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Posts for the month of February 2007

Indico v0.92.1 is released

New features summary:

  • Badge generator for conferences
  • Conference display: Added the possibility of specifying a created page as default "home page" of the conference
  • Support file upload to category
  • Account creation can now be moderated or be notified to site administrators
  • Site admins can disable account creation
  • Task management module per category

Latest release: cds-indico-0.92.1.tar.gz - tar file - 9 February 2007

For upgrading from version 0.8.14 and previous, you must run the script "Tools/Migration0.8.14To0.90.0.py" after the upgrade

For upgrading from previous version:

  • PIL is now mandatory
  • reportlab version must be 2.0
  • run the following script:
    • Tools/indexes/reindexcalendars.py
    • Tools/indexes/reindexcategories.py
    • Tools/indexes/reindexOAIModificationDates.py (only needed if you use the OAI gateway)

New features:

  • Conferences:

o Registration form:

+ Added textarea field type + Added preview tab for registration form + Added confirmation message to registration form

o Call for Abstract:

+ Added field type "input" to CFA special fields + Added optional fields (textarea) + Abstract content field becomes optional in the abstract management of a conference

o Badge generator for conferences o Conference display: Added the possibility of specifying a created page as default "home page" of the conference o Created a special menu for conferences "other view" timetable contains: specific link to event home page and corrected link to printable version

  • Meetings:

o Participants:

+ Participants can be added and removed even after the meeting starts + Sorting participant list by names + Participants: allow to decline a request for participation w/o sending email notification

o Add "get material package" feature to meetings display o Added sxi files support on meeting display o Meeting display: sorted list of available styles alphabetically o Added default material types to meetings: "streaming video", "donwloadable video"

  • All:

o Users:

+ Added list of special rights (categ and event management) to user details page + Added status index to AvatarHolder? and status browsing option in user mgt + Add warning prompting user to enable cookies on login page (if cookies are blocked) + User/group search: search locally by default and give the possibility to the user to search other databases + User search: preselect user when search returns only one + User search: display number of results + User search result lists: sort alphabetically by name + Added checking function on email form fields

o Admin:

+ Admin interface: added group browsing (and group index) + Admin interface: added user browsing + Improved management area interface + Account creation can now be moderated or be notified to site administrators + Site admins can disable account creation

o Materials/Files?:

+ Support file upload to category + Support for all openDocuments formats (odp, odt and ods) + Material with same name and file name display the name only once + File upload: allow file renaming + File upload: added link to file from the file upload panel + Allow delete all material of the same type at once + Sorted material lists alphabetically + Get Material Package: include standalone contributions + Get Material Package: propose to restrict package to given sessions + Material: a material can now be hidden for unauthorized people. The default is "visible" + Added support for file types: gz, tar, zip, sxi, sxc, sxw, xls

o Timetable:

+ Introduced "screen dates" concept for official event dates not matching the timetable + Timetable management: allow breaks relocation + Sessions now have internal modification/creation dates

o Tasks/Alarms?:

+ Task management module per category + Email registration reminders sent every week (instead of every 2 days) and a maximum of 2 times + Task Manager: added interval and end date columns + Alert email: use short event URL when available

o Improved overview display o GenericMailer? is used everywhere o Improved visibility management (replaced "up x levels" with the name of the upper category in which the event will appear) o Got rid of "Serbia and Montenegro" in the available country list o Replaced htmlarea embedded html editor by fckeditor with additional file upload support o Domain restricted elements are advertised as "xxx domain only" instead of simply "xxx only" which was misleading o Propose abstract list or contribution list to selected contributions export to PDF o Export.py: new parameter event specifying the type of event o Added support for keywords at event level o Added possibility to change the type of an event o Support keywords for contributions and subcontributions o Adding multiple report numbers for the same system o Added report number management to contributions and subcontributions o Clone: default period is 1 week. A confirmation message is added stating the number of new events which will be created o Improved stylesheet management for Indico styles (common header) o Improved item creation form: predefined lists of people are sorted and displayed NAME, Firstname o Improved event log display page (more readable) o Event creation emails indicate the type of the created event o Added event icons to overview o Added ical export for sessions (conferences) o Add managed sessions to "My sessions" page

Bug fixes:

  • Corrected bug with too long URLs in contrib/abstract/registrant lists
  • Corrected bug in registration form cloning
  • Corrected Serbia country code according to ISO 3166 (RS)
  • Corrected various bugs in timetable management
  • Session slot: deletion of a break if the slot location is custom
  • Participant registration: corrected bug with decline application
  • Meeting with empty title can be accessed from parent category
  • Corrected bug with multiple emails sent to registrants in case of db conflicts
  • Corrected bug with multiple VRVS bookings in case of db conflict
  • File upload now works
  • Display shortcut icon in IE
  • Conf timetable: corrected bug with item finishing at midnight
  • Speaker list is not empty if speakers were not also primary/co authors
  • Registrant page: corrected bug preventing from editing the sessions
  • Do an exact match when adding an email address to a user
  • Corrected bug when adding user to resource access list
  • Remove internal page when corresponding link is removed
  • Corrected bug in menu item ordering in "display" tab
  • Visibility was not taken into account in newly cloned events
  • File upload screen: when changing the number of files, previously entered information is preserved
  • Display session place and room (and not slot place and room) when slots are disabled in meetings
  • Task Manager: task was not deleted from conf pending queues when deleted in the TM
  • Corrected bug in Alarms modifications
  • Corrected bug which prevented the cloning of the alarms
  • Migrate Nice authentication to the new service with support of Lightweigfht account and listbox support
  • Overview now takes into account the start time of the event on the specific day
  • Date selection calendar: added missing last day in month
  • Users with specific access rights on part of an access key protected agenda can now enter the access key by using the "full agenda" link in the top menu
  • Protected agendas are not displayed any more in overview for non-authorized people
  • File action log: added user and father object information
  • Alert email: added room and signature: logged in user or empty string
  • Display correct room for slots in XSL views
  • Corrected bug when using "room used by other sessions" with empty value
  • Corrected bug which prevented from deleteing a break in a session in special cases
  • Corrected bug which prevented the creation of multi days sessions in conferences
  • Forbid starting dates before 1900
  • Corrected bug with empty description in conf program setup