Jivespace: Jivespace Community Blog: Clearspace 2.0 Public Beta

We're very excited to announce the release the public beta of Clearspace and Clearspace X 2.0 today. We'll announce further details with the full release of 2.0, but this beta includes new features like:

Projects, intended to help groups of people coordinate with each other toward a common goal on a particular target date.
An end-user personalizable and administrator customizable home page.
Organizational chart views allowing people to better understand organizational relationships and leverage existing information maintained in LDAP or Active Directory.
Enhanced integration with Openfire 3.5, including easier setup, full integration of users and groups, shared authentication, auditing of administrative actions in both Clearspace/Clearspace X and Openfire, and the same administrative look and feel in Clearspace.
Great improvements to the rich text editor.
On the technical side there is an improved plugin framework, Spring support and an upgrade to Struts 2.0

We would love to get your feedback on the beta. The best place to contribute is in the Clearspace Beta space. You can download the beta releases from your Jive Software website account where you find other releases.

Documentation for the beta release is available here and includes upgrade information

In the coming weeks we will also be hosting a beta Clearspace instance so that you can try out the new release without installing a copy locally. We will post more details when that instance is ready.

1,815 Views Tags: beta, 2.0

Mar 11, 2008 1:18 AM

S3Indiana says:

Are the features the same in ClearspaceX?

Mar 11, 2008 5:57 AM

Craig Knudsen says:

I just download the ClearspaceX 2.0.0 beta. During the install/setup, I get the following error:

com.jivesoftware.license.LicenseException: License signature is invalid.

I am using the license from the email that was sent during the download.

Any ideas???

Here's the stack trace:

com.jivesoftware.license.LicenseException: com.jivesoftware.license.LicenseException: License signature is invalid.

at com.jivesoftware.license.validator.CheckSignatureValidator.validate(CheckSignatureValidator.java:65)

at com.jivesoftware.license.LicenseManager.validate(LicenseManager.java:71)

at com.jivesoftware.community.action.setup.LicenseSetupAction.validateSet(LicenseSetupAction.java:198)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.

java:39)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

at com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.PrefixMethodInvocationUtil.invokePrefixMethod(PrefixMethodInvocationUtil.java:111)

at com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.DefaultWorkflowInterceptor.doIntercept(DefaultWorkflowInterceptor.java:187)

at com.opensymphony.xwork2.interceptor.MethodFilterInterceptor.intercept(MethodFilterInterceptor.java:86)

at com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation$2.doProfiling(DefaultActionInvocation.java:224)

-- Craig

Mar 11, 2008 8:32 AM

Greg Unrein says in response to S3Indiana:

Hi S3Indiana, the features are the same in both products for this release. There are some initial configuration differences, such as Projects not being enabled in Clearspace X by default.

Mar 11, 2008 8:34 AM

Greg Unrein says in response to Craig Knudsen:

Hi Craig, thanks for the information and thanks for posting your discussion in the Clearspace Beta space. We are looking into the problem and will let you know as soon as we sort it out.

Mar 11, 2008 10:08 AM

vle1234 says:

I installed the stock cs 2.0 and started playing around with it last night. A few things i wanted to point out.

1. The new Projects feature is pretty neat. I can see it being used quite a bit.

2. The rich editor is "MUCH" better and more accurate from what I can tell. Less flakyness in the markup conversion. But for large documents with alot of text, switch between rich and plain is slow.... sometimes it seems like it hangs for minutes. Not good.

3. I didnt see the sharepoint integration stuff.

4. I didnt see the "Work with people outside the local Clearspace instance" features or "Document Sharing".

so far, its a major improvement.

Mar 11, 2008 10:40 AM

Greg Unrein says in response to vle1234:

Hi vle1234, thanks for the feedback.

1) Awesome, glad to hear it!

2) It would be awesome if you could post the text of one or more of the documents/blog posts/discussions that is causing the slowness in the Clearspace Beta space.

3) The Sharepoint integration isn't a part of this beta, but it is being worked on.

4) The Document Sharing feature (it is the same as the "Work with people outside the local Clearspace instance" feature) is not working for this beta release.

Mar 11, 2008 11:33 AM

vle1234 says in response to Greg Unrein:

Could you explain how the document sharing works? what it is? and what is cloud service?

Mar 11, 2008 11:42 AM

Steve Traut says in response to vle1234:

Hey vle1234, you might see if the (so far) brief documentation helps answer that question.

Mar 12, 2008 7:38 AM

Minwei Chen says:

It seems the document's "Web Services Javadocs" link is broken.

Mar 12, 2008 9:27 AM

Steve Traut says in response to Minwei Chen:

Yep, they are -- thanks for the note. We'll see about getting those fixed. In the meantime, you can find the Javadocs here:

Core

Web services

Mar 13, 2008 10:57 AM

Jack Stockton says in response to Steve Traut:

I got an error when trying to implement LDAP. Did not like the homePhone field. Did not matter if I checked LDAP Managed or not.

Mar 13, 2008 11:00 AM

dolan.halbrook says in response to Jack Stockton:

Jacks, please start another thread with the error you see and we'll see if we can get it sorted out. Thanks.

Mar 17, 2008 11:33 AM

aashishpatil says:

In the community page, the jive-widgets.css file overrides the custom-css.ftl file. Skin customizations to the widgets take effect only on the main page and not on the community page.

Mar 19, 2008 8:48 AM

Minwei Chen says:

Do we have a targeted release date or time frame for Clearspace 2.0?

Mar 19, 2008 8:54 AM