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Latest release: cds-indico-0.92.1.tar.gz - tar file - 9 February 2007

For upgrading from version 0.8.14 and previous, you must run the script "Tools/Migration0.8.14To0.90.0.py" after the upgrade

For upgrading from previous version:

PIL is now mandatory
reportlab version must be 2.0
run the following script:
- Tools/indexes/reindexcalendars.py
- Tools/indexes/reindexcategories.py
- Tools/indexes/reindexOAIModificationDates.py (only needed if you use the OAI gateway)

New features:

Conferences:
- Registration form:
  - Added textarea field type
  - Added preview tab for registration form
  - Added confirmation message to registration form
- Call for Abstract:
  - Added field type "input" to CFA special fields
  - Added optional fields (textarea)
  - Abstract content field becomes optional in the abstract management of a conference
- Badge generator for conferences
- Conference display: Added the possibility of specifying a created page as default "home page" of the conference
- Created a special menu for conferences "other view" timetable contains: specific link to event home page and corrected link to printable version
Meetings:
- Participants:
  - Participants can be added and removed even after the meeting starts
  - Sorting participant list by names
  - Participants: allow to decline a request for participation w/o sending email notification
- Add "get material package" feature to meetings display
- Added sxi files support on meeting display
- Meeting display: sorted list of available styles alphabetically
- Added default material types to meetings: "streaming video", "donwloadable video"
All:
- Users:
  - Added list of special rights (categ and event management) to user details page
  - Added status index to AvatarHolder and status browsing option in user mgt
  - Add warning prompting user to enable cookies on login page (if cookies are blocked)
  - User/group search: search locally by default and give the possibility to the user to search other databases
  - User search: preselect user when search returns only one
  - User search: display number of results
  - User search result lists: sort alphabetically by name
  - Added checking function on email form fields
- Admin:
  - Admin interface: added group browsing (and group index)
  - Admin interface: added user browsing
  - Improved management area interface
  - Account creation can now be moderated or be notified to site administrators
  - Site admins can disable account creation
- Materials/Files:
  - Support file upload to category
  - Support for all openDocuments formats (odp, odt and ods)
  - Material with same name and file name display the name only once
  - File upload: allow file renaming
  - File upload: added link to file from the file upload panel
  - Allow delete all material of the same type at once
  - Sorted material lists alphabetically
  - Get Material Package: include standalone contributions
  - Get Material Package: propose to restrict package to given sessions
  - Material: a material can now be hidden for unauthorized people. The default is "visible"
  - Added support for file types: gz, tar, zip, sxi, sxc, sxw, xls
- Timetable:
  - Introduced "screen dates" concept for official event dates not matching the timetable
  - Timetable management: allow breaks relocation
  - Sessions now have internal modification/creation dates
- Tasks/Alarms:
  - Task management module per category
  - Email registration reminders sent every week (instead of every 2 days) and a maximum of 2 times
  - Task Manager: added interval and end date columns
  - Alert email: use short event URL when available
- Improved overview display
- GenericMailer is used everywhere
- Improved visibility management (replaced "up x levels" with the name of the upper category in which the event will appear)
- Got rid of "Serbia and Montenegro" in the available country list
- Replaced htmlarea embedded html editor by fckeditor with additional file upload support
- Domain restricted elements are advertised as "xxx domain only" instead of simply "xxx only" which was misleading
- Propose abstract list or contribution list to selected contributions export to PDF
- Export.py: new parameter event specifying the type of event
- Added support for keywords at event level
- Added possibility to change the type of an event
- Support keywords for contributions and subcontributions
- Adding multiple report numbers for the same system
- Added report number management to contributions and subcontributions
- Clone: default period is 1 week. A confirmation message is added stating the number of new events which will be created
- Improved stylesheet management for Indico styles (common header)
- Improved item creation form: predefined lists of people are sorted and displayed NAME, Firstname
- Improved event log display page (more readable)
- Event creation emails indicate the type of the created event
- Added event icons to overview
- Added ical export for sessions (conferences)
- Add managed sessions to "My sessions" page

Bug fixes:

Corrected bug with too long URLs in contrib/abstract/registrant lists
Corrected bug in registration form cloning
Corrected Serbia country code according to ISO 3166 (RS)
Corrected various bugs in timetable management
Session slot: deletion of a break if the slot location is custom
Participant registration: corrected bug with decline application
Meeting with empty title can be accessed from parent category
Corrected bug with multiple emails sent to registrants in case of db conflicts
Corrected bug with multiple VRVS bookings in case of db conflict
File upload now works
Display shortcut icon in IE
Conf timetable: corrected bug with item finishing at midnight
Speaker list is not empty if speakers were not also primary/co authors
Registrant page: corrected bug preventing from editing the sessions
Do an exact match when adding an email address to a user
Corrected bug when adding user to resource access list
Remove internal page when corresponding link is removed
Corrected bug in menu item ordering in "display" tab
Visibility was not taken into account in newly cloned events
File upload screen: when changing the number of files, previously entered information is preserved
Display session place and room (and not slot place and room) when slots are disabled in meetings
Task Manager: task was not deleted from conf pending queues when deleted in the TM
Corrected bug in Alarms modifications
Corrected bug which prevented the cloning of the alarms
Migrate Nice authentication to the new service with support of Lightweigfht account and listbox support
Overview now takes into account the start time of the event on the specific day
Date selection calendar: added missing last day in month
Users with specific access rights on part of an access key protected agenda can now enter the access key by using the "full agenda" link in the top menu
Protected agendas are not displayed any more in overview for non-authorized people
File action log: added user and father object information
Alert email: added room and signature: logged in user or empty string
Display correct room for slots in XSL views
Corrected bug when using "room used by other sessions" with empty value
Corrected bug which prevented from deleteing a break in a session in special cases
Corrected bug which prevented the creation of multi days sessions in conferences
Forbid starting dates before 1900
Corrected bug with empty description in conf program setup


Indico release plan 9/02/2007

*** This planning is only indicative. Please note our main priority remains CERN users support which in turn may delay the releases.

*** Next Release:
*release 0.94* - 2007 Q3
   - New multimedia help and contextual help 
   - Poster generation for events
   - SMAC integration
   - Personalization tools ("my events")
   - Improved room management system 
   - HERMES booking interface
   - Bills generation 
   - New timetable management interface (Drag&Drop)
   - Web service interface
   - Short-down URLs 
   - Overview possible on multiple categories 
   - Export to calendaring tools: export whole timetable (sessions+contributions) 
   - New evaluation form for conferences 
   - New PDA interface 
   - Add virtual domain customization 
   - New access statistics module 
   - Possibility to attach files to a category 
   - Fees management 
   - Registration form: management of personal data 
   - Improve meeting PDF creation 

 *release 1.0* - ?

*** Further coming:
   - Timezone awareness 
   - Committee list for conference 
   - Horizontal display of week planning/timetable 
   - Customization of columns in Contribution list 
   - Handle middle-initial in names 
   - Link to CDS/EDMS 
   - New "forum" feature in conferences 
   - Export to Excel of the timetables/contribution/abstract lists 
   - Adding messaging/presence to Indico
   - Internal search engine
   - Link with local room booking systems
   - Internationalisation
   - Synchronization with the NICE users db
   - Editing module
   - Proceedings generation improvement
   - Acceptance of personal certificates
   - Automatic generation of help files
   - e-payment module
   - System: Improved https management
   - System: using several files to store the database
   - System: clusterize ZODB
   - System: improve DB/maintenance tools

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