Release Notes

Sitefinity 3.2 Service Pack 2 - May 30, 2008 (All Release Notes)

What’s New: 

New Base Designer for ContentView Based Controls

• Provides an ability to control the appearance of controls inside of ContentView based controls, such as NewsList, BlogPosts, EventsView or any control inheriting ContentView control
• Control designer can be defined declaratively inside of a template with no coding needed
• Two setting controls are included:
  • TextSetting – controls visibility, format and label of a target control
  • ContentSetting – provides a way to show full content or customizable summary
• Ability to create new settings and extend the designers with custom setting controls
• Ability for each ContentView based control to work with multiple presentation modes with predefined properties (such as template paths, paging values and so on)
• Presentation modes can be extended as well, which means that for example a completely new PresentationMode can be added to BlogPosts control with no coding required

Upgrade Notes:

• The new  NewsView control is to replace the current NewList and SingleNews controls. The NewList and SingleNews controls are marked as obsolete and will not show in the Add Control Toolbox by default.

Pages

• Added an option to throw 404 exception when a page language version is missing

File Manager

• Added file download functionality

Blogs Module        

• Added Social Bookmarks
• Implemented MetaBlog API which allows the creation of blog posts using external tools
• Added new Calendar public control which links to blogs posts per date
• Implemented trackbacking and pingbacking which allows for users to be notified when their posts are referenced in another web site
• Added SEO friendly paging support
• Added the ability to apply different templates to comments posted by the author

Newsletter Module

• Implemented public control for newsletter subscription
• Implemented unsubscribe from newsletter link
• Added the ability to insert the name of the sender in the content of the newsletter
• Added the ability to send external HTML files as newsletters
• Added new section to display all newsletters whose sending was failed or stopped
• Added report on recipients to whom a newsletter was not sent on the occasions of failed or stopped newsletter

Search

• Added a feature to index external pages with “?” and “!” in the News titles
• Added the ability to Select (and not type) Starting node for page indexing

Other

• SEO improvements

What’s Fixed:

News Module

• Fixed News List control problem with multiple language versions, categories and tags

Pages

• Fixed issue with nonworking StartingNodeOffset property of the TabStrip navigation control
• Fixed issue with duplicate page created when workflow is enabled
• Fixed issue with default property not working for some controls
• Fixed issue with hyper link control, issues with external pages and multilingual support
• Fixed error caused by "-" character in Template/Page when multilingual support is on
• Added ability to create external page that has a port in its URL address
• Fixed a 404 error when a page type is changed from Normal to Page group and a template for the page is not present
• Fixed error caused by adding additional page URLs, which are the same as the default, except for the extension (.aspx)
• Fixed problem with all language versions of a page disappearing upon page deletion
• Fixed error shown when a page version is viewed in the history, when the multilingual support is on, and the PathPrefix is set to QueryString

Images and Documents Module    

• Fixed problem with pagination not working when there are more than 1 pages
• Fixed problem with images not displayed if there is white space at the end of the library name

Generic Content Module

• Fixed exception thrown then the Content View control’s Data Provider is set to News and then back to Generic_Content
• Fixed problems showing when multiple language versions are used with workflow

Newsletters Module

• Fixed problem with changes not saved when you edit newsletters after exiting the Create Newsletter screen

Search 

• Enabled Search indexing for News
• Enabled Search indexing when localization for pages and modules is on
• Fixed issues with auto indexing for News and Blogs

Other

• Fixed issues with case-sensitive databases
• Fixed problem with URLs changed to lower case by the Sitefinity URL rewriter
• Fixed issues with upgrade of News and Blogs Modules from v.3.1 to 3.2+
• Fixed error displayed when the site path separator symbol is different from the default one ('/')

Known Issues

Pages

• In Medium trust the property AccessKey cannot be set in the page editor

Newsletters       

• Newsletters cannot be not sent in Medium trust environment
• The profile link doesn’t work
• Images added to the newsletter are not visible in the Subscriber’s email
• Documents sent in a newsletter cannot be downloaded in the Subscriber’s email

Search

• Problems with ranking results
• When starting node is an empty Page Group (no child pages), PageIndex indexes the whole site
• Editing content for News and Blogs in language different than the default, causes the auto indexing to index the content twice for both languages (default and current)
• There are some known issues with special characters and negative searching
• BlogIndex doesn’t have validation for empty Blog Page, which results in creating non-valid URL using Blog's Name as a Starting Page

Images and Documents Modules

• The module doesn’t support multiple providers
• Categories are disabled
• Only one <sflib:ButtonSelector> control works on a page with more than one instance
• In section Administration, clicking on the Upload button and the logout link consecutively results in an exception RadUpload Ajax callback error
• There is no option to select images from libraries in ImageMapEditor tool for RadEditor
• Images cannot be selected in the Image Control when the Alt Text contains an apostrophe
• Ampersand (&) in the image name is not escaped
• The fields for uploading files do not correspond to the max allowed files number
• The last uploaded file (in a library with set max number of files) forces an error

ContentView Based Controls

• Checking the Comments checkbox of the Blog Posts control doesn’t display comments
• On some occasions the Strip these HTML tags only option to the Events View and BlogPost controls doesn’t work properly
• Some settings made to the BlogPosts control are not saved correctly the first time they are applied
• Social BookMarks show although they have been disabled on the EventsView control
• The links Create a blog and Browse on the Basic Tab of the BlogPost control on  are disabled
• If the display option of the Events View control has not been set, changes to the label fields are not saved. Suggested workaround: set the display options of the Events View control first
• The String format fields for the Events View/ BlogPosts controls are disabled
• Selecting the two options Past items and Future items of the EventsView control doesn’t work
• The Categories set for the Events View control and BlogPosts control are not applied properly