New and changed in version 7.7.0
The 7.7.0 release of Collaborative Review benefits from feature improvements.
Hotfix for DITA 1.3 and Java 11
- SDL DITA 1.3 DTDs and Catalogs
- AdoptOpenJDK 11-28 JRE
The Review Summary
In the landing page of each publication in Collaborative Review, you can now find the list of topics to review and access a set of features that support your review activity. This feature (list, properties tab, buttons) is controlled by the workflow.review.enabled configuration option and is disabled by default.
The "To be reviewed" list
In the central pane, all the topics to be reviewed are listed, each with a link to the specified topic and the name of the reviewer for that topic. The topics "to be reviewed" are the ones that have the status that is configured as being the status of topics in wait of review according to your workflow customization.
When you click on a topic link, you see the topic's content, a set of controls at the top of the central pane and the list of properties for this topic in the right-hand pane. There is also the Comments tab in the right-hand pane, which is not new.
The properties list
The list of properties in the right-hand pane contains all the properties for the topic that are available to your user group. You can modify some of those properties, just like you would do it in Publication Manager for example.
This properties list is now available for all topics when using Collaborative Review. The properties data is not stored locally. Instead, it is always sent directly from the Content Manager database.
The review controls
- Lets you navigate between topics (Previous and Next).
- Lets you change the status of the topic to a status indicating that the topic has been reviewed (the Review completed control).
- Includes the Edit button that gives you access to Content Editor, if configured.
- Includes the Hide/Show button at the extreme right, that controls the display of the properties tab and the comments tab both.
The navigation buttons are circling through the list: when viewing the topic at the bottom of the list and clicking Next, you display the topic at the top of the list.
When you use the Review completed control, the status of the topic under review is changed and the topic is removed from the Review Summary list.
The name and type of the status you set for the topic using Review completed depends on your Workflow, on the review feature configuration and on the status transitions that are available to your user group. The review feature configuration can be set by using the workflow.status.approve option in .
The "submap" icon
The out-of-the-box Collaborative Review skin for the table of contents displays a new icon, showing an "S" for "submap", beside every topic that is the first in a map. This lets you see where your maps and submaps are located in the publication structure.
When you decide to add a new topic with Content Editor, you can now anticipate the impact of this change on your publication structure, and know exactly which map will be checked out.
As any other element of the skin, this can be customized.
New software support
- Java 8 is now obsolete. This version of Collaborative Review is incompatible with it.
- Additional settings in Tomcat Apache are required. The detailed commands are provided in the Collaborative Review installation documentation.
Sitemaps
Sitemaps are now made up from several elements that are sent in an index file. The elements are re-assembled at destination. This improves the performance for very large sitemaps. A new global configuration variable sitemap.links.in.single.file lets you set the maximum number of elements in a sitemap.
Bundle install
The bundle installation is no longer available for Legacy Content Delivery. Therefore only one set of instructions is provided for installing Legacy Content Delivery: separately from your web server application.
Analytics
The analytics feature, disabled by default in Collaborative Review 7.6.0, is now obsolete. Even though some configuration items remain in this version, the feature is no longer supported.