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Telerik Admin, 5/30/2008 2:07:30 PM

Dear all, we are happy to announce that Sitefinity 3.2 SP2 Release is now available for download from your Client.net accounts.

, 5/30/2008 2:26:38 PM

Dear all, we are happy to announce that Sitefinity 3.2 SP2 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 Sitefinity Projects

What's new in Sitefinity 3.2 SP2?

New Base Designer for ContentView Based Controls

What’s New:
-   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.

News Module

What’s Fixed:
-   Fixed News List control problem with multiple language versions, categories and tags

Pages

What’s Fixed:
-   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

What’s New:
-   Added an option to throw 404 exception when a page language version is missing

File Manager

What’s New:
-   Added file download functionality

Images and Documents Module

What’s Fixed:
-   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

Blogs Module

What’s New:
-   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

Generic Content Module

What’s Fixed:
-   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

What’s New:
-   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

What’s Fixed:
- Fixed problem with changes not saved when you edit newsletters after exiting the Create Newsletter screen

Search

What’s Fixed:
-   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

What’s New:
-   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

What’s Fixed:
-   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 ('/')

What’s New:
-   SEO improvements

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

Your feedback and comments are welcome.

Yours truly,
The Telerik team

SelArom, 5/30/2008 4:35:50 PM

thanks for following through on your promise for the release telerik, i'm sure we're all eager to try it out :)

quick question... forgive me if I'm just not seeing the obvious, but if we've already got the site set up and running and we just want to upgrade, then all we do is patch? the upgrade guide is for going from 3.1->3.2 but we're already at 3.2sp1 and need to go to 3.2sp2...

thanks!

Christopher, 5/30/2008 5:28:36 PM

Does SP2 include the most recent RadControls for ASP .NET AJAX? I haven't seen anything in your Release Notes or the documentation so far about it.

Seth Cleaver, 5/31/2008 9:38:17 AM

Hi Christopher,

It does - if you look at the version number of Telerik.Web.UI (the dll for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX) you will see it is 2008.1 which I believe is the latest version.

Hope this helps.

Seth

Seth Cleaver, 5/31/2008 9:40:59 AM

Hi,

Can you tell me if the RegisterRequiresControlState Error has been fixed in SP2 is that we don't need Ivan's work around.

Thanks

bnye, 6/1/2008 3:43:19 PM

File Download...cool. You guys are great about adding community requested features to product.

Thanks again.

bnye

Seth Cleaver, 6/2/2008 4:44:18 AM

Hi,

Looks like with the new contentview controls you can now edit the designer! Excellent! Have you got any documentation I couldn't see any? It looks like you might be able to preset settings for you users - wow - can you confirm.

Also I we have been wanting to edit the download list designer for a while now... however it doesn't look like it has been converted yet - is this the case?

I have come across what seems like a bit of a bug on the NewsView - changing the settings summary (eg. shorten to 20 words) for the newlist on tab 3 of the basic tab seems to do nothing... it always seems to display the whole content in the list. Is this a know bug... is there a work around?

Thanks - looks exciting.

Seth

, 6/3/2008 3:00:09 AM

Dear all,

Thanks for getting back to us.
Please find the answers to your questions below:

Josh,
In order to upgrade, you need to apply a patch using the Upgrading instructions (the link requires that you log in to Client.net and is also available in section Downloads).
It describes how to change your original web.config to reflect the changes introduced in Sitefinity v.3.2 SP2. It also lists the changes made to web.config since Sitefinity v.3.2 SP1. Please let us know if you have more questions on that.

Christopher,
SP2 includes the most recent RadControls for ASP .NET AJAX released in the middle of May.

Seth,
The RegisterRequiresControlState Error was fixed in SP2 and you don’t need to apply the workaround suggested previously.
We are working to update the documentation on the new designer and will post an update when we are done.
The ability to edit the download list designer was added to our Feature Requests Log (#11941). It will be considered for some of the next releases.
We managed to reproduce the bug with the NewsView and it was recorded to our Bug Log (#11922). Thanks for reporting this problem. Your Telerik Points have been updated.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Kalina
the Telerik team

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Chris, 6/3/2008 10:24:49 PM

Can we filter events by multiple tags?

, 6/4/2008 2:56:41 AM

Hi Adrian,

Unfortunately, the EventsView control does not support filtering by tags out of box. It is possible though, to extend the EventsView control in order to achieve this. I will be posting on my blog some examples on extending controls based on ContentView control (EventsView is one of them) and will try to provide an example for this feature as well.

Sincerely yours,
Ivan
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Amit - AMC Online, 6/6/2008 8:42:12 PM

Today I'm downloading Sitefinity 3.2 SP2

SelArom, 6/10/2008 4:15:36 PM

when you say under known issues that for libraries, categories are not enabled, does that mean they are not supported or just simply not enabled? if the latter, how do I go about enabling them?

thanks!

SelArom, 6/10/2008 4:36:02 PM

okay never mind I found it, its a bit of work but I think I've got it...

why was this disabled?

Vagelis, 6/10/2008 11:47:44 PM

Hi,

Is there any plan if a fix will be released for NewsView and when? We have 2 new projects to move on production but we don't upgrade them to 3.2 SP2 due to this bug while we need the other bug fixes included on it.

Best regards

Vangelis

, 6/11/2008 6:23:26 AM

Josh,
When we first started building the module, we implemented categories for it. However, we decided to remove them as there were already three kinds of organization - libraries, tags and categories - and two of them seemed to overlap as functionality.

Vagelis,
We will be releasing the hotfix shortly and it will include the fix for this problem. We decided to use a summary field based on a Meta tag, so the new version of the control will be a bit changed, based on our clients' feedback. Hope you will enjoy it too.

Sincerely yours,

Nikifor

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rmoynihan, 6/11/2008 7:27:47 AM

When I installed v3.2 SP2 the site seemed fine and I was able to browse to my newly created site and make changes in the admin section but when I opened it using Visual Studio and tried to compile it I got errors. These are as follows,

~\Sitefinity\ControlTemplates\News\ContentViewItemList.ascx - This file is missing the LocalResources file so I had to create it and add the resource for each label on the page.
Also had to rename one of the Literal controls as they had conflicting IDs.

~\Sitefinity\ControlTemplates\Blogs\CommentsList.ascx and
~\Sitefinity\ControlTemplates\Generic_Content\CommentsList.ascx both needed to register the following

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Cms.Engine" Namespace="Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls" TagPrefix="sfWeb" %>

, 6/11/2008 7:44:04 AM

Hi rmoynihan,

The problem is related to templates. This will be fixed in the upcoming hotfix.

To troubleshoot this, please follow the instructions below:

1. Template path:
~/Sitefinity/ControlTemplates/Blogs/CommentsList.ascx
Actions:

a. Add the following line at the top of the template
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Cms.Engine" Namespace="Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls" TagPrefix="sfWeb" %>

2. Template path:
~/Sitefinity/ControlTemplates/Generic_Content/CommentsList.ascx
Actions:

a. Add the following line at the top of the template
<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Cms.Engine" Namespace="Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls" TagPrefix="sfWeb" %>

3. Copy this file:
~/Sitefinity/ControlTemplates/Blogs/App_LocalResources/ContentViewItemList.ascx.resx
to this folder :
~/Sitefinity/ControlTemplates/News/App_LocalResources/

4. Open this file:
~/Sitefinity/ControlTemplates/News/ContentViewItemList.ascx
and remove (delete) following markup on lines 29, 30 and 31 :
<p>
<asp:Literal ID="content" runat="server"></asp:Literal>
</p>

Best wishes,

Rebecca
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Chris, 6/11/2008 7:16:41 PM

Ivan said: " Unfortunately, the EventsView control does not support filtering by tags out of box."

Thanks for the completely false advice Ivan.

The system does allow filtering events by tags. Just not MULTIPLE tags.

Fortunately the system allows filtering by categories.... but you cannot add more than one category to an event. Unfortunately the admin screen that lets you pick multiple tags doesn't actually work.

, 6/12/2008 3:58:26 AM

Hello Adrian,

I am sorry if I have mislead you with my statement. You are right, EventsView control can be filtered by a single tag (e.g. through TagList control). I was referring to the filtering by multiple tags (through the selector in the designer).

I am sorry I have not made that clearer and apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused you.

Sincerely yours,
Ivan
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KEVIN TOWNSEND, 6/12/2008 7:18:57 AM

> Thanks for the completely false advice Ivan.

Wow. Did you miss that whole part of 'developing into a normal human being' where we learned the value of communicating politely with one another? People make mistakes ...

Chris, 6/12/2008 8:15:53 PM

Events: Why don't they order by start date? Will this be fixed? If so, when?

Kevin: Mistakes are as serious as their consequences.

, 6/17/2008 2:46:03 AM

Hello Adrian,

Have you tried changing the sort expression of the events view control? You can use Event_Start DESC as a sort expressions and your event items will be sorted by start date. Note that you can use only one sort expression.

All the best,
Georgi
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Chris, 6/17/2008 6:36:57 AM

Thanks Georgi. Incredibly the event start date is duplicated across tables. We finally worked out the string to use.

Guys you need some doco for this. It is flakey.

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