v4.4.2

Updates

move School Menus circuit under School Tools
add School Menus Meals circuit
Exclude favicon.ico to web.config SES rule
Phonelog Report changes
Fix bug with FormField list on FormActionMeta
Add ListToStruct UDF
Tags table:table fix issue wtih non existant PK, add data-id to row
Add GetUniqueName to Hearings (Still testing)
From Senate Hilltop: apps changes
Update MOBX
Fix issue with delete links being followed in Excel and deleting records
remove jqplugin (from upstream)
Update DateUpdated of Parent and Child Nodes of Deletes Node
Add Authorize.Net PaymentGateway instance types
Bugfix, Owner required on FAQs.Select
Add group by for formfields in case the form has multiple fields with the same name
Fix permission bug for FAQs Select existing
EmailBuilder use form:select2 for Subscription_id, Label_id, and Collection_id
Make form:select2 100% width in a form
Add Admins.SetDefaultOwnerGroup
Add phone log reports
Add ID to permissible attributes on iframe
Fix missing ); in udf.page.cfm
Fix bug with Cloudinary and Amazon act.add
Use DefaultValue in PublicProto SettingGet call
Add DefaultValue argument to SettingGet()
HillTop Senate SSL
Fix NodeSettingPredicates bug where it wasn't finding the right NodeSetting
Fix bug with table:table xfas not being passed in
Add Skin/Account report
Upgrade JavaLoader to 1.2
remove/reduce slot’s ViewNum restriction on School Menus/Schedule view
Add PublicProto AccountSetting

CORE-WS CHANGELOG

v4.4.1

Updates

Have RecordMetas use Social ImageSize
Add Social ImageSize
Post qry.view should return Image_id
Use twitter:image not twitter:image:src
Files.Image allow comma delimited list of ImageSize

v4.4.0

Updates

Add RecordMeta changes
Add UDF dateConvertToIso
Move PreLayout phase from Layouts.Root to Pages.View
DB: Fix Add Grid option to PageType NodeSetting Layout
changes from upstream
convert sanitizer formaction arrays and structs to older syntax for compatibility
add simple list layout value for Events
DB Fix NodeRelation_Remoce stored procedure
Add Event Gateway to watch for File changes to invalidate MOBX FileExistsCache
Update MOBX for better FileExistsCache
Add NodeRelations DB scripts
Payments payby-values default to just CC
Upgrade MOBX to 058
apps/server/provision.cfm Only create the common datasource if one is provided
Add apps/server/database-check.cfm
Payment FormAction Authorize.Net, add eCheck payby
Donation FormAction set step to Any for Other input
Add Authorize.Net Payment Gateway
Transaction_AddItem UDF default Qty to 1
add email lookup to Members Password Assist
Add support for non-email usernames to Members Password Assist
Circuits without Fuseactions don't get parsed in Deployment mode
Use IsSecureRequest instead of cgi.HTTPS
apply SortOrder group option to Event Types List view
Add COMMON_DATASOURCE to apps/server/provision
DB Add script for FrontRunner Connect subscription-field and label-field
FrontRunner Connect add optin-field
Add CFFileServlet exception to web.config
Add cfmemcached
FR Connect Opt-In Checkbox
Issue when location provided but all entries blank
Add FileExistsCache functionality
Standalone file server starter, using Coldbox
Apps: Server: Provision
Comment out any ram:// uses
Sanitize action fix for older skeletons
Add X-Frame-Options=SAMEORIGIN to web.config
Fix XSS Vulnerability on PostType ZipCode filter
If themes are requested from PostIterator, confirm DB version is there
Upgrade JavaLoader to 1.2

GSL Solutions is pleased to announce the availability of a new version of the software that delivers The Digital Bell, HillTop, and Frontrunner services. This release of the software is considered to be an incremental release and contains minor feature improvements and a number of bug fixes.

What You'll Notice As Being Different

Display Added Photos In Their Original Size - in previous versions of the product, when photos that were smaller than the display area were uploaded, the image would be enlarged to fill the display box. Now the image size will only be increased until one side of the image comes into contact with the display box and then the enlargement will stop.
Change "Images" To "Photo Gallery" In The Add Content Section - to resolve feature ambiguity, the "Images" page element has been renamed to "Photo Gallery" to better represent the true functionality of the feature.
Show "Redirect" icon in Page list view and Edit screen when a page is being redirected - when the pages with a web site are listed, a green dot will be placed next to those pages that are redirects.
Update The School Athletic Calendar Feature To Support The Ability To Print Out A Full Season - each sport has it's own season and now the school athletic calendar understands that a season exists and permits the full season of the events related to sport to be printed out.
Create Attractive Formatting For The Printing Of School Athletic Calendar Information - when the school athletic calendar feature had been updated and incorporated into the main product, this feature had gone away. It has now once again been added.
Make Time Of Event An Optional Parameter When Creating Sporting Events - in previous versions of the school athletic calendar feature, a start time was a require field for all athletic events. In order to permit events to be scheduled way into the future when start times may not be known, this requirement has been removed.
Update The School Athletic Calendar Feature To Support Filtering Of Events - a single school athletic calendar can be used to display multiple school sports (e.g. football, baseball, etc.). Now the total contents of the school athletic calendar can be filtered to only display the sport that the user is interested in.
Print full year calendar - a full year of sports events can now be printed

Technical Change Notes:

Updates

Create FormAction for Form Redirect
Update Calendar components for full release

allow multiple separate calendar outputs on a page
fix list layouts
set starting date if id/EventInstance_id is provided
add occurence properties to events (for output/not data)
add relTimeSpan filter and clean-up timeSpan filter
clean up output (modal, styles, etc)
Add IsAllDay to Athletic Events

The Digital Bell and Frontrunner production software will be updated on Thursday, May 14th, between 11:00pm - 2:00am. The HillTop production software is planned to be updated on Wednesday, May 20th between 11:00pm - 2:00am. During this maintenance window customers may experience up to 60 minutes of service interruption during which you will be unable to access the service. Customers will still be able to open new trouble tickets during the entire maintenance window. If you have any questions regarding this notification, please contact your Support team directly.

What You'll Notice As Being Different

School Lunch Planning -- This feature allows school district food managers to create a generic breakfast or lunch menu for a user specified number of days. Once created, the food schedule can then be applied to a calendar starting at any date. Options are included to permit holidays and school closing days to either be skipped or to have the food program delayed until school is once again back in session. The school district food manager can build a database of food items to be offered and has full control over the nutritional information associated with each food item..
High School Student Course Registration -- New functionality has been added that allows high school students to register for next year's courses by logging into the Digital Bell. The student's current teachers can make course recommendations for their existing students which the students will then see when they are making their course selections for the next year.
User Profiles -- Each user of the system now has a user profile. This profile contains basic contact information for the user including phone, email, and a photo. A role is associated with each profile and this controls what the user can do. User profile information is displayed as a part of each user's dashboard.

Detailed Feature Improvement Highlights:

Profiles and Profile Roles

Add Occupation to Profiles
Add Labels to ProfileRoles
Add a Profiles Application record
Create vProfileRoles view (for Element Type)
Add Profiles grid layout
Add Profile NodeSettings

Add GenerateSlug UDF
Add HasLabels to ElementTypes
School Registration Phase 2

Course Registration application for Students
CourseRegistration CFC
Page Browser with login through Access Code
Angular frontend for Selections/Alternates
Print view

Allow nullable Node Title and Pagename (DB)
Prepare for Posts as Nodes
Improve ProfileRole elements

Detailed Bugfix Highlights:

Fix Developer.Version fuse
Fix URLCreate and RouteCreate IsSecure
Fix script loop for School Menus Nutrition Facts modal
Let request.Skin.Settings values be created in the account settings
Fix Events missing CachePrefix on query call (for main/calendar layout)
Fix issue with Profile contact repetition due to bad column use

Technical Change Notes:

Updates

Update to Improved Logging
Add version check for Logging
Update dashboard profile UX
Add Edit current account to accounts TOC
School Registration: refactor local lib and add selections list
Set FormFormFields OrderBy to FAVs
add Data and Preview FuseAction to Pages for multiselect
add AllowRemove CRV option to Element Groupings
Fix URL of style resources in image tag
Add website to profiles
School Registration Phase 2

add Course Registration Page Element
add Table of Contents FuseActions to Course Registration Circuits
add create Course Segment on Course add action (with a flag of '')
add Grade Levels affiliations to Courses
add Subject filter to Courses
add shell for Course Registration Settings
rename Registration to Course Registration across CMS
add Student Selections/Alternates to Student View

Add Publisher permissions for Pages NEEDS CONFIG
Better ElementGrouping ordering
Improve the GenreateSlug UDF
Add support to ElemenTypes for HasLabels
Faster Permissions query for files circuits
Add labels filter to Profile Roles
Add Occupation to profiles

Fixes

Fix Subscriber export
Fix dashboard widget list (to not check non-existent Home permission)
Fix issues with Posts as Nodes prep
Fix correct App for Pages permissions
Fix missing ContentRecordType_id when linked by complete lists of Posts #28443
Fix case insensitivity for Plugin values #28393
Fix issue where AdminProfile.Add trys to send you to AdminProfile.Home
Fix display of Profile Role add without permissions
Fix adding Profile Role to Group
Only attempt to use ElementType GroupOption SortBy if it exists
Fix DB version ws data, should have been schema 1,0,0,11
Fix profiles labels
Fix issue in IE9 with File Upload application/json does not work.
Fix MassAction Publish/Unpublish ContentRecord_id in return URL
TextBlocks: Do not require Content
Post query speedup, permissions were too slow as UDF

The Digital Bell and Frontrunner production software will be updated on Wednesday, March 11th, between 11:00pm - 2:00am. The HillTop production software is planned to be updated on Thursday, March 12th between 11:00pm - 2:00am. During this maintenance window customers may experience up to 60 minutes of service interruption during which you will be unable to access the service. Customers will still be able to open new trouble tickets during the entire maintenance window. If you have any questions regarding this notification, please contact your Support team directly.

What You'll Notice As Being Different

The User Dashboard has been extensively changed. All of the plumbing and wiring have been changed. You'll see some changes now and we're set up for easily making future changes. In this release you'll see a change to the formatting of the user dashboard (we've changed corners from being rounded to now being squared). Also, we've reduced the number of individual modules that users can add to their user dashboard -- we've removed the modules that nobody was using. We've added the ability to to add modules for each individual post type in order to provide users with quicker access to the posts that they actually use. Finally, we've added a quick search feature so that you can find what you are looking for quicker.
A new functionality, system tags, has been added to the system. This allows sites that are similar to be grouped together. For The Digital Bell, this means that tags can be set to identify all of the schools that are in a given school district, tags can be set to identify elementary, middle, high, charter, and private schools. For HillTop clients, democrat and republican sites can now be grouped together, committee sites can be grouped together, etc. This feature will make it easier to allow functions to be related to a subset of websites.
The login screens for The Digital Bell, HillTop, and FrontRunner have all been updated. Now an image is displayed as a background and the user is presented with username / password login fields in the middle of the screen. Although the functionality has not been changed, the overall look is much more professional.
An interface to the BrainTree online payment processing service has been added to all three services. Users can now create payment forms that use BrainTree to collect online payments from users in addition to the support for PayPal payment collections that is already supported by all three products.
A new feature that allows teachers to make recommendations for what classes their current students should take next year has been implemented. This is ? of the total course sign-up functionality that will eventually be implemented. This feature knows what classes are being offered, what students are taking what courses, what teachers are teaching what courses, and what the planned sequence of courses at a given school are. All of this is used to present teachers with a list of their current students and a specific set of next course recommendations.
Selecting files to attach to a post has been made easier. In the past, when you had already added a media file to your account's warehouse, when you wanted to attach one of the files in the warehouse to a post you had to go wading through everything that was in the warehouse in order to find the file that you wanted. No more.
With the changes in this release, you are now presented with a much larger window which shows you all of the files that you have in your warehouse. Now you can limit what files you see by file type (photos, videos, docs), the documents are listed in "last added at the top" format with the thinking that you'll be most often working with the most recent files. If you know the name of the file that you are looking for, you can use the new search feature to look for it. In short, this feature is now better in every way.

Detailed Feature Improvement Highlights:

Add ExternalLink plugin handling to post view
Remove writeright function from events description output
Add e4 Better invalidate message handling
Throw error if account is not found
Fix nowrap breaking layout on Posts' Recently Updated list in sidebar when titles are lengthy

Detailed Bugfix Highlights:

27608 - On Posts.Add the Map is poorly formatted and off c...
27674 - DigitalBell Bug when trying to Preview a page from...
27761 - User Error Causes "Submit" To Never Complete
27831 - Edit screen for Forms does not show Title of form
27832 - Add Publisher Permissions to Events in Digital Bel...
27594 - When Deleting A User Account, A Blank Page Is Disp…
27596 - Error Message Displayed When Logging Into The Digi...
27707 - Submitting a Post Causes Program To Crash (Digital...
27759 - Selecting "Preview Page" Causes Error Message To B...
27833 - Digital Bell Post Calendar Colors

Technical Change Notes:

CORE-CMS CHANGELOG - v3.4.0

Updates

Add account Tags
Update masonry.js
Create and use Dashboard Widgets
Update jQuery scrollTo library from 1.4 to 1.4.13
Newer better Files.QuickSelect / form:multifile
Better Transaction reporting, integrate PaymentGateway info
Add BrainTree PaymentGatewayInstance interface
Login UI changes
Add Publisher permissions (NEEDS LIVE PERMISSIONS CHANGES)
Change form:image tag to use modal dialog selection
Add Link Scrub to Account Edit
Add select2-bootstrap CSS file and clearSelection JavaScript function
School Registration
Add Progress column format to table tag

Fixes

Fix file naming of processed images
Fix issue where blank value passed for Group item selection
Add null ordering to OrderByFormat function
Fix dashboard options reset when no options exist
Fix issue with EmailBuilds query TotalRows

CORE-WS CHANGELOG - v3.4.0

Updates

Improve manifest.xsl, add SiteSettings
Add grid view for page browsers
Add BrainTree integration
DB Add Grid NodeSettingOption to PageType NodeSetting Layout
Change Payment FormAction cc flow
Add Group.Options.Layout to Files cfg.circuit
Update Donation, e4 payment and paypal db form actions

Fixes

Fix missing Pages FuseAction Module and add empty dsp.top.com
Adding missing closing parentheses to ArrayAppends
Corrections for ticket 27951

The Digital Bell and Frontrunner production software will be updated on Monday, December 8th, between 11:00pm - 2:00am. The HillTop production software is planned to be updated on Wednesday, December 10th between 11:00pm - 2:00am. During this maintenance window customers may experience up to 60 minutes of service interruption during which you will be unable to access the service. Customers will still be able to open new trouble tickets during the entire maintenance window. If you have any questions regarding this notification, please contact your Support team directly.

What You'll Notice As Being Different

We've significantly enhanced what can be done with posts. Now these informational items can be treated in similar fashion to website pages. This means that photo galleries and images can be added to posts. Previously images could only be added by inserting them into the text of the post, now images can be added as modules along with the post text module.
Teacher reservation form functionality has been made both simpler to use and more useful. Parents who sign up for a conference with the teacher will now get a confirmation email that will contain a link that will allow them to cancel their reservation if their plans change. Once parents have signed up for a teacher's conference, the teacher will now be able to print out a copy of the time slots along with the names of the parents who have signed up. Additionally, an alphabetical list of the parents who have signed up can be printed -- this makes it easier for the teacher to determine which parents will be showing up and which ones will be skipping the conference.
Support for a fully functional athletics calendar has been added to each school's web site. This impressive functionality allows all of the sporting events that the school will be participating in to be placed on a single calendar. Once that has been done, the calendar display can be filtered to just show the schedule for specific sport that you are interested in by sport, gender, skill level, etc.
A framework has been put into place that will allow the CMS side of the The Digital Bell service to now automatically adjust to match the size of the display that the user is currently using. This functionality has always been available to users of the websites that The Digital Bell generates, now it is available to you when you are making updates to the website.

Detailed Feature Improvement Highlights:

Add ExternalLink plugin handling to post view
Remove writeright function from events description output
Add e4 Better invalidate message handling
Throw error if account is not found
Fix nowrap breaking layout on Posts' Recently Updated list in sidebar when titles are lengthy

Detailed Bugfix Highlights:

27318 Update Form Form Fields Form titles
27338 Show Active/Inactive status on Forms
27339 Show Active/Inactive status on Advertisements
27439 Event browser element - List layout
27340 GSL Permission Group function does not work on Bul...
27482 Form "Name" problem
27487 Make Adding Images To Pages More Intuitive
27348 Events Type Display Order in CMS
27528 Digital Bell Image Uploader Bug/Issue

The Digital Bell and Frontrunner production software will be updated on Thursday, October 23 between 11:00pm - 2:00am. The HillTop production software is planned to be updated on Monday, October 27 between 11:00pm - 2:00am. During this maintenance window customers may experience up to 60 minutes of service interruption during which you will be unable to access the service. Customers will still be able to open new trouble tickets during the entire maintenance window. If you have any questions regarding this notification, please contact your Support team directly.

GSL Solutions is pleased to announce the availability of a new version of the software that delivers the Digital Bell, HillTop, and FrontRunner services. This release of the software is considered to be an incremental release and contains minor feature improvements and a number of bug fixes.

What You'll Notice As Being Different

When you are looking at a school calendar, you'll now notice an "iCalendar" button in the upper right corner. If you click on this new button, you can add the events on the school's calendar to your personal Google Calendar or Outlook calendar. Changes to the school calendar after you do this will be automatically updated on your personal calendar.
You can no longer accidentally delete a school's home page -- you can edit it, but you can't delete this because if you do, it really messes up your web site!
We simplified the process of entering text blocks. We used to present you with a bunch of options that you really didn't need to fill out, the options are still there but we've hidden them so that you won't get confused.
The products now support multi-step forms. The information that you wanted a user to enter used to have to be entered on one long form. Now you can break that data up into multiple forms. The user will enter the requested data on the first form and then hit "next" and the the next form with data to be entered will be displayed. We've discovered that users are much more likely to complete long forms when they are presented this way.
When you change a page, a form, or an ad to inactive, it will no longer be displayed when you list all of the pages, forms, or ads. This makes it much easier to manage and work with just the pages, forms, and ads that are actually being displayed on your website. The inactive pages, forms, and ads can still be accessed when you do an "advanced search" and ask the system to display all of the inactive pages, forms and ads.

Detailed Feature Improvement Highlights:

Add plugin fields to Pages for top/bottom templates
Add anchor name to Events list items (for direct linking on calendar day view)
Add Layout options to Links
Remove default enterprise skin
Add iCalendar links and help page to Events
Make Reservation Slot data available to form actions
Add Online Payment Form Action
Add Form Steps
Add Plugin hooks for Nodes to Pages
Add Clear Feature feature
Update alert styles
Add bulk Admin actions
Update Events list view (sort by DateStart and display recent items in sidebar)
Add select2 custom tag
Prevent deletion of Home page
Fix Events permissions error on edit

Detailed Bugfix Highlights:

Clean up error page
Fix page.cfc ID search to user lowercase
Fix Posts sidebar details for synced items
Fix Reservations value check on Print Schedule (if empty)
Fix affiliations not deleting with Events
Fix File Uploads quirks
Fix Embargo time not displaying on Hearings forms

The Digital Bell and FrontRunner production software will be updated on Tuesday, September 2 between 11:00pm - 2:00am. During this maintenance window customers may experience up to 60 minutes of service interruption during which you will be unable to access the service. Customers will still be able to open new trouble tickets during the entire maintenance window. If you have any questions regarding this notification, please contact your Support team directly.

Feature Improvement Highlights:

Update Form Archive process
Add Redirect support to system error page
Add SchoolTube plugin display code to Posts view
Add password assist and reset to Accounts/Members
Add context Image to Post view
Internal: Merge Enterprise branch into Develop branch for website product

Bugfix Highlights:

Map input should only place the first viable result, not the last
Fix permissions for Admin with multiple groups
Fix issue where hitting enter on a form would trigger "Choose an image" instead of submitting the form
Fix issue where submitting Image Add Form on TextBlock on Page Edit would hide TinyMCE
Forms Validation RegEx should only run if not empty
Backwards compatibility for DateWrittenTo and DateWrittenIsAllDay

The production software will be updated on Thursday May 29th between 11:00pm - 2:00am. During this maintenance window customers may experience up to 60 minutes of service interruption during which you will be unable to access the service. Customers will still be able to open new trouble tickets during the entire maintenance window. If you have any questions regarding this notification, please contact your Support team directly.

Feature Improvement Highlights:

Bring back digest list item footer
Setting to hide Form titles
Enhance bounce task to use alternate HAS datasources
Reorder Post form

Bugfix Highlights:

Proxy port default set to 80
Let Coldfusion set session cookies
Reverse compatibility changes
Fix error thrown when creating an Event without selecting an Event Type

The production software will be updated on Monday, April 14th between 11:00pm - 2:00am. During this maintenance window customers may experience up to 60 minutes of service interruption during which you will be unable to access the service. Customers will still be able to open new trouble tickets during the entire maintenance window. If you have any questions regarding this notification, please contact our Support team directly.

Dr. Jim Anderson

Vice President of Product Management, GSL Solutions

Phone: 813-637-8535 x117

Email: jim.anderson@gslsolutions.com

The following items are new features we've added to The Digital Bell.

Ability to accociate Labels to Content Elements
Advanced search option and multi-select capability for Content Elements
Labels section display has been updated to show Label Types as sub-sections
Improved Label associations - When labels are selected in Posts or Content Elements the display will show the selected Labels
Ability to quickly add new Labels - When viewing a list of Labels for selection, a user can quickly add new Labels to existing Label Types.
Meta Keyword generator added to the HTML editor - Allows users to generate keywords for use with the Meta Tag plugin when generating page content.
Calendar and time selector added for all date and time fields in Posts.
Improved Form field management options for Form Builder.