Terminalfour: 8.3.9
- Date Released:
- April 30 2021
General
There are some big changes and lots of smaller, though notable, refinements in this release.
Ellucian Ethos integration
Ellucian Ethos provides a cloud-based unified data model for Ellucian’s higher education solutions. This provides institutions with a single source of truth for all stakeholders and prevents information silos. Now you can use the External Content Syncer to integrate with Ethos data like student, course, and faculty information. In fact, if Ethos has it, you can now sync the data with Terminalfour. We've created an article on how to use this powerful feature.
Inherited Page Layout labeled in Section
If you've ever found yourself guessing the inherited Page Layout used for a Section, guess no more – the inherited Page Layout is now labeled in the drop-down.
Create forms in languages other than English
Now you can create forms in languages other than English. If you have another Language set up in Terminalfour you can switch Language and create a form in that Language.
Programmable Layout linting
Do you use Programmable Layouts? We do too. To save you time chasing bugs, we've added a linting feature so you can now get a heads up on potential issues before you even preview.
Fixes Of Note
Choose a timezone for your date element (RDSM-31918)
Now when you're using the time and date picker, your local timezone is displayed next to it so you can be confident that the time you're setting is the right one.
Content Items in the delete modal are ordered correctly (RDSM-29022)
Previously when you deleted a Content Item via Content > Delete Content, the order of Content Items in the modal didn't match the order in the Section. The ordering is now consistent.
The user's initials are used to identify the content owner (RDSM-24103)
Previously, the same default image of a 1970's footballer was used for all content owners. We've updated this now, so the user's initials are shown instead.
Media Items in Categories display consistently in Chrome (RDSM-32262)
Occasionally when Chrome users navigated away from a Media Category and returned to it, it appeared empty even when it wasn't. That's fixed now.
Bulk move Media Items now functions consistently (RDSM-32629)
Some users were getting an error when they bulk moved Media Items from one Category to another. This now works as intended.
Changes
| Component | Summary | Priority | Key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Library | All media files disappear in the Media Category when a file is being edited by another user | P2 | RDSM-31317 |
| Upgrade | Upgrade from 7.4 to 8.3.9 is failing on task 0587 | P3 | RDSM-32652 |
| Upgrade | Upgrade on Oracle is failing on update task 0666 | P3 | RDSM-32638 |
| Media Library | Unable to bulk move media items | P3 | RDSM-32629 |
| External Sources | Fetch Example Data does not work when a query is updated | P3 | RDSM-32575 |
| Preview | Previewing multiple sections can close the S3Client for other previews | P3 | RDSM-32547 |
| Publish | AddContentTypePrimaryKeyTask sets primary key with incorrect column ordering | P3 | RDSM-32542 |
| Page Layout | Errors in the browser console when editing Page Layouts | P3 | RDSM-32539 |
| Form Builder | Form submissions fail when a redirect hidden section has been selected | P3 | RDSM-32533 |
| Database | AlterTableUpdate upgrade task in MySQL fails when '0000-00-00 00:00:00' default value. | P3 | RDSM-32523 |
| Content | Unable to specify selected option in radio button form element | P3 | RDSM-32512 |
| Content | XSS issue on content name field when you're removing piece of content | P3 | RDSM-32499 |
| Content Sync | ContentSyncer throws an error using Web services when Web service query does not starts with a / | P3 | RDSM-32435 |
| Media Library | Media Category items don't display in Chrome | P3 | RDSM-32262 |
| Languages | Media category can be blank when you toggle between languages | P3 | RDSM-32182 |
| Media Library | The media category must be hard reloaded as otherwise it'll be displayed as blank | P3 | RDSM-32181 |
| Media Library | ConcurrentModificationException when create media library package | P3 | RDSM-32143 |
| UI | User can write text into the UI. | P3 | RDSM-32077 |
| Content | Bulk deleting mirrored content(s) that are content link targets where original content has been removed throws an error | P3 | RDSM-31997 |
| UI | Time zone in date elements is based on the local machine and not the server time. | P3 | RDSM-31918 |
| Site Structure | Editing a sections name in a new language throws errors when the languages code length is higher than 2 | P3 | RDSM-31672 |
| Languages | Inconsistent messages shown for language creation for the code attribute | P3 | RDSM-31671 |
| Database | Redbox error and stack trace when editing a content type layout due to MySQLIntegrityConstraintViolationException | P3 | RDSM-31590 |
| UI | Breadcrumbs are missing "Home" for some pages | P3 | RDSM-31402 |
| Channels / Microsites | A users "Preview channel" prevents content from being assigned to channels on a branch when "Channel selection method" is "Select on branch" | P3 | RDSM-31210 |
| Channels / Microsites | Microsites are added to channel_content table for newly created content when "Channel selection method" is set to "Select on branch" | P3 | RDSM-31209 |
| Reports | Submission reports are reindexed every time the import task runs if the submission uses multiple content types | P3 | RDSM-30846 |
| Content Layout | Content layout code is not displayed sometimes | P3 | RDSM-30706 |
| Scheduler | Accessibility report returns nothing | P3 | RDSM-30567 |
| Media Library | Creation fails - media when the context_url is set to a relative url | P3 | RDSM-30527 |
| Packages | Packages requires current certificate to be added to keystore in order to export media from instances with secure urls | P3 | RDSM-30451 |
| Workflow | Content review is not scheduled if a group is chosen as the content owner | P3 | RDSM-30415 |
| Content | The order of the content in "delete content" modal doesn't match the actual content order in a section | P3 | RDSM-29022 |
| LDAP | User records are not updated when reimporting users via a new ldap context | P3 | RDSM-28233 |
| Reports | Seo report and accessibility report scores are not cleared up when a section is purged | P4 | RDSM-32526 |
| UI | User interface locales should accept 3 character language and country codes, as per ISO standards. | P4 | RDSM-32480 |
| Content Type | Content Type label formatting | P4 | RDSM-32028 |
| Form Builder | When you change language on form builder page you have to reload the page manually | P4 | RDSM-26292 |
| UI | Content owner icon should be the users initials instead of existing image | P4 | RDSM-24103 |
| Content Type | Content type name has no colon or space in front of it and its label when editing content | Trivial | RDSM-32589 |
| UI | Breadcrumb for content migration should be consistent | Trivial | RDSM-25626 |
Before upgrading
In advance of the upgrade please view the information and Technical Roadmap. Please contact us prior to upgrading we can provide you with the pre and post-upgrade tasks.
Priority
Please note that the priorities assigned to bugs differ from those assigned to Client Support tickets:
- P1 - Major rework of product.
- P2 - Major performance change.
- P3 - Regular priority change.
- P4 - Minor change.
- Trivial - Very minor UI changes.