Title: What's different between TeamPage Release 4.2 and 5.0, for people familiar with TeamPage?
For a descriptive overview of Traction® TeamPage Release 5.0, see Customer2757 and Traction TeamPage 5.0: Social Software for Work. If you're interested in learning how TeamPage Release 5.0 differs from the latest 4.2 release, please read on:
General
• Changed terminology: We have replaced the term "project" with "space" and "label" with "tag" (the locale.projects-0.0.6.zip plug-in restores the old terminology).
• TeamPage 5.0 introduces Metrics 3, featuring much faster metrics collection; much faster querying for read-by and top articles; and support for writing metrics warehouse data for reports to a separate database (even a different type of database on a different computer) to reduce or eliminate load on the TeamPage server during metrics report generation. Migration to Metrics 3 is automatic. We'll be adding an FAQ on how to configure a separate warehouse server as soon as we can get to it.
Proteus
We have been previewing Proteus in 4.2 for a while, but many Proteus skin features only exist in 5.0.
• In Proteus, the terms Front Page and Newspage have been replaced by the term Dashboard.
• Added a Favorite Spaces chooser to the front page. You can quickly choose and order a list of favorite spaces. Favorite spaces appear both on the front page
This is the sidebar selector on the Dashboard:
This is the favorites tab from the spaces navigator, which you get by clicking the spaces icon at the top of every Proteus view. Note that whatever tab you clicked last in the spaces navigator is the default the next time you use the navigator.
• Tag clouds and tag index views. These views work for all spaces, any space, and any set of spaces, and provide a time- and permission-filtered visualization of tag activity across those spaces. To get a nice picture of tag activity over time, try setting the timeslice to a week and entering /- in the search box and hitting return repeatedly to load each previous time slice.
• Space activity cloud: the same cloud visualization is also available to display relative project activity for any time period.
• Added support for twitter-style status updates and following and a GWT-based live-updating replacement for the LiveBlog skin.
Whenever you click someone's name, you see a summary of their profile and you can follow or unfollow them.
Following works in conjunction with the new status update views, which come in both full-page and floating window flavors.
The floating version is great for docking on the side of your screen, using on your smart phone, or turning into a desktop app that starts automatically with a program like Prism for Firefox (see Forum1449).
You can also update your status at any time by clicking your name in the top-right of the page:
You can post status to specific spaces if you want to control who can see what. You can change the space for a status post by clicking the name of the space to edit it.
• Attivio search provides an article type facet, which includes the new types, allowing you to search for or exclude any combination of types of activity.
• Added print version support.
• Added support for twitter style hash tag syntax. "#foo" appearing in text (without the quotes) will apply the foo tag, creating it if it doesn't exist. In text, it's equivalent to "+:". Note that this feature was introduced in build 7.
• Added support for extensible user profiles. These profiles are described via a simple XML configuration file that associates profile fields with data sources. TeamPage 5.0 supports three data sources for profile data: Traction "profile" articles, Traction account settings, and LDAP (or Active Directory) fields. The XML configuration file for a given deployment can be overridden in a plug-in. User profiles are searchable.
• And lots, lots more; we feel that at this point in time, Proteus in TeamPage 5.0 offers a significantly better experience than any TeamPage version before it, and we're excited to make it available to you now.
Outlook Social Connector Support
• For our Outlook-focused compadres, the new features in TeamPage 5.0 enabled us to build the Preview500.
SDL/SDK
Lots of extensions here, too many to go into in detail, but here are a few highlights:
• Added support for different types of entries, e.g. status update, liveblog, profile, task, etc., along with new dedicated indexes for them to make retrieving all articles of a given set of types by a given set of people very fast with minimal memory overhead. Provided a new <entries type="bytype" types="..." authorids="..."> function for accessing entries in these indexes.
• Added support for XML-driven post forms. User profiles are the first customer of this new facility, with many more planned for the 5.x generation...
Java Virtual Machine and FAST/Attivo Premium Search Changes
• TeamPage 5.0 is now bundled with Java 6 (for most platforms) instead of Java 5, which has reached its end of life and is no longer supported by Oracle, the new owner of Java technology. For platforms where a bundled Java Virtual Machine is not included with the TeamPage installer - including MacOS - Java 6 is recommended but not required for TeamPage 5.0.
• Traction TeamPage Release 5.0 completes Traction Software's transition to Attivio as Traction's premium search provider. Due to the upgrade to Java 6, FAST search, which is not compatible with Java 6, is not supported with TeamPage 5.0.
• We recommend that customers of the TeamPage FAST Search option complete their transition to Attivio Search prior to upgrading to TeamPage Release 5.0. The switch to Attivio is a no-cost upgrade for current FAST premium search option customers. Please see AttivioSearch3 for details.
