WebGUI 7.4, the next major release in the WebGUI 7 series is finally here. New features include:
- A new Admin Bar that renders more quickly, and is compatible with more browsers.
- Full support for the Apple Safari 3 web browser in admin mode.
- The Site Starter wizard to help new users get up and running with a new WebGUI site faster.
- A new Newsletter asset.
- User invitations and private messaging.
- Attachments and keywords for the Wiki
- Many API improvements for developers.
- Many performance enhancements, including a reduction of rougly 5MB of memory used per mod_perl process.
- Over 50 user submitted feature requests were added to this release.
7.4.0
- api: Form Controls and Workflow Activities may now include web based helper
subroutines directly in their files. See
WebGUI::Operation::FormHelpers::www_formHelper and
WebGUI::Operation::Workflow::www_activityHelper for details.
- api: Asset properties that have default values are now enforced by the API
as they always have been by the user interface.
- api: You may now use a displayOnly attribute in your asset properties list
that will display a field, but is not settable via the update() method.
- api: You may now use a customDrawMethod attribute in your asset properties
list that will enable you to add custom display options for that fields when
the edit form is automatically generated.
- Graphics::Magick is now the standard graphics package in WebGUI, but
Image::Magick will be supported for backwards compatibility. See gotcha.txt
for details.
- rfe: Admin bar doesn't resize with the browser
- fix: Left Admin Bar overlap problem
- Color coded most buttons, green for proceed and red for go back.
- Encrypt page now forces SSL and can check for the SSLPROXY pass through
variable in addition to the HTTPS variable.
- Added sslEnabled directive to the config file, which disables SSL related
features unless this directive is set.
- Added a trigger for when a user is created or updated by an admin.
- fix: A bug where it was possible to delete a system page if it were made
the child of a non-system page that you had edit rights to.
- api: Added a unified contraints system for the file and image assets.
- Added file attachments to the Wiki.
- Added a new attachments form control.
- Added a form control skeleton.
- Added Site Starter to WebGUI Initial Configuration.
- Added pagination to purchase history in commerce.
- Replaced color picker form control with a more robust version.
- Added keyword tagging api.
- Added keyword tagging to Wiki.
- Upgraded TinyMCE to 2.1.1.1.
- Safari 3 and above now fully supported in admin interface.
- upgraded YUI to 2.2.2 and YUI-ext to 1.0.1a
- Improved error handling in Spectre when WebGUI hands it bad data.
- Fixed a problem where Spectre dropped cron jobs that were erroring
consistently.
- rfe: snippets should have titles too!
- Added a mechanism for using external folders for custom code. See
sbin/preload.custom.example for details.
- Added a realtime workflow option for content publishing.
- Added switches to auto request commit operations and skip adding comments.
- fix: old recurring events were not deleted when changing recurrence pattern
- fix: unable to remove recurrence on events
- RFE: Search asset feedback. i.e. 'No results found'
http://www.plainblack.com/rfe/request-for-enhancement/search-asset-feedback.-i.e.-no-results-found#kH5X_YA17ZxbRvi6gx5KRA
- RFE: JS confirmation Operation/DatabaseLink.pm
http://www.plainblack.com/rfe/request-for-enhancement/-1493348--js-confirmation-operation/databaselink/re--1493348--js-confirmation-operation/databaselink.pm#OUb5zN8bltGdPG_2LJZMGQ
- add: User profile data table is now a flat table, one column for each
field.
- add: Posts can now have Metadata (United Knowledge)
- add: Users can now invite others to create an account (United Knowledge)
- add: Calendar events now allow attachments
- add: Calendar events now allow setting view permissions
- add: WebGUI::Paginator now capable of more efficient SQL paginations using
LIMIT clauses.
- add: SyndicatedContent wobject now has more ways of representing the long
description from the RSS feed.
- Added an index on the userId column of the groupings table to speed up
queries for groupIds by userId (instead of the usual userIds by groupId)
- fix: Unable to upload images or edit listings for Matrix
- fix: bad javascript string escaping in EMS
- improved performance of EMS
- Added import/export mechanism for EMS events.
- fix: Show edit links on EMS search view without being in Admin group
- Added new registration search and management interface to the EMS.
- Added badge printing support to the EMS.
- Removed the long depricated Memcached cache module.
- fix: Fixed a typo in the Article with attachments template (perlDreamer
Consulting, LLC)
- fix: Order of content position loops in Page Layout (Yung Han Khoe, United Knowledge)
http://www.plainblack.com/bugs/tracker/7.4-order-of-content-position-loops-in-page-layout
- RFE: Product (operation based) (perlDreamer Consulting, LLC.)
Display the productId in the product manager to make it easier to use
with the product macro.
http://www.plainblack.com/rfe/request-for-enhancement/product-operation-based#v43RzN_dmRPokd9SCRKWUw
- Added a simple Single Sign On mechanism.
- Added the SessionId macro.
- fix: Package deploy: hidden assets become visible (Yung Han Khoe, United Knowledge)
- Added Private Messaging (Funded by United Knowledge)
- Added Newsletter Asset (Funded by United Knowledge)
- Extended content profiling to CS Threads (Funded by United Knowledge)
- Added User Invitations (Funded by United Knowledge)
- fix: Calendar Event import ignores time zone
http://www.webgui.org/bugs/tracker/calendar-feed-shows-wrong-time
- fix: Image profile fields edit issues
http://www.webgui.org/bugs/tracker/user-profile-images-disappear-after-updat
- RFE: HttpProxy - regexp for URLs that will not be proxied. Url pattern
filters can now be created in HttpProxy wobject properties.
- RFE: WebGUI::User has no way to get a user when you only know their username (Wes Morgan, U.S. PIRG)
http://www.webgui.org/bugs/tracker/webguiuser-has-no-way-to-get-a-user-when-you-only-know-their-username
- Collaboration System wobjects can now be subclassed and still work with the
existing Thread and Post assets.
- fix: Added some additional i18n that was missing.
- add: Settings can now return error messages to the user
- add: Password recovery can now be based on profile fields or simply by the
user's e-mail address.
- add: Button in Collaboration Systems for managing CS subscription group.
- fix: relative links sent out in emails don't work properly
- fix: macros not processed in HttpProxy template
http://www.webgui.org/bugs/tracker/macro-not-working-i-httpproxy
- fix: navigation shows toolbar for users who can't edit it
http://www.webgui.org/bugs/tracker/navigation-shows-edit-button-to-users-without-permission
- add: Database Links now have a 'Allow access from macro's' setting
- All help except for hoverHelp and template variables has been removed from
WebGUI and put into the WebGUI Community Wiki, http://www.webgui.org/community-wiki.
- The Table of Contents view was removed from the Help system. The only view
is now the Help Index.
- Allow editing previous revisions of assets in the current version tag
- Add user to transactions list and pending transactions.
- fix: autolinking in wiki pages with manual links didn't work properly
- fix: javascript errors in SQL Form date inputs in IE
- Added optional parameters for DatabaseLinks so that users can setup their
database's with things like LongReadLen, etc.
- Added ability to restrict admin console items to specific groups.
- add: Use Post Captcha option to collaboration systems. When enabled, users will have to verify their humnity by means of captcha when attempting to post to a Collaboration system
- fix: Fixed a bug which would print "Asset constructor new() requires an assetId" to the WebGUI log whenever the first thread in a collaboration system was accessed.
- Changed credit card transaction failures so that the error is displayed on the checkout screen allowing users to change and resubmit information
- Split Cash payment plugin into two seperate plugins: Cash & Check. Removed the second payment selector on the cash transaction screen. Users now choose Cash or Check on the payment gateway selection screen.
- Add: Label to payment gateways. Itransact now has a default display value of "Credit Card". Users will no longer need to choose "Itransact" as a payment gateway.
- fix: Fixed a bug in the Time Tracker which did not sort the list of users alphabetically making it difficult to assign resources to projects.
- fix: project management screen of Time Tracker now uses WebGUI standard icons.
- Add: Dutch and German date formats have been added as default choices for user profiles
