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XperienCentral R27

Release date: March 26, 2020

Language Version Support for Media Items

Since XperienCentral 10.27.0 each version of a media item has a specific language. Each media item is assigned the "default editing language" of the home page during an upgrade to this version or higher.

A consequence of the language support is that media items might not be shown any more if its language differs from that of the page where it should be shown. This is also the case for (lead) images stored in the media repository. This is sometimes undesirable but can in many cases be solved by setting a fallback language. If for example the fallback languge for Dutch is set to English and there is no Dutch media item to be shown on a Dutch page, the English version will be shown. This is the case for all kinds of media items, for example images as well as articles. 

• The "default editing language" of the home page: Properties panel of the home page > General > Other > Language
• Enable/disable fallback languages: Channel Configuration > General > Options > "Use another language if language is not available"
• The fallback language to be used can be set in the Language Labels panel.

Modify your Solr Configuration

In this version of XperienCentral, the Lucene version has been upgraded to version 6.6.6, therefore you must make the following changes to solrconfig.xml:

Change the declaration

<luceneMatchVersion>5.4.1</luceneMatchVersion>

to

<luceneMatchVersion>6.6.61</luceneMatchVersion>



and add the following declaration to the <config></config> section:

<schemaFactory class="ManagedIndexSchemaFactory">
   <bool name="mutable">false</bool>
</schemaFactory>

Deprecated Method

The following method has been deprecated in the XperienCentral API in this release:

• MediaRepositoryManagementService.createMediaItemVersion (MediaItem,MediaItemVersion) — Use createMediaItemVersion(MediaItemVersion) instead.

Removed Methods/Interfaces

The following methods and interfaces have been removed from the XperienCentral API in this release:

• MediaRepository.createContent — Use MediaRepositoryManagementService.createMediaItem(Website, String) instead.
• MediaItemDownloadVersion.getPersonalization() — Use getPersonalizationItem() instead.
• PageVersion.getPersonalization() — Use getPersonalizationItem() instead.
• Element.getPersonalization() — Use getPersonalizationItem() instead.
• Element.setPersonalization() — Use setPersonalizationItem() instead.
• MediaItemDownloadVersion.setPersonalization() — Use setPersonalizationItem() instead.
• Website.getPersonalizations() — Use getPersonalizationItems() instead.
• Utilities.checkPersonalizations() — Use checkPersonalizationItems() instead.
• DirectoryElement
• FileNode

• PollElement

• PollItem

• WhoIsWhoElement

Update your Presentation JSPs

You need to update your presentation JSPs if they use the following methods:

• PageVersion.getPersonalization()
• Element.getPersonalization()
• MediaItemDownloadVersion.getPersonalization()

Perform a global search in your presentation JSPs for the string ".personalization" to ensure that you catch all instances.