SobekCM Version 4.8.8 Release Notes

 

Full release notes for version 4.8.8 (and version 4.8.8B) of the SobekCM system, released on May 6th, 2015.

SobekCM Version 4.8.8 Release Notes

• Item-Level SobekCM Engine REST APIs
  • Added first item-level engine endpoints based on the BriefItemInfo class.
    • One endpoint returns just the citation
    • Second endpoint also includes all the files and table of contents
  • Added a large number of brief item mapping classes to map from the SobekCM_Item to the BriefItemInfo classes.
  • Mapping is configurable via the configuration file for the mapping sets
  • Added a new random item API for selecting a random item from the instance
  • Added endpoints to serve XML ( mods, dc, and marc ) and RDF endpoints for the items
• Reorganized REST API endpoints and finished some item-level endpoints
  • REST API endpoint URLs changed to have the protocol last, for easier management
• Automatic code help generation ( see code help )
  • Moved the Sandcastle documentation creation project out
  • Code help is now generated nightly
  • Truncated property names to 50 characters for localization files - was causing a documentation creation error
  • Corrected some errant namespace definitions that became apparent during code documenation creation
  • Other small fixes discovered during code documentation
• Top-level static HTML pages (simple CMS webcontent mode)
  • Changes to the styles of the top-level static HTML pages (for the final code documentation)
  • Updates to add menu to top-level static pages
• Metdata Updates
  • Fixed issues with handling of & in some fields
  • Name as subject was not mapping to MARC correctly, if no name type specified
  • Name as subject was not displaying correctly in description without a full name specified
  • Fixed misspelling on government publication ( terriorial --> territorial )
  • Corrected issue with main entity name not showing correctly if no full name was provided
• Item Viewers
  • Download viewer now used the file name as the link, if the group was not named
  • Update allows the item HTML viewer to load HTML from an external URL. i.e., a source that starts with http:// or https:// or <%BASEURL%> or [ %BASEURL% ] (no spaces)
  • Statement of responsibility note always appears as last note in citation/description now
• Online submission and management of digital resources
  • User's IP address is included in the agreement.txt saved when a license is agreed to while adding a new item online
  • Corrected line in agreement.txt to exclude shibboleth ID if user does not have one
  • Fixed issue adding empty creators in simple creator template ( also caused an error during marc.xml generation)
  • Adding files through page image upload, when pages exist already, behaves better
  • Corrected issue loading the group behaviors template file ( due to new users/default folders)
• Quality Control
  • Corrected some references in QC javascript that caused multiple page move to fail
  • Added some error writing when exceptions caught during QC that may result in references to items being cleared
  • When saving after QC, file count, page count, and total size are now correct
  • QC progress is now saved correctly even if other progresses from the same day exists in different workflows
• Single Item Aggregation Admin
  • Corrected issue when editing an aggregation child page that didn't allow the parent for menu-type visible items to be correctly displayed
  • Correction to allow parent and visibility of existing child pages to be correctly edited
  • Update to start editing child pages in HTML source mode if it has scripts or inputs.
• Single Web Skin Admin
  • Now there are SAVE and SAVE & EXIT buttons, to apply changes but not leave the screen
  • Added links to copy the HTML from the standard header/footers down to the item headers/footers
• Misc
  • Removed the SobekCM_Rest_API project - not used
  • The track item mySobek viewer no longer throws an exception if no scanning equipment was entered
  • Corrected two links on the user's logged in mySobek menu ( account and my library )
  • Corrected height of selected submenus (really only affects child pages menus which show selected menu items in submenuts)
  • Version link under system admin menu now points to sobekrepository, not ufdc

 

SobekCM Version 4.8.8B Release Notes

Two days later, version 4.8.8B wa released with some quick fixes to version 4.8.8

• Corrected issue with (last) division not saving correctly if it was a type that did not allow user to enter name
• Applied CKEditor updateElement() fix to the child pages online editing
• Added text to the possible document types that can be uploaded to aggregations and skins
• Corrected aggregation/skin uploaded document display to include all the possible types (some were missing)
• Set engine encoding to UTF8
• Engine now overrides IIS's errors, so the engine's custom errors can be displayed
• Fixed json endpoint for images used during online html editing. Was including non-image documents, causing a CKEditor error
• Added some error catching on the aggregation services endpoints