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New and changed in version 7.6.0

The 7.6.0 release of Collaborative Review benefits from feature improvements.

Content security

In Content Manager, repository folders for publications, topics and maps are assigned usergroups. When the content of these folders is published to Collaborative Review, it can be viewed only by users who belong to the corresponding usergroups. This applies only if you use ISHSTS for authentication.

This behavior applies to publication content, publication lists, comments and search results.

User interface

On the publication list page displayed when selecting Manage Application > Distribution > Distribution Profile > Publications, we added a Select All checkbox that allows selecting all the publications in the list.

Table of Contents (TOC)

The performance of the TOC has been dramatically improved (especially the first load to cache), making the navigation much more comfortable. This improvement lead to some settings changes:
  • In the Developer's workbench, when the Develop with this skin button is used, the attribute transform.skin.on.fly is set to session. This means the TOC is entirely generated at each request (to reflect the skin changes). This consumes more resources. The attribute can be cancelled by logging out and logging back in.
  • In Manage Application > Global Config, when the Invalidate ToC HTML button is used, Collaborative Review starts deleting html files for TOC and maps, showing a progress bar as deletion progresses. All users viewing the same page will see the progress bar. The process must complete before it can be started another time.

Languages

Collaborative Review can now process Chinese, and Chinese is now available as user interface language.

Performance: Search speed

Search performance has been improved in this version, through a process re-factoring as it was migrated to Java.

Sitemaps

You can now specify the URL that sitemap links should use, for a better referencing in search engines. A new global configuration option has been created: sitemap.custom.url. The default value is empty, meaning that the URL of the machine where publishing takes place will be used in the sitemap.

Caching

The global configuration options cache.data.enable and cache.xsl.enable have been removed and are replaced by the respective topic, table of contents and publication cache options.

Pre-caching has been optimized, this results in a faster application restart.

Distribution on Publishing

Publications can now be automatically sent to distribution servers when the publish completes. You can enable the feature and define a list of distribution servers on the Distribution Center page of the Manage Application tab.