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titleXperienCentral R29.1

XperienCentral R29.1


Warning

Due to a known issue which has been solved, GX Software strongly recommends that you do not install or upgrade to XperienCentral version R29.1.


Release date: September 7, 2020


Note

Minimum Version Required for Upgrading to XperienCentral R29.1

Upgrading to XperienCentral R29.1 requires a minimum version of R26. If you are upgrading from XperienCentral R25 or lower, you must first upgrade to R26 and then upgrade to XperienCentral R29.1.

Changes to the Interactive Forms Date Validator

The date validator in Interactive Forms now only accepts the yyyy-mm-dd date format instead of dd-mm-yyyy. As a result, the formFragmentDateInput presentation in wmpformpresentation now generates a yyyy-mm-dd formatted date for the backend instead of dd-mm-yyyy. If you have a custom implementation of formFragmentDateInput that returns dates in the dd-mm-yyyy format, you need to modify it to return yyyy-mm-dd instead.

Additionally, you need to check any post-processing code that further handles dates submitted in an Interactive Form. For example, if the date submitted in the form is copied and pasted to an email message or stored in a database, you need to evaluate how this change affects any further processing you do to on data received in forms.

 









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titleXperienCentral R29

XperienCentral R29


Warning

Due to a known issue which has been solved, GX Software strongly recommends that you do not install or upgrade to XperienCentral version R29.


Release date: July 21, 2020


Note

Minimum Version Required for Upgrading to XperienCentral R29

Upgrading to XperienCentral R29 requires a minimum version of R26. If you are upgrading from XperienCentral R25 or lower, you must first upgrade to R26 and then upgrade to XperienCentral R29.

New Method for Retrieving Media Items in Content Overviews

In this release, the Dynamic Content Overview now supports an explicit fallback language selection. For this implementation, the API of MediaCollectionElement (inherited by MediaCollectionOverviewElement) has been extended with the new method getMediaItemVersions() which replaces the method getMediaItems().

getMediaItemVersions() returns the correct media item version depending on the fallback language selected in the Dynamic Content Overview tab. In order to render the correct media item versions in the mediaCollectionElement on the frontend, the presentation JSP of the mediaCollectionElement must now use the new API method getMediaItemVersions().

For example, in webmanager-wcbs/webmanager-cestyle-wcb/src/main/resources/presentationtype/jsp/element/mediaCollectionElement.jspf, the code


Code Block
<c:forEach var="mediaItem" items="${mediaCollectionElement.mediaItems}">
<c:set var="mediaItemVersion" value="${mediaItem.current}" />

must be replaced by:

Code Block
<c:forEach var="mediaItemVersion" items="${mediaCollectionElement.mediaItemVersions}">
<c:set var="mediaItem" value="${mediaItemVersion.contentItem}" />

Beginning in version R29, SEO URLs are now available for downloads. If download elements are linked to downloads in the Content Repository, a small change is required to use these new SEO URLs. The change must be applied to each presentation of a download element (any presentation with scope DownloadElement).


Info

For downloads whereby a file is uploaded directly in the Download content element, no change is required and you should continue to use your current implementation.



Beginning in R29, use the wm:link tag for downloads just as you would for any other media item in the Content Repository. For example:


Code Block
themeEclipse
<%-- Generate the link using th wm:link tag --%>
<wm:link var="downloadLink" reference="${mediaItemVersion.targetPage}" contentid="${mediaItem.id}" linkText="${mediaItemVersion.title}" /> 

<%-- HTML escape and render the link --%>
<h2 class="normal"><a href="${wmfn:escapeToHTMLAttribute(downloadLink.url)}">${wmfn:escapeToHTML(downloadElement.title)}</a></h2>

New Security Protocol Setting for Frontend Servers

In XperienCentral R29, a new preview functionality was introduced. Among other things, this feature enables visitors who do not have permission to log in to the XperienCentral backend to nevertheless preview unpublished content. For this reason, the new setting frontend_use_https has been introduced. This setting can be configured for each website individually. frontend_use_https is disabled by default which means that preview links will be generated using the HTTP protocol if you do not enable it.





 

 








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