December 20, 2010
What’s New
In-line Editing
- Ability to browse and edit the content of your website if you are authenticated in the backend.
Search
- Ability to create search indexes for News, Events, Blog Posts, Content Items, and Static HTML pages
- Search and Search Results widgets
Custom Fields
- Ability to create custom fields for all content items
- Ability to hide/show default custom fields in different views
Twitter Publication pipe
- Ability to associate multiple applications and users in order to feed messages into twitter
POP3 Publication pipe
- Ability to configure Sitefinity to pull content from POP3 mailbox, so that you can publish content to Sitefinity by sending e-mails.
Analytics Improvements
- Integration of geographical maps on report level
- Metrics on each map dashboard
- Full-screen map support
- Support for demo credentials for evaluation purposes - Email: Demo, Password: Demo
Performance improvements
- JavaScript/CSS minifying
- CSS/Script combining
Scheduling with Workflow
Support for Session State
Documents were renamed to Documents & Files and modified to include files with any extension
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX were upgraded to 2010.3.1109.40 (Q3)
RadControls for Silverlight were upgraded to 2010.3.1110.1040 (Q3)What’s Fixed
Widgets
- Small Widget editor fixes
- JavaScript error "Object expected" if you edit Navigation control in IE7
- Download Link widget> From Already Uploaded tab sets wrong html tags for date and author
- Removed unnecessary auto-generated inline style of Video widget wrapper
- ContentBlock Widget: Clicking on the Advanced button erases the text in the RadEditor
- Navigation Widget: Published page which has a draft version is not displayed in the Navigation
- Creating a custom template for Events and BlogPosts widgets using the Custom Designer results in incorrect data selection in the widget designer
- Navigation control - Setting role different than Everyone results in exception
- Cannot change default css class of Categories widget and Tags widget
- All widgets for content automatically filter by date when the URL is for a single item
- If you try to insert data in widget template using Internet Explorer all information will disappear
- Navigation control option for SiteMapNavigationTabStrip does not persist its state after post back
- Navigation control in Tree View mode adds an empty item bellow pages with children
- Cannot add Language Selector control
Content
- Scheduling dialog shows incorrect publication and expiration dates
- "More actions" menu doesn't close if you click on the "Cancel" link of the Scheduling dialog
- Loading progress indicator is not displayed during blog creation
- Incorrect count of categories and tags in the filter by category/tag in the right pane
- Publishing a scheduled content item doesn't appear on the public site immediately
Images, Videos and Documents
- "Insert an image", "Insert a document" and "Insert a video" dialogs allow the selection of files with any extension
- "Ambiguous match found" error when creating content items
- Loading process proceeds indefinitely when a video is saved as draft
- Loading doesn't finish and buttons are not displayed when more than one library exists and the user uploads an item without specifying in which library it should be stored
- Unnecessary upload button appear in Images, Videos and Documents modules when localization is on
- Manage albums link redirects to a screen with items from the Default Provider, when there is more than one provider in a module
- Grid View icon always redirects to a screen with items from the Default Provider, when there is more than one provider in a module
- Resizing Video through the Advanced settings does not get applied on public pages
- Resizing is not working properly for videos uploaded before an upgrade
- Available extensions are hardcoded
Versioning
- Trying to revert to an older content item version shows a message that an item with the same url already exists
- Return code: 12031 error when trying to Unlock an item
Workflow
- 2 level approval workflow: updated changed status messages in Pages
- Error "Undefined" in workflow with 1 level of approval when the user saves a content item sent for publishing
- "For Approval" button is not shown for a page created from another language version of this page
- Items in "waiting for approval" state cannot be processed after upgrading from RC
- Comments cannot be deleted when workflow is activated
- Items can be deleted by author after they are send for approval or published
- After item is approved and published the author cannot edit and send for approval
- In a two level workflow editing a published/scheduled content item cannot be deleted
- In a two level workflow users without rights for publishing can edit and publish again previously published items.
- Trying to add a widget in a page edit after closing the page preview causes an error "The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after ...".
- Approval workflow cannot be started again after an item is published
- Cannot delete a content item that is sent for approval error "Return code 12031" appears
Multilingual Support
- ScriptManager null reference exceptions when creating copies of a page in another language, and any of these widgets are on the page: News, Content or Blog
- When language different than English is set as default users can create blogs in English only
- Trying to add a page translation inside page edit causes an error "'this.get_baseList()' is null or not an object"
- Clicking on "Revision History" link throws an error "baseList.getFormattedBackLabel is not a function"
- Adding new language versions to tags and categories, while creating a content item prevents the user from saving
- Working in SV-sv culture causes the Analytics application to crash. Introduced fallback for parsing culture specific data
- “Value cannot be null” error when trying to navigate to a group page
- 404 Error when creating a translation copied from another language for a child page
- 404 Error when previewing templates
- Publishing a page with a one language version and then adding new version locks the first version by your user.
- Adding Language Selector control causes and "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error
- Page Edit doesn't look good when you are in multilingual mode
- Adding two synced language versions of a page and then adding another one by selecting stop syncing locks the first version
- Removing a language and clicking on the pages for template you can see the pages that should have been deleted with the language.
- Having a page with draft status appears with <li/> tag in html of that page
- Opening page causes error after language has been removed
- Bulk editing doesn’t with properly with multiple languages, only the English version is edited.
- Saving changes of a language version of a page doesn't return you to the language version you are editing, instead you are navigated to the default language.
- Editing language version of page with user that has no rights to edit pages - "This type of page is not served" error appears
Settings
- Adding a toolbox section causes page editor to hang
- Deleting default configuration produces no result
Pages
- When creating a child page, the parent page doesn’t display properly
- Unpublishing a page doesn’t hide it from the navigation
- Scheduling doesn't work as expected
- Buttons in Pages doesn't have a proper layout and size on the page
Design Templates
- Error when opening a template which contains News and Events widget
Events
- Publishing event which contains a number in the name causes a URL causes an error
- There are two "Search…" buttons
Users
- Error when logging off another user using LDAP
Security
- Users with no access to the Backend Role cannot be authenticated on public pages
- Permissions on Media and Documents files are not reflected on public pages
- Logging with user that has Editors or Authors role and go to page that uses master template you get "You are not authorized to 'View {0}' ('PageTemplates')." exception
Forms
- Filtering by Published and Draft states causes an error
- Creating a Form with name that already exists causes an error
- There is no possibility to create a single checkbox
Feeds & Notifications
- Items are not ordered by publication date in the RSS feed
Other
- RadEditor inserts wrong HTML for tables
- In WebResource images changed the value of "Content-Type" from img/gif to image/gif
- Do not link Layout controls CSS file to pages that do not use layout controls
Known Issues
- Layout elements created with the layout designer will not save the content until:
- The page is published
- Save as draft, click on back to pages, and navigate to your page from the Pages screen.
- Custom Fields: Hiding a default field for specific views results in a “Sequence contains no elements” error, e.g. hiding Summary in News from view NewsBackendEdit.
- Cannot create search indexes for Static Pages that are using custom master pages