What’s New and Improved?

Wiki Communities – A wiki is, generally speaking, a collaborative effort comprised of the collective work of more than one author – anyone may edit, delete or modify content.  Now, you can create a community for this type of collaborative effort. 

MiniApp - A MiniApp, or mini application, is a user-created extension that can plug into FuseTalk to create other business processes or opportunities.  If you have a functionality that you want FuseTalk to apply when creating or editing a post, and you enjoy coding, you can override our default page for posting, and replace it with your own where you can have full control.

Executive-Style Reports – Are you looking for a quick assessment on the status of your forum community?  These reports enable management to measure the success of its forums quickly.  Simply choose the reports that you want (forum level, category level, user level, groups,  and user banning), enter a date range, and FuseTalk will produce graphs and tables for you to review.   Export your report to a number of different formats, including PDF, CSV, Excel, Rich Text format, and a few others.  

Improved Security – FuseTalk now includes a Web Service, which allows developers remote access to the FuseTalk application for performing common tasks like creating users, communities, topics, etc.  For extra security, use IIS IP restrictions to prevent any access to the service from the public internet.  Additionally, input validation has been introduced around all methods in FuseTalk.  Administrators can be assured that users will not be able to insert scripting language that could cause harm to the community.

Improved blogs – FuseTalk has enhanced some functionality for blog administrator, allowing them to move blog posts easily from one category to another.  In addition, the administrator now has full access to the complete HTML editor toolbar when creating side boxes.  For users, if they are members of other communities, they can now navigate between them easily through the Communities section in the side menu.

 

Improved User Control – Based on customer feedback, FuseTalk has introduced some improvements to some user control.  These improvements include introducing column sorting in the Latest Topics page, username recovery for those members who have forgotten their username, and allowing users to view the FuseTalk RSS feeds easily through the RSS Clip in an Internet Explorer browser, just to name a few.  For administrators who have permissions to edit a user’s profile, you can now do this through the Moderator Options toolbar.

 

Improved Global Administration – User records are now listed in the forum management interface alongside their forum name, in the event that there are multiple user records of the same user for standalone forums.  User subscriptions are now listed for the global administrator to view and update accordingly.

Fault Fixes

General:

1. Resolved issue of parsing HTML when switching between TinyMCE’s WYSIWYG and the basic HTML editor.
2. Updated editor choice to default to WYSIWYG Editor.

 

 

Global Administration:

1. Resolved issue of case sensitivity on the global administrator’s password being disregarded when updating the password through the interface.
2. Resolved issue of global groups created in the global administration not filtering to the forum administration level where they would be applied to a category.
3. Resolved issue of missing label for NNTP within the global administration > forum properties window.
4. Improved NNTP service using current libraries from /n software inc.
5. Resolved issue of missing forumid parameter when updating users’ settings globally.
6. Resolved issue of author icons that exceeded maximum size permitted still being uploaded to server.
7. Resolved issue of XML parsing error when saving a user report to XML within the global administration.
8. Resolved issue of global users not being filtered in a topic/message report within the global administration.
9. Resolved issue where changes made to the agreement of a global forum are applied to the agreement in the Community Defaults template.
10. Resolved issue of global users not being filtered into user reporting within the global administration.
11. Resolved issue with service tasks running at the same time.

 

 

Forum:

1. Resolved issue of being directed to an incorrect page when clicking on a forum link within a subscription notice and external authentication enabled in the forum.
2. Resolved missing user rating option in the user’s tombstone.
3. Resolved issue of tombstone on an anonymous user being displayed.
4. Resolved issue of the Join Display setting from being displayed when the setting is disabled in the administration.
5. Resolved issue of censorship rule not being applied to all user-inputted fields.
6. Resolved issue where permissions of a global user in one global forum would be passed to other global forums.
7. Resolved issue where posts, under content approval, which are denied for publication, are remaining in the queue to be reviewed by approvers.
8. Resolved issue of subcategories not being associated to headers when using other languages, but English.
9. Resolved issue with improper request variable set for new users created by the forum administrator, which prevented the user from logging in.
10. Resolved issue where username would display in tombstone and advanced search if full name format is chosen.
11. Resolved issue with viewing author icons during the FuseTalk Join process.
12. Resolved issue of missing code that caused the lastesttopics.aspx page to not display properly.
13. Resolved issue of error page displaying when deleting the only thread within a subcategory.
14. Resolved issue of category search strings exceeding 50 characters, resulting in an error page.
15. Resolved issue of errors in the Top 10 Reports that can result with minimal data.
16. Resolved issue of error resulting from moving threads from one subcategory to another.
17. Improved explanations in some context-sensitive help.
18. Introduced validation checking on start and end dates for the event calendar in forums.
19. Resolved issue of username being displayed in the Last Poster column when full name format is chosen and a user has deleted last message in thread.
20. Resolved issue of subscriptions being sent to users who have been set in an “inactive” state by the administrator.
21. Resolved issue where category subscription of a user (who is a member of multiple communities) identified in the profile of one community is replaced with subscriptions that he sets in another community.
22. Resolved issue of new topic posts waiting to be approved being displayed in the Latest Category Posts report.
23. Resolved issue of users viewing their own messages that are still waiting to be approved.
24. Resolved issue of keyword watch notifications being sent with incorrect poster’s name.
25. Resolved issue of keyword watch notifications not respecting the name format of the forum.
26. Resolved issue of Side Boxes tab being displayed in the forum administration when Side Menu setting has been disabled.
27. Resolved issue of incorrect terminology when deleting a category survey question.
28. Resolved issue of groups, of which a user is a member, not appearing correctly in the Private Messages.
29. Resolved issue of the appearance of ASCII code and HTML tags in the various pages in the forum.
30. Resolved issue of disgusted emoticon not displaying correctly when used.
31. Resolved issue of Agreement tab being displayed in the forum administration when the Agreement setting has been disabled.
32. Improved display of private messages in side menu by increasing allowable character length.
33. Resolved issue of full name format not being recognized in basic chat.
34. Resolved issue of [MESSAGETITLE] not being recognized in subscription email template.
35. Resolved issue of duplicate subscription notices being sent to only one subscriber as opposed to all subscribers.
36. Resolved issue of incorrect variable in reporting query with respect to comma separated value output in the Top 10 Category Report.
37. Resolved issue of global users set to inactive state being able to access other global communities.
38. Resolved issue of subscription delivery method setting in user profile being removed when topic subscriptions has been disabled by administrator, but not category/digest subscriptions.
39. Resolved issue of mandatory category survey questions being bypassed using the quick reply feature.
40. Introduced validation on email address when using Email Check feature.
41. Resolved issue of email header/footer information in global forums not appearing in the email messages.
42. Resolved issue of referencing incorrect .aspx file when sending email to users in group, resulting in no mail received by group members.
43. Resolved issue of Remember Me checkbox not displaying if enabled by administrator.
44. Resolved issue of full name format not respected if side menu setting is disabled.
45. Resolved issue of window prompt appearing to users who change their email address (advising an email will be sent to new address) when Email Check feature is set to “No”.
46. Resolved issue of banning forum owner.  Now, cannot ban an email address of a user in the forum owner group.

 

 

Blog:

1. Resolved missing edit/delete function links for blog comments.
2. Resolved issue with browser compatibility issues with respect to the calendar navigation links in blogs.
3. Resolved issue of missing user customization setting in blogs.
4. Resolved issue of missing tabs (attachments and user) in the Blog Defaults template.
5. Resolved issue of broken link when directing users to the anonymous commenter’s information in blogs.
6. Resolved issue of global users not being able to access global blogs with same user account.
7. Resolved issue of viewing user profile in blog if member has been given permissions to view.

Edited: 04/16/2010 at 12:41 PM by ftsupport 4