R187 System Update - Scheduled to go live May 28th, 2013

[florincarlig_a]

We are announcing a new Business Catalyst release, scheduled to go live on Tuesday, May 28th, between 1AM - 6AM PST.

Please refer to our blog post for an overview of all major changes.

Minor enhancements and cosmetic improvements

• You can now select "Product Code" as a field in Custom Reports
• The new InContext Editor now supports editing from iPads
• Usability improvements and new editable regions decorations for the new InContext Editor and the visual Newsletter campaign editor

Issues fixed by May release

Issue #	Description
3538815	Products export does not export products after the 9999 position
3009528	Multiline fields not displaying line breaks when viewed in admin NOTE: This bug fix has been reverted in a patch applied on May 29
3519750	Some system emails on some template sites have Business Catalyst branding
3551911	Email campaigns timed out when the content displayed is too large
3556466	Cannot access the admin panel domains for sites that have a big number of MX Records
3537686	Improved Delete labels on webapp items list so they're not done by mistake

[Liam Dilley]

What is this Florin:

3009528

Line breaks are removed from multiline fields

Can you explain this please because we use this, I use this, people use this. We put line breaks into this and use editors on front end of web app items, put these in with javascript when we form results or content from web forms to populate a web app item field etc.

Stripping out the line breaks will break the formating.

Could you explain why this is being classed as a bug and changed?

[smitchell80]

Hi Liam,

There's an existing bug not allowing line breaks when viewing within multiline fields via admin.

"Problem: multiline fields should allow line breaks - at the moment text on multiple lines are stored in the back-end on a single line. This becomes a problem when we including {tag_threadlast} into the reply emails and the original submission appears all in one line."

Basically we're fixing this not removing. 

Cheers!

-Sidney

[Liam Dilley]

Thanks mate, thats heaps better info. Maybe update the table to word it a bit better?

[smitchell80]

Done!  Thanks for the heads up earlier. 

[nova cvmweb]

"The new InContext Editor (beta) now supports editing from iPads"

When I read this, almost fell out of bed :-)))))))))))

[nova cvmweb]

A question regarding the new release... increased plan limits also mean changing pricing of the packages? I hope not...

nova*

[florincarlig_a]

Hi nova,

No, the plan prices remain the same.

Thanks,
Florin

[nova cvmweb]

thank you Florin...

[Liam Dilley]

Great,

IT broke, I knew it, Why I was asking.

3009528

Multiline fields not displaying line breaks when viewed in admin

The same bug as about a year ago

What is rendered - http://www.prettypollution.com.au/business-catalyst/training

The Html - http://jsfiddle.net/VVvRP/

So anyone with html in mutline text fields now have breaks all over the place.

I Knew I was right to be concerned with this

[florincarlig_a]

Hi Liam,

We're looking into this, with the engineering team. I'll update you as soon as we have more details when this will be fixed.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Thanks,
Florin

[Liam Dilley]

Thanks Florin. I knew to be wary of thi as you guys messed with it nearly two years ago and broke it then too.

I knew had a feeling it would not be any good and I did not push for you guys to hold off in it when I should have.

Annoyed its broken but more annoye I knew it would break and did not push it with you.

It clearly was not tested HTML like the example was never put in to multiline fields to see how it would handle.

Lots of sites broken because of this so its very frustrating.

[Liam Dilley]

With the people and the tag body for announcements not rendering images etc may be related as well.

[florincarlig_a]

We're looking into both issues - they seem to be caused by 2 different problems.

Engineering is currently working on fixing both - we'll update you (and on the status page) as soon as it's completed.

Thanks,
Florin

[smitchell80]

Hey guys,

The team just launched a patch to address these issues. 

Please view the status page for more details.

- http://status.businesscatalyst.com/

Kind regards,

-Sidney

[Liam Dilley]

Thanks Sydney.

As you probably know  I think these could have easily been avoided