Updates

Updates History

This page is a record of the updates that have been prepared for Nexus. The objective of the page is to help you identify whether any problems you might be having currently at an older release of the software have been addressed in more current versions.

Update NX33702 - 2009/01/06

• Allow for mixed-case passwords in the "Spool Explorer for the web" portlet.

Update NX33701 - 2009/01/07

• The pop-up window for adding new members to a group can now handle an unlimited amount of users

Release 3.37 - 2008/11/06

• Nexus now prevents login information from one Nexus library from being used in another library
• ECM Search Portlet no longer allows maintenance on deleted objects
• Ability to specify a custom logout URL
• Resolved issues where ECM Viewer would not correctly resize
• Resolved issues with scrollbars and collapsed columns.
• Allow case-sensitive passwords for iSeries users

Release 3.36 - 2008/07/24

• V6R1 Support.

Update NX33507 - 2008/05/13

• The delete user exit point API now passes the UserID of the user being deleted.

Update NX33506 - 2008/05/12

• Resolves issue with erroneous 'Profile handle not valid' message when changing an iSeries password.

Update NX33505 - 2008/03/07

Enhancements

• Corrects erroneous authorization message when adding sub-groups to a parent group.

Update NX33504 - 2008/03/07

Enhancements

• The ‘Open in a new window’ button on a search result from the top-right corner search box no longer changes the parent page.
• Login password last changed date and time fields are now updated in the user master file SMUSRF.
• All emails that remind a Nexus user of their password now include the site’s name in the email so users better understand what the email means.
• Resolved issue where ECM purging wasn't working properly.
• Distributing spool files from Catapult to the ECM over large amounts of data now works correctly.

Update NX33503 - 2008/01/29

V5R3 or earlier OS/400 ONLY

• Resolves V5R3 (or earlier OS/400) issues where apache error logs were inflated with debugging details

Update NX33502 - 2008/01/07

Enhancements

• Resolves paging issue where not all Link Protections would be displayed if there were more than 50

Update NX33501 - 2008/01/07

Enhancements

• Resolves issue with inability to delete a user from the work with groups menu in FireFox.
• You can now delete an object when in the ECM Maintenance in FireFox.
• Resolves JavaScript error when clicking Add on the Distribution Rule screen in FireFox.

Release 3.35 - 2007/12/18

Enhancements

• Additional Firefox support for users.
• Resolves an issue where if a user's 'favorite's folder is deleted it will successfully create and use a new one.
• Resolves issue of trying to move ECM documents when over a 1000 other documents are at the same level.
• Resolves situation where in some cases the "Place After" option in the ECM editor would disappear.
• Resolves issue where the "Place After" option would be empty at the Top of Folder Option even with correct authority.
• Resolves issue where the catapult distribution to the ECM would result in a error and the file would not be placed in the ECM
• Enhancement for guest login redirect and retain the original URL.
• Separated license key in each environment.

Update NX33403 - 2007/10/03

Enhancements

• Resolves issue where the catapult distribution to the ECM would result in a error and the file would not be placed in the ECM.

Update NX33402 - 2007/09/26

Enhancements

• Resolves trying to move ECM documents when over a 1000 other documents are at the same level.
• Resolves issue for a user when in some cases the "Place After" option in the ECM editor would disappear.
• Resolves issue when the "Place After" option would be empty at the Top of Folder Option even with correct authority to the contents.

Update NX33401 - 2007/09/18

Enhancements

• Resolves an issue where a user's 'favorite's folder is deleted it will successfully create and use a new one.

Release 3.340 - 2007/09/19

Enhancements

• Resolves issue where the authority list was not showing users, only groups.
• Resolved runtime error in the SmartChart portlet options when the SELECT string was blank.
• Last login data and time are now populated.
• Adds the session module for retrieving Nexus information in WebSmart programs.
• Resolves an issue when an ECM document is selected from a menu and that ECM document has a target of New Window, a new window would not popup with the document in it.
• Resolves an issue where a user creates a new account from the login screen and the skin selection defaulted to the first skin. Now the skin is set to "Inherit Site Skin".
• Resolves an issue where in some cases groups would show incorrect users in group management.

Update NX33010 - 2007/09/18

Enhancements

• Resolve issue where in some cases groups would show incorrect users in group management

Update NX33009 - 2007/09/13

Enhancements

• Resolves issue where the authority list was not showing users, only groups.

Update NX33008 - 2007/09/11

Enhancements

• Resolved runtime error in the SmartChart portlet options when the SELECT string was blank

Update NX33007 - 2007/08/29

Enhancements

• Last login data and time are now populated

Update NX33006 - 2007/08/17

Enhancements

• Adds the session module for retrieving Nexus information in WebSmart programs.

Update NX33005 - 2007/08/01

Enhancements

• Resolves an issue when an ECM document is selected from a menu and that ECM document has a target of New Window a new window would not popup with the document in it.
• Resolves an issue where a user creates a new account from the login screen and the skin selection defaulted to the first skin. Now the skin is set to "Inherit Site Skin".

Release 3.303 - 2007/07/24

Enhancements

• Resolved issue when the home bread crumb referenced a folder with a reference to an ECM document rather then the dynamic list that document was not loaded just the folder list.
• Resolved SQL looping problem when large group - to group references was encountered. This presented as a loop when the User tab from the group management was selected.
• Resolved issue when a non admin tried to edit an ECM document the auth tab would loop. Again when large amounts of group to group references were found.
• Some improvements to the purge date feature.
• Resolved issue when a guest is logged in there column and instance state selections are not retained.
• Resolved problems selecting ECM documents from popup selection windows. In some cases you would get a validation saying that no document was selected in others the documents would not be selected.
• Resolved ECM search changes including some performance improvements and a fixed for an issue where duplicate records would appear as you paged next/prev.
• Resolved problem where the ECM search index could crash with search strings exceeding 9999 characters
• Resolved install issue with ECFGSMTP.

Release 3.302 - 2007/05/24

Enhancements

• Resolved issues with purge process when not using site one
• Resolved issues encountered when dynamically creating lists and opening documents with 'New Window' or 'All of Window' selected.

Release 3.301 - 2007/05/17

Enhancements

• Increased SMIDNF field size to 5b from 4b which resolves some search index issues.
• Resolved issue where folder references in the ECM when the reuse template was used did not go to the referenced document
• Resolved several issues with the ECM purge not working
• Resolved the default starting page not working when group or user pages selected.

Release 3.3 - 2007/05/15

Enhancements

• Shortcuts for Adding New ECM Content
• Redesigned Groups Interface
• ECM Performance Improvement: Reusing Templates
• ECM Ripple Authorities Option
• Auto-Delete Option for ECM Documents (Purge Date)
• New ECM Favorites Folder & Menu
• Support for Emailing ECM Documents
• Improved Authorities Interface
• Misc Other Features

Update SPC011 for Release 3.12 - 2007/03/13

Enhancements

• Resolves issue with NXAUTH authorization module to accommodate the new UTF-8 encoding used by Apache in V5R4.
• Resolves issue in V5R4 where there are random occurrences of "Nexus Data Error" when accessing Portlet links. This occurred when using a newly created site.

Release 3.12 - 2007/01/12

Enhancements

• Includes below update which resolved the issue where IFS folders and files are not generated when creating new sites.

Update NX3103 - 2007/01/10

Enhancements

• Resolves issue where IFS folders and files are not generated when creating new sites.

Release 3.11 - 2006/12/22

Enhancements

• Enhanced the email functionality to use Sendmailex which permits Nexus to use email servers other than the iSeries.
• Added service program SM_RTS092 which addresses the JavaScript Redirects failing on foreign language systems.
• Resolved issues with the SmartCharts portlet involving incorrect interpretation of range values. incorrect colors and a situation where if 3 of the same portlet were on one page, they would not all display the correct data.
• Resolved issues where the deletion of groups caused unexpected behaviour.

Update SPC004 for Release 3.10 - 2006/11/21

Enhancements

• Resolves issue with NXAUTH authorization module to accommodate the new UTF-8 encoding used by Apache in V5R4.

Release 3.10 - 2006/10/12

Enhancements

• Added HTML editor to the default content UI
• Fixed a bunch of names for several UI
• Fixed problems with instance only option in the ECM search
• Changed Create Header to Create Include Text in ECM
• Removed order by when adding ECM template
• Add smurf id to WebSmart symbolic links in the ECM
• Made some changes to the default document skins and content. Improved the html/css (better scaling) and display only of the default selections to avoid future upgrade issues. Also fixed inflated file size problem.
• Added Clover, PDW, and Program icons along with file types, updated all skins
• Fixed some new site creation problems were the new site folders were not being created.
• Fixed problem on upgrade where user with custom group or user starting locations would be incorrect or give an error on login.
• Added logic to handle custom exit point API's and the adding of the smurf based on the gensmurfid settings.
• Includes BCDSYSINFO
• Several install improvements to avoid errors and correct some display issues

Release 3.07b - 2006/09/15

Enhancements

• Several fixes to the hint/secret question functions.
• Added hint/question to the force password update panel.
• Fixed problem where when editing templates from the work with pages tab the template properties pointed to the wrong template.
• Fix to Hover Value display on streaming line graph.
• Fix to prevent flash from caching data request URL on all chart types (this would cause inconsistent/incorrect data).
• Fix Redirect problem when using proxy.
• Fix for group managment not displaying the correct users in the popup selection list.
• On site creation the ECM dir path was not correct.
• Log user creation and update date and time
• Added target for symbolic links.
• Fix bug with creation of a account from the login.

Release 3.06b - 2006/08/23

Enhancements

• Fixed bug when adding menus and changing the menu type
• Fixed skin creation problem were the skins to copy from included the temp skin.
• Menus and menu items for custom sites can now have authorities attached.
• the default site has the site setting changed to the Welcome to nexus ECM folder as the starting location. The default users use the site setting.
• Several fixes to the include portlet.
• Fixed problem were the owned by group was lost in some cases.
• Added user retained instance and column states.

Release 3.05b - 2006/08/17

Enhancements

• Removed unused buttons from the ECM details UI
• On expand/collapse of a navigator the positioning and correct skin was lost. This has been fixed.
• Install fix to update site skin icons on upgrade
• Skin fix to size css file correctly (not default to 32k)
• Removed SmartCharts portlet from default site page

Release 3.04b - 2006/08/12

Enhancements

• A fix to NXAUTH where IP addresses using the full 15 char were creating authorization issues.
• When creating a page and you selected the ECM page type the lookup window was blank.
• Couple of minor UI improvements to the history and key defaults programs.
• Fix for group links and authorities on folders
• ECM loop problem when moving folders
• Security patch for placing folders
• Links Portlet fix for non http paths and path loading/sizing
• In edit mode expand folder when text selected for the folder
• ECM wild card search problem fix

Release 3.03b -2006/07/24

• Improved validation for no page found in NXMPAGE. Also better handling of this error in edit mode.
• Spelling fix in NXNOAUTH
• When adding a new skin the icons were not added to the css file till the change button was pressed. This meant sometimes the skin would not have the icons added.
• NXWLNKS - fix for select type in group/personal links not showing file types
• When adding URL links the template on change would not appear
• Added ECM editor reference from the Manage site page
• Improved SSL support
• Security patch

Release 3.02b - 2006/05/10

• ECM - Enterprise Content Management Click here for more information
• Group Management - Flexible and powerful abilities to organize users into a virtually limitless range of possible group and sub-group combinations. Click here for more information
• Main menu navigation system - much more flexible design of main menus, submenus and options to allow for better site customization for individual users or groups of users.
• Vastly improved user interfaces for both users and site administrators, with much more WYSIWIG design and administration features.
• Revolutionary page design approach using drag and drop for Portlet management layout customization.

• The ECM dynamic display mode can be used seamlessly with the current page mode.
• You can navigate in both the view mode and edit mode using a tree interface.
• Customizable display of folder contents
• Flexible grouping and ordering of content
• Choose which items to show to hide in the content list
• Include descriptive headers at any location in the list
• You can create or manage reusable templates that control the page design that Nexus uses whenever you display any document.
• Symbolic links - the same document can be referenced from multiple places in the ECM Navigator, avoiding the need to have it stored multiple times on the server.
• Redesigned editing interface - includes a sophisticated rich text editor that allows you to include custom HTML in your documents or page layouts, and to create HTML documents directly in the portal.
• Navigation with breadcrumbs.
• ECM quick search ability.
• You can define custom authorities to control hiding folders or documents.
• You can define custom authorities based on the position of the document in the tree.
• Ability to bookmark URLs so you can return to the exact document or email an exact document link.

Page design for both users and administrators has been greatly simplified. It now takes fewer steps to add or remove portlets, and to organize them on a page.

For Users:

• You can access the functions to directly change any of your page layouts, the order of pages or create new pages with one click from the standard portal view.
• You can drag and drop portlets visually to design your page. You see the results of your changes immediately.
• You can add, remove or reorganize portlets directly on any of your pages.
• You can create new instances of portlets directly on any of your pages (if you have the appropriate authority).
For Site Managers:


• Improved site manager access to pages and portlets - a new 'Work With Pages' interface gives site managers the ability to see various subsets of group pages and ECM page layout templates.
• Same capabilities for designing pages and creating new Portlet instances as for users.
• Simplified Portlet creation interface.

• New group management interface.
• Groups within groups.
• Group managers can now optionally add users and create groups.
• Group inheritance allows for granular construction of subgroups.
• Control the other Nexus users that each user can access.
• Authorities can be controlled by user, group or sub-group, or any combination.

Site Skins give you the ability to customize the artistic elements and design of any Nexus site. Although these were available in earlier releases, you had to edit the files used for skins manually, outside of Nexus. In this release, you can do all skins design work in Nexus.

• You can edit skins through a visual interface within Nexus. This interface includes a color-picker that shows a visual representation of what the various components of the Nexus user interface will look like, based on your choice of colors.
• Each skin now uses one consolidated style sheet based on one template.
• Nexus will retain site skins on upgrades and subsequent new releases.
• You can now attach and retain custom changes for a skin.
• Each user can optionally select their own skin, so any given site can have multiple skins.

Menus appear at the top of the Nexus user interface. They provide access to all the pages (personal, group pages, and ECM document pages) to which you are authorized.

• You can create custom menus with links to ECM documents or URLs.
• You can organize your menus (control what menu option is displayed, and in what order). For example, you can have the option for 'My Pages' appear first or last on the page, depending on your preference.
• Menus now behave better- they correctly overlay dropdown boxes and other controls.

• New View modes: Seven day mode and day mode have been added to the existing Month view mode.
• New quick calendars on the left of the current view mode provide a convenient way for you to navigate events.
• You can filter events by groups and categories.
• You can grant groups or multiple users editing abilities for any event.
• You can select authorities from the MRU (most recently used) list or from a complete list in the new popup window.
• Visual enhancements across all areas of the calendar.

• An ECM document can be set as a default from the site level.
• ECM template management interface.
• Create Headers and footers for any page design. This includes for standard, group and template pages.
• All group and user popups have been replaced. The new UI can filter and scroll page at a time through the list.
• New HTML editing control with many new features.
• Retain URL after redirect to login.
• Bookmark both standard pages and new ECM documents pages.
• The links portlets have had a face lift and numerous improvements.
• The catapult distribution rules will now allow for a folders in the ECM to be selected. In addition the Portlet has had a face lift.
• Each instance can now optionally display each border icon. In addition the top border and all borders can be turned off or on.
• Select ECM documents from the links portlets.
• Select ECM documents when designing your personal pages.
• General performance improvements across all areas.
• Improved foreign client support.
• New icons across every area.
• Improved Firefox support.
• Customizable initial login page - allows users to create their own design, including selecting a different page header than the one assigned to a particular Nexus site. Any customization will be retained when subsequent upgrades are done.
• Allow users to select their starting page or ECM document.
• Improved security with IP confirmation.