New features summary:

• Room booking module
• Evaluation form module
• Poster generation for lectures

LATEST RELEASE

cds-indico-0.94.0.tar.gz - tar file - 7 August 2007

CVS

The CERN production branch (which is always a bit ahead of the official releases) is accessible via anonymous CVS.

  $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cds.cern.ch:/log/cvsroot
  $ cvs login  (password is "anonymous")
  $ cvs co -r release_0_94-patches indico

Once checked out, go to the indico/code/ directory then copy the indico/code/dist/config.xml file in there. Then proceed as usual ("setup.py upgrade" then "setup.py install")

UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS

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

Indico now require python 2.4

For upgrading from 0.90.3 and previous version:

• if you want to use the new html cache feature make sure the XMLCacheDir in config.xml is set to a path which is writable by the http server. Else, disable the cache by going to the "Admin" "Main" page.
• PIL is now mandatory
• reportlab version must be 2.0
• run the following script:

o tools/indexes/reindexcalendars.py o tools/indexes/reindexcategories.py o tools/indexes/reindexOAIModificationDates.py (only needed if you use the OAI gateway)

For upgrading from 0.92.2 and previous version:

• run the following script:

o tools/updateAC.py o tools/pendingsMigration.py

New features:

• Conferences:

o Registration form:

+ Log all mails sent to registrants + Registration form: possibility to configure arrival and departure dates in accommodation fieldabstract acceptation: directly select a target session + Registration form: allow disabling radio item + Registration: added link to event to notification email; sorted sessions by start date then title; default yes/no choices to "no" + Registration: personal data section is now configurable

o Badges/poster

+ Added "Amount to pay" field in badge printing + Added confirmation when deleting badge template + Global templates for badges and posters + Badges/Poster?: possibility to duplicate templates + Posters: added "Lecture Category" field

o Added duration and description to XML export of breaks o Added Jacow compatible xml-export + enriched standard XML export o Improved abstract display (newline for content, "not specified"->"None", repeated buttons...) o Abstract acceptation: directly select a target session o Contribution list: improved display (hide options when empty, added material list, clarified button names) o Make the user registration link configurable o Conference: cached static timetable page (parallel) o Timetable pdf: added "session color code" option

• Meetings:

o Participants:

+ Invited participant: added useful error message in case the participant was deleted before acceptance + Participants: absent people are not display on the event page

o Session coordinator's rights section available only for conferences (not anymore for meetings) o Added possibility to compile the minutes from all talks on the top "write minutes" page o Write minutes: added "clear" button

• All:

o Room booking module o Evaluation form module o Updated main user guide with "how to export data from Indico" section o Added "Users/Groups?" section in main user guide o Overview: added protected icon to protected items. o Clone: added calendar select tool o Added RSS feed to category overview page for the current day o Lectures management: "chairperson" -> "Speaker" o Timetable management: when clicking on a slot, scroll down the page to this slot o Poster generation for lectures o Category event list: lecture display also the name of the speaker o Category mgt: sort alphabetically subcategories o Added getCategoryInfo web service o Lectures: new "organisers" field o Lectures: new "Internal comments" field o Improved location display in overview pages o Email to pending submitters/managers: add direct link to item o Allow granting submission rights to groups o Contribution display page: added management icons o Improved compact display o ICal export: added event description o HTML tags are now correctly interpreted in PDFs o Added worker name to config.xml and page footers (load balancing) o Added board number to XML export o Possibility to grant modification rights to all conveners in one go o Possibility to grant submission rights to all speakers in one go o "Relocate contribution" feature: added session date to select table o Footer location text is now configurable from the config.xml file o Materials/Files?:

+ Added support for Office 2007 documents + Clarify error message when file does not exist + Added material submission icon for sessions + Protection: added "remove all submission rights" button

Bug fixes:

• Reg. form: accommodation modif displays the correct dates
• Sort sessions per time then title in tt management and pdf
• Corrected bug in filtering registrant list (could not uncheck "--not specified--")
• Contribution stayed invisible even after entering modif key
• With cache activated, modif icons did not disappear when choosing "printable" format
• Plain timetable edit tool: session deletion bug fixed
• ICal export: make sure UTF-8 is returned
• ICal export: got rid of linebreaks in all exported fields
• Corrected bug in session protection tab (coordination rights given to groups)
• Corrected bug with pdf creation of tt with subtalks and "display content" option enable
• Interface: removed red pen icons in management area headers
• Preserve location/room values when adding a user in item creation form
• Corrected bug in indexing category when moving it
• Corrected bug in room modification for breaks
• Corrected various bugs in timetable management
• Corrected bug with PDF generation (KeepTogether? passed a list instead of a tuple)
• Corrected file upload page for subcontributions
• Conference minutes writting page for sessions corrected
• Got rid of all gifs in package
• Badges: display error when badge template too wide for selected page size
• File protection: allowed to change the protection even when the file is private by inheritance
• Added unformated text for chairperson on lecture display
• Calendar: when selecting categories unfold already selected ones
• After logout the user si redirected to its current location
• Event cloning: the creator of the new event is the person who clones
• Conference clone: the display manager (menu...) is also cloned
• Corrected bug access file modification on closed event
• Allow to change task status at any time
• Delete temporary files (uploads) on the server after the transaction is complete
• Corrected bugs in registration form cloning
• List of registrants page access forbidden if manager disabled the link in the menu
• Got rid of wrap="hard" in all textareas
• Participants: when creating a new participant, check first if he/she does not exist in the user db
• Overview: do not display content of protected items
• Preserve abstract formatting in abstract display page
• Send email to registrants: cc list is now preserved when using the preview
• Reschedule slot: time gap not applied to breaks
• Reschedule session slot: update parents date when needed
• Fixed bug in "(un)select all" in session conveners listing page
• Avoid error message when index corruption in "Check dates" feature (event creation form)
• "From:" field empty by default in chairman contact form
• Improved management of the support email
• Cache is really inactive when disactivated (does not try to access the path directory)
• Cache is cleaned up when activated/disactivated
• Fixed bug in editing category files/links
• Corrected bug in xsl file preventing recent versions of python-libxslt to display an event