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Telerik Admin, 3/4/2008 12:03:55 PM

Dear all, we are happy to announce that Sitefinity 3.2 Official Release is now available for download from your Client.net accounts.

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
If you need to upgrade projects created with previous versions directly to the official release of 3.2., please, refer to either of the following resources:
Applying a patch
Sitefinity Installation Guide
Sitefinity User Manual, section Upgrading Sitrefinity Projects

What's new in Sitefinity 3.2 ?

Community Edition
- Fully functional Permissions and Users

New Modules
-   Images & Documents
-   Events
-   Newletters (Beta version available as a separate download)

New Features in Administration
-   Personalization
-   Export web site as template
-   Ability to add RadControls "Prometheus"
-   Ability to insert links to pages of Sitefinity in RadEditor

New Control
-   Form Spam Protector
-   Content View

New Themes
-   Company and Personal Themes

Other
-   Deny anonymous access and Show in navigation is applied on children pages
-   Optimizations in Generic Content based modules

Known Issues

Medium Trust
-   There are unfixed problems which appear in Medium Trust environment

Notifications Service
-   The service is still in test mode and not included in the official release. It will be provided as a separate download later.

Newsletter Module
-   The module is still in test mode and available as a Beta release.  It will be provided as a separate download later.

Images & Documents Module
-   The module doesn’t work with multiple providers
-   Categories are disabled for this module
-   An attempt to upload a file with a size greater than the one specified in web.config shows a 404 Error
-   An attempt to cancel a file upload shows an error in IE6

Events Module
-   View as calendar and rescheduling don’t not work correctly in section Administration

My Preferences
-   Section Dashboard in the Administration doesn’t display correct dates for Last modified generic content items, Last modified news, and Last modified blog posts

Generic Content
-   Clicking on a link and selecting the option Set Link Properties shows a JavaScript error

Multilingual Support
-   News item created for more than one language creates numerous records in the database
-   In a blog with posting in more than one language, a click in All Posts is not directed to the Blog list in the proper language

Search Indexing
- Clicking on Start Indexing displays an error if no PageIndex in What to index has been selected
- Searching through the public search control on a page locks the index files, which does not allow you to reindex until the application is restarted.

Issues Fixed Since the Release of Sitefinity 3.2 Beta

-   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 error is thrown when the user clicks on an event

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

News List Public Control
The 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
-   Full story and Comments links do not open the single post page
-   An error appears when the user clicks a tag to display the grid with all tagged blog posts

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

Services
-   In case of editing an RSS Feed that contains a Blogs provider, it throws an exception

Images & 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

We'll be glad to receive your feedback and comments.

Yours truly,
The Telerik team

medicalwebgeek, 3/4/2008 10:32:34 PM

Great Job!
How do I enable Categories for Images & Documents? This is very important for a project that I am working on.

Good job with the release on the "updated" release date.

, 3/5/2008 7:05:08 AM

Hello medicalwebgeek,

We decided to remove the categorization feature from our Images & Documents module. Now you will probably ask why. This was a tough decision because we had to remove a feature that might be interesting for some of our users but we did it for the sake of clarity and semantics. In this release our libraries actually act as categories because they have the feature of consisting different items. On the other hand Images & Documents module supports tagging for each item which is currently considered to be one of the best ways for navigating through different items.

In the future we will definitely consider adding categorization to our Images & Documents module if this feature is interesting to our clients and if we get decent feedback on how it should be most intuitive to you and your customers.

We are sorry for the caused inconvenience!

Sincerely yours,
Tihomir
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Tim, 3/5/2008 8:09:42 AM

Sitefinity Team,

I am wondering if you could let me know how to install Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta on top of the Sitefinity V3.2 official release.

By the way, it looks like I can't download the community edition after I logged into my client.net.

Thanks
Tim

medicalwebgeek, 3/5/2008 8:23:10 AM

Where is the "EmptyProject" directory?

Tim, 3/5/2008 9:21:45 AM

Sitefinity Team,

I saw Aspose.Pdf.dll and Aspose.Words.dll files in the bin folder. I am wondering if Sitefinity actually use the these two controls or just for try.

Please let me know
Thanks
Tim

, 3/5/2008 9:47:02 AM

Hello James,

The EmptyProject is now an archive: C:\ProgramFiles\telerik\Sitefinity3.x\ProjectManager\App_Data\EmptyProject.zip.

Sincerely yours,
Rebecca
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Pierre, 3/5/2008 9:58:50 AM

Hi

Great Job SF Team !
Could you help us to test the LettersModule (Notification.dll). After activate this module and run I have this problem with the 'TelerikDynamicWebServices, Version=3.2.1500.not found Could you explain more ? Regards, Romi

, 3/5/2008 11:38:42 AM

Hello,

This post provides the answers to several posted questions, beginning with the earliest posts:

Sitefinity Team,
I am wondering if you could let me know how to install Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta on top of the Sitefinity V3.2 official release.By the way, it looks like I can't download the community edition after I logged into my client.net
Tim

Tim,
You can add the notifications module as you add a regular pluggable module. Please refer to the User Manual -> Working with Modules", section Adding a Module to a Sitefinity Web Site. As for the Community Version - it is already available in your Client.Net

Sitefinity Team,
I saw Aspose.Pdf.dll and Aspose.Words.dll files in the bin folder. I am wondering if Sitefinity actually use the these two controls or just for try.
Tim.

Tim,
Sitefinity uses them. They are used for our indexing engine, to index the contents of PDF and Office files. Furthermore, we plan to implement their functionality in some of our next releases, so every developer could use them as well. Note that the Document Library does not support indexing yet, this functionality will be available in SP1.

Great Job SF Team !
Could you help us to test the LettersModule (Notification.dll). After activate this module and run I have this problem with the 'TelerikDynamicWebServices, Version=3.2.1500.not found Could you explain more ? Regards, Romi

Romi,
It is our omission not to have included this assembly. We have already updated the files, so you can download it again. Sorry for this inconvenience.

Thanks to all of you for your interest in Sitefinity!

Best wishes,
Georgi
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Tim, 3/5/2008 12:01:05 PM

Sitefinity Team,

I downloaded the Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta.zip file in the morning, but I didn't find any Notifications DLL in the zip. Could you please tell me where to download the Notifications DLL and installation instructions?

Thanks
Tim

Tim, 3/5/2008 12:44:06 PM

I got following error message after apply notification module:

Could not load file or assembly 'Aspose.Words' or one of its dependencies. The parameter is incorrect

I think the problem is that Aspose.words.dll didn't register in the windows GAC. I think Sitefinity needs to post Aspose installation package for download so that end user can install and register Aspose.dll in the windows GAC

Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks
Tim

Tim, 3/5/2008 2:11:18 PM

Sitefinity Team,

I still got the error message for Notification module as following:

Could not load file or assembly 'TelerikDynamicWebServices, Version=3.2.1500.4, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=598c47861a2e0477' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

I am wondering if you could put TelerikDynamicWebService.dll and related the files on the forum for downloading. It's very important for me for my next coming project.

Thanks in advance
Tim

Quade, 3/6/2008 3:04:44 AM

Great news
Although i'm tempted to wait for SP1

Do you have any plans to release this on a certain date?
if so when will that be?

thanks

Luc Baeten, 3/6/2008 1:06:42 PM

hello Sitefinity Team

I enabled the Notification NewsLetter module in the web.config, but when I am trying to open the Newsletter Beta module, I am getting the error 'The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.'
What could be the problem?

regards
Luc

Tim, 3/7/2008 7:01:14 AM

Sitefinity Team,

I am still waiting for how to make Notification working on Sitefinity Version 3.2. It's very important for my next coming project.

Thanks in advance
Tim

Joseph, 3/7/2008 10:34:35 AM

I am receiving an error when I update the page type.

I replaced Sitefinity\Admin\ControlTemplates\Pages\PagePropertiesEdit.ascx and PagePropertiesInsert.ascx with the corresponding files from 3.1 and I am no longer having the issue.

Any updates to Page Properties (or these .ascx files) that should cause me to want to want the newer versions?

, 3/7/2008 11:37:55 AM

Hello Tim,

Sorry for the delayed reply.
We found a problem with the Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta.zip. Also, as there were some files missing in the installers we provided on March 4th, we replaced the .exe files on March 6th.

Here is what you should do now to eliminate the problem with Newsletters:

1. Apply the patch that is available for download now. Depending on the edition you installed previously, choose either SiteFinity_3_2_standard_patch_1500.zip or SiteFinity_3_2_community_patch_1500.zip.

2. Download the Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta.zip.

3. Extract the files the project root directory.

4. Make sure the ServiceAssemblies folder is empty. If you have downloaded the old Notifications.zip earlier, you should delete 3889AC4AF542BAC3C62ABB154E78FEA8.dll. It will be created automatically when you start the module.

4. Open the project web.config file and remove the comments regarding Notifications. Refer to module.config for comparison.

5. Save the web.config.

Note that there are problem creating and managing subscriber groups. Also, at the Administration tab, Notifications and Permissions links do not work.

Regards,
Rebecca
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Joseph, 3/7/2008 1:51:40 PM

I am able to update page type without receiving the error now, but I still am receiving it anywhere else in PagePropertiesEdit that would traditionally postbacks (Add URL, link, meta).

This is the error. (Even though this is the second time I am starting to type it because this editor didn't maintain my state)

Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException: The message received from the server could not be parsed. Common causes for this error are when the response is modified by calls to Response.Write(), response filter, HttpModules, or server trace is enabled. Details: Error parsing near '
                                                                    |<html>
<head>
'.

Luc Baeten, 3/8/2008 9:43:30 AM

Hello

Where can I find Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta.zip?

Regards
Luc

, 3/10/2008 3:50:10 AM

Where can I find Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta.zip?

Hello Luc,
Telerik.Notifications_3_2_1500_beta.zip is available for download from your Client.net account.

I am able to update page type without receiving the error now, but I still am receiving it anywhere else in PagePropertiesEdit that would traditionally postbacks (Add URL, link, meta).

Hello Joseph,
We were informed about this error but still can't manage to reproduce it. We'll continue looking into it and will inform you when we find a solution. Sorry for not being able to help immediately.

All the best,
Georgi
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Luc Baeten, 3/10/2008 4:35:50 AM

Hello Georgi

The Client.net hyperlink redirects to the client.net of the telerik website. Although I have a client account there, I don't see this zip file.

In my client.net environment of the Sitefinity site I don't see this zip file either. Can you tell me where I can find it?

Regards
Luc

, 3/10/2008 5:23:52 AM

Hello Luc Baeten,

Sorry for the inconjvenience. We have just updated some permissions on our server. You should be able to see it now.

Best wishes,
Georgi
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Luc Baeten, 3/10/2008 5:49:12 AM

Thanks Georgi

Luc Baeten, 3/10/2008 5:57:37 AM

Hello Sitefinity Team

I added the telerik.web.ui.dll into the Toolbox of Visual Studio 2008 on a Vista platform.
When I try to add a Rad control to my page I am getting the error 'The operation could not be completed. Invalid FORMATETC structure'

It must have something to do with my environment (Vista and/or VS 2008) because when I do the same on a Windows 2003 platform with Visual Studio 2005 (where Sitefinity 3.2 is installed too) I can add the Prometheus RAD controls to my page without any problems.

Have you any idea what the problem could be? I searched the internet but haven't found a solution yet.

Regards
Luc

Tim, 3/10/2008 10:38:42 AM

Sitefinity Team,

I am wondering if you have the time frame for official release of Newsletter module.

Thanks
Tim

, 3/10/2008 11:46:59 AM

Luc, this error does not seem to be directly related to Sitefinity or our controls. Therefore, I suggest you search asp.net forums for similar problems and possible solutions.
Also, you may take a look at this forum post for possible solutions.

Tim, the official Newsletters module should be out at the end of the month, together with 3.2 SP1.

Greetings,
Rebecca
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Tim, 3/11/2008 7:46:23 AM

Sitefinity Team,

I can't wait for the newsletter module official release. I might want to skip the SF 3.2 and wait for 3.2 Sp1.

Thanks
Tim

Tim, 3/25/2008 8:13:03 AM

Sitefinity Team,

I am wondering if you have a date for official release of V3.2 SP1. I have a project coming up which requires newsletter module.

Please let us know
Thanks in advance
Tim

, 3/26/2008 8:58:42 AM

Hello Tim,

The Service Pack 1 will be released by the end of this week.
We will make a posting to the forum when we are done.

Sincerely yours,
Kalina
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Berkin İRENGÜ, 3/27/2008 6:48:49 AM

Hi Sitefinity Team,

I downloaded the SiteFinity_3_2_standard.exe and then applied the SiteFinity_3_2_standard_patch_1500.zip

First of all, you made great job! Congratulations for this version!

But i couldnt edit any added controls in template edit mode. Overlay or Classic mode is not work. It shows a JavaScript error.

I use IE 6.0.

I will be glad to receive ur suggest!

Thanks Sitefinity!

Tim, 3/27/2008 7:03:20 AM

Sitefinity Team,

That's good news and hope the newsletter module is going to work. :~)

Tim

, 3/28/2008 12:21:05 PM

Hi Tim,

The release of the service pack is officially out!

For more details, see our forum post here:
http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-bchcae.aspx

Unfortunately, we are still working on a critical issue with not being able to edit Newsletters in the Newsletters module (see section Known Issues).

The fix will be a provided in subsequent Service Pack.
We are sorry for any inconvenience that this is causing.

Regards,

Kind regards,
Kalina Maneva
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Tim, 3/28/2008 12:47:12 PM

Sitefinity Team,

Thank you for keeping me posted and also appreciated all you hard working and inputs. At this point, I guess I just have to wait until the newsletter module is ready and hope my client has the same patient as I do.

Have a nice weekend
Tim

, 4/3/2008 4:42:47 AM

LibrariesCategories.zip

Hello James,

We just published a KB article explaining how to enable categories for the Images & Documents module. You can find it here:
KB #957

Currently, there's a problem downloading the modified files, so I am attaching the .zip to this thread as well.

Best wishes,
Rebecca
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Chris, 4/8/2008 10:01:41 AM

Hi,

I'm getting the same:

Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException... Error

As Joseph. Has there been anymore progress on this issue?

Many Thanks

Chris

Joseph, 4/8/2008 10:57:02 AM

Chris,

I believe I got around this by adding the following line to the system.web section of my web.config

<trace enabled="false" requestLimit="10" pageOutput="false" traceMode="SortByTime" localOnly="true"/>

Strangely enough, since installing SP1 I know longer have any trace node in my config, but I am no longer having the issue. (I wish I could un-blue this text)

Chris, 4/11/2008 7:11:18 AM

Hi Joseph,
Thanks for the reply - really appreciate it! I will give your suggestion a try. I was getting the problem on SiteFinity_3_2_SP1_standard.

Thanks again

Chris

Steve, 4/14/2008 5:38:16 PM

Hi

Was wondering what the timelines on Service packs or version 4.0?

Notice the Roadmap, not updated too.

Thanks

Steve

, 4/16/2008 3:28:53 AM

Hi Steve,

The Service Pack 2 for Sitefinity v. 3.2. will be released by the end of May. The focus will be on completing the Newsletters Module and fixing some known critical problems.

We are currently introducing major optimizations to the Forums and Blogs Modules and plan to release them by the end of the year. We will also introduce many new modules requested by our clients.

Thus, some of the features currently listed for Sitefinity v.4 will be delivered in the beginning of next year. We are currently working to finalize our plans and will update the Product Roadmap when we are done.

Please, let us know if we can be of further help.

Regards,
Kalina
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Joseph, 5/21/2008 8:03:23 AM

Is SP2 for 3.2 still on pace to release by next week?

, 5/22/2008 10:31:03 AM

Hi Joseph,

We will keep our promise and will deliver the Service Pack by the end of next week.

Regards,

Nikifor

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Richard Baugh, 8/4/2008 4:07:48 PM

This is in regards to the ajax error Joseph originally mentioned. Here is the error message I am recieving:

"Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException: The message received from the server could not be parsed. Common causes for this error are when the response is modified by calls to Response.Write(), response filters, HttpModules, or server trace is enabled.

Details: Error parsing near '

                |<html>

    <head>

'."

I added the line that Joseph mentioned in a reply to Chris, but I am still getting this error. If I click on "Save Changes" then the page will post back and I can then make the necessary changes depending on the page type I select. Still this is a issue that needs to be addressed. I am currently running Version 3 .2 SP2 Hotfix 1616.

Shaun Peet, 8/4/2008 11:34:30 PM

Another thing you can check...

Quite some time ago I ran across this error - but - only on certain networks. What I found out was that some routers (Watchguard in this instance) have a setting called "strip unknown headers" where any header in the response stream that it didn't know about would be removed from the response. Apparently, ASP.NET AJAX adds a custom header to identify itself and apparently some Watchguard routers weren't aware of this.

The way to check if this is happening is to visit any ASP.NET AJAX - enabled site from the same box that is experiencing this issue and if the same error pops up, then it's likely the router messing with the response headers.

Shaun

, 8/5/2008 2:31:14 AM

Hello Richard,

The error seems server-configuration specific. We found out that different workarounds worked for different people.
We think this is an Ajax issue, which is also related to the ASP.NET RoleManagerModule http module (you can see the actual exception in the ~/App_Data/sitefinity.log file). We couldn't see any Sitefinity code related to this error, so we think that this is an APS.NET issue. Most probably, it is fixed in the .NET 3.5 Ajax Web Extensions.
Here is the workaround. Set cacheRolesInCookie attribute of the system.web/roleManager to false in the web.config:

    
            <roleManager enabled="true" cacheRolesInCookie="false" defaultProvider="Sitefinity">

You can also find this article useful:
Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException - what it is and how to avoid it

Do let us know if this does not resolve the issue.

Regards,
Rebecca
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Richard Baugh, 8/5/2008 8:09:46 AM

Thanks fro the replies. It seems that this was indeed a server configuration. The server in question only had .net 2.0 framework and the 2.0 ajax extensions. I updated to SP! for 2.0 and also downloaded and installed 3.0 and 3.0 SP1. Once these were added, I then tried to see if the error still existed. Low and behold the message went away. It seems that this problem I was having was related to not having the server updated with the latest patches.

Thanks again for the replies.

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