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MySource Matrix Developer Newsletter Issue 23
Friday 13th May 2005

covers versions 3.4.2 stable, 3.5.0 development

News

No News Is Good News

There is no general MySource Matrix developer news this week.

New Features

Force Password Change

Added to: 3.5.0 development

A feature has been added to allow system administrators to enforce a mandatory password change period for users. If a user account is placed Up For Review, the user will be forced to change their password before accessing any restricted content. A new system design has been created to force the password change. It may be modified in the same way as the standard login design.

Using the triggering system, a mandatory password change period can be enforced. For example, a rule can be created to force users to change their password after 3 months by configuring a trigger to set a future status to Up For Review for users each time they are made Live. After 3 months the user account will be placed Up For Review and the user will be forced to change their password. At that time, the account will be made Live again and trigger the custom trigger to set a future status for 3 months time.

Design Area Access History

Added to: 3.5.0 development

A new design area has been developed to store and display the last few assets that a user views while accessing the frontend of a site. For example, you could use this design area to display links to the last 5 searches that a user access, or the last 10 products they viewed. The design area will store the ID, access time and URL of each visited asset and can print the assetid, name, short name, link, access time and access count for each. Access time is stored as a timestamp and can be formatted in the admin interface using PHP's date() function formatting syntax.

iCal Date Keywords

Added to: 3.5.0 development

New keyword date formats have been created to allow dates to be printed in iCal format. All assets have received the following new keywords: asset_created_ical asset_updated_ical asset_published_ical asset_status_changed_ical

Calendar events have received an additional two keywords: event_start_time_ical event_end_time_ical

The new keywords will allow you to export your MySource Matrix calendar to Mozilla Calendar or iCal.

Global Search And Replace Improvements

Added to: 3.5.0 development

The global search and replace tool has now been improved to allow individual matched terms to be selected for replacement. Previously, all matching terms within a search result had to be replaced.

Planned Development

Backend Translation (stage 4)

To be added to : 3.5.0
Estimated start date: already in development
Estimated end date : 18th May 2005

Search Exact Phrase Matching

To be added to : 3.5.0
Estimated start date: already in development
Estimated end date : 27th May 2005

A new feature is being added to allow for searches to be performed on phrases rather than just individual words. These changes will probably result in faster overall times for searches due to the new database indexing scheme that must be used.

Metadata Thesaurus Field Improvements

To be added to : 3.5.0
Estimated start date: already in development
Estimated end date : 16th May 2005

The thesaurus metadata field is getting some improvements to allow a user to select multiple terms for the field using the thesaurus browser. The metadata field will be able to be configured to set a maximum number of terms that can be entered. Each term will also show the category lineage from the top of the thesaurus to help editors understand the context of the term.

Upgrading

3.5.0 Development

Run step_02.php: no
Run step_03.php: yes
Run compile_locale.php: yes

Additional queries: No additional queries are required for upgrades.

Additional comments: No additional upgrade steps are required.

New Bugs Added To Bug Tracker

Bug ID Stable Beta Dev Description
615 N - N keyword select dropdown missing from Customised List Position Formats (not confirmed)
616 N - N Relevance weights reset during step_03 (not confirmed)
617 N - N Design loses Text File in Safe Edit (not confirmed)
618 N - N Heading styles shortcut keys not working in WYSIWYG (not confirmed)
619 Y - Y Workflow reminder messages have broken links
620 Y - Y Thesaurus browser popup appears almost off the screen
621 Y - Y Comparison form rule breaks when apostrophe in response
622 Y - Y Adding questions on a fresh install gives attribute not found errors
624 N - Y Asset Listing inserts form tags when no dynamic keywords are used
627 Y - Y Mouseover description popups for calendar events in wrong position
629 N - N When exporting form logs the frontend errors (not confirmed)
Notes:

Bug #614 (Asset Listing root cannot be left blank) was submitted by Karen, but was a duplicate of bug #609.

Bug #628 (Asset listing not using itself as default root node) was submitted by Marcus, but was a duplicate of bug #609.

New Feature Requests Added To Bug Tracker

Bug ID Description
623 Accessibility: AccessKey for Search button
625 Event start/end time keywords in ISO8601 format
626 Release Lock button keyword
630 Message when moving assets

Bugs Fixed In The Bug Tracker

Bug ID Stable Beta Dev Description
520 Y - N Tooltips stops editing contents in bodycopy table columns
521 Y - Y Tooltips stop editing in bodycopy if you hover too early
598 Y - Y Step Logic "at least" 0 condition(s) must be met in this step
603 Y - Y Table content disappears in table editor window when editing large tables
609 N - Y Asset listing root nodes default
619 Y - Y Workflow reminder messages have broken links
620 Y - Y Thesaurus browser popup appears almost off the screen
621 Y - Y Comparison form rule breaks when apostrophe in response
622 Y - Y Adding questions on a fresh install gives attribute not found errors
624 N - Y Asset Listing inserts form tags when no dynamic keywords are used
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