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Telerik Admin MVP

Posted on Feb 14, 2008 (permalink)

Dear all, we are happy to announce that Sitefinity 3.2 Beta is now available for download from this location:
Sitefinity 3.2 Beta

Installation notes
The installation package contains Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions.
You don't need to remove previously installed Sitefinity versions.
For system requirements and detailed instructions about installation, please refer to the Sitefinity Installation Guide.

Upgrading projects
We would recommend that you upgrade projects created with previous versions directly to the official release of 3.2, once it is out.
If, however, you need to upgrade projects to 3.2 Beta, please refer to either of the following resources:
Sitefintiy Installation Guide
Sitefinity User Manual, section Upgrading Projects to Sitefinity 3.2.

What's new in Sitefinity 3.2 Beta?
Personalizations Module
Events Module
Photos & Documents Module
RadControls "Prometheus"
Export web sites as templates
Links to CMS pages in RadEditor
Forms Spam Protector control
Deny anonymous access and Show in navigation persist on child pages
Enhancements in Generic Content based modules

More details about the new features can be found at the following locations:
Sitefinity Blogs
Product Roadmap

Known issues
- There are no predefined site template you can use. The TIU, JobsIntraSite, Personal and Company templates will be added to the official release of SItefinity 3.2

- Role feature is not enabled error at the second step of the Project creation wizard. You need to refresh the page to continue

- IE6 issue with select button in RadEditor's Insert Image and Insert Document dialogs

- When EventView and DocumentList public controls are on the same page, an exception is thrown if you click an event

- Dashboard
No links are displayed in What's been up lately? section
  My latest changes, Last uploaded files and Last posted blog comments are not displayed

- News List public control throws an exception when the SelectMode property is set to All and one or more categories are selected in "Display only news in specific category"

- Blog Posts public control does not work correctly. Full story and Comments links do not open the single post page

- An error is thrown when you click a tag to display the grid with all tagged blog posts

- Personalizataion Module
News settings do not work
  Generic Content settings do not show when custom providers are added

- Events Module
  Error when you select share an item with events via Generic Content control
View as calendar - reschedule does not work correctly
Events View public control throws an exception when an event with geomapping is selected
  Incorrect results are sometimes displayed when you use Live Search Maps for geomapping
  Problems with rescheduling of events

- Moderate comments and Allow comments in Blogs do not work correctly

- Services
Start indexing link throws an exception when index source is not set
  In case of editing an RSS Feed that contains a Blogs provider, it throws an exception

- Photos & Documents Module
Permissions are not implemented
Search does not work
  Files do not show when there are special symbols in file names
Filtering by metadata, does not work
Filtering by tags and categories does not work
Batch edit does not show tags and categories
Download list control displays images from Image Library when there is no other type of library created

Issues fixed since the release of Sitefinity 3.1 SP2
- Issue with File Selector when uploading files in the app root
- Issue with Thumbnail selector in News module
- Problems with Tags filter and "Back to All Items" link
- Issue with fields not cleaning when a new comment is posted
- Problem loading search results in medium trust
- Problem with case-sensitive tags when editing/creating items
- Renamed category not showing in the Details list
- Tags not saved after a thumbnail is added
- Search not checking PageIndex input
- Problem with Toolbox controls in Generic Content group when localization is on
- Unknown server tag error with Navigation controls


As always, we'll be glad to receive your feedback and comments.
Happy St Valentine's day and happy testing!

Yours truly,
The Telerik team

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Gabe Sumner MVP

Posted on Feb 14, 2008 (permalink)

Hooray! Hopefully I'll have a chance to take a look later today.

Gabe
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Tim Intermediate

Posted on Feb 14, 2008 (permalink)

Sitefinity Team,

I downloaded and installed Sitefinity 3.2 beta today and have a few questions list below:

Personalizations Module -- didn't see it
Newsletter Module -- can't find it
Events Module -- Can't edit in the RadEditor while creating new event
Photos & Documents Module -- Can't upload images or files
RadControls "Prometheus" -- didn't find any differences
Forms Spam Protector control -- need to know more information about it
Deny anonymous access and Show in navigation persist on child pages -- Need more information how to set it up
Enhancements in Generic Content based modules -- didn't see the difference from user interface

By the way I can't edit template nor adding controls into the template. same thing apply to pages too. I don't know if that's way it suppose to be.

Tim

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briankb Intermediate

Posted on Feb 14, 2008 (permalink)

This is great news and early ;-)

Just curious will the known issues be fixed with the official release?

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Sean MVP

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Excellent news, I especially can't wait to play with Prometheus in Sitefinity...

Especially looking forward to " Links to CMS pages in RadEditor"

But looking forward to it all and having a little play...

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Seth Cleaver Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Great news looking forward to having a go...

Seth

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Tim Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

I am just wondering if there is anyone actually tried the Version 3.2 Beta yet. From my own experience yesterday, I just hope version 3.2 is not kind of joke because so far nothing works on the beta version.

Personalizations Module -- didn't see it

Newsletter Module -- can't find it

Events Module -- Can't edit in the RadEditor while creating new event

Photos & Documents Module -- Can't upload images or files

By the way I can't edit template nor adding controls into the template. same thing apply to pages too. I don't know if that's way it suppose to be.

Tim

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Tim Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Sitefinity Team,

I took my last post back because everything seems to work after I reboot my laptop. I start to wonder why it doesn't work yesterday without restart my computer. I guess maybe the installation program mess up my IIS server during the installation process.

Anyway I will post more after I played around with beta. At least I have something I can play with now. Much better than yesterday. :-)

FYI, I didn't see the notification module in the beta, actually that's the module I really want to see.

Tim

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Filip

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Bug what i found:

- News detail not working with localization

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Tim Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Are you going to add newsletter module into 3.2?

Tim

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Seth Cleaver Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Hi Telerik,

I have been playing aroun with 3.2 for a few hours now and I must say I am excited.

The majority of the "like to haves" that my clients are after are there... especially the images and docs module and the fact that you can now link to these things straight from the radeditro.Well done! I love that you can also use the file system if you want.

One thing I did notice though which would be good to fix is when you use the select button for the thumbnail in news the browser asks if you want to navigate away from the page. Then again when you select the file. That little bug was in 3.1 too.

Great work. Looking forward to the final release (Oh where is newsletter? and will simple event emails make it into 3.2)

Thanks'

Seth

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Seth Cleaver Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Hi,

In the events module by default you might need to add and extra field to the "Event Location" set of meta fields called "Name" or something like that... what do you think. Usually and event is held at:

Narangba Community Hall
3 Some Street
Some City, Some State
Country.

You could add the "narangba Community hall" bit to the street field but that may muck up the geo data.

Just a thought.

Seth

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Telerik Admin
Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Hi Tim,

Personalizations Module -- didn't see it
Our guess is you looked for a Personalization tab in the Modules section and expected to find it together with Blogs, News, etc. Everyone would do that, as the name is quite misleading, actually. Sorry about that. We should have called it My Preferences instead. Please have a look at the attached image.
However, when looking at this from the developer's perspective, it is a module in fact, as its implementation is similar to that of other Sitefinity modules.

Newsletter Module -- can't find it
At the very last minute, we decided to remove that and make it wait until the official release of 3.2. However, we omitted to remove it from the What's new list, which had been prepared a little bit earlier. Sorry, for making you look for it in vain.

Events Module -- Can't edit in the RadEditor while creating new event
We tried creating/editing an item and we did not see any problems. Please give more details about this one.

Photos & Documents Module -- Can't upload images or files
Most likely, you mean the Upload your first image link. We noticed that it does not open the upload screen. You should use the Upload button instead. Image upload works fine.
When you create a document library, Upload your first item link works fine.

RadControls "Prometheus" -- didn't find any differences
That's good news:) The following RadControls "Prometheus" have been added to the Sitefinity admin part:
RadEditor, RadWindow, RadChart, RadUpload (Libraries), RadToolTip and RadCalendar.
In the project bin, there is a reference to the RadPrometheus suite, Telerik.Web.UI.dll. This means you can have both RadControls and RadControls "Prometheus" added to your Sitefinity toolbox and use them in user/custom controls in your applications.

Forms Spam Protector control -- need to know more information about it
We'll publish information about this as soon as we can. We'll also provide a sample custom strategy for detecting bots.

Deny anonymous access and Show in navigation persist on child pages -- Need more information how to set it up
We are talking about the Pages > Sitemap > [selected page]Properties tab.
If you set Show in navigation to No for a page that has subpages, none of the subpages will be shown in the site navigation.
Similarly, if you set Anonymous access (this property is visible when More Options is expanded) to Deny for a page which has subpages, all subpages will be inacessible to anonymous users and will require authentication.

Enhancements in Generic Content based modules -- didn't see the difference from user interface
That's good news too. There is no change in the UI. Far better performance of Generic Content public controls due to the fact that we replaced the RadEditor with its Prometheus version in all modules.
Also, please have a look at the mighty Content View public control which is a basis for all public controls from Libraries and Blogs. Its implementation allows for easy customization.

Kind regards,
Rebecca
the Telerik team

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Attached files
- MyPreferences.jpg
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Tim Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Sitefinity Team,

Thank you very much for your reply. I am glad to know that the newsletter and notification module will be added in the 3.2 release. I have been waiting for these two modules for quite while and finally the dream comes true.

What happened yesterday was that I can't edit ANYTHING in the radEditor for all modules nor adding controls to templates and pages after installed 3.2 beta on my laptop(Note: didn't reboot my laptop). I was VERY frustrated.

This morning I read the one post on the Sitefinity blog and someone indicated that everything works for 3.2 beta. I was wondering if there is anything wrong on my laptop. So I restarted my laptop and tried the beta version again. Wow, everything starts to work.

I guess that maybe the Sitefinity installlation program might mess up my IIS service on my laptop. By restarting laptop, basically it resets the IIS service. It might be something keep in mind.

Anyway, I am looking forward to installing the Sitefinity 3.2 final release.

Great job!

Tim

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medicalwebgeek Intermediate

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 (permalink)

Tim,
I also experienced the same issues when I tried to edit anything after installing the beta. After reading your post this morning, I restarted IIS on my Windows 2003 box and everything started working for me.

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Zubair

Posted on Feb 18, 2008 (permalink)

hi,

Great news on the release.

Also I needed the 'Links to CMS pages in RadEditor' feature but unfortunately I built my own yesterday before my colleague informed me about this release :)

Anyway, I have a problem - I installed, restarted my machine but everytime I try to create a project it gives me 'Unable to create the virtual directory: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.' am I missing something, license key probably ? I tried the same on 2 machines but the same problem.

Please suggest a fix for this, thanks

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

Hello Zubair,

It seems that this issue is related to the Internet Information Services. Please make sure that the Allow Anonymous checkbox is cleared for /telerik/Sitefinity3.2 in IIS.
The Project Manager impersonates the ASPNET account as the currently logged user. Please check in the top right corner of the Project Manager screen what account is being used at the moment. This user should be granted full permissions to the WebSites folder. The ASP.NET machine account should also have full permissions to this folder.

Let us know if we can be of any further assistance.

Kind regards,
Rebecca
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Zubair

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

yea but that doesn't even launch the Project manager, I now have full permission for ASPNET user on this folder.

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

Hello Zubair,

What is the error you get now and which browser are you using?
Thank in advance for providing these details.

Greetings,
Rebecca
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Zubair

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

In IE7 the usual username/password dialog appears when I disable anonymous authentication.

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

Hi Zubair,

Please note that to log in the Sitefinity Project Manager, the user password should not be "blank". Please try loggining in with a user whose password is set.

Sincerely yours,
Rebecca
the Telerik team

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Luke Kolodziej Luke Kolodziej's avatar

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

I got this error when trying to access the Images & Documents module.

Server Error in '/3.2Test' Application.

Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: CS1061: 'object' does not contain a definition for 'ToLower' and no extension method 'ToLower' accepting a first argument of type 'object' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Source Error:

Line 62:                     <dl>
Line 63:                         <dt>
Line 64:                         <asp:LinkButton ID="libName" ToolTip='<%#Eval("Name") %>' CssClass='<%#Eval("TypeName").ToLower()%>' runat="server"><strong><%#Eval("Name") %></strong></asp:LinkButton>
Line 65:                         </dt>
Line 66:                         <dd>

Source File: c:\Program Files\telerik\Sitefinity3.2\WebSites\3.2Test\Sitefinity\Admin\ControlTemplates\Libraries\LibraryList-Libs.ascx Line: 64

I casted the eval function as a string and it fixed it.

<asp:LinkButton ID="libName" ToolTip='<%#Eval("Name") %>' CssClass='<%#(Eval("TypeName" as String)).ToLower()%>' runat="server"><strong><%#Eval("Name") %></strong></asp:LinkButton> 

Luke Kolodziej

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

Oops messed up the parenthesis
<asp:LinkButton ID="libName" ToolTip='<%#Eval("Name") %>' CssClass='<%#(Eval("TypeName") as String).ToLower()%>' runat="server"><strong><%#Eval("Name") %></strong></asp:LinkButton>

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Luke Kolodziej Luke Kolodziej's avatar

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

Another place with the same issue.

Server Error in '/3.2Test' Application.

Compilation Error

Description: An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific error details and modify your source code appropriately.

Compiler Error Message: CS0019: Operator '+' cannot be applied to operands of type 'object' and 'object'

Source Error:

Line 70:                     <dd class="image">
Line 71:                     <asp:LinkButton runat="server" ID="itemImage" CommandName="View">
Line 72:                         <asp:Image runat="server" ImageUrl='<%# Eval("Url") + Eval("ContentProvider.ThumbnailExtension") + "?width=150&height=150&decreaseOnly=true" %>' />
Line 73:                     </asp:LinkButton></dd>
Line 74:                     <dd class="edit"><asp:LinkButton CommandName="Edit" runat="server" ID="editBtn" Text="<%$Resources:Edit %>"></asp:LinkButton></dd>

Source File: c:\Program Files\telerik\Sitefinity3.2\WebSites\3.2Test\Sitefinity\Admin\ControlTemplates\Libraries\ControlPanelList.ascx Line: 72

Corrected line:

<asp:Image runat="server" ImageUrl='<%# (Eval("Url") as String) + (Eval("ContentProvider.ThumbnailExtension") as String) + "?width=150&height=150&decreaseOnly=true" %>' /> 

medicalwebgeek Intermediate

Posted on Feb 19, 2008 (permalink)

Document Module
How can I get my description for my document to show up on the public page? I see every selection but this (tag, name, author, date, etc), but no description.

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 20, 2008 (permalink)

Hi medicalwebgeek,

This is a feature that will be included in the official release.

Hope this helps!

Sincerely yours,
Tihomir
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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 20, 2008 (permalink)

Hello Luke,

Thanks a lot for mentioning thses errors. We must confirm these issues and we'll provide fixes for the upcoming release. Your Telerik account has been updated.

Also, please let us know if you got similar errors anywhere else so we are sure we don't omit anything.

Greetings,
Vassil Daskalov
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Luke Kolodziej

Posted on Feb 20, 2008 (permalink)

Here are a couple of other places where I had the same issue.

Sitefinity\Admin\ControlTemplates\Libraries\ControlPanelEdit.ascx
Lines: 162,176,177

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Kevin Pipher

Posted on Feb 20, 2008 (permalink)

Hi,

Is it possible to make use of any of the new modules from the beta with v3.1 SP2?

the photos & documents module in 3.2 is exactly what I need for a site we have going live next week. The site is v3.1 SP2. I'm writing a file upload module but feel it's a bit of a waste of time, given 3.2 will make it redundant.

I'm going to assume the answer is no, since the core cms changed to Prometheus, etc. in 3.2, but thought I'd ask just in case.

Thanks,
Kevin

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 21, 2008 (permalink)

Thanks for providing this information, Luke. Your Telerik account has been updated for your contribution.

Hi Kevin,
Your guess is right, the Photos & Documents module is not compatible with Sitefinity 3.1 SP2 as there are many changes and improvements to the core of the system, as well as many dependencies that the new modules rely on.

All the best,
Rebecca
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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 21, 2008 (permalink)

Hello Tim,

Here is a link to a KB article describing the Spam Protector control:
Form Spam Protector?

We'll also soon provide the sample custom strategy for detecting bots.

Sincerely yours,
Rebecca
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Kevin Pipher

Posted on Feb 21, 2008 (permalink)

Hi,

I've tested the beta for a few hours, the updates and additions seems very good. Can you give us any indication of target date for the official release? Will multiple betas be released as in past versions?

Thanks,
Kevin.

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Kevin Pipher

Posted on Feb 21, 2008 (permalink)

In addition to my last post, can you tell me if it will be possible to add additional meta fields to the photos and documents module?

I'm really excited by the functionality of the module, but I'd like to be able to add a few fields such as a date, etc.

Thanks,
Kevin

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Telerik Admin admin's avatar

Posted on Feb 22, 2008 (permalink)

Hello Kevin Pipher,

The official release of version 3.2 is scheduled for 5 March. No other betas, only SPs :)

It is possible to add a custom meta field to Images&Docs.
This is what you should do if you want to add a field called Caption to an image library and display it at the edit image screen.

1. Open the project web.config file and in the <metaFields> collection, add this code:

    
            <add key="Libraries.Caption"   
        
            valueType="ShortText"   
        
            visible="True"   
        
            searchable="True"   
        
            sortable="True"   
        
            defaultValue="" />

2. In the <libraryInfo> section, add Caption to metaKeys:

    
            <libraryInfo>  
        
               <add name="Image" title="Image Library" defaultExtenstions=".png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif" metaKeys="Caption, Author, AlternateText, Extension, Name, Height, Width, Size, Category" />  
        
               <add name="Document" title="Document Library" defaultExtenstions=".doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .html, .xls, .xlsx" metaKeys="Caption, Author, Description, Extension, Name, Size, Category" />  
        
               <add name="Custom" title="Custom Library" defaultExtenstions=".*" metaKeys="Caption, Author, Description, Extension, Name, Size, Category" />  
        
            </libraryInfo>

3. Open the ~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Libraries/ControlPanelEdit_Image.ascx, find section <sfGCn:ContentMetaFields ID="editMetaFields" runat="server"> and add this item:

    
            <li> 
        
            <asp:Label ID="Label8" runat="server" AssociatedControlID="Caption"  Text="Caption"></asp:Label> 
        
            <asp:TextBox runat="server" ID="Caption" MaxLength="255" TextMode=MultiLine></asp:TextBox> 
        
            <p class="example"><asp:Literal ID="Literal10" runat="server" Text="Descriptive text that goes beneath the image" /></p>  
        
            </li>

See the attachment to view the result.

If you want to add a meta field to a document or custom library, you need to edit the ~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Libraries/ControlPanelEdit.ascx file.

Let us know if you need any further assistance.

Regards,
Rebecca
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Attached files

CaptionMetaField.jpg

Kevin Pipher

Posted on Feb 22, 2008 (permalink)

Thanks Rebecca for the example, that's great.

Looking forward to the module in official release. Probably the most useful module I've seen yet. We're going to use it for many libraries.

Cheers.

Kevin

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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 24, 2008 (permalink)

1. Under Modules, click on "Create your first event"
2. Enter some data for the event
3. Click on the Cancel button to cancel creating the event
4. Notice that you will receive an error message: "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 25, 2008 (permalink)

Hi Samir Vaidya,

This is a known issue which has already been fixed for the final release of v3.2.

Greetings,
Georgi Chokov
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medicalwebgeek Intermediate

Posted on Feb 25, 2008 (permalink)

Regarding image size in the gallery:

I can set the max size for my thumbnails (for example 150). For my horizontal images, it sets the max width @ 150 and for my vertical images, it sets the max height @ 150. Is there anyway that I can have it set both height & width to 150px? I doubt I can since it would probably involve cropping, but I figured I would ask.

Next Question - How hard would it be to set another parameter on section 3 "Gallery Settings" to limit the full size photo to a specific height/width? With camera resolutions expanding daily, I think I would have to put a lot of faith in my users to have them resize their images before uploading them to the site.

Please advise.

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bnye Master

Posted on Feb 25, 2008 (permalink)

I realize the final release has probably already been released for testing. However, I wanted to point out that following error still occurs 3.1 SP2 if the a user is authenticated but does not a member of the necessary role for a page.

Server Error in '/Website Application.

This type of page is not served.
Description: The type of page you have requested is not served because it has been explicitly forbidden. The extension '.aspx' may be incorrect. Please review the URL below and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /website/sitefinity/cmsentrypoint.aspx

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.210

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for all of the hard work. I look forward to the final release on Friday.

Sincerely,

Ben

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

Hello Ben,

We decided to include a custom error page for the 403 exception that is thrown, so in the official release there would be a nopermissions.aspx file for this error. We hope this page will save some confusion, despite that it would be overriden in most cases.

Sincerely yours,
Yasen
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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

Images/Documents Suggestions/Feedback:

1) When I click on Batch Edit Titles and Tags, I am unable to filter content by category by selecting the various categories from the DropDownList.
2) When I click on the Categories view, I am unable to see "Uncategorized" as a category.
3) When I view the Categories view, I am unable to select the name of the category, rather, I must select the number of items in the category which is non-intuitive.
4) When uploading images, I am unable specify a category at the same time that I am uploading the images.
5) When uploading images as a .zip file, I should be able to click on an Add button which allows me to upload additonal .zip files (similar to connect.microsoft.com)
6) When uploading content as a .zip file, I am unable to view a progress bar or animated gif indicating the progress of my upload operation.
7) When click on a Tag from the Tags view, I am unable to view the actual library content
8) When I have just uploaded new content, I am unable to add a new category at the same time in the manner in which I am able to add new tags for my content.
9) When creating a library, I am unable to create a custom library while specifying the custom extensions I would like for my custom library (such as .mov, .mpeg, .avi, .swf etc.)
10) When viewing my images in the Library mode, I am unable to see the associated category directly from the Image preview mode. Ideally, I would be able to view this information either above or below the image or through a mouse over/mouse hover event as in a tooltip.
11) In the Library preview mode, I am unable to specify how many images I wish to display on each page of the preview.
12) In the Categories view, I would like to see a hierarchy of each category and all of its associated tags in a tree view navigation structure.
13) In the Library preview mode, I am unable to select a "View by category" to filter out all of my content by a specific selected category.
14) In the Library preview mode, there is currently no option to preview my content as a Slideshow as I am able to accomplish using SharePoint.
15) When I click on Batch Edit Titles and Tags and click on the Cancel button, I receive an error message "The given key was not present in the dictionary"

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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

Images/Documents Suggestions/Feedback

1) When I click on the List view for my Images Library, I am forced to download each image one at a time. I should instead be able to select multiple items and then download them as a single .zip file.

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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

Images/Documents Suggestions/Feedback

1) When working with Libraries, I am unable to click on the breadcrumbs in the navigation to go back to the Libraries view and begin creating Libraries again.
2) The All Libraries view should be exposed as a tree view rather than forcing you to click on the link to go to a new page.
3) The All Libraries view should also provide a right click pop-up menu option similar to the Files view for creating new Libraries.
4) In the Boxes view for the Images libraries, the Camera icon seems to indicate that you have the option to provide a thumbnail preview of the content that is contained in the library. However, there is no such option or setting available to provide a thumbnail preview of the image content or a default option as is available in folders using Windows Explorer.
5) In the Image Library preview, I am unable to sort the view or re-arrange the thumbnails view either through a numbering system or a drag and drop system for re-arranging which images appear in which order for the Library preview.
6) In the Library preview mode, by default the image names do not even appear in ascending alphabetical order. The images are sorted randomly.

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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

Images/Documents Suggestion:

1) When viewing the images in the Library preview mode, I should be able to either right click on the Image for editing or view the Original size of the image rather than having to click on the Image twice before I can view the original size of the image.

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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

Files Feedback:

1) Now that you offer the ability to upload a .zip file and then extract the contents of the .zip file for Images/Documents, you should offer a similar capability for the Files view. Either this should be done or the Files view should be replaced with the feature capabilities of the Images/Documents module.

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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

In the Dashboard of SiteFinity 3.2, the link on the Dashboard still points to SiteFinity 3.1 forum rather than SiteFinity 3.2 forum.

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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Feb 26, 2008 (permalink)

1) In the Dashboard of SiteFinity v. 3.2, the option should also be available to expand and collapse each of the items in the Dashboard similar to the capabilities provided by Web Parts. Currently, if you hide a panel or close a panel, you have to go back into Dashboard settings in order to re-enable it rather than just being able to expand or collapse it out of your view as required.
2) The Dashboard should be set up similar to a Web Part page so that you can drag and drop elements of the Dashboard to different areas of your screen as part of your preferences rather than managing everything through Drop Down Lists.

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Telerik Admin
Posted on Feb 27, 2008 (permalink)

Hi James,

You can achieve the desired behavior easily with Sitefinity. Remember "Built for developers"?

These are the steps you need to follow in order to accomplish your task:

1. Unzip the attached file in your website directory.
2. Add this line to the <toolboxControls> section of your application web.config:

<add name="MyGallery" section="Custom Controls" type="MyGallery, App_Code" />

3. Go to edit your page and drag and drop MyGallery control from the toolbox section "Custom Controls".
4. When you edit it, you will see that you can add Height and Width to your thumbnails.

Hope this helps!

All the best,
Tihomir
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Attached files
- Gallery-Extender.zip
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Samir Vaidya

Posted on Mar 2, 2008 (permalink)

In SiteFinity 3.2, I have been using the Telerik.Cms.dll in my User Control as a reference and I have noticed that when I now reference v. 3.2 of this new DLL, I am unable to use the ICmsUrlContext in my page, thus causing my User Control to break. Is there a way to fix this or has the API changes so that I can continue to use my User Control? I wrote a User Control which hooked into the Telerik CMS API to display information regarding my Pages such as Page Name, Date Modified etc.

Thanks.

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Pavel

Posted on Mar 3, 2008 (permalink)

Hi,
I tried use spell-checker in edit content in Sitefinity 3.2beta and I have got message “The command Spellcheck isn’t implemented yet.”
I hope this function will be implemented in final release version, right?

Thank you for your answer
Pavel

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Filip

Posted on Mar 3, 2008 (permalink)

I have 2 bugs in 3.2 beta:

- blog editing not working with IE7
- blog comments not working with IE7

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H R

Posted on Mar 4, 2008 (permalink)

I just recently downloaded the community version and just barely got started with the product. Should I switch now to 3.2 or will it be easier to upgrade from the community edition than the beta

Thanks
HR

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John Reynolds

Posted on Mar 4, 2008 (permalink)

Are we still on target for a March 5 release date?

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Telerik Admin

Posted on Mar 6, 2008 (permalink)

Hello,

1. Sitefinity Community edition v3.2 has been released and is now available from your Client.net account. You'd better upgrade your project to the new version, as we have included Users and Permissions :)

2. What are the exact steps for reproducing the problem with the blog and comment editing in IE7?

3. Spell Checker in the RadEditor will be enabled for the upcoming SP.

4. ICmsUrlContext interface was removed to Telerik.Framework assembly but it is still in Telerik.Cms.Web namespace.

All the best,
Pepi
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kaan

Posted on Dec 10, 2008 (permalink)

Meta fields for Libraries doesn't work for me

I put this into metFields part of web.config

<add key="Libraries.ItemAlias" valueType="ShortText" visible="True" searchable="false" sortable="false" defaultValue=""/>

I edit Control and put TextBox inside of
<sfGCn:ContentMetaFields ID="editMetaFields" runat="server"> ItemTemplate

And it simply doesn't work.

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Telerik Admin admin's avatar

Posted on Dec 10, 2008 (permalink)

Hi kaan,

Also, in the <libraryInfo> section of the web.config file, you need to add ItemAlias to metaKeys. Here is an example if you want to achieve this for libraries of type Image:

    
            <libraryInfo> 
        
            … 
        
            <add name="Image" title="Image Library" defaultExtenstions=".png, 
        
            .jpg, .jpeg, .gif" metaKeys="Author, ItemAlias, AlternateText, 
        
            Extension, Name, Height, Width, Size, Category" /> 
        
            </libraryInfo>

Also, make sure you have edited the right template:
~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Libraries/ControlPanelEdit_Image.ascx - represents the edit template for libraries of type Image
~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Libraries/ControlPanelEdit.ascx - represents the edit template for Document and Custom libraries

Hope this helps.

Sincerely yours,
Pepi
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