SCN Release Notes

This document will get updated on a regular base to reflect the latest bug fixes and feature enhancements that have been provided to the SCN platform. Please be aware that it will not contain all the work done during the implementation time of a release but mostly bugs and features visible or important to our community.

We also maintain a SCN Known Issues List which tracks all issues reported by the community members.

Release 09-22-2013

FIX COMM-2490 - Content With Attachments Is Published Without Moderation
FIX COMM-2635 - User Actions Are Duplicated In Nitro Due To Request Timeout
FIX COMM-2010 - SCN Global Moderators Not Able To Delete Status Updates
NEW COMM-2470 - Enable Promotion in Email Notification Template
NEW COMM-2541 - Improve And Optimise Google Ads Integration

Release 09-15-2013

FIX COMM-2245 - Moderators See Items From Spaces They Do Not Moderate
FIX COMM-2471 - Space Editors Cannot Edit Space Overview Page
FIX COMM-2479 - Implement Cache Fix For High CPU Usage Issue
FIX COMM-2582 - 'Unexpected Error' When Creating Blog Post With Duplicate Title
NEW COMM-2507 - Exclude Discussion Replies (Messages) from Moderation

Release 08-20-2013

FIX COMM-2245 - Moderators See Items From Spaces They Do Not Moderate
FIX COMM-2582 - 'Unexpected Error' When Creating Blog Post With Duplicate Title

Release 08-06-2013

FIX COMM-665 - Action Buttons In Moderation Panel No Longer Visible With Long URL In Message
FIX COMM-2369 - Security Issue In User/Email Confirmation Screen
FIX COMM-2210 - Guest Attributed As Modifier Of Documents

Release 07-22-2013

FIX COMM-1975 - Country And Alternative Email Type Not Saved In User Profile
FIX COMM-2192 - Original Author Is Showing As The Last Editor, Impacts Moderation

Release 07-08-2013

FIX COMM-2284 - Vertical Alignment Issue With Widgets On Root Page
FIX COMM-2385 - Content Deletion Generates Wrong Notification Message, Duplicates Sentence
NEW COMM-2100 - List Space Moderators & Space Editors Under People Tab Of Space
NEW COMM-2193 - Show Info About Moderation Approach To Moderated User When Creating Content
NEW COMM-2282 - Enable The Activity Indicator
NEW COMM-2325 - Extend Auto Login Session To Full Workday
NEW COMM-2358 - Update Answered And Unanswered Icons In Discussion Threads

Release 06-16-2013

FIX COMM-2337 - Spelling Mistake In Time Zone Settings For New Delhi
FIX COMM-2329 - Posts Marked For Moderation Not Found In Queue
FIX COMM-2328 - New User Wizard Welcome Email Should Not Be Sent
FIX COMM-2217 - Content Rejected Because Of Abuse Appears In Search Results
FIX COMM-2316 - Users With More Than 30 Points Are Being Pre-moderated
FIXSCN-184 - Content Link Missing In Reputation History
FIXSCN-183 - Discussion Titles In Reputation History Show Encoded Values Instead Of Accents
NEW COMM-2311 - Show User's Drafts In Personal Content Left Hand Navigation
NEW COMM-2193 - Show Info About Moderation Approach in Moderation Message To Moderated User When Creating Content
NEW COMM-2102 - Notifications Sent For Actions Taken By Moderators
NEW COMM-2085 - Move Newsletter Preferences From Old BC To New SCN

Release 05-26-2013

NEW COMM-1798 - Show Role Badges Of Author In Discussions
NEW COMM-2022 - Space Editor to Edit Overview Page
NEW COMM-2023 - Space Moderator to Move Blogs
NEW COMM-2216 - Make Full Navigation Tabs Clickable

Release 05-20-2013

FIX COMM-2250 - Autologin Sends Unintended Activation Mails
FIX COMM-2246 - Logged Error In sap-social-buttons.ftl Due To IE Check
FIX COMM-2143 - Error Page When Moderator Moves Content To Another Space.
NEW COMM-2271 - Disable Required Moderation Of Profile Photos By System Admins

Release 05-05-2013

FIX COMM-2081 - Apply Browse Performance Improvements
FIX COMM-2191 - Fix Moderation Queue Performance Issues
FIX COMM-2216 - Extend Navigation Tabs Click Area
FIX COMM-2218 - Fix Styles For Tag Autocomplete Popup
NEW COMM-2027 - Moderation Console

Release 04-24-2013

FIX COMM-1369 Post Appearing Twice in a Space
FIX COMM-2080 SCN: S-User Is Able To Edit First And Last Name In User Profile.
FIX COMM-2167 Private And Rejected SCN Content Appearing In SCN Site Search Results (Guest Login)
NEW COMM-2136 Restrict Access / Contribution Of Private Content (Documents / Threads / Polls)

Release 04-14-2013

FIX COMM-2004 Documents And Polls Can Be Visible Before Approval By Moderator
FIX COMM-2080 - SCN: S-User Is Able To Edit First And Last Name In User Profile.
FIX COMM-2142 Meta Description On SCN Homepage and Overview Pages No Longer Render
FIX COMM-2147 Content With Tags Is Bypassing Moderation Queue
NEW COMM-2022 Add Ability For Space Editor to Edit Overview Page
NEW COMM-2023 Add Ability For Space Moderator to Move Blogs
NEW COMM-2024 Moderator Signature Should Be Enabled By Default For Edit/Move Content

Release 04-03-2013 (SPAM Mitigation)

FIX COMM-1380 S-User Is Able To Edit Locked Fields In SCN User Profile
FIX COMM-2002 Draft Documents And Blogs Are Published When Approved In Moderation Queue
FIX COMM-1924 Unauthorised Message When Creating A Discussion While Being Moderate
FIX COMM-2011 User Can Set Himself For Approval On Document, Circumventing Moderation Process
FIX COMM-2013 User Can Circumvent Moderation By Publish > Edit > Save Action
FIX COMM-2014 Moderation Console: Cannot See "View in Context" When Filters Applied
NEWCOMM-2040 Update Virusscanner Cookbook To Latest Version
NEWCOMM-2058 Implement White List For LDAP Groups To Allow Registration

Release 03-17-2013 (Preparation For Gamification)

FIX COMM-2003 - Points And Badges Not Showing In User Profile And Profile Popup
NEW COMM-1686 - Added Advanced User Search Tools For Community Admins
NEW COMM-1996 - Implement White List For Groups To Not Go To Moderation

Release 03-13-2013 (SPAM Mitigation)

FIX COMM-1494 - Duplicate Accounts May Get Created During Login
FIX COMM-1841 - Slow Query On Check For Entitlements
NEWCOMM-1908 - New Site Wide Moderation Based On Points Threshold
NEWCOMM-1945 - Toggle Ability To Create SCN Account

Release 02-10-2013

FIX COMM-641 - Branch In Discussions Doesn't Work
FIX COMM-1293 - User Email Address Not Replicated From SAP IDS
FIX COMM-1289 - Enable Auto Login With Remember Me Flag Set
FIX COMM-1313 - Improve Login Performance With SAP IDS
FIX COMM-1448 - Fix For Mismatch In ViewCount Figures
FIX COMM-1636 - Replace SAP Community Network Logo With NON-BETA Version
FIX COMM-1676 - Performance Improvements For Mobile Activities Stream
FIX COMM-1699 - Remove SCN Own ToU and Privacy Policy Checks
NEW COMM-971 - Install Static Content Upload Plugin
NEW COMM-1013 - Apple Touch Icon For Home Screen
NEW COMM-1193 - Activating the Profanity Filter

Release 01-20-2013

FIX COMM-1071 - Possibility Of Images Disappearing From Content Due To Bug In Jive Clean Up Task
FIXSCNSBS-1589 - "Object expected" JS Error When Browsing Content Using IE8
FIX COMM-642 - 404 Page Does Not Show Proper SCN Layout
FIX COMM-649 - Formatted Text Widget Error: "The list is empty"
FIX COMM-822 - Merge Space Functionality Not Working
FIX COMM-1025 - Unpublished, Draft And Deleted Content Appearing In SCN Search Results
FIX COMM-1370 - KM Content Not Synced Into SAP Inside Track Space
NEW COMM-1193 - Activation Of Profanity Filter

Release 12-16-2012

FIXCOMM-1358 - Profile Reputation Tab: Tooltip Is Missing
FIX COMM-962 - Slow SQL Queries For Username Lookup
FIX COMM-1112 - Dependency On Omniture JS Files For Finishing Page Loading
FIX COMM-1164 - Login Links Outside Of Masthead Show IDS Login Page In Full Screen Mode
FIX COMM-1192 - Home Page Feature Rotation Speed And Black Overlay Box
FIX COMM-1194 - JS Errors When Using HTTPS
FIX COMM-1207 - Communications Stream AJAX Call Triggered For Anonymous Users
FIX COMM-1311 - Activity Page Returns Unexpected Error For Global Moderators
NEW COMM-1013 - Apple Touch Icon For IOS Home Screen

Release 11-18-2012

FIX COMM-839 - No Email Notifications For Blog Posts And Blog Comments In Followed Spaces
FIX COMM-909 - SCN Compatibility Issues With Internet Explorer 10 In Windows 8
FIX COMM-521 - Add "Site Index" Link To Footer
FIX COMM-636 - Reporting Abuse Shows Up In Activity Stream
FIX COMM-647 - Migrated KM Content In SCN Will Not Be Indexed Completely
FIX COMM-934 - Upload of Community Image into Sub-Subspace Fails Without Error
FIX COMM-1039 - Problems With Creation, Editing, Moving And Permissions Of External Resources

Release 10-28-2012

FIX COMM-949 - Draft Blog Posts Appear In SCN Search Results
FIX COMM-885 - Unpublished, Draft And Deleted Content Appearing In SCN Search Results

Release 10-07-2012

FIX COMM-704 - Missing Mapping For Standard Profile Properties
FIX COMM-879 - Format Not Valid Error In SCN Profile When Maintaining Alternative Email Address
FIX COMM-917 - Empty Error Message Shown When Trying To Login With Duplicate Email Address
NEW COMM-152 - Enable Trending People/Content Widget In Activity Page

Release 09-30-2012 (Business Center Forum Migration)

FIX COMM-30 - Moderator Gets Listed As Author Of Content After Moderating It
FIX COMM-634 - Possibility To Save XSS Code In Profile Fields
FIX COMM-704 - Missing Mapping For Standard Profile Properties
FIX COMM-856 - Adding / Changing Space Image Doesn't Work
NEW COMM-440 - Migration Of BC Forums
NEW COMM-797 - Implementation To Handle Additional Secondary SCN User IDs Per Profile
NEW COMM-853 - Disable Possibility To Change Email Address In Initial Username Confirmation Page
NEW COMM-881 - Disable Possibility To Change Email Address In User Profile Page (links to Change email address, Change password and Change newsletter subscriptions now in the right hand Actions area)

Release 09-16-2012

FIX COMM-28 - System Announcement Sends Mass Mails to Users
FIX COMM-589 - Improve Healthcheck To Cover Additional Failure Scenarios
FIX COMM-593 - Input validation in the profile update action
FIX COMM-605 - Some Metadata Are Missing And Do Not Get Display For Users
FIX COMM-759 - Escaping Of HTML Not Working Correctly For Custom Meta Tags
FIX COMM-790 - Avoid Browser Popup Security Warning During Login Process
NEW COMM-152 - Enable Popularity Widgets
NEW COMM-597 - Decouple Header Navigation Change From Application Deployment
NEW COMM-741 - Add Social Sharing Counts

Release 08-26-2012

FIXMOCPS-1359 - 'Remember me' Functionality Broken On SCN
FIX COMM-361 - OOM Situation On App Servers Due To Bookmark Handling Bug
FIX COMM-435 - Rejecting An Abuse Report No Longer Removes The Content
FIX COMM-633 - Redundant Information Showing In Abstract Of Search Results
FIX COMM-497 - Jive Cover Page For KM Assets Displays Wrong Action Button Text
FIX COMM-499 - Jive Cover Page For Content Type sdn-tv - Link Should Open In Correct Size Window
FIX COMM-500 - Jive Cover Page For Content Type sdn_code_sample - Missing Content Type Information
FIX COMM-698 - NumberFormatException On Space Meta Data When Editing Thread (Thanks Abesh Bhattacharjee!)
FIX COMM-737 - Truncated Text In Social Shares When Title Contains Special Characters
CHANGE COMM-375 - Enhance Results For Omniture Reporting
CHANGE COMM-469 - Enhance Search Facet With "Collaboration Areas"
CHANGE COMM-545 - Enhance Reliability Of SCN Landscape Virtualization

Release 08-05-2012

FIXCOMM-581 - Attributes Don't Get Saved When Updating Profile
FIX COMM-495 - Cannot View Threads With Specific User
FIX COMM-540 - Delete Points From Wiki To SCN Which Were Loaded More Than Once
FIX COMM-595 - Legal Footer Is Missing From Emails Generated By The System
FIX COMM-424 - Filtering Errors In Some Spaces
FIX COMM-593 - Input Validation In Profile Update Action
NEW COMM-400 - Social Sharing On Content Pages

Release 07-22-2012

FIX COMM-31 - Verify & Deploy Fix For Text Filtering With Solr Cluster -> Filter by Text is back!
FIX COMM-267 - Link To NetWeaver Cloud Developer Tools License Does Not Log In Automatically
FIX COMM-291 - Users Can't Be Found With @ Auto Completion
FIX COMM-329 - Restore Missing Blogs That Got Lost After Space Merge
FIX COMM-384 - Remove KM Initiated Duplicates From Search Results
FIX COMM-514 - Unexpected Login Popup When Trying To Access Public SCN Portal KM Assets
NEWCOMM-305 - Provide Search Link For Additional Results After Browse Content

Release 06-24-2012

FIX COMM-34 - Removing Un-needed KM Content From Search
FIX COMM-242- Scrollbars Showing In Discussion Threads With Normal Size Content
FIX COMM-348 - Reflect Space Permission Change In The Search Results
FIX COMM-369 - Problems with points deletion for a resource rejected due to an abuse report
FIX COMM-370 - Number of Points in the upper bar is updated with delay
FIX COMM-371 - Wrong calculation of Points upon 5-star share of Blog Post
FIX COMM-430 - Reputation Tab: Some information is not displayed
NEW COMM-301 - Show Spaces At Top Of Search Results
NEW COMM-431 - Move Blogs And Documents To Bottom Of Create Menu

Release 06-10-2012

FIX COMM-88 - Fix invalid KM links sent to TREX
FIX COMM-242- Scrollbars Showing In Discussion Threads With Normal Size Content

Release 05-27-2012

FIX COMM-30 - Moderator Gets Listed As Author Of Content After Moderating It
FIX COMM-33 - Un-follow People and Spaces Not Working
FIX COMM-220 - Discussions With Attachments Don't Show Actual Message Text
FIX COMM-221 - Users in China Cannot Login to New SCN Using User Name & Password
FIX COMM-240 - Service user shouldn't get points assigned
FIX COMM-241 - Incorrect record upon points assignment for 'someone likes your comment'
FIXSCNSBS-1509 - "Stop tracking" button does not work

Release 05-06-2012

FIX SCNSBS-1716 - MouseOver / MouseOut Event In Discussion Thread Adds White Space in IE9
FIX SCNSBS-831 - Top Contributor Widget: Link "Learn more... " Pointing To SCN Homepage
FIX SCNSBS-1702 - Corrupted Layout In Browse People Page With Long Usernames
FIX SCNSBS-1585 - Points Disabled In A Space Not Working All The Time
FIX SCNSBS-1551 - New Users Get Sometimes Stuck During Registration On Personal Data Page.
FIX SCNSBS-1777 - Follow Status "Awaiting Approval" Although No Required Approval Configured
FIX SCNSBS-1740 - Wrong Date Format In Send System Mails
FIX SCNSBS-1733 - Upper Border Of Content Thumbnail Disappears When Viewing Additional Options In Chrome
FIX SCNSBS-1039 - Ad Appears With Gray Background On Tags Page
CHANGE SCNSBS-1643 - Configure To Hide Content After 2 Abuse Reports
CHANGE SCNSBS-1668 - Configure Spell Checker With Common SAP Terms

Release 04-22-2012

FIX SCNSBS-1559 - Missing Forums To Be Migrated (ERP HCM Payroll Spain Forum and Portal KMC)
FIX SCNSBS-1684 - Broken Display of Thumbnail View In Chrome
FIX SCNSBS-1715 - Navigation Control For "Next Item" In Pagination Not Showing Correctly
FIX SCNSBS-1606 - KM Documents Show SAP User As Author
FIX SCNSBS-1610 - Failed Documents In TREX Search
FIX SCNSBS-1646 - Some Asset Types Not Correctly Indexed / Displayed In Search Results
FIX SCNSBS-1669 - New Indexes For Browse Content
FIX SCNSBS-1530 - Redirects For Blog Categories Broken
FIX SCNSBS-1466 - Like Points Stay Even After Content Has Been Deleted
FIX SCNSBS-1575 - Change Email Notification Text For "Not Active Contributor"
FIX SCNSBS-1634 - No Redirect From Old BC URL To User Profile In Some Cases
FIX SCNSBS-1672 - Update URL Mapping Table For Blog Post Redirects
FIX SCNSBS-1358 - Some JSON Resources Are Not Marked As Cache Able
FIX SCNSBS-1691 - H1 Text Overlaps When In Editing Mode
CHANGE SCNSBS-1688 - Move To Dedicated Solr Server

Release 04-02-2012

FIXSCNSBS-1641 - Code Formatting Doubles Bottom Margin In Edit Mode
FIX SCNSBS-1661 - UI Bug In New SCN Theme Impacts Content Rendering, Adds White Space
FIX SCNSBS-1646 - Raise Max Number Of Images Per Blog Post/Document To 30
FIX SCNSBS-1635 - Broken Layout Rendering Of 'Like' Button User's Own Documents/Blog Posts
FIX SCNSBS-1613 - Do Not Render Duplicate Results For Blog Comments, Bookmarks (Search)
FIX SCNSBS-1601 - Logon To WIKI Redirects User Always To WIKI Homepage
FIX SCNSBS-1596 - Blog Posts Appear In Search Results With Modification Date (Search)
FIX SCNSBS-1583 - System Announcement Sends Mass Mails to Users
FIX SCNSBS-1542 - Error When Assigning Points For Wiki Contribution If User Not Existent In New SCN
FIX SCNSBS-1526 - Improve Performance Of "Browse Content" Queries
FIX SCNSBS-1288 - Corrupt Layout In Content Browser List View When Using IE

Release 03-26-2012

SCNSBS-1624: Change Default Content Browser View to Details for All Registered Users
SCNSBS-1605: Remigrate Missing Blog Post Images (Preparations)
SCNSBS-1577: Users Get Points After Editing Documents / Blog Posts
SCNSBS-1504: Redirect Of Old URL Not Working After Blog Post Moved To Topic Space

Release 03-21-2012

SCNSBS-1612: Disable Text Filtering in Browse Content Area (Mitigation on Performance Issues)
SCNSBS-1546: Disabled Internal Search Page (Mitigation on Performance Issue)
SCNSBS-1527: Bugfixes on TREX Search Indexing

Release 03-19-2012

SCNSBS-1580: Author / Admin Email Address Showing in Blog RSS Feed as Author Information
SCNSBS-1562: Improvements on Application Memory Consumption
SCNSBS-1555: Variation of Old Forum Message URL is not Redirecting to New SCN Message URL
SCNSBS-1546: Remove Incorrect Links to Old Search Page
SCNSBS-1525: Remove "Join Date" in User Profile, Duplicate to "Member Since"
SCNSBS-1506: Redirect Loop at Login Leads to Error at "/sso-updateconfirm"
SCNSBS-1477: NullPointerException When Updating User Profile Creation Date