Centralpoint Update 8.0.19

Date of Update: Monday, August 10, 2009

We have updated the web site and module search criteria parser to return more relevant results when multiple word searches are executed.
The sites default page has been updated to use a screen scrape rather than a redirect to display the sites home page. This results in the address bar remaining www.yoururl.com as opposed to changing to something like www.yoururl.com/Main/Public/Home.aspx. A canonical URL meta tag has also been added to ensure proper search engine optimization.
We’ve added a new Users class to our CMS library. This class supports bulk imports and individual inserts and updates in the Users table. The Users table contains all Centralpoint users like Members and Site Architecture / Administrators.
A bug in the page base class caused the site map to load with the wrong audience in some situations. To address this we’ve moved the https check from before the users audience is changed to after. This has resolved the issue.
A bug in Master / CMS / Modules has been repaired that caused custom attributes to be lost when a module was saved after being copied and viewed using the OK button in the JavaScript popup.
Master / CMS / Modules / Copy Module has been updated to copy the modules relations and predicates instead of creating default relations and predicates as if it were a new module.
Some descriptions in the Master / CMS / Relations module were improperly generated by the system. The descriptions have been repaired and will be sync’d and generated properly in the future.
Our update build process now excludes some unnecessary folders to make the installation packages smaller and faster. It has also been enhanced to use a single site (Quality Control) for both the update and install packages.
A bug has been repaired that caused the submission of a web site in the master console to clear custom properties submitted via the web site Admin / Properties module.
Admin / Properties / Web Site Time Zone is a new site property that controls the time zone of dates displayed on the front end of the web site for anonymous users. For dates to display properly it is important that administrators set their time zone using Account Settings / Personalization / Time Zone before creating, updating, or importing content in the client console. When data is created the dates are converted from the administrator’s time zone to UTC. All logged in web site or client console users will see dates and times in their personal time zone. This new site property is used to control the time zone of data for anonymous web site users. It is also used as the default time zone for new users created in the client console.
The Page Options… / Module Configuration, Module Properties, and Module Defaults have been updated to refresh the current module when saved so that the changes are applied immediately.
The Design / Media Manager module now allows the source file to be replaced. This will replace the file everywhere the resource was used throughout the site. Just click “Click here to replace the file associated with this resource.” within the File attribute of an existing resource. When the Save button is clicked after uploading a new file the source file, content type, and extension are automatically updated with information related to the new file. Clicking Cancel after saving a new file will not cause the resource to revert to the old file. You may want to copy the original file first; because once a new file is uploaded the original file is not retrievable. Also be aware that changing a resource from one file type to another may cause problems related to the HTML used to reference the resource. For example, broken images will appear if you change a resource from an image to a word document and the resource was referenced in an IMG HTML tag.
The standard left hand sub navigation now includes styles identifying the level of sub navigation. This can be used with a custom cascading style sheet to apply different styles to each level of sub navigation. All sub navigation contains the cpsty_SubNavigation and cpsty_SubNavigationText styles controlled by Design / Styles / Sub Nav. Additionally, the first level of sub navigation contains cpsty_SubNavigation1 and cpsty_SubNavigation1Text, and levels 2 – n contain a similar class where 1 is replaced with current sub navigation level number.
We’ve added Auto Number to the default list of searchable fields in all client console module grid views. Adding this field to the default searchable fields means that it will only apply to modules that do not have a custom list of searchable fields. Searchable fields are customized using module configuration which can be set in Master / CMS (Modules and/or Navigation), or the client console (Page Options / Module Configuration).
The image resizing class used for both file based and resource image resizes has been rewritten. It is no longer dependent upon Microsoft’s thumbnail generation method. Resized images are no longer blurry and now render transparent GIFs properly except in browsers that do not support transparent PNGs (like IE6). We have also included a file system based cache to reduce the system resources required for image resizing and the risk of denial of service (DOS) attacks.
The ability to control the length of time that the users is not allowed to submit the form has been added to forms management. This can be controlled using the Prevent Multiple Submissions, Intervals, and Interval Value attributes.
The Forms Management / Dashboard modules have been completed.
New beta Ad Banners reports have been added under Ad Tracking, but have not yet been stress tested.

Banners Per Announcer (HTML, Excel, CSV)
Banner Expiring Dates (HTML, Excel, CSV)
Zone Activity (HTML, Excel, CSV, Charts)
Banners Activity Per Zone (HTML, Excel, CSV, Charts)

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