Current iteration
Iteration 7.3.1
Date released: February 20, 2012
Description of changes:
- Accessibility
- Many updates to further improve accessibility of the
application.
- Machine Translation
- Fixes to return to the original language of an article after an
article has been machine translated.
- Search - Basic Search
- Fix to search term highlighting to not cause issues with links,
spaces, or single character words.
- Added highlighting in abstract.
- Search - Advanced Search
- Updated category selection field.
- Search - Custom Search Scope
- Added back to the product with an updated category selection
field.
Iteration 7.3
Date released: December 12, 2011
Description of changes:
- Editing
- Update to use CKEditor for rich text editing that provide the
following enhancements:
- Add tables to articles
- Add images to articles
- Paste as plain text
- Find and Replace text in the article
- Maximize editing window, must minimize to save changes
- Change text color
- Added support for opening links in a new window
- Feeds
- Added Recently added by Tag feed
- Added Recently added and Recently edited Community Articles feed
- Show correct article title in Article comments feed
- Update order of articles in Recently Added feed to match wiki
interface
- Update global feeds to show correct wiki title
- Help and Feedback
- Added Content feedback link to footer of every page
- Added more details to search help including examples of supported
Boolean operators
- Machine translation and translation
- Inform users, through an information message, that there might be an
IBM translated version of the product documentation available. The wiki detects
the browser language and displays the message if the language is not English.
This only displays on Product Documentation articles. The message includes a
link to the IBM Translated Product Documentation category.
- Inform users of machine translation, through an information message,
that there might be an IBM translated version of the product documentation
available. The wiki detects that machine translation is being used and displays
the message in that language. This only on Product Documentation articles. The
message includes a link to the IBM Translated Product Documentation
category.
- Mobile wiki
- Show category name when viewing product documentation.
- Navigation
- Fixed issue where navigation lost its place after a comment is
submitted.
- Performance
- Build views more efficiently to reduce load time.
- Print
- Updates to improve code samples in printed articles.
- Updates to remove unnecessary elements of the page when
printing.
- Ratings
- Add view to the Home page for Top Rated articles. It displays the top
ten. An agent runs nightly to collect top rated articles.
- Search
- Added shared search scopes that IBM can create for all to use.
- Fixed ability to return to Advanced Search results from an article
using browser back button.
- Rearranged Advanced Search form to better organize options.
- Added support for word variants in Basic Search and Advanced
Search.
- Added support for fuzzy word searches in Advanced Search.
- Added ability to edit search string for Basic Search.
- Allow * wildcard in Basic Search.
- Highlight search terms in title and body of article.
- Fixes for special characters entered in search string.
- Added help to no search results message with link to Advanced
Search.
- Show number of results in Advanced Search results.
- Validate dependency between some Advanced Search fields.
- User interface
- Many accessibility improvements to correct tab order, add labels, and
more.
- Save and Cancel buttons display at top and bottom of article when
editing or adding.
- Updates to improve appearance in Internet Explorer.
- Updated browser title bar to correctly show wiki title, category
name, and article title throughout the wiki.
- Added promotions box to highlight new opportunities to get
involved.
- Sort Tag view by date article was added (consistent with other
views).
Previous iterations
Iteration 7.2.1
Date released: July 28, 2011
Description of changes:
- Search
- Treat "and", "or", and "not" as words.
"AND", "OR", and "NOT" should be used for
Boolean.
- Fixed issue related to search scope and hierarchical user IDs.
- Fixed issue related to custom search scopes named
"learning" or "community" using the predefined search
scopes.
- Wrong tab highlighting after performing a simple search.
- User interface
- Fixed issue where two left navigations displayed when searching or
adding comments
Iteration 7.2
Date released: July 11, 2011
Description of changes:
- Editing
- Copy as link icon next to the article subject allows you to copy the
wiki markup to link to the current topic from another topic in the wiki.
- Improvements to support quotes in titles
- Feeds
- Feeds available in browser address bar
- Subscribe button added for category and article feeds
- Updated feed names to be more descriptive
- Add Recently Edited Articles in this category feed
- Add Recently Added Comments in this category feed
- Machine translation
- Enhanced handling of machine translation
- Ratings
- Fixed issue with truncated rating URL
- Search
- Create and save custom search scopes
- Search includes text on category pages
- Added support for AND and OR for tags in Advanced Search
- User interface
- Updated user interface with OneUI design. This includes updated
styling to Advanced search, categories, and articles.
- Product documentation navigation expands and highlights to show the
current topic
- Share and footer links open in new windows
- New community articles tab
- Replace tag cloud with one from Extension Library
Iteration 7.1.1
Date released: March 29, 2011
Description of changes:
- User interface (Web): Change background color of the Action
Toolbar.
Iteration 7.1
Date released: March 11, 2011
Description of changes:
- Navigation (Web)
- Display icons in hierarchical table of contents.
- Remember the size of the navigation when it is resized.
- Remove RSS feed link from category list and place on action toolbar
on category pages.
- IBM Translated Product Documentation added to Product Documentation
navigation to allow quick access to translated Product Documentation when
available.
- Removed twistees from Product Documentation navigation Accordion
trays. Usability feedback said these were confusing.
- Search (Web)
- Added ability to scope to Simple search to content areas of Community
Articles, Product Documentation, or Learning Center
- Added message that says when no results match search criteria.
- Article abstracts are now searched.
- Fixes to boolean searches.
- Updated overall layout of Advanced search to draw attention to
choices that include or exclude information or narrow results.
- Added Case sensitive to Advanced search.
- Added Content type to advanced search.
- In Advanced search, updated Category selection to use check boxes to
make multiple selection more obvious.
- In Advanced search, added ability to filter Category list by Content
type, to reduce the number of categories to go through.
- Added ability to hide Advanced search or Cancel it, which returns you
to the page you were on.
- Include tags in searches.
- User interface (Web)
- Update layout and content of wiki homepages.
- Remove general What is this wiki? box and text from home page.
- Remove spotlight articles from home page.
- Add new section on home page to highlight Community Articles.
- Add new section on home page for Stay Connected links.
- Added link in banner to the full list of wikis available
- Added RSS link in action toolbar on category pages
- Changed the default number of articles displayed in a view to 25 with
choices of 50, 100, or 500.
- Current editable edition and Original noneditable edition
labels/links have set locations now and don't flip depending on the edition you
are viewing.
- Minor fixes to improve IBM icon display.
- Share (Web)
- Added ability to email a link to the wiki, a category, or an
article.
- Machine translation (Web)
- Moved machine translation from left navigation to the banner of the
wiki.
- Enable n.Fluent to translate from any supported language to
English.
- Editing and other (Web)
- Added width attribute to {code:} in wiki markup
- Increased width and height of Catetory and Tag fields when editing
an article on the web.
- Fix bug in version comparison interface
Iteration 6.3.1
Date released: December 13, 2010
Description of changes:
- Make left wiki navigation resizable.
- Update style of tabs in the wiki user interface.
- Improvements to custom navigation feature.
- Fixes to Advanced Search for things like exact phrase, page layout, and
wiki title missing.
- Improvements to User Profiles to add images, update page layout, add IBM
icon, and exception errors.
- Prevent revisions from being indexed by search engines
- Update Comments on the Web to let users enter a Subject.
- Handle runtime errors more gracefully
Iteration 6.3
Date released: October 4, 2010
Description of changes:
- Web share feature
- Print friendly format for articles
- Disabled Machine Translation of code samples
- Added globe image next to Machine translation widget
- Improvements to simple search to not search for exact phrases
- Added User profiles application and connected to user names
- Added ability to see changes between two versions of an article
- Added support for indexes in product documentation
- Featured communities component added to home page/footer
- IBM icon fixed - identifies which articles were added or edited by
IBMers
- Updated help
Iteration 6.2.1 Fixpack 1
Date released: August 31, 2010
Description of changes:
- Improvements to tools used to publish product documentation, for
linking, table of contents, task headings, and more.
Iteration 6.2.1
Date released: July 26, 2010
Description of changes:
- Fixes to wiki markup for tables and pipe character usage.
- Temporarily remove IBM icon for improvements.
- Set logo and footer links based on preferences.
- Improvements to tools used to publish product documentation, for linking,
table of contents, task headings, and more.
Iteration 6.2
Date released: June 8, 2010
Description of changes:
- Improved category navigation with expandable hierarchy
- Improved Product documentation navigation by adding expandable hierarchy
on left side of wiki
- Improved the wiki user interface with the following changes:
- Added tabs to the wiki user interface to allow users to quickly jump
to different types of information.
- Uncluttered the left navigation column by moving global options such
as login, register, help, and views to the wiki banner.
- Made Add article and Edit article buttons more prominent.
- Fixes to formatting in Internet Explorer 6
- Added ability to sort article lists alphabetically, by add date, by
edit date, by author, etc.
- Added icon to help users identify who IBM contributors are
- Improvements to wiki markup which can be used when editing
articles
- Improvements to wiki metrics collection
- Search
- Added Advanced search capabilities with the ability to scope search
to a specific category
- Improvements to allow the wiki to be indexed by other sites such
as the IBM Support site
- Continued accessibility improvements on tab order and page formatting
- Added Media gallery call out to left navigation
- Fixes to embedding multimedia in wiki articles
- Updated wiki help
- Fixes to issues with file attachments
- Fixes to viewing comments in Internet Explorer
Iteration 6.1
Date released: March 8, 2010
Description of changes:
- Accessibility:
- Make screen reader order match visual order of page
- Fix heading order
- Version/Revisions:
- Selecting a revision from a revision causes 404 error
- Changes to Revisions section to make it more clear
- No way to get back to current version when viewing previous
version
- Highlight version being viewed
- Last update in page information box is reflecting last update of
previous revision.
- Web: Short description in view shows wiki markup and HTML markup (add
abstract field)
- Show Original edition of documentation by linking to version one of
articles (Revision 0)
- Expandable navigation for documentation Table of contents
- Label/icon Current and Original editions of product documentation
- Fix tag filtering
- Add numbering field for sorting home page content view
- Make home page column labels, icons, and descriptions configurable
- Make Notes help and Web help layout the same in all sections
Iteration 5.3
Date released: January 11, 2010
Description of changes:
- Suppress HTTP JVM: lookup name entries on server
- Home page content view needs sort
- Update help to talk about HTML that is supported
- Add text about image width to web and notes forms
- Add horizontal scroll for content that runs off the page
- Wiki markup for links: Links break to articles with auto generated URLs.
- Add a title attribute (e.g., title="Search") to the input tag
for the search field.
- Comment out machine translation temporarily
- Change community link in the footer
Iteration 5.2
Date released: November 16, 2009
Description of changes:
- Font and size boxes showing up in web editor in 5.1
- Wiki markup help updated
- Fixes to .jpg image uploads
- Update help
- Redesign home page
- In Articles I Created view, tag filtering line appears
- Feeds are not correct - not well-formed
Iteration 5.1
Date released: August 14, 2009
Description of changes:
- Only allow users to upload/attach images (jpg, gif, png) and PDF.
Requires Domino 8.5.1. Update UI to note what is allowed and where they can
post code.
- Malicious script/code validation
- When using hidden categories starting with the same word as a visible
category, all categories are hidden.
- Update wiki markup help
- Update web help with IA input
- Upgrade environment to Domino 8.5.1
- Enable WebSphere Machine Translation in wikis.
- Category page with 1 article not displaying in archive list
- Fix pagination if tag results span multiple pages, nothing shows in page
2, etc.
- Filter tags by category (support ability to link to articles tagged
within a category)
- Tag cloud delimiter - return to using comma and allow multi-word tags
- Pagination not working on recently added/edited/my articles on IE8 (and
IE6)
- Fix hidden categories and pagination issues
- Web editing allows only one category to be chosen
- Move statistics databases to dedicated server
- Search no longer working after upgrade - regression issue
- Attachments not working on live XPages wiki
- Punctuation in titles breaking links
Iteration 5.0
Date released: May 18, 2009
Description of changes:
- Upgrade wiki template to Domino XPages
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