Oracle® Collaboration Suite Release Notes 10g Release 1 (10.1.1) for Linux Part Number B19091-07 |
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This chapter summarizes release note issues associated with Oracle Discussions. This chapter contains the following sections:
Note:
This document was updated on October 7, 2005.Oracle Discussions is a new component in this release of Oracle Collaboration Suite. Oracle Discussions provides users with the ability to create online forums, also referred to as bulletin boards, and to access these forums using a Web browser, e-mail or RSS feeds. Depending on access levels, participants can post messages to the forums or simply browse through them.
Oracle Discussions consists of categories, forums and topics. Categories are created within a root category. Forums are created within a category. Topics are groups of messages within a specific forum.
This section describes known limitations and workarounds in Oracle Discussions.
Distribution lists configured for multiple forums: If more than one forum is configured for integration with the same distribution list (by setting the forum E-Mail Forwarding address to the same Distribution List address), e-mail messages sent to the distribution list will be stored in only one of the those forums.
Workaround: Avoid associating more than one forum to the same Distribution List address.
Message priority configuration: Discussion messages posted by forum moderators are marked as high priority and messages posted by forum writers are marked with normal priority. Message priority setting is not configurable.
Moving/deleting favorite topics: Favorite topics are cached during a user's session. If a moderator deletes or moves a user's favorite topic while the user's session is active, an error is reported when the user tries to access a favorite topic. At that point, the user's favorite list will be refreshed.
Category writers' roles: Category writers are automatically forum writers for all forums created within the parent category. However, they are not displayed as forum writers on the Create Forum page. They do appear as forum writers after the forum is created.
Editing and replying to messages: Editing or replying to a message that was received through e-mail and that includes inline images breaks the inline images in the edited message and in the reply to that message if that reply includes the body of the original message.
The following table lists known issues in Oracle Discussions.
Table 6-1 Known Issues in Oracle Discussions
Description | Action | Bug Number |
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Editing a message and clipping a topic requires some manual configuration before it will work. |
Using SQLPlus, log into the Mail store database and execute the following two commands under the ES_MAIL schema:
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4483875 |
Discussion forums marked for public access cannot be accessed in an e-mail desktop client through IMAP. |
Use the Oracle Discussions Web client to access these forums. |
4494161 |
The name and the display name of Announcement forums are set using the default system locale and are not customizable by the Discussions Administrators. |
None |
4436753, 4333852, 4436753 |
When items of an RSS feed are related to Oracle Discussions messages, the item description will contain the message content only if the message is formatted in plain/text. RSS items for HTML-based messages include the title and link but no description. |
None |
4458662 |
In Mozilla Firefox, while composing or editing a message using the rich text editor, the mouse cursor is initially not visible after the page has loaded. |
Start entering the message text and the cursor will appear. |
4418151 |
After a message is edited, users are not able to search the message by its new content. Searches will still match the old message body even if the search result displays the new message body. |
None |
4496405 |
When performing s search by keyword, the search result page shows the part of the message that matches the queried content. In some cases, for example, when the matched part is at the beginning of the message, the message content type is also displayed. |
None |
4486425 |
Multi-byte content in message attachments appears garbled in the Search Results page. |
The garbled text is not displayed when a user clicks the message to open it. |
4394283 |
The following table lists Oracle Discussions globalization issues.
Table 6-2 Globalization Issues in Oracle Discussions
Description | Action | Bug Number |
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Messages encoded with the EUC-KR, HZ-GB-2312, SHIFT-JIS character sets are not handled correctly and may be displayed as squared characters when posted to Discussion forums via e-mail. |
None |
4428260, 4428397, 4424485 |
With Firefox, attachment names containing special characters sometimes cannot be uploaded. |
Use another supported browser, such as Internet Explorer. |
4511262 |