Release note CIRCABCOSS 3.4

This information aims at providing an overview of the changes and new features available in the CIRCABC 3.4 Open Source Software release. This new version of the system implements new features but it is also an improved version of the existing features.

This version has a stable base for the next versions of the application.

Delete a category

CIRCABC administrators can (completely) delete a category if this one is empty of all its Interest group.

Category administrators can:

  • Delete all interest groups within its category
  • Clean a category. It is like cleaning all Interest Groups under the category. All documents inside each interest group are deleted, but all the internal category and interest group structure is kept. Keywords, dynamic attributes or any other IG customization defined by the IG Leader and by CategoryAdmin are not removed.

Notification banner

It is now possible for CIRCABC administrator to inform all users of specific events through a banner visible in the top of the navigation screen.

Full multilingual user interface

CIRCABC is now fully multilingual and contain 21 languages.

The language can be changed in the menu:Administration > My account > Language.

Manage expired items

An expiration date can be optionally set to spaces and documents of the library. All documents/spaces whose expiration date is less than the current date are considered as expired items.

It is now possible to manage the expired items in the Library administration pages.

1.Improved features

A lot of improvements have been made for this release. Please find below the detailed list (the list is not exhaustive):

Title / Description / Users
Email me this document / Replace “E-mail this document to the current user” by “E-mail me this document”. / All
Icons in the action list / Action icons that are displayed for each space/document should be more padded. / All
Clean/delete category / Print the title of the category being cleaned (or being deleted) at the top of the deletion dialog page. / Category admin
Search box / The search box is now global to an IG and not contextual anymore / All
Duplicate member in invitation / Inviting an already member in an IG will raise a warning message box. / IG Leader
Copy/Paste notifications / It is now possible to choose whether you want to be notified for all copy/paste actions or not. / All
Name Firstname behaviour / In the Interest Group administration area > membership
The name column displayed Firstname Surname and is now splitted in two columns Surname Firstname.
This is more relevant for sorting with these columns. / IG Leader
Export list of members / In the member service it is now possible to export the list of members in an Excel/CSV/Xml file (with or without filtering). / IG Leader
Notification – upload document / The notification could now be sent before or after the validation of the metadata of the uploaded document. This can be used by checking the “Modify all properties” checkbox before validating the upload. / All
Transfer profile / It is now possible to transfer users from one profile to another. / IG Leader
E-mail address in meetings details / The e-mail address is now displayed in the view details box of a meeting (Agenda service) / All

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