Anahita 1.5.11 Birth Release Update Available for Download
You can receive this updates either from the Anahita Bazaar in the administration back-end of your Anahita installation, or by downloading and installing the Anahita update and application packages one by one.
DO MAKE SURE to make both file and database backups before applying the updates to your Anahita installation.
This minor update provides a number of bug fixes in the core libraries as well as a number of user interface and usability improvements. To name a few:
We have added a Visual and HTML editor API which is reusable in Anahita Apps. This editor is custom developed for the social networking posts and only provides the type of tags that are most commonly used in comments, topics, pages, and etc. within the body of the user generated content.
Anahita Visual Editor
Anahita HTML Editor
Currently Anahita ™ Discussions and Pages apps are using the editor which makes it a lot easier for all types of users to add bold, italic, block quote, and other types of stylings in their posts.
More minimalist and user friendly comments
We have also changed the way comments are displayed so they take up less height. Before users had to go to the action list on top of the comment list and click on the “Comment” action before they could comment. Now they can go to the bottom of the comment list and click on the highlighted “Add a comment” area for the commenting box to appear.
New Photos and Album Stories
When you upload new photos or create a new album, this is how the new stories are displayed. Of course the story items can be commented on.
What else should be updated?
We recommend that after you update the Anahita Social Networking Engine, you also update Anahita Shiraz template and the apps: Groups, Discussions, Photos, and Todos.
If you are using a template other than shiraz or a custom social app that you have developed yourself, you’ll probably have to update them too.
Change Logs
The following are the change logs.
Legend:
* -> Security Fix
# -> Bug Fix
$ -> Language fix or change
+ -> Addition
^ -> Change
- -> Removed
! -> Note
Anahita Social Networking Engine
===Version 1.5.11===
+ Added a ptag filter for text-based HTML editor
^ the @content( method used to prepare node description fields is now wrapping text blocks in p tags
+ ul and ol tags inside the story body now have left padding
# large images within comments now have max-width styling
+ Added html/quick tag editor
+ Added overtext to add comment
# Fix playing flash video in IE
# An actor list view always show regardless of the profile privacy. This allows for the socialgraph actions to render even if an actor profile is not visable
# Privacy Form display an activity indicator when submting in ajax post
+ Added comment prompt for when a user can't comment either because they're guest/not following or the comment is closed
- checking for the banners folder was removed from the systeminfo in the back-end
+ profile actor info fields now recognize endline in the sentences
+ profile actor info fields textarea now have a height of 100px
^ Person date of birth no longer has endlines before and after it
^ instances of "My" are changed to "Viewer's" in the menu item entry points to the com_socialengine
^ search now happens in the nobe body as well as the name or title
^ css class .an-se-medium-description in socialengine.css now has word-wrap: break-word
Anahita Groups
===Version 1.3.2===
# pagination link was constructed wrong. It is fixed now
Anahita Discussions
===Version 1.2.3===
^ all description fields are now using @content
- white-space: pre-wrap; has been removed from the discussions.css for styling the description fields
^ topic form is now 380px height
- RSS link from the board view has been removed
^ if no boards are created, no boards selector shows on the topic form
^ comment story item now includes the name of the owner as well
Anahita Photos
===Version 1.4.2===
^ all description fields are using @content( to render
^ on photo read view the names of author and editor are now shown in the additional info area
^ images within the story feed are now larger
^ new album story is now showing the medium size cover and up to 5 image square thumbnails in the album
+ in upload.js timeLimit has been increased to 60 and the fileListMax is limited to 10
^ profile gadget translation has changed. Instead of "Photo Stream" it says "Photos"
+ Added a photo uploader HTML fallback
# Fixed the photo count after a photo delete
Anahita Todos
===Version 1.2===
^ all description fields are now using @content(
- an-se-text-body class tag has been removed for all the description fields
^ milestones are sorted by endDate DESC
+ added blank component module to the todo-item default view
# closing and openning todo-items without parents was causing an error.
james, 
Magnus Larsson, 
Avi 9:46 pm on April 8, 2011 Permalink
Was hoping for Joomla 1.6 compatibility instead of Nooku fork
Rastin Mehr 10:05 pm on April 8, 2011 Permalink
@avi NookuServer is a far superior option.
james 12:00 am on April 9, 2011 Permalink
Hey Rastin, super post and I am extremely pleased with all the support and efforts from anahita and yourselves – couldnt ask for more to be honest. Looking forward to the Nooku server transition and also 2nd quarter
Rastin Mehr 1:27 am on April 9, 2011 Permalink
@james thank you so much. Let’s make it all happen for the Q2 FTW!
Magnus Larsson 7:34 am on April 13, 2011 Permalink
@Rastin: I would like to invest time and money in developing a new social service based on the Anahita Social Engine. Will the transition from Joomla to Nooku Server be easy to do and fairly smooth or should I wait for the NookuServer release before I start developing. You see, I am not that tech savvy as I would like to be (yet).
Rastin Mehr 12:12 am on April 14, 2011 Permalink
@Magnus so far all the updates have been easy to do and fairly smooth. We expect them to only get better.
Magnus Larsson 12:50 am on April 14, 2011 Permalink
@Rastin: Great. That was the push I needed. Time to sign up for a premium account. Feels like if there would be any questions the tight community here at anahitapolis will help and support through the transition.
James 2:56 am on April 18, 2011 Permalink
Hi Magnus, ive been using the Premium account and the updates and support is simply top notch. I too am not massively tech savy (know enough to pull it altogether) and I too am hoping that the transition to Nooku will be simple for us simple folk