Download WebGUI 7.2.0 beta

WebGUI is a content management system and application framework with which a website can be easily managed and set up without having to possess extensive technical knowledge. It includes a photo album, blog, forum, RSS feeds and a SOAP frontend. For more information, it is useful to description of the program, or take a look at the website from WOSA. The developers of Plain Black have released a new beta version with 7.2.0 as the version number. The list of adjustments looks like this:

We are happy to announce the release of WebGUI 7.2.0 beta. This release includes several new features including sales tax support in the commerce system as well as a spell checker for the Rich Text Editor. This release also includes more than 30 bug fixes.

Note: This is considered a beta release due to the new features added and is not recommended for production use at this time.

• Added server side spell checker (Martin Kamerbeek / Procolix)
• Added configurable sales tax. (Tiffany Patterson / Elite Marketing)
• change: made Text::Aspell optional, nullifying spell checker if not present
• change: made all LWP user agents use env_proxy
• Help: If a Help Chapter only has 1 page, then in the TOC view it links right to the page instead of the Chapter.
• fix: HTML::Template::Expr templates would not handle template variables with dots in them. Added a fix to the template plugin so that dots are translated to underscores automatically in submitted template variables. Templates will still need to be manually updated.
• Help: Added pluggable docs for template plugins, and added a new tab to the Help that lists template parser docs.
• Added accessors to Session/Http.pm to make testing easier.
• Test: Added t/lib/WebGUI/PseudoRequest, which is a mostly functional Apache::Request object replacement. It doesn’t do everything, but it does enough to test Session/Http.pm, except for cookies.
• Added an option to the Syndicated Content Wobject that allows use of macros inside the RSS Url property.
• semi-fix: WebGUI/Mail/Send.pm no longer has extraneous UTF-8 BOM
• new: RSSCapable mixin for assets that can have RSS feeds, and RSSFromParent asset (automatic) that actually generates the feeds from them.
• new: workflow activity and hooks for deleting exported files on trash, purge, and changeUrl
• fix: editing posts loses changes in preview
• change: Asset::getContainer no longer changes the session asset
• fix: Survey numeric multiple choice options
• fix: Matrix/can’t remove picture from listing
• fix: inability to create shortcuts to threads
• fix: Style templates do not render metadata
• fix: Survey duplication not working
• fix: “Open link in new window” with WebGUI asset tree link in TinyMCE
• fix: Admin Users submenu doesn’t fill in uid
• Added YUI javascript library to the core, so that we can begin converting to a standard javascript API.
• fix: Resizable textarea no longer works in IE
• fix: EMS Manage Events broken
• fix: “orig_dependant” JavaScript error in PM quick task display
• fix: Tasks now start at zero duration in the PM system
• fix: RSS for collaboration systems now properly shows in the head rather than the body
• fix: Gantt chart bars erroneously being shifted one day to the right
• fix: Post titles containing periods result in urls containing periods
• fix: Activity list expands outside of edit workflow screen
• fix: Thread layout “flat” doesn’t stick
• fix: Rich Edit omitting rows drops subsequent rows
• fix: Phishing Bug… take that spammers!
• fix: Default PM Dashboard Template extra form element not implemented yet
• refactor: move Dashboard, Folder, and HttpProxy getEditForm overrides into definition clauses
• possible fix: Dates messed up on subscriptions
• Template variables in the main Survey Template were out of date in the documentation.
• fix: SQLReport no longer pages or runs nested queries when downloading.
• Made Stow’s warning a debug message, which is what debug messages are for.
• fix: WebGUI::Text::splitCsv no longer removes trailing empty fields
• fix: Product add-to-group would always try to add a user to a group
• Made many minor changes recommended by Perl::Critic.
• fix: No Integers or Strings as Placeholder Parameters
• Made many minor code efficiency changes.
• fix: Two cookies and incorrect Last-Modified date in HTTP header
• WebGUI::Text no longer spits out a billion warnings
• fix: workaround for IE not handling ‘ in SyndicatedContent was not catching everything
• fix: WebGUI::Operation::ProductManager added a tab with wrong name.
• fix: WebGUI::Operation::Commerce www_selectPaymentGateway no longer forces user to choose gateway if they are only authorized to use one
• WebGUI::Session::Scratch->delete now returns the value deleted for convenience, like Perl’s built-in delete() function.
• fix: Auth redirectOnLogin wouldn’t work if login called from Operation::execute()
• fix: WebGUI::Operation::Commerce->listTransactions now adds trailing 0’s to prices/totals.
• fix: Uncommitted Collaborations and adding threads
• fix: template variable displayLastReply is in none of the CS help files
• karma rfe: Faster rendering for editing interface
• karma rfe: Limiting access to admin mode to set of ips