Release Notes for ACM 10.1

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1 Release Notes for ACM 10.1 IMPORTANT NOTICES! Customer Support Portal The Customer Support Portal has been updated to provide greater visibility of your open issues, allow you to search a knowledgebase of common questions and discuss issues with other customers. There are many other features as well. To get a support portal login, contact the support desk by phone or . Idea Share Thank you to everyone taking the time to use Idea Share. We have taken your ideas to heart and have added a number of your ideas to this release and have planned a few more for our next release. For those not familiar, the Idea Share feature is a part of the support portal. It is intended to allow you to share your enhancement ideas and vote or comment on other enhancement ideas. Idea Share is moderated by the Support Team and ACM Product Manager and your ideas will continue to help us with our release planning. Ideas with the most votes and comments will be given high consideration for the next release so be sure to search for existing ideas similar to your own. Share your ideas!

2 The following features have been included as core functionality in this release: 1. PrintDesignTemplate.htm included in design package The ACM has always included a system level print design template but it was difficult to customize and usually required the manual creation of the printdesigntemplate.htm file in the Design Package. As of 10.1, the printdesigntemplate.htm file is included in the design package by default so it is easily customizable. The system will look first for this file in the design package and if it is not present, will use the system print template. 2. HTML Allowed in Survey Questions Due to some potential scripting errors, the ability to add custom HTML to Survey Questions was removed in a previous version. The functionality has been restored so that you can customize the look and feel of individual questions in your survey. 3. Assign New Accounts to Group(s) in Application Form Pagetype The ability to assign a new user account to a specific ACM Group has always been supported in the form of a Custom Group question type. The problem is that always requires an additional question. The Application Form page has been enhanced such that you can specify a group or groups to which all applicants should be added automatically without requiring a Custom Group question. The will speed up the account creation process for those who only require the minimum information to create an account. 4. Syndicated Calendar Enhancement A number of features have been added to the Syndicated Calendar Pagetype a. Allow Anonymous Event Submission As a Calendar Administrator, you now have the ability to allow anonymous users (not logged in) to submit events to a calendar. The previous functionality requiring users to login has also been maintained. b. Restrict Category Usage Events submitted or created on a particular calendar can now be restricted to only the categories that are configured for that calendar. This will prevent users from inadvertently selecting categories that are meant for other calendars, thus publishing their event on the wrong calendar. c. Events RSVP Short event RSVP forms can be created to accompany events. An administrator can create some predefined forms to capture a head count, gender, preferences and more for a particular event. Users with permissions to create new calendar events in edit mode can create their own custom forms or choose from the preconfigured options. Users submitting events through view mode can only

3 choose from pre-created forms. Administrators and the owner of the event can download the RSVP results in excel format to plan for event attendance. 5. Linking Documents to Images Linking an embedded image to an existing document in the digital asset manager used to require some HTML skill. In this version, you can now insert an image on a page, and then easily link to other documents in the digital asset manager through the user interface. This is perfect for representing documents by using an image of its cover embedded in the page, then linking to the document for download. 6. Support URL Title for Syndicated Pages Syndicated pages now include a URL Title field so that you can provide more concise paths for calendar events, job postings, articles and KB articles when using friendly URLs. 7. System Alert Framework A new Message Manager has been added to the Admin Center. Within the message manager, you can now modify the text of existing system messages such as the anonymous and authenticated session timeout messages as well as the session expiry alert. Additionally, as an administrator, you can send out a message to any and all users currently logged in to the system warning them of site maintenance or anything else. Custom messages supported by pagetypes will also be displayed here when they are available. 8. System Log Management An enhancement has been made to the System Events Manager so that administrators can configure the actions to occur when log messages get close to full. This has affected site performance in the past. Administrators can now specify a log limit and tell the system to overwrite logs as needed, overwrite messages older than X days or not overwrite at all. You can also configure different s to be sent to the system administrator account based on a log nearing its maximum count or a log generating excessive messages.

4 The following features have been included as extended functionality as either enhancements to existing Page Types or as brand new Page Types. Contact your Active Account Manager for more information: 9. Club Listing Pagetype The Club Listing Pagetype allows Public Users to create a club page on your site. The Club Page will appear in the Club Listing and be searchable by other visitors. Club pages support membership and allow members to communicate with each other via , news articles and messages boards. The Club Listing also ties into the Calendar page so that club members can see upcoming club events. The administrator can determine if clubs must be approved before they are created and listed. 10. Closing Time for Job Postings The Syndicated Job Posting page now supports a closing time along with the closing date. Job postings will be removed from the job board when the closing time and date are met. 11. Enhanced Photo Gallery Pagelet Layout Changes Numerous changes have been made to the Enhanced Photo Gallery Pagelet to support a more flexible layout of images including background settings, border settings, and scrolling options. 12. KnowledgeBase Enhancements a. New Sort Options for Results Two new sort options are have been made available for KB Search results. Relevance + Views and Relevance + Answer order the search results by the relevance of the search term entered and the views and answered my question response from previous users. b. Alert Framework The KB Alert Framework is used to interrupt logged in KB users when a new bulletin is published. The user can be forced to open the bulletin before proceeding depending on the priority level of the bulletin. Users not logged in at the time can read previous KB alerts by double clicking anywhere on the KB screen. c. KB Article Enhancement The KB Functionality has been enhanced to remove the html mark-up and prevent users from editing the content of the Article before sending. An HTML editor has been provided for message entry. d. Statistics Pagelet The Statistics pagelet was created to display articles based on statistics captured in the KB Statistics Database. The pagelet con be configured to display the most overall viewed articles, most viewed by the current user, must discussed articles and more.

5 e. KB Article Voting Change KB Voting has been enabled by default for all new KB Articles. Voting allows the user to click yes or no to the question, Did this answer your question? 13. Listing Service Pagetype Enhancements A number of enhancements have been added to the Listing Service Pagetype: a. Reassign entry owner administrators of the page can now change the owner of a listing entry through edit mode of the page. b. Sort Options users can sort listing results alphabetically or by creation date. The admin can configure the default. c. Highlight New Entries administrators can have new entries be highlighted for a pre-defined period of time. d. Alternative the page now provides an screen so users without MS Outlook can contact one another using an form. e. Address Field Layout Change improved address field layout f. List Import Tool administrators can now import a list of entries from an excel spreadsheet. g. Change Maximum Image Size administrators can now modify the maximum image size to allow for larger images to be uploaded. h. Other Layout Changes overall improvement of layout of the page.