Version
4.5 MP1
Version
4.5 Patch 1
Version
4.5
Collaboration
4.5 MP1 released June,
2008
Collaboration
4.5 Patch 1 released April,
2008
Collaboration 4.5
released March,
2008
These release notes cover all releases of Collaboration 4.5,
including patches and maintenance packs. For information on a particular
release, go to the appropriate section of these release notes.
Release notes are occasionally updated after the release date.
For the most up-to-date release notes, go to edocs.bea.com.
The BEA licensing framework has been removed from this product entirely. There is no need to obtain or use a license key to enable any functionality in this version.
Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at one.bea.com/support for the latest information on supported BEA products.
At the time of release, Collaboration 4.5 MP1 supports the
following:
- AquaLogic Interaction 6.5, 6.5 MP1
- AquaLogic BPM WorkSpace Extensions 6.1
- AquaLogic Pathways 1.5
- The Office 2007 Plug-in provided in this release is
not compatible with Windows Vista. (Issue #67636)
- In Windows Vista, the Collaboration toolbar does not display when opening an Excel document from a WebFolder. This only occurs when opening the document before the Excel application is launched.
WORKAROUND: Launch Excel before opening the document from the WebFolder. (Issue #68603)
- Rebuilding the Collaboration search index creates temporary files on bea\alui\ptcollab\4.5\tmp that are not later removed by the indexing agent. These files need to be manually deleted. (Issue # 69367)
Refer to the Interoperability page in the
Product Center at
one.bea.com/support for the latest information on supported operating
systems, application servers, databases, and browsers.
At the time of release, Collaboration 4.5 supports the
following:
- Operating
Systems: Windows 2003 Server SP2; Solaris 9, 10; Red Hat
Linux ES 5; SuSe Linux 10; AIX 5L v5.3; HPUX 11i v2, HPUX 11i v3.
- Application
Servers: Tomcat 6.0 (default embedded); BEA WebLogic
Server 10.0.
- Database
Servers: SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 SP2;
Oracle versions 9.2.0.7, 10.1.0.3, and 10.2.0.x, including RAC
configuration.
- Browsers:
Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0; Firefox 2.0; Safari 2.0 and
3.0. Refer to the Installation and Upgrade Guide for BEA
AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration 4.5 for more detailed
browser support information.
- Microsoft
Office (For Office Plug-In): MS Office 2003 on Windows XP
SP2; MS Office 2007 on Windows XP SP2.
Refer to the Interoperability page in the
Product Center at support.plumtree.com for the latest information on
supported BEA products.
At the time of release, Collaboration 4.5 supports the
following:
- AquaLogic Interaction 6.5
- AquaLogic BPM WorkSpace Extensions 6.1
- AquaLogic Pathways 1.5
The following product documentation is available at edocs.bea.com/alui/collaboration/docs45/.
Document |
Document Description |
Installation and Upgrade Guide for
AquaLogic Interaction Collaboration 4.5
|
Describes the prerequisites (such as required software) and procedures for installing Collaboration 4.5 and upgrading to Collaboration 4.5. |
Collaboration 4.5 Installation Worksheet
|
Contains worksheets for installing and
configuring
Collaboration 4.5. |
Administrator Guide for AquaLogic
Interaction Collaboration 4.5
|
Describes how to manage and maintain Collaboration 4.5. |
Online Help
You can also access online help through the product user interface. |
Describes the user interface and gives detailed instructions for completing tasks in Collaboration 4.5. |
The following product documentation is provided with the product distribution:
Document |
Document Description |
Attributions
Collaboration_Attributions.txt
Configuration_Manager_Attributions.txt
EAS_Attributions.txt
Open_Management_Attributions.txt
Search_Service_Attributions.txt
|
Provide lists of third-party technologies used in the product, along with licensing information. |
Online Help (accessible through the user interface) |
Describes the user interface and gives detailed instructions for completing tasks in Collaboration 4.5. |
- RSS Notifications
- Personal notification RSS feed for every user.
- RSS Feed for every object (for example. document,
discussion,
task, and so on).
- Email Notifications
- Users can define the frequency of summary emails for
themselves.
- Email notifications now display user-specific locale
and time zone information.
- Administrators may specify credentials to use when
sending
notifications to an SMTP relay server that requires authentication.
(This does not support SMTP relay servers that only accept
TLS).
- Support for multiple SMTP hosts.
- Project Overview
- Drag-and-drop project overview.
- Upload images to the project overview.
- New project overview modules for project members,
upcoming tasks and overdue tasks.
- Document Collaboration
- Microsoft Office 2007 plug-in for editing ALI
Collaboration documents entirely within the context of Microsoft Office.
- Apply custom properties to collaboration documents.
- AquaLogic Pathways Integration
- Apply Pathways tags to documents, folders, discussions
and projects from within Collaboration.
- Apply tags to documents with the Microsoft Office 2007
plug-in.
- Calendars
- Calendar now provides 15 minute time slots instead of 30
minutes. (Issue #41708)
- Add calendar items to Microsoft Outlook via iCal.
- Other enhancements
- Users can now select entire portal groups when clicking
the
Notify button inside a project. Users no longer have to select
individual
users one by one. (Issue #61537)
- Users with the Manage Collaboration activity right can
set the maximum size of a project to be greater than the
global maximum project size. (Issue #54645)
- In Tasks portlets, users can now filter
tasks based on status. (Issue #58232)
- When upgrading to Collaboration 4.5, it might take several hours for Collaboration to complete migrating data to the AL Notification service when you start the Collaboration service for the first time. You can monitor this data migration process using ALI Logging Spy. (Issue #66929)
- After upgrading to Collaboration 4.5 from any previous
version, we recommend that you rebuild the Collaboration search index.
This feature can be accessed through Collaboration Administration.
- Collaboration 4.5 is not compatible with versions of the
portal prior to 6.5 (including 5.0.x, 6.0 and 6.1.x).
- When importing the collaboration.pte file during
installation, the message "Dropped ACL due to missing User or Group
dependency" in the migration log can be safely ignored. (Issue #45756)
- If migration of Collaboration's pte file fails, the cause
may
be the license.bea. Run diagnostic.bat (ptportal/6.1/bin). If Step #9
fails, there is a problem with the license settings. This will prevent
portal and search from starting up properly, and will result in failure
for the package import. (Issue #59444)
- Upgrading from 4.2 MP1 to 4.5 does not transfer WebDav
configuration settings during upgrade. (Issue #66484)
- Security vulnerability: A Collaboration file download
servlet could allow users to access system files on the machine where
Collaboration is deployed. (Issue #66700)
- Collaboration Office tools Add-in (Japanese) fails on MS
Word with Office XP on Windows XP SP2. (Issue #54373)
- Maximum document upload size is not enforced when uploading
documents via WebDAV. (Issue #61055)
- Email-a-project:
- No message is created when sending an e-mail with both
embedded images and attachments to a discussion. (Issue #61727)
- Sending e-mail to a discussion is rejected when too many
characters (for example, more than 255) exist in the subject line.
(Issue #57938)
- Email notifications:
- If one email address in a subscription list is invalid
and
causes the SMTP relay server to throw back a 550 5.1.1 User Unknown
error, it
causes the notification server to generate an exception and none of the
subscription emails for the valid email addresses are sent out. (Issue
#52981)
- Enhanced task notification information includes task
description, start date, end date, and risk. (Issue #47784)
- Notification email times are always in GMT time. (Issue
#51069)
- User names that contain non-ASCII characters do not display
correctly in user pickers. (Issue #45025)
- A conflict arises between projects auto-generated by two
subcommunities with the same name. (Issue #)
- In 508 or 'simple' mode attempting to access a project
template's settings in a 400 error. (Issue #60324)
- Gantt chart doesn't show arrow if a task has a dependent
task and
start date is the same as dependent task's due date. (Issue #62814)
- The Phone Home feature in the Configuration Manager is not
supported for use by customers unless directed to do so by customer
support. (Issue #68098)
- The WebEdit functionality in Collaboration consumes
multiple user sessions in the portal. If this functionality is used
with a portal running with an SDK license, the user session limit will
be exhausted quickly. Additional users will not be able to log in to
the portal until one of the existing sessions has expired or the portal
is restarted. (Issue #54472)
- The APIs for managing Collaboration subscriptions in the
Interaction Development Kit ("IDK") have been deprecated and are no
longer supported. (Issue #67376)
- Document Management
- Cannot upload document larger than 350kb on collaboration
environment with SSL enabled and ALI is running on WebLogic
Server.
(Issue #67466)
- Modified custom property values do not get applied after
republishing a document to the Knowledge Directory. (Issue #67145)
- When publishing to the Knowledge Directory, a space (" ")
may
be entered as the value for custom property that is "required to
publish." An error occurs, however. (Issue #66610)
- An Internal Server Error returns when the file size
reaches the maximum project size during bulk upload. (Issue #52442)
- Versions of ALI Collaboration prior to 4.1 allowed the
'#'
character in documents and folders; however, these documents and
folders cannot be accessed via WebDAV so it is no longer possible to
create a document or folder with '#' in the name. (Issue #44909)
- When creating a shortcut to a document and deleting the
original file, users can still search on the document from the Project
Explorer. When clicking
on the shortcut, users receive an error message. (Issue #67531, #67530)
- It is not possible to view details for document folders
whose
name contains a '/' (forward slash). The '/' character should be
removed from all folder names. Document folders created in
Collaboration 4.x will not contain the '/' character in the name, but
folders created in versions of Collaboration prior to 4.0 may have
included this character. (Issue #58642)
- WebEdit and WebFolders
- WebFolder mapping does not work on Vista.
This is a Vista -- not a Collaboration -- issue. In order to fix this
problem, you must download "Software
Update for Web Folders (KB907306)" from Microsoft and install
it on the Vista machine. (Issue #64731)
- WebEdit and WebFolders do not work
correctly on clients running Office 2007 and Microsoft Vista. (Issue
#60153)
WORKAROUND: The client will need to run its Office applications in
"Windows XP
compatibility mode" (meaning they run as if they were running on
Windows XP). This needs to be done on every client machine for the
three
Office applications: Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. The process for
running these
applications in Compatibility Mode is as follows:
1. Locate the executable. For example:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\WINWORD.exe .
2. Right-click on the executable, and
click Properties.
3. Navigate to the Compatibility
tab.
4. Select the Run this
program in compatibility
mode for: box . Choose Windows XP
(Service Pack 2) in the drop-down menu.
- WebDAV may not function correctly if the WebDAV
extensions
are set to Allowed instead of Prohibited on the portal server
gatewaying the
traffic. This only applies when running the .NET version of the portal.
(Issue #50584)
- When changing a Collaboration folder through Web folders,
all
the files underneath are treated as newly-uploaded files and generate
subscription e-mails for every file. (Issue #52395)
- When using Firefox, the Collaboration window does not
refresh
after checking it in or out via WebEdit. Therefore the file state does
not appear to update (Issue #47583)
- It is not possible to open two Microsoft PowerPoint files
simultaneously via WebDAV. (Issue #47769)
- When editing files through Web folders, if the full Web
folder
path is greater than 229 characters, opening in Edit mode causes a DDE
error.
(Issue #47801)
WORKAROUND: Make sure that the path of the file contains fewer than 230
characters. To do this, use one of the following methods.
-- Rename the file so it has a shorter
name.
-- Rename one or more folders that
contain the file so that they have shorter names.
-- Move the file to a folder that has a
shorter path name.
- WebEdit may not work in a multi-domain environment using
SSL. The workaround is to modify Collaboration's config.xml file to
< nonGatewayedAccess enabled="yes"/> (Issue #58576)
- Office 2007 Plug-in
- The Office 2007 Plug-in provided in this release is
not compatible with Windows Vista. (Issue #67636)
- The Advanced section of Office Ribbon does not work when
the Collaboration document or folder name contains non-ASCII
characters. (Issue #65326)
- The Microsoft Office 2003 Plug-in does not support Asian
languages. (Issue #47153)
- Pathways Integration
- AL Pathways tags with non-ASCII characters that are applied from
the
Collaboration project or the Office 2007 ribbon are not passed to Pathways
correctly. (Issue #67324)
- AL Pathways tags with Asian characters that are applied
from the
Collaboration project or the Office 2007 ribbon are not encoded
correctly. (Issue #67423)
- Other
- RSS feed authentication: Basic authentication user name
and password for RSS feeds does not support multi-byte
characters. (Issue #67920)
- Project overview: Wide project overview modules may not
display properly if dragged onto narrow columns. (Issue #66787)
- Manage Project: A project image cannot be uploaded before
the
project is created. To upload a project image, first create the
project. Then go to Manage Project and upload the
image. (Issue
#64174)
- Projects whose names contain the following characters
will
no longer be displayed as Web folders: \ / * ? < > | #.
New
projects with these characters in their names can still be created, but
the person creating projects with these characters will receive a
warning. (Issue #47479)
- Customers using Oracle might see the error "No more data
available to read" in collaboration.log if statistics are not run on
the database. All Oracle deployments must follow the steps in KB
article
DA_232966 to prevent this error.
- Experience Definition URLs include user-specific
fragments
that preserve the correct look and feel of Experience Definitions for
individual users.
These URLs are cached by the Notification Service. If a portal user
changes his or her login domain, the cached Experience Definition URLs
for that user becomes invalid. There are other, less-common reasons why
Experience Definition URLs can become invalid. If you are experiencing
the same problem for a different reason, restarting the Notification
Service will most likely resolve the problem. (Issue
#58836)
- If users encounter an error when creating an announcement
or
a discussion message in a multi-domain environment using SSL, it may be
necessary to disable the Rich Text Editor by modifying
Collaboration's config.xml to <richtexteditor
enabled="no"/>
(Issue #58569)
- When clicking the New or Edit discussion message button
you might
be prompted to download "blank.html". This only happens with certain
versions of Internet Explorer 6 and can be ignored. We recommend that
you
upgrade to the latest service pack for Internet Explorer. (Issue #47329)
- If nonGatewayedUploads is set to "yes" in config.xml (by
default it is set to "no"), it may be necessary to modify the URL
specified in the nonGatewayedUploads node to add a "/collab" to the end
of the URL if the URL does not already contain this. (Issue #57749)
- User with Write permissions cannot attach a file to a
discussion after canceling out of the Attach Document editor. The
user will need to log in again or have their permissions elevated to
Editor. (Issue #65015)
- Security settings do not get saved properly when new
event is created. (Issue #63397)
- MS-Project files exported in an operating system in a
locale other U.S. cannot be imported into Collaboration. (Issue #64144)
- When upgrading to Collaboration 4.5, it might take several hours for Collaboration to complete migrating data to the AL Notification service when you start the Collaboration service for the first time. You can monitor this data migration process using ALI Logging Spy. (Issue #66929) April 24, 2008
- Rebuilding the Collaboration search index creates temporary files on bea\alui\ptcollab\4.5\tmp that are not later removed by the indexing agent. These files need to be manually deleted. (Issue # 69367) June 1, 2008