- Stories can be rated now using the 5-star rating system
- Stories can be commented by other users now
- Redesigned Form Generator to be able to handle multi-language content
- Added ability to upload and manage multiple email addresses from text files and send campaigns to portal members and non-members
- Added ability to manage different mail bodies for portal members and non-members
- Improved email bounce management
- Improved and optimized delivery performance
- Allows regular users or an entire community to manage their own blog within the portal and assign them to tags
- Blogs can be rated and commented by other users
- Blog overview allows users to see most active authors, most-discussed blogs, newest blogs, most-viewed blogs, best-rated blogs
- Added forum groups to better categorize forums
- Forums can now be assigned with write and read access for usergroups
- Improved Personal Area
- Portal members can create groups in their Personal Area to better categorize their personal tools (Profile, RSS feeds, documents, favorites)
- Allows Content Managers to fully optimize their portals for search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN and control every aspect of the process
- Prepare and export search engine optimized content automatically
- Access reports that show what the search engines know about the portal and what the page rank for selected keywords is
- Review reports that show measurable results and help to further improve the content optimization, i.e. how many visitors came from Google and which keywords did they use
- Uses SITEFORUM AJAX framework to allow agents to have draggable chat windows and show all portal visitors in a list that refreshes smoothly and seamlessly
- Allows one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many chats and conferences
- Can support videochat/audio chat
- Users can now get context-sensitive help on most administrative features by clicking the "Help" button in the administration field
- All administrative frontends come with an introduction text to help users to better understand the purpose of the module
- Allows quick access to "search elements", "last actions" and "create new elements"
- Improved SITEFORUM Webshop
- Redesigned product manager frontends and backends
- Added support for Authorize.net payment solutions support to clear credit cards
- Redesigned and heavily improved interface
- New css standard module login form
- Update of css modules (dialogs, colorsets, floatTools)
- New placeholder $portalLabel
- New designAttribute type for external feed links
- Improved css management
- New administrative css classes
- Members can search for other members through many different search interfaces (members in my area; members in my industry; members in certain companies, etc.)
- Members can connect with other members and grow their network
- They can use various actions to maintain their network, for example: create events, setup contents, upload photos, define data access options, share documents and many services more
- Many additional features to create a successful, social network
- Memberships allow to automatically assign users with usergroups and/or userroles for a given timeframe. When the membership expires and does not renew, then the groups and/or roles will be automatically un-assigned
- Membership manager allows to set the timeframe, compose reminder emails and to assign the membership with a Online Shop product that can be purchased in the online shop
- Memberships can also be set up with Paypal® payment solutions for fully automated membership management
- SITEFORUM can now communicate with SOAP-based webservices and can also become a webservice that distributes information to permitted users as a webservice
- Fully redesigned interface to access administrative features to manage multiple portals per server
- Added Maintenance System
- Backups and archives work data automatically on a daily basis (i.e. data from click reports, user histories and site statictics), improves overall portal performance
- Error templates can now be customized for every portal
- Allows SITEFORUM developers to create plugins that can be added to the portal and fully interact with all portal applications
- Improved transaction management for cluster and single server environments
- Added functions to communicate and manage with Lucene fulltext search indexes
- Many bugfixes and improvements
- Added ability to run complete instant updates in a one-click process without re-login
- SITEFORUM full-text index is based on Apache Lucene search engine now
- Creates a unified search result which contains stories, products, documents, full-text indexes from PDF, MS Word, MS Powerpoint and text-based files, marketplace items, blogs, users and forum messages
- Allows to sort search results by relevance, date (newer first/older first)
- Indexes can be rebuilt and will be automatically updated when information gets updated or changed
- Search results fully preserve SITEFORUM's personalization engine. Documents that are not accessible to users will not appear in the search results
- Allows portal masters to set up their own system emails
- LDAP connectivity via the native SITEFORUM function $ldap has been improved. Connections can be established and queries can be executed
- Result sets can be fetched and manipulated as it can be done with $sqlResultSet.next
- Allows root users to see a live list of all transactions and their status in different colors (Waiting, Good, Ok, Slow, Problem, Blocked)
- List gets updated every few seconds
- Allows root users to kill transactions that are blocking others
