Disponibile Lotus Connections 2.01

Rilasciato da alcuni giorni  e disponibile sia su Passport che su Partnerworld questo aggiornamento di Lotus Connections alla release 2.01.

Le spiegazioni per il download si trovano a questa pagina, qui trovate la guida all'installazione mentre la documentazione completa è disponibile nell'infocenter di connections 2.01.

Stuart McIntyre del connections blog fornisce una splendida lista delle novità presenti:

• Quickr integration with Activities - Push-button publication from an Activity into one of your Quickr Places for permanent document storage
• Quickr integration with Communities - Allows communities to use Quickr as their content repository and document collaboration platform.
• Enhanced person card  
• E-mail is no longer a required attribute (great for external implementations)
• New feeds inside of Communities
• New feeds for forums
• New APIs for Activities, Blogs, Communities, Homepage (federated search), Profiles
• Hidden support for STLinks (more about this tomorrow)
• User Interface and Usability enhancements, for example:
  • Can now save members as part of an activity template
  • Drag-n-drop activities entries
  • Uploading images to a blog is now easier
  • Improvements in the Activities widget
  • Easier way to work with multiple bookmarks
  •  A couple of bug fixes
  
  Lotus Connections:
  • Preventing e-mail addresses from being displayed
  • Removing the data associated with a person or group
  • Changing the language used for notifications
  Activities feature:
  • Integrating Activities with IBM Lotus Quickr
  Blogs feature:
  • Synchronizing user data
  Communities feature:
  • Changing Communities configuration settings
  • Removing unwanted or inappropriate content
  • Filtering active content
  • Configuring the size of the community description
  • Configuring display settings
  • Managing members and member IDs
  • Administering managed applications
  • Changing configuration settings for managed applications
  • Using the Lotus Quickr Delayed Synchronizer
  • Viewing and collecting Communities metrics
  • Retrieving and listing community data
  • Filtering community lists
  • Managing the forum scheduler
  Dogear feature:
  • Synchronizing user data for Dogear
  Home page feature:
  • Synchronizing member IDs between the Home page and LDAP databases
  Profiles feature:
  • Updating the LDAP
  • Synchronizing LDAP changes with Profiles
  • Synchronizing the Profiles database with LDAP
  • Updating Profiles when changing LDAP directory    
  • Determining the notification language for Profiles
  • Populating Profiles with photos
  • Uploading pronunciation files
  • Profiles attributes
  • Enabling custom extension attributes
  • Specifying a custom extension attribute label
  • Adding third-party links via the XML configuration file
  • Adding third-party links using JavaScript
  What's new in extending?
  • Lotus Connections Connector for Lotus Quickr