AquaLogic Pages 1.5 - released August 2008

AquaLogic Pages 1.0 MP2 - released June 2008

AquaLogic Pages 1.0 MP1 - released October 2007

AquaLogic Pages 1.0 - released July 2007

These release notes cover all releases of AquaLogic Pages 1.5, including hotfixes and maintenance packs. For information on a particular release, please 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 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13194_01/pages/docs15.

This limited release and final version of Pages includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes. The key new features are:

Completely new user interface - Pages 1.5 is dramatically different in appearance from 1.0. That is because we completely overhauled the user experience. In conversations with our first customers, the one thing we heard over and over again was that 1.0 needed work from a usability standpoint. So in planning Pages 1.5, we worked with our new team of designers and observed how users interact with the product. Where the UI was flawed, we fixed it. Where it was good, we made it better. This means your business users can more easily and intuitively create collaborative spaces, which means lower training costs, lower support costs, and higher adoption rates for your users, equalling high ROI.

No more “DataSpaces” or “LiveSpaces” – If you never used Pages 1.0 this will not mean anything to you. If you were a Pages 1.0 customer, you should be happy to know that Pages 1.5 does away with the notions of "DataSpaces" and "LiveSpaces." Now we just have "Spaces." You can still accomplish the same tasks as you could in 1.0, but accomplishing those tasks is simpler and more intuitive.

Create Spaces and pages by linking – If you navigate to a Space or page that does not exist, Pages will automatically create it for you, assuming you have the proper permissions. This feature is a great way to integrate Pages Spaces into your other enterprise applications. Imagine you want to add ad-hoc collaborative capabilities to your legacy bug tracking system. You would create a “Bug Tracking” Space and configure your bug tracking system so that each bug links to its own page in the Space. For example, Bug #55555 would have the link "http://mycompany.com/pages/web/view/page/bug_tracking/55555" and bug #55556 would have the link "http://mycompany.com/pages/web/view/page/bug_tracking/55556." Users just click the link to access a collaborative workspace dedicated to sharing comments, documents, and other content related to fixing the bug.

Deeper integration points with ALI – While Pages 1.5 has shed all its infrastructure dependencies on AquaLogic Interaction, it actually provides deeper feature integration with ALI. These features improve functionality in both applications creating a symbiotic relationship between the two. Some of the additional integration points include:

• Pages Crawler – Pages 1.5 ships with an out-of-the-box content crawler so that your favorite Spaces can be crawled into the ALI Knowledge Directory and AquaLogic Pathways. ALI users can now search or browse Pages content from within ALI and tag Pages objects in Pathways.
• Blog Portlet – Community managers can now add a blog portlet to their community, getting the full blogging functionality provided in the Pages UI complete with RSS feeds. You just add the portlet to a community page. The portlet automatically inherits the security of the community so community managers do not need to worry about synchronizing roles and permissions between ALI and Pages. The blog portlet works well in ALI profile pages as a personal blog.
• Wiki Portlet – Many customers have come to us asking for a simple, edit-in-place, rich text editor portlet. The wiki portlet delivers this functionality. Again, you just add the portlet to a community page and start adding text. Like the blog portlet, it conveniently inherits the security of the community. You can choose from a simple wiki or a wiki with comments enabled.

Favorite Spaces – If you have already deployed Pages in your enterprise, you know that the number of Spaces can grow quite quickly and that finding the Space you want can be very difficult. In Pages 1.5, users can add Spaces to their list of favorites for easy navigation. If you deploy Pages inside of ALI, the Pages Launcher Portlet now displays only the user’s favorite Spaces rather than the long list of all Spaces.

RSS notifications – In Pages 1.5 users can get an RSS feed for all the modifications made to their favorite Spaces. They simply click the RSS icon next to the search box on the Dashboard. They can also get a unique RSS feed for each individual Space. Our patent-pending RSS security model ensures that each feed request is authenticated (either through basic authentication or ALI login token) and that feed readers see only the content they are authorized to see.

RSS is also a good way to add Pages content to ALI communities. Community managers can add the new ALI 6.5 RSS Reader Portlet to their community and point it to a Pages RSS feed. The security is propagated so that users see only the content they are authorized to see.

Email notifications – If RSS is not immediate enough for your needs, you can also subscribe to Pages Spaces to receive email notifications of changes. Users can receive immediate email notifications for any changes made to the Space (for example, a new page version, a new attachment, a new record) or they can choose to have their notifications sent to them through a daily summary email.

Enhanced text editor – We made a number of improvements to the rich text editor which, while subtle, will markedly improve your users’ experience. Here are a few enhancements we made:

• Spell check – users can click a spell-check button to check spelling in English, German, French or Spanish.
• HTML source view – users can click a <> toggle button to access an HTML source view where they can add/edit their own HTML. This feature is perfect for pasting in widgets from AquaLogic Ensemble or from the consumer web (like YouTube videos and Google gadgets).
• Image upload – Pages 1.0 provided an image component for adding images to a page. Pages 1.5 still has the image component but also enables users to upload images to the rich text editor. Now users can more easily display images inline with their text. This is particularly important for blogging, where users want to add text and images in the same experience.
• Styles – There is a new drop-down list for selecting styles for text. Pages 1.5 comes with out-of-the-box styles for block quotes (handy for quoting others in your blog) and code (handy for displaying programming code). Pages administrators can also extend this list of available styles by modifying some property files.
• HTML table editor – A new table editor in the rich text editor lets users add/edit html tables (not to be confused with the table component). Users can intuitively format, edit, and delete rows and columns in the table.
• Improved copy-paste from Microsoft Office – One thing Pages 1.0 users made clear is that they frequently want to paste in formatted text from Microsoft Office applications like Outlook, Word, and Excel. However, 100% copy/paste fidelity is difficult to achieve in all browsers. We made great strides in Pages 1.5 for supporting common text formatting like text color, background color, bold, underline, italics, table, ordered lists, and unordered lists.

Personal blogs – Working with users of Pages 1.0, we learned that many users want to maintain a personal blog for communicating various initiatives and projects on which they are working. In support of this, Pages 1.5 provides a personal blog that users can create and navigate to directly from the Dashboard. The link to the personal blog contains the user’s name (for example, http://domain.com/pages/web/view/ls/personal_blog_for_username) and is separately secured from other Spaces in the system. Pages administrators have a global option for turning this feature on or off.

New blog and RSS components – In Pages 1.0, we found that users frequently wanted to add blogs and RSS feeds to Spaces but it was not the easiest, most intuitive action to undertake. In 1.5, we made this simple by adding two out-of-the-box components that users can drag onto the page. Now it is a two step process: drag the component onto the page and click Save. That’s it.

New list field types and templates – When creating lists, you can add user, date, number, currency, and Boolean as field types in addition to the Pages 1.0 types of text, long text, rich text, link, drop-down, and dynamic drop-down. We also included a few handy out-of-the-box list templates (contacts, events, issues, links, and tasks) for the kinds of lists that users frequently create. Pages administrators can modify these templates or even create new ones.

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at one.bea.com/support for the latest information on supported operating systems, databases, and browsers.

At the time of release, AquaLogic Pages 1.5 supports the following:

• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server SP1 and SP2
• Database Servers: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4 and 2005; Oracle 9i (9.2.0.4, 9.2.0.5, 9.2.0.6, 9.2.0.7), 10g (10.1.0.3), and 10g R2 (10.2.0.x), all standard configuration only
• Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 on Windows XP SP2, 7.0 on Windows Vista; Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on all operating systems

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, AquaLogic Pages 1.5 supports the following:

• AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 MP1, 6.1 MP2
• AquaLogic Ensemble 1.0, 1.0 MP1

The following product documentation is available at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13194_01/pages/docs15.

• Inserting tables into the rich text editor is not supported. (Issue #64223)
• Tables cannot be deleted in IE. (Issue #63155)
  
  Workaround: Use Firefox.
• Large images in two or three column layout pages may overlap. (Issue #60805)
• The rich text editor does not escape less than (<) or greater than (>) characters. The result is that any content enclosed within '< >' is interpreted as HTML markup at publish time. (Issue #63410)
• In write mode, copying and pasting content into the rich text editor does not enable the "Publish" button. Manually typing a space or other text will enable the "Publish" button. (Issue #63593)

• For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales, when you search in the Organizer, the search applies only to the title and description for lists, Spaces, pages, and documents. (Issue #61619)
• While editing a page (on the Edit Text or Add Component tab pages), the autosave operation creates a draft of the page being edited. This draft is lost when the server hosting Pages is restarted. (Issue #59627)
• You may encounter errors in RSS lists created from feeds that return malformed RSS. (Issue #58904)
• Tables cannot be deleted in IE. (Issue #63155)
  
  Workaround: Use Firefox.
• If you cancel/close the Add Attachment dialog box after starting to upload a document, the document is still uploaded. (Issue #61289)
• You cannot size an image smaller than the size of the page container area. (Issue #61535)
• If you stop the BEA AL Pages service, you may see benign exceptions in the Pages log. (Issue #62280)
• If an RSS feed source is modified, records from the original RSS source may appear in search results until the list is visited. If you try to open these old records, you receive an error. (Issue #62342)
• If you edit and save a record from an RSS list, and the record is removed from the RSS feed, the record will no longer appear in the page view for the list. However, the record is still searchable from the action pane. (Issue #62424)
• If you change the database type in the Configuration Manager, you must delete the cxrepository directory under pages/1.5. Otherwise, startup errors occur. (Issue #62474)
• Text and images in the action pane may appear vertically misaligned on the page. This occurs when Pages is running on an instance of ALI with a custom header. To address this issue perform the following steps:
1. Open the file 'shell.compressed.css' on the image server. This is located at imageserver/plumtree/pages/private/shells/default/view/css/shell.compressed.css.
2. Find the '#sidebar' item and increase/decrease the number of pixels in the 'top' property.
3. Find the '#sidebar_toggle' item and increase/decrease the number of pixels in the 'top' property.
4. Save and close the file.

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, AquaLogic Pages 1.0 MP2 supports the following:

• AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 MP1, 6.1 MP2
• AquaLogic Ensemble 1.0, 1.0 MP2

It is recommended that this maintenance pack be applied to all AquaLogic 1.0 servers.

Refer to the Interoperability page in the Product Center at one.bea.com/support for the latest information on supported operating systems, databases, and browsers.

At the time of release, AquaLogic Pages 1.0 MP1 supports the following:

• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server SP1 and SP2
• Database Servers: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP4 and 2005; Oracle 9i (9.2.0.4, 9.2.0.5, 9.2.0.6, 9.2.0.7), 10g (10.1.0.3), and 10g R2 (10.2.0.x), all standard configuration only
• Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 on Windows XP SP2, 7.0 on Windows Vista; Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on all operating systems

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, AquaLogic Pages 1.0 MP1 supports the following:

• AquaLogic Interaction 6.1 MP1
• AquaLogic Ensemble 1.0

The following product documentation is available at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13194_01/pages/docs10.

• The wrapper.log file in \pages\1.0\logs continuously grows. We recommend that administrators occasionally clear the contents of this file. (Issue #60474)
• Users with the Creator role for a DataSpace are not able to create records. Grant the users (or groups) the Publisher role instead. (Issue #62672)
• When deleting records from a master/detail table component, the table may fail to update after the delete operation if one of the records being deleted is the last record viewed in the detail pane. Refreshing the page may display a stack trace error. Log off and log back in again to clear the error. (Issue #62691)
• When you edit the URL for hyperlinked rich text, your changes are not saved. You need to delete the text and recreate the link. (Issue #61095)
• The following issues may occur when you access Pages with Internet Explorer:
  • Occasionally filter buttons in the Dashboard may not appear. (Issue #61402)
  • When accessing Pages through a SSL-enabled portal, a "Page contains secure and nonsecure items - Do you want to display the nonsecure items?" warning appears when uploading an image or adding an RSS DataSpace to a page. Select "yes" to avoid errors. This warning appears only in design mode, not when viewing the page. (Issue # 62656)
• The following issues occur when you access Pages with Internet Explorer 6:
  • Background color applied to text in the rich text editor is not applied to the page when published. (Issue #60565)
  • IE6 will occasionally fail to load a page and gives a fatal error. Reload the page to recover from the error. (Issue #62097)
• The following issues occur when accessing Pages through Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista:
  • Text from the rich text component on a page overflows into the action pane. (Issue #60540)
  • Portal drop-down menus may not display correctly in the Pages header. (Issue #59525)
  • Centered text in a rich text component displays as left-justified. (Issue #60787)
  • Occasionally, you may not be able to upload an image to a page using the image component. (Issue #60876)
  • The cursor is not visible when you enter data into the rich text field - occurs on Windows XP and Vista. (Issue #61603)
• After uploading a new document version of different size, the updated file size is not displayed. (Issue #61148)
• You cannot attach images to a document in page view until the page has been modified with some other change and published. (Issue #61882)
• You cannot change the DataSpace associated with a record list component to a DataSpace that was created after the record list component. (Issue #61821)
• In the Organizer, the Info Settings link for RSS DataSpaces displays the Custom DataSpace Editor. (Issue #61892)
• Concurrent page editing may result in error on page and in log files. (Issue #61952)
• When you view a document attached to a DataSpace in page view, clicking the DataSpace name link results in PageNotFoundException error. (Issue #62426)
• If you press ENTER when searching for a DataSpace template in the DataSpace Editor, you receive a Javascript error. (Issue #62396)
• The Pages Launcher Portlet may not display the all available LiveSpaces and DataSpaces. (Issue #62570)
• When you create a new DataSpace from the Record List Component Editor or the Table Component Editor, clicking Finish takes you to the DataSpace page rather than the page to which you added the record list or table component. (Issue #62345)
• Record list components display only those fields that exist in the underlying custom DataSpace. Fields added to the DataSpace after the component was created will not display in the component. (Issue #62628)
• User / Group picker may take up to 10 seconds to return search results and periodically time out. (Issue #63977)
• Certain LiveSpaces and DataSpace may not appear within the ALI navigation or Pages selector portlet. (Issue #62895)

• Inserting tables into the rich text editor is not supported. (Issue #64223)
• For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales, when you search in the Organizer, the search applies only to the title and description for DataSpaces, LiveSpaces, pages, and documents. (Issue #61619)
• In write or design mode, the autosave operation creates a draft of the page being edited. This draft is lost when the server hosting Pages is restarted. (Issue #59627)
• You may encounter errors in RSS DataSpaces created from feeds that return malformed RSS. (Issue #58904)
• The following issues may occur when you access Pages with Internet Explorer:
  • In design mode, dragging page components across columns on a page changes the page layout. (Issue #60543)
  • Tables cannot be deleted in IE. The workaround is to use Firefox. (Issue #63155)
  • The Finish button in the Page Component Editor does not work on clients using MSXML 3. You must use MSXML 4 or higher. (Issue #62444)
• The following issues occur when accessing Pages through Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista:
  • Large images in two or three column layout pages may overlap. (Issue #60805)
• If you cancel/close the Document Upload dialog box after starting to upload a document, the document is still uploaded. (Issue #61289)
• You cannot size an image smaller than the size of the page container area. (Issue #61535)
• If you stop the BEA AquaLogic Pages service, you may see benign exceptions in the Pages log. (Issue #62280)
• If an RSS feed source is modified, records from the original RSS source may appear in search results until the DataSpace is visited. If you try to open these old records, you receive an error. (Issue #62342)
• If you edit and save a record from an RSS DataSpace, and the record is removed from the RSS feed, the record will no longer appear in the list view page for the DataSpace. However, the record is still searchable from the action pane. (Issue #62424)
• If you change the database type in the Configuration Manager, you must delete the cxrepository directory under pages/1.0. Otherwise, startup errors occur. (Issue #62474)
• The rich text editor does not escape less than (<) or greater than (>) characters. The result is that any content enclosed within '< >' is interpreted as HTML markup at publish time. (Issue #63410)
• In write mode, copying and pasting content into the rich text editor does not enable the "Publish" button. Manually typing a space or other text will enable the "Publish" button. (Issue #63593)
• Text and images in the action pane may appear vertically misaligned on the page. This occurs when Pages is running on an instance of ALI with a custom header. To address this issue perform the following steps:
1. Open the file 'shell.compressed.css' on the image server. This is located at imageserver/plumtree/pages/private/shells/default/view/css/shell.compressed.css.
2. Find the '#sidebar' item and increase/decrease the number of pixels in the 'top' property.
3. Find the '#sidebar_toggle' item and increase/decrease the number of pixels in the 'top' property.
4. Save and close the file.
• In write mode, copying and pasting content into the rich text editor does not enable the "Publish" button. Manually typing a space or other text will enable the "Publish" button. (Issue #63593)

• The wrapper.log file in \pages\1.0\logs continuously grows. We recommend that administrators occasionally clear the contents of this file. (Issue #60474)
• For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales, when you search in the Organizer, the search applies only to the title and description for DataSpaces, LiveSpaces, pages, and documents.  (Issue #61619)
• Users with the Creator role for a DataSpace are not able to create records. Grant the users (or groups) the Publisher role instead. (Issue #62672)
• When deleting records from a master/detail table component, the table may fail to update after the delete operation if one of the records being deleted is the last record viewed in the detail pane. Refreshing the page may display a stack trace error. Log off and log back in again to clear the error. (Issue #62691)
• In write or design mode, the autosave operation creates a draft of the page being edited. This draft is lost when the server hosting Pages is restarted. (Issue #59627)
• You may encounter errors in RSS DataSpaces created from feeds that return malformed RSS. (Issue #58904 and #58909)
• When you edit the URL for hyperlinked rich text, your changes are not saved. You need to delete the text and recreate the link. (Issue #61095)
• The following issues may occur when you access Pages with Internet Explorer:
  • Occasionally filter buttons in the Dashboard may not appear. (Issue #61402)
  • In design mode, dragging page components across columns on a page changes the page layout. (Issue #60543)
  • When accessing Pages through an SSL-enabled portal, a "Page contains secure and nonsecure items - Do you want to display the nonsecure items?" warning appears when uploading an image or adding an RSS DataSpace to a page. Select "yes" to avoid errors. This warning appears only in design mode, not when viewing the page. (Issue # 62656)
• The following issues occur when you access Pages with Internet Explorer 6:
  • Background color applied to text in the rich text editor is not applied to the page when published. (Issue #60565)
  • IE6 will occasionally fail to load a page and gives a fatal error. Reload the page to recover from the error. (Issue #62097)
• The following issues occur when accessing Pages through Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista:
  • Text from the rich text component on a page overflows into the action pane. (Issue #60540)
  • Portal drop-down menus may not display correctly in the Pages header. (Issue #59525)
  • Centered text in a rich text component displays as left-justified. (Issue #60787)
  • Large images in two or three column layout pages may overlap. (Issue #60805)
  • Occasionally, you may not be able to upload an image to a page using the image component. (Issue #60876)
  • The cursor is not visible when you enter data into the rich text field - occurs on Windows XP and Vista. (Issue #61603)
  • The Finish button in the Page Component Editor does not work on clients using MSXML 3. You must use MSXML 4 or higher. (Issue #62444)
• After uploading a new document version of different size, the updated file size is not displayed. (Issue #61148)
• If you cancel/close the Document Upload dialog box after starting to upload a document, the document is still uploaded. (Issue #61289)
• You cannot attach images to a document in page view until the page has been modified with some other change and published. (Issue #61882)
• You cannot size an image smaller than the size of the page container area. (Issue #61535)
• You cannot change the DataSpace associated with a record list component to a DataSpace that was created after the record list component. (Issue #61821)
• In the Organizer, the Info & Settings link for RSS DataSpaces displays the Custom DataSpace Editor. (Issue #61892)
• Concurrent page editing may result in error on page and in log files. (Issue #61952)
• If you stop the BEA AquaLogic Pages service, you may see benign exceptions in the Pages log. (Issue #62280)
• When you view a document attached to a DataSpace in page view, clicking the DataSpace name link results in PageNotFoundException error.  (Issue #62426)
• If an RSS feed source is modified, records from the original RSS source may appear in search results until the DataSpace is visited. If you try to open these old records, you receive an error. (Issue #62342)
• If you press ENTER when searching for a DataSpace template in the DataSpace Editor, you receive a Javascript error. (Issue #62396)
• The Pages Launcher Portlet may not display the all available LiveSpaces and DataSpaces. (Issue #62570)
• When you create a new DataSpace from the Record List Component Editor or the Table Component Editor, clicking Finish takes you to the DataSpace page rather than the page to which you added the record list or table component. (Issue #62345)
• If you edit and save a record from an RSS DataSpace, and the record is removed from the RSS feed, the record will no longer appear in the list view page for the DataSpace. However, the record is still searchable from the action pane. (Issue #62424)
• If you change the database type in the Configuration Manager, you must delete the cxrepository directory under pages/1.0. Otherwise, startup errors occur. (Issue #62474)
• Record list components display only those fields that exist in the underlying custom DataSpace. Fields added to the DataSpace after the component was created will not display in the component. (Issue #62628)