SNAPPS Quickr Templates updated with latest hotfixes, bug fixes, and some important site changes
Category Quickr QuickrTemplates.com SNAPPSIn the hustle of pre-Lotusphere months, the team at SNAPPS still managed to take some support calls and put in a few fixes to the free templates for Quickr located at QuickrTemplates.com. But each time we rebuilt them, it seems a new hotfix came out that seemed really important, so we held off posting updates. Well the wait is over, as I've just posted updated versions of ten templates based on Quickr 8.1 HF 18 and Quickr 8.2 HF 9. These fix levels seem very stable, and are the latest, so you should update your templates (using the documentation) once you've updated your servers.
The fixes included in today's posting:
1. We have rewritten the enhanced view form to accommodate the xsrf security setting in qpconfig.xml (see comment #7) - meaning, you no longer have to turn it off for the templates to work. We are accessing and passing the security token properly, so the default installation of Quickr does not need to be modified. Once you update your places, you can turn this back on.
2. Same for the blog component in QSite, which experienced the same "you cannot take this action from this URL" issue when xsrf protection was on.
3. Fixed the QPhotos form which was updating the photo date field with each edit. Thanks to Jeff Schick, VP Social Software at IBM for reporting this to me at Lotusphere.
4. Fixed the Enhanced Task form in QProject for a customer-reported issue with LDAP names with a middle initial.
...and some other minor changes and fixes, mostly in QSite.
In addition to the fixes, we have made three changes to the site. First, we retired QActivities. Its functionality was based on Quickr 8.0 integration with Lotus Connections 1.1 - cool at the time, but really no longer relevant. It had some nice extra features like the 3-tab interface on the left, but would have required a lot of work to bring it up to speed. Second, we retired the Quickr 8.0/8.0.0.2 versions of the templates. We're just going to support 8.1 and 8.2 for now, and will make a determination about 8.1 after 8.5 ships in the second quarter, assuming we can update them all for 8.5. Finally, we removed the separate downloads for source code, at least temporarily. All of the design is open and can be accessed from the individual places, and we had a lot of duplication where the same form was used in seven places for instance. We're working on a plan for re-posting the source in a way that is easier to follow.
In the coming days, you can expect some more changes and a new addition (enhancement) to one of the templates based on your feedback and some work we did to enhance it for a celebrity user! As soon as I'm permitted, I will tell you all about it...you will be shocked, to say the least.
Have fun!
