A3.16 Release Notes
A3.16 is a major release with a host of new features and bug fixes. Dig in. We think you’ll enjoy it!
Highlights
- New Topic View - various enhancements based on usability testing and longstanding enhancement requests including: 1) cleaner layout featuring tables to better convey structure of data, 2) simplified UI for editing multiple values, 3) faster rendering pages, 4) clearer relationship between properties and their types
- Autocomplete improvements - various enhancements including: 1) ability to create new with the keyboard using ’shift-enter’, 2) better sorting of results to coincide with users’ inputs, 3) ability to enter a Freebase URL or ID (GUID) to match to something that autocomplete isn’t finding via display names
- Import compound lists - now supports importing complex lists, whereas previously the control only appeared for simple lists with display names, the import now allows users to import additional values at the same time. For instance you can import a cast list for a movie including the actor and role, whereas before you could only import a list of director’s films. With our next release we hope to also support importing of literal values and dates.
- IE6 Support - we’ve resolved the critical memory leak bugs we were having with IE6 and can now happily say we support this browser version again.
| ID | Type | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2317 | Feat | MQL: Can’t ask for the type of a value |
| 3812 | Feat | Allow for autocomplete on non-topics from WYSIWYG editor (Discuss) |
| 6149 | Feat | Topic autocomplete should interpret full freebase URLs and IDs |
| 6271 | Feat | Autocomplete in search box should show types and domains |
| 6492 | Feat | List import - import to Compound Value Types (multi-property lists) |
| 6916 | Feat | Image upload - allow users to input license info |
| 6976 | Feat | MQL Enhancement: property delegation |
| 6977 | Feat | MQL Enahancement: Direct addressing of properties from included types |
| 7263 | Feat | Show number of instances on type page (where available) |
| 5712 | Task | New Topic View |
| 6211 | Task | Ordering of type matches in Schema editor (current domain, commons, other) |
| 6645 | Task | integrate TinyMCE editor (with rich text features) into help topic template |
| 6656 | Task | Need new rule for displaying non-unique properties within a CVT (nominee case) |
| 7146 | Task | Performnace: Implement fast tag-matching in Genshi |
| 7319 | Task | New topic view: web links should include Wikipedia link (non-editable) |
| 4871 | Bug | Logic for enumerated types that are included in non-enumerated types |
| 4885 | Bug | IE6 & 7: Autocomplete showing red x for topics which have no images in flipbook |
| 4939 | Bug | Friendlier validation for image type mismatches |
| 5204 | Bug | Don’t allow user to try to add a Domain to a Type |
| 5317 | Task | Filter view in admin mode should display GUIDs and links to CVT instances |
| 5845 | Bug | Don’t allow user to add a type to an existing type |
| 5866 | Bug | |
| 6136 | Bug | MQL: allow type:/type/link and type:/type/key at toplevel of query |
| 6245 | Bug | IE6 only: Flyout no longer displays images for autocomplete |
| 6400 | Bug | One shouldn’t be able to make a topic a user |
| 6403 | Bug | One shouldn’t be able to add additional types to a user |
| 6414 | Bug | Users can type discussion threads as other things |
| 6415 | Bug | The contents of the search box should not be replaced when autocomplete loads |
| 6416 | Bug | On a slow connection the signin page is very confusing |
| 6487 | Bug | cotype autocomplete not finding published user-created types |
| 6506 | Bug | timeout when viewing filter page for /type/user |
| 6556 | Bug | Armed Force fails as property name |
| 6740 | Bug | missing edit menu on display name for audio/mpeg |
| 6758 | Bug | Disallow successful pasting of non-WYSIWYG html tags in Discussions and documents |
| 6794 | Bug | As superuser, cannot add property to public type |
| 6813 | Bug | Autocomplete should not show images (unless /common/image… |
| 6824 | Bug | Safari: buttons don’t change graphic display to active when clicked |
| 6835 | Bug | javascript url not stripped out of blurb |
| 6857 | Bug | Cannot select topic to merge with (musical track) |
| 6875 | Bug | domain edit pages missing link to “Your ” |
| 6890 | Bug | Discussion: cancelling adding a URL/Freebase link cancels new post entirely |
| 6901 | Bug | Recreated types are created as topics |
| 6920 | Bug | Need friendly wrapper for permissions errrors |
| 6972 | Bug | graph autocomplete - type array is empty, returns objects that do not match type parameter |
| 6974 | Bug | graph autocomplete returns null value for image |
| 6980 | Bug | Client is adding “*” to calls to /api/service/autocomple |
| 6982 | Bug | Safari: Pasting of text from clipboard into an empty text does not allow user to save |
| 7051 | Bug | Private domain will not list types if user topic page title is changed |
| 7122 | Bug | possibily offensive flag doesn’t bring up dialog. |
| 7123 | Bug | flags put homepage content into flag message area |
| 7138 | Bug | Change wording for ‘write your own’ topic blurb |
| 7144 | Bug | Filter view: text that wraps to more than one line have ieading between lines |
| 7152 | Bug | Login errors are not being handled well |
| 7159 | Bug | Long Types wrap around |
| 7160 | Bug | Support != (which is not the same as “optional”: “forbidden”) |
| 7176 | Bug | When editing a URL, the original value is shown ellipsified |
| 7267 | Bug | Confirmation dialog when editing display name. |
| 7272 | Bug | Sign in box steals the focus from search box |
| 7274 | Bug | no disambiguating information when autocompleting on prop… |
| 7357 | Bug | autocomplete on types should list the domain but not ‘type, type profile’ |
| 7378 | Bug | show infix matches first in autocomplete results |
| 7443 | Bug | IE7: Query Editor broken on OTG and all other PODs |
March 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
How does Import Compound List work? When I click on Import List for Company I get a simple input box that says to add one name per line. How would I add a list of companies and locations?
Elephant Pharmacy; Berkeley, CA
Can I use the Import feature to add property values for existing topics?
March 18th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Hi Jack. The compound list (CVT) import into a property (or collection) isn’t fully functional yet in that you cannot import literals or dates. We also have yet to implement full type import (the case you describe), but its on the list of things to do over the next few months.