This week in Bamboo, we’re excited to announce the three biggest Bamboo’s products: Alert Plus Web Part Release 3.0, Calendar Plus Web Part Release 4.0 and List Rollup Web Part Release 5.0 are now supported on SharePoint Foundation 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010. For the new Alert Plus Release 3.0 of SharePoint 2010, upgrade users should shutdown the old web service backend service prior to upgrading to Release 3.0. At the same time, we fixed some bugs and released some patches for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 products using our new Web License Manager version 1.3.9. Please see below for more details about the list of new releases, patches, bugs fixed, along with new features and know issues related to additional products for both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint 2007 Products:
HW23 Password Expiration Web Part Release 1.5.11
New:
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
• Use new bundle installation.
Bug Fixes:
• Access Denied error if remove permission “Browser User Information”.
HW08 User Directory Web Part Release 1.7
New:
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
• Use new bundle installation.
• Update 3rd party control.
Bug Fixes:
• Web part does not update images for users who do not have login account.
• Scroll disappear and the tree show missing node.
SharePoint 2010 Products:
Alert Plus Web Part Release 3.0
New Features:
• Removed web service backend – Use SharePoint timer job to execute alerts.
Limitations:
• Alert on recurring item in a calendar list. R3.0 provides support for alerting on recurring items in a calendar list. However if the series is modified, the users will get emails for each recurrence items if they alerts on items modified etc.
Known Issues:
• Don’t send mail when Document with required documents to be checked out – Use work around 1) Create an item exists alert on the doc lib. 2) Put calm with Created = [Today] 3) Set follow up days to 1 or 2.
• No e-mail is send when create new column – Create new column with “Date and Time” type (Date only) for Shared Documents list.
• Last Run Status –> see error “Input string was not in a correct format” when triggers the alert: “An item in the list is created” for My Task View. The query is based on the userid, and since when alert plus is running no user is logged in, the query will not work.
Upgrade Notes: Upgrade users should shutdown the old web service backend service prior to upgrading to Release 3.0
Calendar Plus Web Part Release 4.0
New Features:
• New Configuration Window .
• Updated Calendar Views.
• Display Lists across Sites/Site Collections.
• Display up to 10 SharePoint Lists in a single Calendar view; identify items of a given list with color code and ability to identify each list with an alias name. Merge ANY list type.
• Define order of Calendar views in the Action bar.
• Span Holiday List Items across multiple days.
• Option to Disable Item’s Display Column Link in Calendar views.
• Solid or Progressive Color options for Color Code.
• Icon Coding of Items similar to Color Coding but using an image.
• Icon Coding and Color Coding of items based on List Name or Site Name from List Rollup.
• Improved Tool Tip supporting all SharePoint and Bamboo Solution Column Data Types and displays for 45 seconds.
• Color Legend can be displayed Left, Right or Bottom of Calendar.
• Ability to hide errors from being displayed in Calendar.
• Ability to control text height for Text Wrap in Settings screen without requiring modification of CSS.
• Display Reoccurring icon in Day, Week, Work Week, Month, Quarter and Year View.
• In Day and Work Week view can display description details.
• Improved Color Code control.
• Gantt and Task View combined into a single Gantt view.
• pop-up New Item form for SharePoint Lists.
• Improved Go To Date control.
• Size calendar to smaller size without scroll bars appearing full length of Web Part (Minimum size: height 100 Pixels; Width: 750 Pixels).
• Single Occurrences deleted from Series still displays in Calendar views.
• Don’t show Tool Tip if no Columns are set to be displayed.
• Enable Gantt View button default.
Bug Fixes:
• JS error when adding 2 Calendar plus web parts to the page.
Limitations:
• Use web part in List View and getting error: “ListRollupSettings:: btnWegPart_Click :: Invalid URL argument.” Work around: use the web part in web part page or non-list view page.
• View that limits items does not limit items in Calendar Plus.
• Can only display one SharePoint List in Gantt View.
• Unable to change the column header text in the Select List/Library grid.
• Distinct values of top 200 records of List Rollup is used to color codes.
Known Issues:
• Columns used in Use Filter option need to be added to the Selected Columns – If these column are not added to Selected columns, users will see System.Data.SyntaxErrorException in the log file.
• When there are more than 100 users in a site, if users want to color code User filed, use people picker. Check users name function for this field in the tool part is disable in this release.
List Rollup Web Part Release 5.0
New Features:
• List Rollup Schema allows users to rollup same list type.
• List Rollup Schema Designer Web Part to support the schema architecture.
• List Rollup Grid View Web Part to support the schema architecture.
• Existing List Rollup Web Part name changed to List Rollup Classic Edition.
• Calendar Reoccurrence now supported both in List Rollup Classic Edition and List Rollup GridView/Schema.
• Resulting List Rollup Data Views using Classic Edition are visible default.
Bug Fixes:
List Rollup Classic:
• List Rollup – Duplicate Records from the same site collection – This is SharePoint issue.
• URL of the field. It is not working as designed.
• Times adjusted to Regional settings on server, not site – Use List Rollup 5.0 Grid View will solve this issue.
• An unexpected error has been encountered in this Web Part. Type: Bamboo.WebParts.ListCollateWebPart, Error: One of the properties of the Web Part has an incorrect format. Windows SharePoint Services cannot deserialize the Web Part.
• Document link problem with Finnish language pack.
• List Content Types and Type Icon Producing Error.
• List Rollup Datasource causes error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object” in Calendar Plus web part.
• Sorting a Lookup field in the List Rollup.
• Item Limit in View not reflected in Data View.
Limitations:
List Rollup Classic Edition does not support:
• Bamboo Look up Plus: Data form is showing raw values: 2;#Civic;#4;#Pathfinder;#1;#Rav4.
• Bamboo Column Level Security: Unable to display.
• Bamboo Visual Indicator: Show text only.
• Bamboo Validator: Bamboo Validator don’t display correctly.
List Rollup Schema Web Part:
• No support for Bamboo Column Level Security.
• No Support for Bamboo Video Library.
• Schema Description has 1072 characters limitation. If this limitation is exceed, click [Schema Settings] will show [The webpage cannot be found].
List Grid View Web Part: No support for Sorting/Filtering/Grouping of:
• Site Name.
• List Name.
• Multi User Column.
• Multi Lookup Column.
• Hyperlink column.
• Calculated column.
List Grid View and List Schema Web Parts other limitations:
• If Lookup column is selected to show additional data from other columns, the returned data is empty.
Known Issues for LR 5.0 Grid View and Schema web parts:
• List Rollup Schema-Cannot open file when clicking Type icon from File Share Library.
• Shows error ” BindDataForControl :::::::::: : Access is denied” when login Read permission or Anonymous when rolling up Discussion list.
• Sorting doesn’t work across lists.
HW06 Password Change Web Part Release 3.5.14
New:
• Remove check for minimum password age = 1.
• Validate the password text box to find any script injections.
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
HW07 User Account Setup Web Part Release 3.4.31
New:
• Include regular expression to check for scripting injection in the password text box.
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
HW10 Password Reset Web Part Release 2.4.28
New:
• Use Web License Manager 1.3.9
