7 Oracle Discussions Release Notes

This chapter summarizes release note issues associated with Oracle Discussions. This chapter contains the following sections:

Section 7.1, "What is Oracle Discussions?"
Section 7.2, "Resolved Issues in Oracle Discussions"
Section 7.3, "Known Limitations and Workarounds in Oracle Discussions"
Section 7.4, "Known Issues in Oracle Discussions"
Section 7.5, "Globalization Issues in Oracle Discussions"
Section 7.6, "Documentation Issues in Oracle Discussions"

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This document was updated on February 23, 2007. Additional updates and new information can be found in Note 415183.1 on http://metalink.oracle.com.

7.1 What is Oracle Discussions?

Oracle Discussions is a new component 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.

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New Oracle Discussions features can be obtained by applying 10.1.2.x Cumulative Patches. These new features are listed in Section 2.5, "Oracle Discussions Cumulative Patches".

7.2 Resolved Issues in Oracle Discussions

Table 7-1 lists resolved issues in Oracle Discussions.

Table 7-1 Resolved Issues in Oracle Discussions

Description	Resolved In	Bug Number
Editing a message and clipping a topic required some manual configuration before it would work.	10.1.2	4483875
Discussion forums marked for public access could not be accessed in an e-mail desktop client through IMAP.	10.1.2	4494161
The name and the display name of Announcement forums were set using the default system locale and were not customizable by the Discussions Administrators.	10.1.2	4436753, 4333852, 4436753
When items of an RSS feed were related to Oracle Discussions messages, the item description would contain the message content only if the message was formatted in plain text. RSS items for HTML-based messages included the title and link but no description.	10.1.2	4458662
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 was also displayed.	10.1.2	4486425

7.3 Known Limitations and Workarounds in Oracle Discussions

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: If you reply or forward a message that has inline images, the inline images in the body of the original message will be broken.
SSL configuration: When enabling SSL for Oracle Collaboration Suite, users may need to explicitly agree to trust the server certificate to have successful integration with the Presence server. For more information, see Oracle Collaboration Suite Security Guide.

7.4 Known Issues in Oracle Discussions

The following table lists known issues in Oracle Discussions.

Note:

Fixes for known issues may be available in cumulative patches. For a list of available cumulative patch downloads and their installation order, see note 406284.1 on http://metalink.oracle.com. Each cumulative patch includes a README.html file that lists all bugs fixed.

See Also:

Chapter 2, "Oracle Collaboration Suite Cumulative Patch Release Notes", for information on cumulative patch new features and known issues.

Table 7-2 Known Issues in Oracle Discussions

Description	Action	Bug Number
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
Multiple-byte content in message attachments appears indecipherable in the Search Results page.	The indecipherable text is not displayed when a user clicks the message to open it.	4394283
Forum or category creation fails when full path of new container is too long.	None	4409991
Reply fails when the depth of replies exceeds maximum size of references header.	None	4529099
Moving a thread should clean up favorites and subscriptions for users who do not have access to the new destination forum.	Users must manually clean up their favorites and subscriptions.	4637376
When messages are clipped from a moved thread, unpredictable behavior can result.	None	4672759
Replying to a rich text message using the plain text editor shows html code.	None	4574783
Multiple-domain installations against the same mailstore database can lead to unpredictable behavior.	Install different Oracle Discussions domains into different mailstore databases.	4681847
After saving modifications in the Global Membership page of the Administration tab, users with Oracle Mail domain administrator or system administrator roles will not automatically receive Discussions "Global Administrator" roles upon login.	Workaround 1: Use the Global Membership page in the Oracle Discussions Administration tab to add and revoke "Global Administrators". Workaround 2: Add the following line to `$APPTIER_ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/OC4J_OCSClient/config/oc4j.properties` oracle.discussions.settings.sys.make_email_admin_td_admin.enabled=true	4699551
After a user copies or tries to move a message out of a Discussions shared folder using an IMAP client, that message can no longer be retrieved using Oracle Discussions.	Using your IMAP client, delete the message from the destination folder. Next, empty the Trash folder, and then compact folders. Finally, restart the Oracle Mail application housekeeper process.	4717747

7.5 Globalization Issues in Oracle Discussions

The following table lists Oracle Discussions globalization issues.

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Description	Action	Bug Number
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.	Encode messages with the UTF-8 character set.	4428260, 4428397, 4424485
With Firefox, attachment names containing special characters sometimes cannot be uploaded.	Use another supported browser, such as Internet Explorer.	4511262
Long attachment names containing multiple-byte characters are truncated on download.	Use less than 15 multiple-byte characters when naming attachments.	4688955

7.6 Documentation Issues in Oracle Discussions

The Oracle Discussions conceptual online help in the Application Server Control for Collaboration Suite is missing (4480257). See the Oracle Discussions Web client online help for conceptual information about Oracle Discussions.

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