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 2.5.20 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.19 Release Notes
• Version 2.5.18 Release Notes
• 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

Bugs Fixed

• [CS-18004] Private Message moderation rejection notice is sent to the wrong user
• [CS-17987] Community Everywhere with Guest Post priveleges doesn't load JiveConstants
• [CS-17917] GroupService discloses too much information about users
• [CS-17903] CLONE -Project redirecting to home page after logging when guest access is enabled
• [CS-17848] Plugin cache params not getting set
• [CS-17471] fix XmlUtils.loadMap() to include avatar images
• [CS-17284] User index rebuild is not a clustered task
• [CS-16793] no singular definition for forum.thrd.replies.gtitle on threads page
• [CS-16761] Locale drop down is not sorted by current locale
• [CS-14374] Remove uploaded image does not remove from RTE
• [CS-13587] Editting document that has draft by another author warns of non published changes but shows wrong content
• [CS-12240] Entering more than 3500 characters for the blocked content query string of the keyword interceptor results in exception
• [CS-12127] Reset Password username entry is case sensitive. Should be case insensitive.
• [CS-11311] Pagination of social group invites when more than 40 invites exist does not work
• [CS-9945] document approval results in unauthorized exception
• [CS-9251] Users are logged out after profile is edited (Weblogic Server)

Known Issues in this Release

• [CS-18293] Removing style from "List of Tags to be removed" does nothing.
• [CS-18171] Multiple Blogs Returned in Search Results
• [CS-17825] getApplicationUsers() in MultiProviderUserManager should not load all users and return a complete list
• [CS-17808] Spell check custom dictionary words doesn't update across all nodes
• [CS-17805] Last Post Minutes link causes 404 error on first visit to page.
• [CS-17714] Wiki Syntax character escaping does not work for Email Gateways
• [CS-17697] Automatic URL to link conversion stops at ! (exclamation mark)
• [CS-17687] rankBy date not respected in Search RSS Feed
• [CS-17679] Moderation keyboard shortcuts are fired when using Search bar
• [CS-17642] <span/> element with style attribute not rendered by PDF generator
• [CS-17631] ViewProfile (Document Draft) should use SimplePaginator
• [CS-17626] Blog.getUserCount() doesn't scale for blogs with lots of authors
• [CS-17575] PDF generator doesn't honor colspan element on <th/>
• [CS-17569] Document filters: Presentations doesn't include pptx
• [CS-17534] Formatted Text Widget: Insert Link/Video/Image displayed off page
• [CS-17471] fix XmlUtils.loadMap() to include avatar images
• [CS-17417] Blog Comment RSS feed always returns an empty feed
• [CS-17405] Watch notifications are sent out before a thread is posted when attachment types are rejected
• [CS-17382] Certain DateUtil methods cannot be accessed from FTL
• [CS-17328] Feed for a specific blog shows the author's email address
• [CS-17268] POI task and index write lock should eventually timeout
• [CS-17209] Incorrect error message when using CSV to invite members who have pending invitations
• [CS-17203] Community Everywhere: null value for custom Title/Discussions
• [CS-17190] Settings polls.enabled=false doesn't actually do anything.
• [CS-17164] Blog Post Reports don't work in subcommunities
• [CS-17056] Cannot delete a document within a project unless you are the author
• [CS-16854] Upload document does not have RTE (only HTML editor) which results in HTML being visible on edit
• [CS-16839] New versions of binary documents are not indexed
• [CS-16793] no singular definition for forum.thrd.replies.gtitle on threads page
• [CS-16761] Locale drop down is not sorted by current locale
• [CS-16698] Dragging a link into the RTE creates a relative link which doesn't always work
• [CS-16697] Cannot manage message templates in locales other than system's default
• [CS-16695] vCard export doesn't work correctly with a language such as Korean
• [CS-16427] System blogs are found when searching Personal blogs
• [CS-16405] Revoking 'View' of a space throws an error for Space Admins of child spaces
• [CS-16077] Default name visibility (skin.default.displayFullNames) not respected
• [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-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-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-15219] CLONE -REST Web Services: createBinaryDocument does not work
• [CS-15190] Adding a new document comment or sending as email will leave notification visible indefinitely
• [CS-15138] UNC path issues
• [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-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-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-14374] Remove uploaded image does not remove from RTE
• [CS-14372] Javascript error in IE when creating a new piece of content
• [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-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-13543] Latest "Changed By" author is set to the user who moved the document
• [CS-13452] Deleting an FTL from a theme in the admin console does not propagate to the cluster
• [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-12127] Reset Password username entry is case sensitive. Should be case insensitive.
• [CS-12063] No error message when creating a document w/ approver that lacks permission to space
• [CS-9945] document approval results in unauthorized exception
• [CS-9259] There is a Private Message Draft folder, but you can't create a draft