Ovidentia 6.0.0

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:35

Date: 26 September 2006

New functions:

Corrected bugs:

• Approbations: Impossible to create or to modify an approbation schema due to a PHP error.
• Charts: Impossible to create a chart due to a PHP error.
• Search: If the user has only rights for the Ovidentia directory then a search in this directory gives no result.
• Articles: Articles with a later publication date are shown.
• Articles: A topic is visible even when the user has no "view" rights for the topic.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.8.9

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:35

Date: 18 September 2006

New functions:

• Miscellaneous: When magic_quotes_gpc and register_globals are both On then backslashes appear in the submitted texts.
• Search: A search in the directories results in an SQL error or no result at all.
• Forums: The creation of a forum is impossible due to an SQL error.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.8.8

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:34

Date: 01 September 2006

New functions:

• Groups: When you click on a group followed by a click on the link "New group" then the parent of the group to be created will be initialized with the name of the previously selected group.
• Approbations: On the form for the creation of an approbation schema the full name of the approver is shown (user, function, groupe).
• Articles: The variable template babtpl_topicid is made available in the topicsdisplay.html file.
• Delegations: The possibility to associate a color with a delegation is introduced. The color code can be recuperated by OvML in the OVDelegationColor variable.
• Calendars: For resource calendars the right "Who can add update events if he is the author" is added.
• File uploads: The variable $babFileContentDisposition is added to the config.php file. This variable specifies how the upload of a file will be handled:
  
  • 1 : inline
  • 2 : attachment
  • 0 : is before

Corrected bugs:

• Charts: JavaScript error when you access the directory from the entities list of the chart.
• Profiles: SQL error when you create a profile where the name has a single quote in it.
• Articles: The number of articles published since the last connection of a user does not take into account the publication if it is programmed for a later date.
• Delegations: It is possible to create a delegation without a group to administer.
• File manager: Impossible to upload two or more files at the same time.
• File manager: PHP warning when you try to restore a file from the trash bin.
• WYSIWYG editor: The file list contains the files from the trash bin.
• Delegations: With MySQL 5 it is impossible to create a delegation.
• Authentication: If the LDAP authentication is used and the user password has uppercase characters the connection is refused.
• Publishing of articles: On the form for the addition of files to the article empty parentheses are shown aside the label "Attachments".
• Security: It is possible to execute a PHP file outside the extension module space, at any place on the server.
• Publishing of articles: The system shows the topic even when no article of the topic can be modified.
• File manager: SQL error while approving a file when statistics are activated.
• FAQ: impossible to create a new FAQ.
• Miscellaneous: Sometimes there is an error in the displayed date.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.8.7

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:34

Date: 28 July 2006

New functions:

• Calendar: If only one calendar is selected the name of the calendar is shown in the page title.
• Update: The prerequisites for a version update are shown on the "version" page for the administrator.

Corrected bugs:

• Articles: The category and topic lists in the administration section are not ordered alphabetically.
• Update: You get error messages when there are no extension modules installed.
• Indexation: Spelling error in the message for IP check.
• Calendar: The "location" field is not shown on the print form (detailed view).
• Search: SQL error in search when forums are not activated or when no forums are available for search.
• User options: The options page for mail is not usable, a blocking error message is shown.
• Authentication: Sometimes an authentication error can put a connected user in the wrong groups and delegations are not valid.

Known bugs in this version:

• Delegation: Impossible to create a delegation.

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.8.6

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:33

Date: 28 July 2006

New functions:

• Mail: Management interface for mails not yet sent for the administrator.
• OvML: Optional variable userid=" " has been added to the OCIfUserMemberOfGroups container. This variable allows to test if a given user is a member of groups.
• Update: The change of version has no redirection anymore. A better check for prerequisites and errors avoids most current problems.
• Configuration: Possibility to de-activate the IP check associated with the session.
• Web services: Integration of web services.

Corrected bugs:

• Search: When you have a search in a topic, the topic category is not known. This is even worse when more than one topic have the same name.
• Approbation: You can not delete an approbation schema when there still is a refused approbation instance for the approbation schema.

Known bugs in this version:

• Taks management: The link "Task management" stays available in the user section independent of the access rights.

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.8.5

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:33

Date: 26 June 2006

New functions:

• File manager: You can now upload more than one file simultaneously.
• Publication: You can now attach multiple files simultaneously.
• OvML: Two functions have been added to allow to read and write a cookie (OFSetCookie and OFGetCookie).
• ACL: The name of the right is displayed when there is only one right.

Corrected bugs:

• Statistics: Acces to the second age of folders is not handled correctly. You get the downloads page.
• Summary: The events to come are not shown when you click the link "Summary".
• Indexation: After an update the link "Indexation"does not appear on the "Administration"section.
• OvML: When you use the containers OCFileNext and OCFilePrevious PHP warnings are displayed.
• Summary: New events are not shown, PHP notices are displayed and the variable {title} is not interpreted.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.8.4

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:33

Date: 13 June 2006

New functions:

• Articles: SQL error while creating a new topic.
• File manager: SQL error while creating a new folder.

Corrected bugs:

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.8.3

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 03 October 2006 05:32

Date: 12 June 2006

New functions:

• Vacation: For vacations the sender of the e-mail message to the requesting person (accepted or refused) is the last user who gives an approbation.
• Search: A space character in the "search" field is considered equal to "OR". If the option "Exclude" is used with the advanced search then results will be excluded that have the word to be excuded in the same field as the word searched for. The "AND" option allows you to search for both expressions in the same field.
• LDAP Directories: It is now possible to specify the directory type in order to get a better encoding of the accentuated characters.
• LDAP Authentication: For Active Directory you can specify options in the config.php file:
  $babAdLdapOptions = array(array(LDAP_OPT_PROTOCOL_VERSION, 3), array(LDAP_OPT_REFERRALS, 3));

Corrected bugs:

• Forums: When you create a new contribution the title is lost when there is an error.
• Directories: If the option "Allow user update personal information" has been activated for the Ovidentia directory the user has access to the modification form but the modification is not taken into account ("Access denied").
• Calendar: An anonymous user with access to the agenda has the possibility to configure the callback or to add personal notes.
• Calendar: When you modify an event (description, place, ...) no notification is sent to the users.
• Authentication: It is impossible to log off using IIS server and MSIE web browser.
• Publication: If you want to modify an article the system presents the topics, including those that have no articles.
• Publication: When you create a new article the language is not initialized with the language defined for the topic.
• Directories: When a contact is attached to a group directory the contact is not shown on the list of contacts after the action is executed (the list is not reloaded).
• Delegations: It is impossible to create in two different delegations an element ( folder, topic, chart ) with the same name.
• Search: The search with the option "Exclude" does not work correctly.
• Publication: In the list of comments for modification of an article, the column "Comment" has been renamed "Reason of the modification".
• File manager: A file in the trash bin can be downloaded from the new events list.
• Statistics: The link "Ovidentia functions" has disappeared from the dashboard.
• File manager: In versioning some action names have been changed.
• Search: A search in the directories returns results coming from group drectories for which the user has no read acces.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.8.2

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 11 July 2006 10:01

Date: 21 May 2006

New functions:

• Administration: The administrator can now specify if users can list all registered users or only users who are members of their groups.
• Mail: The property "Sender" of the phpMailer class is now handled by Ovidentia.
• Search: When the target of a search is a function (such as files, articles, ...) then the list of returned objects is ordered alphabetically.
  

Corrected bugs:

• Vacations: When you take a vacation starting with an afternoon and then repeat this for multiple days of the same type (i.e. the afternoon from April 5th up to and including April 12th) then on the planning the last day is considered as "not used days" while this days has been attributed.
• Articles: In the parameters of an article when you want to fix the publication date, you can click this item in order to open a pop up calendar. Once the date has been clicked, the date of submission was retained.
• Search: In the search result the words with accentuated letters corresponding with words searched for are not highlighted in the search result.
• Options: Accessing the user options results in an error of PHP type "notice".
• Calendar: If an event is in conflict with another event a PHP notice type error is displayed.
• FAQ: The link "Access" has been renamed "Rights".
• Forums: The link "Who can contribute" has been renamed "Who can initiate a thread".

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.8.1

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 11 July 2006 09:57

Date: 25 April 2006

New functions:

• OvML: Possibility to include a template variable as a parameter of an OvML file using the following syntax:
  { $OVML(my_file.html, "param1"="var1" }.
  If var1 is defined in the template the parser will replace it by its value, else the parser will use the value "var1".
• Authentication: When authentication is configured on LDAP the administrator has the possibility to specify that for some users the authentication will be done on the Ovidentia database and not on LDAP.
• Calendar: Options have been added at site level allowing the administrator to configure the days to be displayed as well as the first day of the week for anonymous users.
• File manager: Mime extension sxw is taken into account.
• Modules: A check of the version in the addonini.php file is done prior to the deletion of the distribution files.

Corrected bugs:

• Groups: When you change the name of a group, the alphabetic order is not respected anymore.
• Topics: In the description of an article topic the dynamic links ($FILE; $ARTICLE, ...) are not interpreted.
• Directories: The link "Empty" is not displayed.
• Directories: Impossible to delete a directory form (JavaScript error).
• Delegation: When you create an approbation schema by function, the system proposes in the list of charts those that are not created by the delegation.
• Groups: Consultation of the groups that a user adheres to results in the display of PHP notices.
• Sites: Error in the SQL export of the site tables for keys over multiple columns.
• Groups: PHP error (Fatal error: Call to undefined function: getnextgroup()) when, as a delegated administrator, you visualize the members of a group and click the "Modify" button.
• Forums: The link sent with the notification e-mail does not allow to increment the visualization counter of the contribution.
• Delegation: When creating a group, the delegated administrator sees the group that is beneath the delegated group in the tree.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.8.0

Nicolas Bidault - Thu 13 April 2006 04:01

Corrected bugs:

• Rights: When there are many groups the display of the list of groups in the "rights" view is to slow.
• File Manager: When users don't have the right for private storage folders the link to the file manager in the users section is not shown, even when the user has the right to view other shared folders.
• Register: When a user confirms her e-mail address by clicking the link that has been sent by e-mail, a message alerts her that she can now connect but there is no connection form shown. The user has to use the "Login" link.
• Add-on module: If an add-on module calls the function bab_register_user() then after the return of the function the environment variables for the add-on module are lost ($babAddonHtmlPath, ... ).

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.7.9

Nicolas Bidault - Thu 13 April 2006 03:59

• Improvement of the loading of the pages by a better management of approvals based on staff schemas and the loading of certain sections.
• Due to a bug in IIS the connection is not memorized. To solve this problem add the following parameter to your config.php:
  $babLoginRedirect = false;
  

Corrected bugs:

• Calendar: calendar options are shown even when the user has no access to calendars.
• Calendar: In the "Users" section, the link "Summary" displays the "Upcoming events" part even when there is no event.
• Search: In not-connected mode search retrieves results from directories while anonymous visitors don't have viewing rights for these directories.
• Mail: users with a middle name don't receive e-mails that are send to them using the Ovidentia webmail.
• File Manager: Creation of a non-hidden folder creates nevertheless the hidden folder.
• Articles: Inserted images with a space in their name are not shown anymore.
• Search: With MySQL version 5.0 a search in the directories or OvML using the directories results in a MySQL error.
• Directories: The right "Empty" is presented for group directories or the Ovidentia directory.
• Directories: For the modification of a directory form, when a field is a dropdown list and if the value of the field contains accentuated characters, the initialization is not correct.
• Forums: The link that is sent by e-mail to users when a new contribution is published forces the user to authenticate her even when the forum is visible for anonymous users.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.7.8

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 07 March 2006 10:41

• Directories: Possibility to save the export function configuration per user.
• Directories: Possibility to attach a user to a directory or detach a user from a directory.
• Directories: More granular rights management (Who can see, modify, add, delete, import, export, attach, detach users for a directory).
• Directories: When you create a user in a directory and the user is already registered in Ovidentia the system proposes to attach (or not) the user to the directory.
• Approbations: It is possible to configure article topics or forums in order to approve automatically the contributor if he is a member of the first step in the approbation schema.

Corrected bugs:

• Search: A search in the directories does not return a result while there are data in the directories fulfilling the search mask.
• File manager: If the file manager has only one folder and this folder is hidden, the link "File manager" is shown in the user section while this link should not appear.
• Vacations: Faulty handling of right attribution as a function of "all vacation types", "all personnel" and "specific vacation type".
• Vacations: The list of beneficiaries of a right for which the type does not appear in any vacation type is empty, even when the right has been attributed to all personnel.
• OvML: <OF...> is handled before <OV...> which results in some variables that are not initialized.
• Calendar: When conflicting events are shown and a conflicting event has been marked private, the content of the private event is displayed.
• Calendar: When an event repetition of 2 months or 2 weeks has been selected, the event is nevertheless repeated each month or each week.
• Directories: If OvML is used to display a directory form and you select the users with a name starting with the letter A, and you click on a form, this form is displayed correctly using the OvML. But as soon as you use another letter the OvML isn't used anymore to display the form.
• Directories: Sort order of users on their e-mail field results in an SQL error.
• Directories: SQL error if an additional field contains a single quote.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.7.7

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 07 March 2006 10:38

• Forums: Possibility to give the number of consignees per mail for notification e-mails.

Corrected bugs:

• Articles: Impossible to erase an article in the archives.
• Groups: Users are shown twice in the list that allows the selection of a group manager.
• Vacations: Faulty handling of right attribution as a function of "all vacation types", "all personnel" and "specific vacation type".

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.7.6

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 07 March 2006 10:35

• Forums: Possibility to give the number of consignees per mail for notification e-mails.

Corrected bugs:

• Search: SQL error when searching in directories when using only a field in the directory.
• Groups: Users are shown twice in the list that allows the selection of a group manager.
• Vacations: Color problem in the planning for vacation requests.
• Vacations: Some rights are not shown in the first phase of a vacation request.
• Approbations: Update of an approbation schema results in an SQL error and afterwards the approbations based on this schema don't function anymore.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.7.5

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 17 January 2006 16:23

• Forums: Possibility to notify by e-mail one or more groups when a contribution is added.

Corrected bugs:

• Publishing articles: If you want to publish a new article an error message is displayed in the window for the selection of the topic and the images are not visible.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.7.4

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 17 January 2006 16:23

• Organization charts: The button that allows hiding the left part of the window now makes it possible to enlarge the left part. This is particularly useful when the entity of an organization chart is linked to a group and the name of the group is too long.
• OvML: A variable for the description has been added to the OCCalendars container.
• LDAP authentication: LDAP field names are forced to lowercase.
• Installation: A message has been added with a link to the installation procedure when the portal is accessed without prior installation procedure launch.
• Delegation: When groups are not shown with the restriction of an article, an explicit message is displayed.
• OvML: In the OCDbDirectories the possibility to filter the list of directories by type (directories attached to groups) has been added.
• Search: The choice of fields to display as the result of a search is a site wide function. With delegation this function can be modified.
• OvML: An attribute calendarid has been added to the OCCalendars container.
• Article publishing: Selection of categories/topics in tree layout for publishing or modification of articles.
• Vacations:
  1.    A page "options" has been added to the administration->vacation: Portal administrators will be able to deifne this new option: "Delegated administrators can create vacation requests for the members of their entity and sub-entities: Yes or No".
  2.    Modification of the interface for the delegated administrators on the members list: Requests submitted by delegated administrators will be submitted to the validation workflow. For another user the functioning of the request will be handled the same way as a request defined by a vacations manager.
• Vacations:
  1.    It is possible to not take into account a right for the pre-initialization of the days on the list at the second page of a request for vacations, option on the right of vacation dropdown list yes/no.
  2.    Not take into account negative numbers on the first page in the total.
• Vacations: Change of the label in creation/modification of the rights for vacation. On the interface for creation/modification of vacations, the label "Type of right" has been changed into "Nature of right" in order to avoid confusion with the notion of type of right.
• Forums: Possibility to personalize the notification e-mails.

Corrected bugs:

• Calendar: When sending reminder e-mails some variables such as $DIRECTORYID are not initialized.
• Composing an article: At the message "Are you sure you want to submit this article?", cancel still submits the article.
• Mail: it is impossible to download some attached files.
• Search: When a search is done on the complete site the display of the results from the add-on modules is wrong while the number of found results is correct.
• File manager: The manager of a shared folder can't delete the old versions of a file.
• Directories: At export of a directory and when additional fields are present, columns in the export file are mixed up.
• Statistics: SQL error while updating the statistics.
• Articles: In the publishing realm if you click the title of an article that has links of type $FILE , ... , then a JavaScript error occurs.
• OvML: The OCRecentComments does not take into account the read rights.
• Approbation: Comments from approvers are not shown with carriage returns.
• Portal slogan: SQL error if you try to replace a slogan by a slogan containing a single quote character.
• Vacation: For a rule for vacations with the condition outside the period the requests outside the period for the right are taken into account.
• Delegation: When a group is created in a delegation and if you want to appoint a manager for the group then the user list is empty.
• OvML: The OvFaqSubCategories container generates an SQL error.
• Language files: improvements and corrections.
• Public calendars: Saturday and Sunday are not shown on public agendas when users are not authenticated on the portal (anonymous users).
• FAQ: When you want to go into edit mode for a FAQ a modification form is presented to you.
• OvML: For the OCRecentArticles container the attribute categoryid does not function correctly.
• Calendar: Reminder by e-mail notification doesn't work.
• FAQ: When you have multiple FAQ, the printing of the FAQ does not show in the popup window the questions/answers of the FAQ being read.
• Directory: The directory form for a user that is "deactivated" is still shown.
• Vacations: If during the request for vacation for a third person you try to change the year or month of the calendar, you loose the data about that person.
• Vacations: When a request for vacation is deleted the approbation instance for this request is not deleted as well.
• Approbation: Approvers don't get a notification e-mail that requests are waiting for their approval.
• Vacation: The list with the requests for vacation as a delegated administrator in an empty entity results in an SQL error.
• Statistics: There is no title on the statistics page at the user's side.
• Directories: The photo field is not available at creation time, but it is available for update.
• OvML: A problem exists concerning read rights for the OCRecentPosts container.

Known bugs in this version:

• Publishing articles: If you want to publish a new article an error message is displayed in the window for the selection of the topic and the images are not visible.

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.7.3

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 17 January 2006 16:22

• File manager: A notification message is shown while uploading a file when the folder is not restricted by approbation.
• Directory: SQL error when you modify an additional field and its value contains a single quote character.
• Site options: SQL error when the name of the site contains a single quote character.
• FAQ: The links inside the page on the named anchors don't allow the visualization of the question.
• Approbation: The approbation page of the user section stays locked on site with heavy calendar usage.
• Table export: The table export function hits the configuration's memory limit.

Corrected bugs:


Known bugs in this version:

• Site options: SQL error when you modify the site slogan if the site slogan contains a single quote.
• Directory: With the export of a directory the column names do not correspond with their content.

Functions under development:

• Articles publishing: A new interface for the selection of the topics.

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Ovidentia 5.7.2

Nicolas Bidault - Tue 17 January 2006 16:11

• Vacations: When a right is added on the list of vacation types the behavior of the "all types" has been modified. It now matches all vacation types of the dropdown list. The entry "all employees" has been added.
• FAQ: The "print" tab has been replaced by the "display" tab. The print function is available on the display page.

• Category management: After you create a new subcategory you return to the root of the categories.
• File manager: When you want to move a file in a shared folder to a new shared folder that was just now created you get an error message and the file is not moved.
• Calendars: There is a JavaScript  bug in the popup window "detailed view" if the list is empty.
• File manager: There is no message to inform the user that his file is submitted to an approbation schema.
• Calendars: For agendas with approbation schemas a message is sent before validation and not after the event has been approved.
• Approbation: All contributions that have not been validated yet by the former approver are not visible any more when the approver is changed in a nominative schema.
• Administration delegation: Delegated administrators see the link "users" in the administration section even if the list is empty.
• File manager: Problem displaying the approbation icon when an approbation schema is used with at least two users.
• Mail: Using the function "Reply to all" the addresses for all the destinations are separated by space instead of commas.
• Directories: The import and export tags are not shown.
• Directories: "You must complete required fields" is displayed at the top of the site instead of only in the body of the page when you import users into the directory and required fields are missing.
• Calendars: The place is not shown in the preview of an event in view per week or view per day.
• Vacation: The digit 1 is shown at the top of the site when you make a request for vacations in a period that already has vacation days taken before.
• File manager: Carriage return is not allowed for the description in the popup windows for file view.
• Search: Search in directories does not complete if the directory size is important and contains additional fields because the processing time for the page is too long.
• Directories: When an OvML view is used for an individual's form, the same OvML popup is used also in the management part.
• Mail: Problem opening an attached document in PDF format using Internet Explorer.
• WYSIWYG editor: Images are not displayed if their file name has accented characters.
• Password change: In the interface to change the user password for administrators and in the user options there is a validation missing. Passwords should be at least 6 characters.
• OvML: error on container <OCDbDirectoryMembers> if one of the fields contains a single quote.
• OvML: there is an error if container <OCDbDirectoryMembers> is used more than once on the same page.
• Vacations: There is a JavaScript error during the modification of a vacation request spread over two years.
• Mail: Fields To and CC are not filled in the summary of the message when you click Reply, Reply to all or Forward.
• Mail: In the list of mails the name of the sender is truncated when it is too long.
• Directories: In the Options of Search the name of the fields is not translated.
• Directories: In the export with csv format, the first line does not correspond with the exported data.
• Indexation: in the modules that use indexation bye "swish-e" the words "or", "and" or "not" are not functioning with search.
• Directories: The link create by function in the Ovidentia contents does not work with group directories.
• Vacations: On the first page of a request for vacation not all rights available or shown on the list.
• Search: There is an SQL error in search if in a query you can find the same file as well by one of its metadata as by one of its fields (name or description).
• Mail: The order of the messages in the list of messages is indicated by ASCII characters.
• Rights management: Modifications for group sets are not taken into account immediately for already connected users.

Known bugs in this version:

• There is an SQL error when you have a single quote in the name of the site.

Functions under development:

Thanks to Ludo Rousseau / Koblix for the translation

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Ovidentia 5.7.1

Nicolas Bidault - Sun 23 October 2005 13:31

Date: 19 October 2005

New functions :

• File manager: Possibility to hide a shared folder in the file manager for users that don't have modification rights.
• Templates: New variables are added to the topcatdisplay.html file.

Corrected bugs :

• Update: The Ovidentia update doesn't work from a version lower than 5.7.0 when you have delegated administrators.
• Modification of directory forms: It is impossible to modify a directory form when the fields firstname and lastname are not modifiable in the options.
• Search: In the main search of Ovidentia you can retrieve personal notes not belonging to the current user.
• Directories: The management link is shown even when the user doesn't have access to the directory forms with modification rights.
• Agenda options: When a personal agenda is shared, the addition of users is not taken into account.

Known bugs in this version : 

Functions under development :

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Ovidentia 5.7.0

Nicolas Bidault - Mon 17 October 2005 07:30

Date: 5 October 2005

New functions:

Corrected bugs:

• Notifications by e-mail: some notification e-mails have links that don't open a new window.
• Organization charts: In the popup window for the selection of individuals for entity membership the links needed to order by columns don't work.
• Options for topics: The label "Notify group members by mail" is not correct. Registering: When you choose the option to register with or without validation, the message "Your account will be activated only after validation" is displayed.
• Groups: it is impossible to create a subgroup while you are a delegated administrator.
• Directory forms: There is no confirmation when a directory form is deleted.
• Vacations: The drop down list with the days of the month for a vacation period with fixed dates does not allow to select day 31.
• Directories: Variables Count and Index don't work with the container OCDbDirectoryEntryFields.
• Vacations: When you activate the directory with the registered users a blank line is shown in the list of directories in the administration.
• Directory forms: During the update of a directory form the value of the fields are not stored, the " character cuts the value.
• Vacations: When a vacation is requested the first click on the planning creates a period instead of defining the start of the period.
• Users list: With a delegation and when a user is a member of more than one group, the user appears more than once in the users list in the administration section.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.6.6

Nicolas Bidault - Mon 17 October 2005 07:28

Date: 14 September 2005

New functions:

• Search in directories: It is possible to configure columns that will be displayed for a search on all directories

Corrected bugs:

• Directory forms: When the "photo" field is not modifiable the box "delete" is nevertheless displayed.
• Directory forms: When the field "photo" is deactivated it still is shown.
• Vacations: When you modify a vacation request the notification mail does not specify that this concerns a modification.
• Delegations: Delegated administrators see the icons for the places of the other delegations and for the sets of groups.
• Delegations: The update program doesn't handle the groups created within a delegation as subgroups.
• Groups: It is possible to place a group at the same level as the "registered users" group.
• Groups: On the update forms for a group or a set of groups there is no indication that this form performs a creation or an update.
• Set of groups: There is no confirmation when deleting a set of groups.
• Set of groups: Access rights are not deleted when deleting a set of groups.
• Set of groups: The name of the groups listed on the list of groups for a set of groups doesn't give a hint on its position on the tree.
• Groups: On the list of the sets of groups the display of the number of groups doesn't handle the single group.
• Groups: It is impossible to create a subgroup with the same name as an already existing subgroup in another node.
• Agendas: JavaScript error when you try to select all check boxes in the agendas for resources and public agendas.
• WYSIWYG editor: The insert window for tables has an English user interface even when the user selected French as his user interface.
• Vacations: The number of days calculated for a period is wrong if the period contains a day with time change.
• Search: Search on additional fields in directories doesn't work.
• Directories: Directory listings are not ordered alphabetically.
• Vacations: In the request lists accessible for delegated administrators the multi-page navigation doesn't work.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.6.5

Nicolas Bidault - Mon 17 October 2005 07:25

Date: 31 August 2005

New functions:

Corrected bugs:

• Organization chart: Groups are not displayed while creating an entity.
• Groups management: It is not possible to move a sub-tree.
• Sections order: A "Warning" message is displayed when you save the sections ordering.
• Directories: Carriage reruns are not handled correctly for multi-line directory fields.
• Access rights: The new access rights functions are not taken into consideration while displaying or updating organization charts.
• Group options: Modifications in the group options are not applied as long as the session has not been terminated.
• Profiles: The profiles are not shown in the user options.
• Agendas: Modifications to the access rights for the usage of the personnel agendas are not effective until after the session has been re-initialized.
• Options of an article: The name of the groups is not displayed on the form to restrict access to an article.
• Access rights form: When all group check boxes are cleared on an access rights form, this form will not be taken into account.
• Delegation groups: It is impossible to create a group immediately below the delegation group when you are in a delegation. The delegation group is not in the list of parent groups.
• Set of groups: Sets of groups are shown in the delegations.
  Search: SQL error in search.

Known bugs in this version:

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.6.4

Nicolas Bidault - Mon 17 October 2005 07:24

Date: 23 August 2005

New functions: 

• Parameters for the user's options page: the option "The user is allowed to modify her language parameters" is added to the site configuration.
• Parameters for the user's options page: the option "The user is allowed to modify her skin" is added to the site configuration.
  Parameters for the user's options page: the option "The user is allowed to modify her ate formatting" is added to the site configuration.
• Parameters for the user's options page: the option "The user is allowed to modify her unavailability status" is added to the site configuration.
• Display of files in OvML: size and date of the uploaded files are added as OvML variables.
• Modification of group management: Groups are shown as a tree. It is possible to create sets of groups.
• Modification of the delegation function: Only one group can be associated with a delegation, but multiple delegations can be created on the same group.  It is possible to delegate the group "Ovidentia users".
• Site options: Modification of the presentation for site options.

Corrected bugs: 

• Configuration of LDAP authentication: Required fields are not flagged with a red asterisk.
• Search: Search on optional fields in the directories doesn't work.
• LDAP authentication: The administrator is not notified that the XML module is missing when the authentication is configured although the XML module is required.
• Group directories: Registering new directories through the groups' options suppresses the access to the other directories on the administrator's list.
• Modification of an individual's data: The modification of the individual directory form doesn't work when the user doesn't have update rights for the directory.
• Vacation management: The addition of a user in the vacations doesn't work when the administrator wants to use the filter by letter.
• OvML: A request is displayed when using the "OCCalendarResourceEvents" container.
• Modification of directory form: The lists with multiple choices are not ordered alphabetically.
• Agenda sharing: When a user is deleted, the eventual agenda sharing are not deleted.
• Agenda sharing: The options for agenda sharing are displayed even while the user does not have a personnel agenda.
• Agenda options: The options for days worked are displayed even while the site options don't allow them.

Known bugs in this version:

• Delegation: Creation of sub-groups is impossible. 

Functions under development:

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Ovidentia 5.6.3

Nicolas Bidault - Thu 04 August 2005 18:59

Date: July 29, 2005

New functions:

• Improved vacations export function: vacations can be exported in CSV format with the detailed vacation types on each line.
• Visibility of planning: delegated managers for vacations can authorize members of their organization chart's entity as well as members of sub-entities to view the personnel's vacation planning.
• Directory: a "print" button has been added to the filing card view of the directory.
• Calendar: A list of calendars with approbation has been added below the selection form.

Solved bugs:

• Register user: on PHP5 servers a blocking error occurred while registering a new user.
• Delete a calendar: SQL error while deleting a resource calendar or a collective calendar.
• Search: articles created by a deleted user are not returned by the search engine.
• Vacations: the personnel listing does not show correctly on 800x600 screens.
• Directory: SQL error while creating a user in the directory of Ovidentia users when the "nickname" field contains a single quote character.
• Vacations: the status filters for the export functions don't work. Choosing a filter has no effect whatsoever.
• OvML: SQL error while using the "OCCalendarCategories" container.
• Vacations: problem showing a half day on the vacation planning. With MS Internet Explorer a full day is displayed.
• Directories: failure of input checking for additional fields in a directory flagged as obligatory.
• Vacations: the program does not allow for the modification of a vacation request if the number of days available is consumed by this request.
• Mail: Ovidentia does not handle optional parameters for IMAP connections on mail servers.
• Site configuration: For a new Ovidentia installation the table containing the site parameters is not correctly initialized. The field "email_confirm" is wrong.
• Calendar: when you change the time scale in a calendar some events time settings become erroneous. The selection of the begin and end hours is not adapted in function of the time scale selected by the user.
• Site configuration: there is an error when you create a holiday with a single quote character in its name.
• Articles: the access restriction for articles does not show the list of groups from which to select.
• Group options: SQL error when a directory is associated with a group that has a single quote in its name.
• Vacations: On the planning the personnel is not alphabetically ordered.
• Publishing on the home pages does not take into account the dates of publication.
• Directories: the export of directories has slashes before single quotes.
• Calendar: the details of events that are shown on the calendar when the mouse is moving over them are displaced if the skin uses an absolute positioning to display the Ovidentia content.
• Directory: if there is an input error on a form of a filing card for a directory the content of the form's fields is restored but single quote characters are preceded by slashes.
• Users list: improved performance for the display of the user list in order to accommodate a very large user base.
• LDAP Directory: when an LDAP directory is displayed, the column "Name" has been split in two columns "Name" and "Firstname" and the list is ordered by name.
• Modules: the list of modules is ordered alphabetically.

Known bugs in this version:

• Calendar: when two calendars have different time scales a search with options does not return anything.
• Articles: the message in the JavaScript popup window is wrong when the topic of an existing article is changed.
• Articles: When you publish an article and you get the message "Are you sure you want to submit this article?" and you click "terminate", to choose "cancel" results in the article being submitted after all.
• Search: with a search in directories the advanced search on specific fields does not work. There are problems when the word we are looking for is in an additional field of the dictionary.

Functions under development:

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