anyMeta 3.2.1 released

Major change in figures and document predicates

From now on figures and documents are refered to with the predicate figure or document. There used to be a label on the egde to an image or document for connecting the caption with the correct edge. With the advent of anyMeta 3, this labeling scheme has become unnecessary. With the 3.2.0 release we finally made this cleanup. In practice there isn't a big change for template or controller builders, except that it is easier to handle documents and figures in the context of a thing (eg an article). For editors there is a small change, as they do not need to specify the label of attachments anymore.

Some new modules

We created some new modules.

Rating

enables rating of things in the database, you can rate along 10 different rating systems. There is a batch rating system also.

Log

a simple module to check the error, view and update log

GoogleAnalytics

fill in your Google Analytics tracking code and enjoy all the statistics that Google can give you.

Contact

a refactoring of the friend-system we already had, here we are collecting everything that has to do with the foaf functionality of anyMeta.

Refactored the NewsAggregator, Sharing and Schedule

The NewsAggregator is the basis for the sharing of content between anyMeta systems and with other websites. We completely changed the processing of the RSS feeds, introducing an intermediate RSS item store.

The Share module has been reorganised, using a new module interface to distinguish between anyMeta specific and more generic importers. It also uses the RSS item store to decide if an item can be imported or not.

The Schedule used to work together with the cron. This gave some problems when we updated sites and on load-balanced servers. We changed the Schedule so that is does its periodic work on a page request, after all data has been sent. Optionally only page requests by crawlers are used, freeing normal visitors of the longer waits. It is also possible to trigger scheduled work by visiting the module/Schedule/tick controller.

Bugfixes

The following bugs are fixed:

• wiki expansion of a list at the start of text inserted an extra space
• search order in connection lists in the /admin, prev/next page could loose the search order
• default trust permission were not set correctly on a new thing creation
• permanently deleting things could leave aliased things unfindable
• aliased things could show up more than once in search results
• schedule did not always execute correctly
• changing the axo of a thing was not possible for non sysadmin users
• the text pivot table was not updated after deleteting a thing
• the language parameter was handled incorrectly for inline edits
• changing the language of a thing could result in an sql error
• changing your password on the profile page did not change your password
• warnings when changing the polling interval of rss feeds
• sharing tagged items could result in dropped or duplicated tags
• changed scoring when searching on text, giving more relevant search results