BlueSpice 4.5: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:43, 4 June 2024

Release date:

BlueSpice 4.5 is a minor release

New Features

Feature	Description	Screenshot
CollabPad	CollabPad documentation	Edit together
Revised book feature	Books documentation	Books page
Enhanced special page "Pages"	"Pages" documentation	Special page "Pages"
Enhanced special page for listing uploaded files	"Files" documentation
Revised notifications	A simpler and more flexible notification system that is easier to manage and to understand. Users now subscribe to notifications based on their preferences. Notifications documentation

Additional improvements

Added extensions (8)


Extension	Description	Developer
CollabPad		Hallo Welt!

Removed extensions (4)

FlaggedRevs: Replaced with extension ContentStabilization

Content changes

The following content changes can affect the display of content in the wiki and may require manual adjustments:

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-{{Featurepage|featured=false|featuredesc=BlueSpice 4.3 has been released. Read about the notable changes now.|featurestart=07/19/2023}}
+{{Featurepage|featured=false|featuredesc=BlueSpice 4.5 has been released. Read about the notable changes now.|featurestart=}}
 __TOC__
+<!--
 ==Releases==
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 }}
-==Introduction==
+==Introduction== -->
 Release date:
-BlueSpice 4.35 is a minor release
+BlueSpice 4.5 is a minor release
 ==New Features==
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 !Screenshot
 |-
-! Content Droplets
+! CollabPad
-|We are introducing  ''Content droplets'' as a convenient way to insert special content in a wiki page. This includes tags, parser functions, and templates. The feature replaces the "Magic words"  menu item of the Visual Editor.
+|
-{{Icon|bi bi-question-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}} [[Manual:Extension/ContentDroplets|Content Droplets documentation]]
+{{Icon|bi bi-arrow-right-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}} [[Manual:Extension/CollabPad|CollabPad documentation]]
-|[[File:droplet menu.png|link=https://en.wiki.bluespice.com/wiki/File:droplet%20menu.png|alt=screenshot of the Content droplets menu|center|thumb|450x450px|Content droplets]]
+|[[File:collabpad4-5.png|alt=Meeting minutes page with 3 contributors|center|thumb|450x450px|Edit together]]
 |-
-!Enhanced Menu Editor
+!Revised book feature
-|
+|<br />
-The main navigation can now contain hierarchical links. In addition, 4 configurations of the sidebar are possible.
+{{Icon|bi bi-arrow-right-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}}   [[Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceBookshelf|Books documentation]]
+|[[File:bookshelf4-5.png|alt=Bookshelf "Manuals" with 3 books|center|thumb|450x450px|Books page]]
-{{Icon|bi bi-question-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}}  [[Manual:Extension/MenuEditor|Menu Editor documentation]]
-|[[File:Enhanced sidebar.png|center|thumb|320x320px|Enhanced Sidebar]]
 |-
-!PDF Embed
+!Enhanced special page "Pages"
-|It is now possible to embed a PDF viewer in wiki pages. It is contained in the Content Droplets menu for easy access.
+|{{Icon|bi bi-arrow-right-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}}  [[Manual:Special pages/Pages|"Pages" documentation]]
+|[[File:pages4-5.png|alt=alphabetical list of pages in the main namespace|center|thumb|450x450px|Special page "Pages"]]
-{{Icon|bi bi-question-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}}   [[Manual:Extension/ContentDroplets|Content Droplets documentation]]
-|[[File:Extension PDFEmbed.png|alt=Screenshot of an embedded PDF file|center|thumb|450x450px|Extension PDFEmbed]]
 |-
-!Startpage Templates
+!Enhanced special page for listing uploaded files
-|To support the creation of portal pages for the main page and for all other content namespaces, we now provide two startpage templates.
+|{{Icon|bi bi-arrow-right-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}}  [[Manual:Special pages/Files|"Files" documentation]]
+|
-To further support users with the design of portal pages, the renowned icon library Font Awesome is now bundled with BlueSpice.
-{{Icon|bi bi-question-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}}  [[Manual:Extension/MenuEditor|Startpage Templates documentation]]
-|<gallery widths="170" heights="200">
-File:Startpage Intranet.png|alt=Screenshot of "Startpage Intranet"|Startpage template 1
-File:Startpage Team.png|alt=Screenshot of "Startpage Team"|Startpage template 2
-</gallery>
 |-
-!Container Filter
+!Revised notifications
-| You can now mark sections of a page for filtering and display a filter just for the content located within these sections of the page.
+|A simpler and more flexible notification system that is easier to manage and to understand. Users now subscribe to notifications based on their preferences.
-{{Icon|bi bi-question-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}} [[Reference:ContainerFilter|Container Filter documentation]]
+{{Icon|bi bi-arrow-right-circle||#0d6efd|0.2em}}  [[Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceEchoConnector|Notifications documentation]]
-|[[File:ContainerFilter example.png|alt=Screenshot of a filtered table|center|thumb|450x450px|Container filter]]
+|
 |}
 ==Additional improvements==
-*VisualEditor: the copy and paste functionality out of other applications (e.g., MS Word) has been significantly improved.
+*
-*Tagging of page templates: Page templates can be categorized with tags in the Page template manager. The tags work as a filter when selecting page templates.
 ==Added extensions (8)==
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 !Developer
 |-
-!ContainerFilter
+!CollabPad
-|Allows to filter content elements within a page.
+|
-|Hallo Welt!
-|-
-!ContentDroplets
-|VisualEditor integration for inserting predefined content snippets
-|Hallo
-Welt!
-|-
-!ContentStabilization
-|<span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34)">Replaces the approval mechanism previously provided by the extensions FlaggedRevs / BlueSpiceFlaggedRevsConnector. The experience for the user should be seamless.</span>
-|Hallo Welt!
-|-
-!FontAwesome
-|Provides a library of icons which can be used in conjunction with the Droplet "Icon"
-|MediaWiki
-|-
-!InstanceStatus
-|Allows to insert a header or footer (on a page basis or on a namespace basis) in the content area of a page.
-|Hallo Welt!
-|-
-!PDFEmbed
-|Media handler extension for PDF files.
-|MediaWiki
-|-
-!PreToClip
-|Copies contents of <code><nowiki><pre></nowiki></code> and <code><syntaxhightlight></code> tags into the clipboard.
-|MediaWiki
-|-
-!SectionAnchors
-|Adds a link to headings for copying the path to the clipbard.
 |Hallo Welt!
 |}
-== Removed extensions (4)==
+==Removed extensions (4)==
 *'''FlaggedRevs:''' Replaced with extension ''ContentStabilization''
-*'''BlueSpiceDrawioConnector:''' Inntegrated into exension  ''BlueSpiceDrawio''
+*
-*'''BlueSpiceFlaggedRevsConnector''': Replaced with extension ''ContentStabilization''
-*'''BlueSpiceInsertMagic:''' Replaced with extension ''ContentDroplet''
-== Content changes ==
+==Content changes==
 The following content changes can affect the display of content in the wiki and may require manual adjustments:
-* Missing privacy pages can cause a yellow banner. This is only visible to the admin users.
+*<br />
-* The start page templates may not be able to display all styles if templates contained therein already exist in the wiki before the update.
-* Styles defined in templates or in MediaWiki:Common.css may no longer be applied.
-* The ContentDroplet icon can only be inserted in block mode.
-* Missing language switcher on pages whose title area is hidden.<br />
 {{Icon|bi bi-arrow-right-circle|||}} [[Known issues|More infos about the content changes]]