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 2.5.3
- Images are not shown in published content for instances running on WebLogic Server 9.2.
- Page compression doesn't compress CSS files from /styles/*
- SOAP web services using authentication from a .NET client aren't currently working.
- Possible workaround: It might work to upgrade the wss4j.jar file included with Clearspace (it's in the deployed application's WEB-INF/lib directory). The version currently included isn't the latest.
- Granting Create Document Attachment permission in a sub-space doesn't work if the permission isn't granted at the root space.
- Workaround: Grant the permission at the root, then revoke it as needed in sub-spaces.
- Private messages can not be viewed by their recipient when clustering is turned on.
- It's possible to insert non-image files with the editor's insert image button.
- Granting the create image permission for administrators doesn't grant the permission.
- Incrementing a plugin's database version number causes the system to fail.
- Creating subitems in an unordered list creates a blank line between levels.
- In a clustered environment, granting permission to post to a space blog is not immediately propagated.
- Workaround: Have the user who received the permission log out, then log in again. The user can also wait five minutes for so for the permission to be propagated across the cluster.
- Clearspace does not start after attempting to load a plugin that contains deployment problems.
- A user can bypass moderation by adding their own name in collaboration options as a person who can edit the document, and then approve the document.
- After upgrade from an earlier version, moderation in version 2.5.0 doesn't acknowledge moderation settings made in the earlier instance.
- Workaround: Clear all moderation queues before upgrading (such as by approving or rejecting items in the queue).
- Migrating Clearspace data from a Postgres database to an Oracle database can result in some tables being deleted.
- Revoking permission for "Anyone" to read blogs does not blog reading for guest users.
Fixed Issues
- [CS-9575] Bulleted lists retain original line spacing upon publish.
- [CS-9383] Email templates are now rendered with correct UTF-8 encoding.
- [CS-9140] People can now reliably specify the content type to be displayed by the Recent Content widget.
- [CS-9064] Spell check now works correctly for new tasks created in advanced mode.
- [CS-9049] Task import wizard now displays correct subjects for each task.
- [CS-9028] "Recent activity for these people" widget no longer inappropriately displays content of private spaces.
- [CS-9020] Email notifications now correctly sent in other languages when support is available.
- [CS-9005] Moderation queues now correctly display items when there are more than 10 documents to moderate.
- [CS-9004] View as PDF now works correctly for content using the table of contents macro.
- [CS-8948] People watching a project blog now correctly receive notifications.
- [CS-8939] Moderators can now access documents in groups that are awaiting moderation.
- [CS-8885] Pages now correctly display in each user's browser-set locale, even if a guest user has specified a different locale.
- [CS-8857] Adding a task that has no body text now succeeds.
- [CS-8843] It's now possible to restore and publish a deleted document that had multiple versions.
- [CS-8836] It's now possible to successfully edit filters and macros configuration for a space.
- [CS-8786] Attempting to filter moderation items by an invalid user name no longer generates a system error.
- [CS-8638] Unauthorized users can no longer view documents awaiting approval by using the document's URL.
- [CS-8330] It's no longer possible to rename a space/community to a name already used by another space/community.
- [CS-8127] Revoking the Create Image permission now successfully prevents image creation in all content.
- [CS-7479] When a user has their email address set to be hidden, people connected to them as friends can now send them email using the "send a message" feature between friends.
- [CS-3203] If a document has an approver assigned, clearing its versions cache no longer makes it appear that the document was last edited by its creator even if the approver was the document's last editor.
