [CS-13835] Image inserted into document and attached breaks preview of image
• [CS-13559] CSS doesn't wrap well on Tags page on IE in German
• [CS-13421] Profile photo cannot be cropped in IE8
• [CS-13361] The RTE dont respects the maximum wide and height set in the admin console
• [CS-13147] Search index not picking up values of options in multi-select profile field even if "Searchable"
• [CS-13126] View as PDF does not work for specific content
• [CS-10117] Fix quality of scaled images
• [CS-9287] Hitting tab when editing table inserts <blockquote>

Known Issues in this Release

• [CS-17268] POI task and index write lock should eventually timeout
• [CS-16854] Upload document does not have RTE (only HTML editor) which results in HTML being visible on edit
• [CS-16697] Cannot manage message templates in locales other than system's default
• [CS-16661] /template/global/choose-container.ftl missing closing divs
• [CS-16602] Changing spaces in reports causes Clearspace Admin Error
• [CS-16427] System blogs are found when searching Personal blogs
• [CS-16063] 1.10 to 2.5 migration causes several problems with pure html documents.
• [CS-15761] Upgrade Console from 1.x to 2.x only converts wiki syntax of published versions of documents
• [CS-15588] Removing uploaded image doesn't remove from corresponding text
• [CS-15561] Number of days in months incorrect/unchecked in blog post scheduler.
• [CS-15447] No option to choose Moderated Comment policy on document upload page
• [CS-15287] JiveServlet creates extremely large thumbnail files
• [CS-15286] Adding images to documents via web services will fail due to missing document save
• [CS-15284] Disabled feature text in Recent History
• [CS-15254] Cannot enable Community Everywhere from UI
• [CS-15248] PermissionGroupClearClusterTask should only remove single user from cache instead of all users
• [CS-15245] skin.default.changeEmailEnabled doesn't prevent users from changing email
• [CS-15223] Editing comments on a document with comment moderation enabled provides no user feedback that the comment must be approved
• [CS-15190] Adding a new document comment or sending as email will leave notification visible indefinitely
• [CS-15188] Users Banned from Social Group can Create/Edit/Delete Blog Posts and Comments
• [CS-15138] UNC path issues
• [CS-15129] Blank LDAP values not synchronized to profile fields
• [CS-15126] Creation date used for published date of blog posts in RSS feeds
• [CS-15117] Inviting friends to SBS can result in weird labels if you're not the original admin
• [CS-15109] Slash character '\' not escaped in LDAP admin password
• [CS-15036] Project status update history not respected in recent activities
• [CS-15029] Extremely long Ldap Sync Tasks when Disable-User option enabled
• [CS-15016] Links in announcements in social groups are incorrectly adding "groups" to URL
• [CS-14862] When users enter their email address as their username, the email address shows up in the URL when viewing the person's profile.
• [CS-14849] Deleting comments fires off the comment modified event
• [CS-14830] Creating a blog post with a wide body will hide last line of content with a scrollbar in IE
• [CS-14811] New User Registrations Report is inaccurate
• [CS-14807] Changing approvers after several edits can cause some interesting bugs.
• [CS-14805] Tag widget only loads parent space's visible content types from sub-space.
• [CS-14751] PDF generator does not correctly output Asian characters.
• [CS-14634] Profile Modified event does not include cleared-out fields in the list of modified field IDs
• [CS-14632] Changing username for a user in moderation breaks 'Pending Approvals' for moderators
• [CS-14627] Synonyms don't work for multi-worded tokens
• [CS-14606] Reason entered for User Registration Rejection is never stored
• [CS-14596] Importing CSV for Group Invite does not detect current users
• [CS-14593] "Your Tasks" widget does not handle overflowed text correctly when using german
• [CS-14579] LDAP Admin Password decryption error message should be WARN
• [CS-14508] 'User's Stuff' filter pushed down when user has no tasks
• [CS-14454] Do not entitle your groupspace blog post "blog"
• [CS-14453] Profanity filter does not filter group name and description.
• [CS-14420] ProfileFieldService.editProfileField() creates entries in jivei18ntext
• [CS-14375] Revoking global read blog permission will throw an FTL error when viewing any container (dev mode only)
• [CS-14374] Remove uploaded image does not remove from RTE
• [CS-14372] Javascript error in IE when creating a new piece of content
• [CS-14356] Rebuild Tag Cloud/Popularity doesn't include Blog Post tags
• [CS-14355] Editing Group permissions adds duplicate entries in jiveGroupPerm
• [CS-14340] RTE shortcut key ctrl+8 while highlighting table doesn't produce expected behavior.
• [CS-14322] Theme mappings are not respected on asynchronous action invocations
• [CS-14296] Searching user profile fields with AND operator doesn't yield expected results
• [CS-14287] Rejected documents can be published by restoring version
• [CS-14275] Tags page doesn't redirect guests to login
• [CS-14271] Large number of versions causes Image Picker performance issue
• [CS-14197] MultiproviderUserManager.getUser(User) should be case insensitive by default
• [CS-14185] Long description text in send-content-notification does not display correctly in IE
• [CS-14167] Insert Video button overlapping text field in IE7
• [CS-14162] Project Calender: checkpoint mouse-over/pop-up is blank for IE
• [CS-14149] No validation for 'Number of Results' property for Recent Content Widget
• [CS-14146] Moderation notes/comments aren't carried over
• [CS-14127] UserConverter parses both username and userid to locate user
• [CS-14052] Load Next / Previous Threads can cause your load to shoot up to extremely high levels
• [CS-13957] No i18n property for 'No results match the current query' in the Places widget
• [CS-13952] Creation date doesn't show up for discussion threads viewed as PDF
• [CS-13746] RTE IE6 renders <br /> tag differently during edit and after publish of blank bulleted lists
• [CS-13735] Some checkmail system properties will always be overwritten with the default
• [CS-13496] View -> Blog Posts does not show correct number of posts when some are hidden
• [CS-13452] Deleting an FTL from a theme in the admin console does not propagate to the cluster
• [CS-13258] Popup list for 'Restrict to Group' when searching displayes behind the footer
• [CS-13232] Certain content in the formatted text widget causes it to break
• [CS-12824] Widgets at the root space should not have the option to be recursive/non-recursive
• [CS-12693] JiveServlet generateThumbnail can throw an uncaught IIOException
• [CS-12627] Migrating blog to community doesn't add to entitlement
• [CS-12598] Primary reason/comment not shown on abuse reports for blogs
• [CS-12548] Editing announcements offsets expiration date by one (timezones)
• [CS-12538] Invalid project target date is off by one
• [CS-12486] Revoke blog read for anyone: prevents registered users from creating blogs / blog posts
• [CS-12385] Blog post count can be inferred from pagination (when written in private areas)
• [CS-12063] No error message when creating a document w/ approver that lacks permission to space
• [CS-11182] Exporting tasks from a project does not include BOM for UTF-8 characters
• [CS-10330] Workaround for favicon problem with Internet Explorer
• [CS-9762] Cancel button on login page does nothing
• [CS-9259] There is a Private Message Draft folder, but you can't create a draft
• [CS-9241] Negative filesystem cache size when set to 2048MB+