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tibbr®, tibbr Service, tibbr Community, and tibbr Community Service

Release NotesSoftware Release 4.1.0June 2013

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Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

TIBCO Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixHow to Join TIBCOmmunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixHow to Access All TIBCO Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixHow to Contact TIBCO Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

Release Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

New Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Release 4.1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Release 4.0.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Release 4.0.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Release 4.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Release 4.0.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Release 3.6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Release 3.6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Release 3.5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Release 3.5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Release 3.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Release 3.0.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Changes in Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Release 4.1.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Release 4.0.3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Release 4.0.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Release 4.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Release 4.0.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Release 3.6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Release 3.6.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Release 3.5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Release 3.5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Release 3.0.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Release 3.0.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Deprecated Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Migration and Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Closed Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Known Issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

tibbr, tibbr Service, tibbr Community, and tibbr Community Service Release Notes

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Preface

tibbr® is the first workplace communication tool with which you can follow subjects that relate to your work and interests besides following people as you do in typical social networking applications. That way, you have much more flexibility in obtaining the right information at the right time in the right context. In fact, the information will find you.

Topics

• Typographical Conventions, page vi

• TIBCO Resources, page ix


vi | Typographical Conventions

Typographical Conventions

The following typographical conventions are used in this document.

Table 1 General Typographical Conventions

Convention Use

ENV_NAME

TIBCO_HOME

ProductAcronym_HOME

TIBCO products are installed into an installation environment. A product installed into an installation environment does not access components in other installation environments. Incompatible products and multiple instances of the same product must be installed into different installation environments.

An installation environment consists of the following properties:

• Name Identifies the installation environment. This name is referenced in documentation as ENV_NAME. On Microsoft Windows, the name is appended to the name of Windows services created by the installer and is a component of the path to the product shortcut in the Windows Start > All Programs menu.

• Path The folder into which the product is installed. This folder is referenced in documentation as TIBCO_HOME.

TIBCO ProductName installs into a directory within TIBCO_HOME. This directory is referenced in documentation as ProductAcronym_HOME. The default value of ProductAcronym_HOME depends on the operating system. For example, on Windows systems, the default value is C:\tibco\ProductAcronym\ReleaseNumber.

code font Code font identifies commands, code examples, file names, path names, and output displayed in a command window. For example:

Use MyCommand to start the foo process.

bold code font Bold code font is used in the following ways:

• In procedures, to indicate what a user types. For example: Type admin.

• In large code samples, to indicate the parts of the sample that are of particular interest.

• In command syntax, to indicate the default parameter for a command. For example, if no parameter is specified, MyCommand is enabled: MyCommand [enable | disable]


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italic font Italic font is used in the following ways:

• To indicate a document title. For example: See TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Concepts.

• To introduce new terms For example: A portal page may contain several portlets. Portlets are mini-applications that run in a portal.

• To indicate a variable in a command or code syntax that you must replace. For example: MyCommand PathName

Key combinations Key name separated by a plus sign indicate keys pressed simultaneously. For example: Ctrl+C.

Key names separated by a comma and space indicate keys pressed one after the other. For example: Esc, Ctrl+Q.

The note icon indicates information that is of special interest or importance, for example, an additional action required only in certain circumstances.

The tip icon indicates an idea that could be useful, for example, a way to apply the information provided in the current section to achieve a specific result.

The warning icon indicates the potential for a damaging situation, for example, data loss or corruption if certain steps are taken or not taken.

Table 1 General Typographical Conventions (Cont’d)

Convention Use

Table 2 Syntax Typographical Conventions

Convention Use

[ ] An optional item in a command or code syntax.

For example:

MyCommand [optional_parameter] required_parameter

| A logical OR that separates multiple items of which only one may be chosen.

For example, you can select only one of the following parameters:

MyCommand para1 | param2 | param3


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{ } A logical group of items in a command. Other syntax notations may appear within each logical group.

For example, the following command requires two parameters, which can be either the pair param1 and param2, or the pair param3 and param4.

MyCommand {param1 param2} | {param3 param4}

In the next example, the command requires two parameters. The first parameter can be either param1 or param2 and the second can be either param3 or param4:

MyCommand {param1 | param2} {param3 | param4}

In the next example, the command can accept either two or three parameters. The first parameter must be param1. You can optionally include param2 as the second parameter. And the last parameter is either param3 or param4.

MyCommand param1 [param2] {param3 | param4}

Table 2 Syntax Typographical Conventions

Convention Use


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TIBCO Resources

You have three ways in which to connect with TIBCO’s resources.

How to Join TIBCOmmunityTIBCOmmunity is an online destination for TIBCO customers, partners, and resident experts, a place to share and access the collective experience of the TIBCO community. TIBCOmmunity offers forums, blogs, and access to a variety of resources. To register, go to http://www.tibcommunity.com.

How to Access All TIBCO DocumentationYou can access TIBCO’s documentation here:http://docs.tibco.com

How to Contact TIBCO SupportFor comments or problems with this document or the software it addresses, please contact TIBCO Support as follows.

• For an overview of TIBCO Support, and information about getting started with TIBCO Support, visit this site:http://www.tibco.com/services/support

• If you already have a valid maintenance or support contract, visit this site:https://support.tibco.com

Entry to this site requires a user name and password. If you do not have a user name, you can request one.


http://www.tibco.com/services/support

https://support.tibco.com

http://www.tibcommunity.com

http://docs.tibco.com

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Release Notes

For product information that was not available at release time, go to the TIBCO Support site at https://support.tibco.com. Access to that site requires that you have a valid maintenance or support contract and that you log in with a valid user name and password. If you do not have the login credentials, click Register with Support.

Topics

• New Features, page 2

• Changes in Functionality, page 13

• Deprecated Features, page 20

• Migration and Compatibility, page 21

• Closed Issues, page 22

• Known Issues, page 39


2 | Release Notes

New Features

This section describes the new features by release.

Release 4.1.0Release 4.1.0 contains the following new features:

• tibbr Files With tibbr Files, you can share files from external file-service providers (for example, SharePoint, Box, and Google Drive) along with your posts. Also, a file-oriented view is available, in which you can comment on; sort by title, source, or date; filter by source, name of sharer, or subject; upload, or download those files.

• tibbr Meetings You can set up and hold meetings through WebEx, Skype, or Google+ Hangout, either in advance or instantaneously.

• Popular conversations The tibbr home page now showcases in the right panel a section called Popular Conversations: the posts with the most replies or likes in the last 24 hours, updated every hour.

• Rich text editor tibbr now features a rich text editor for post content with support for boldfaced text and italics, bullet lists, and so forth.

• Replying to replies A new UI distinguishes responses to replies from those to initial posts.

• Sharing of posts You can now share a post on tibbr with your colleagues and potentially initiate a separate dialog on the subject of the post.

• UI enhancements The look and feel of the subject directories, people directories, and people groups have undergone a revamp for enhanced usability. For example, you can now crop your profile picture while uploading it.

• Performance enhancements We have optimized caching and database queries so that home-page rendering for tibbr is now faster.

• User status You can now specify on tibbr your availability status, for example, “I’m in a meeting.” That status is visible to anyone who mouses over your profile image.

• Choice of authentication type on login tibbr now offers users a new login page from which they can choose the authentication type: SAML server, database, or Active Directory.

• Customizable first-time login process Companies can now customize the registration process for new users by directing them to a site with tibbr-related


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materials, such as tutorials and terms and conditions, before those users access tibbr for the first time.

• Inline videos With a few configurations, you can now embed in a tibbr post a video from a streaming site that supports Open Graph.

• Languages This release contains two additional translations: Dutch and Swedish. Altogether, besides English, tibbr now supports nine other languages: Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, French, French (Canada), German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

Release 4.0.3Release 4.0.3 contains an enhancement for the App Framework: support for cross-posting resources.

Release 4.0.2Following are the new features in Release 4.0.2:

• Enhancements for App Framework We have enhanced the App Framework to enable social collaboration around external entities through a construct called resource. Examples of resources are an opportunity on Salesforce.com, an expense report in Oracle Expenses, a document in Google Drive, and a meeting in Webex.

You can perform the following tasks with resources:

— Follow resources.

— Receive posts that relate to a resource on the wall.

— Define email alerts that are posted to a resource.

— Search for posts on a resource.

• Addition of Subdomain Suffix and Base Host configuration parameters for multitenancy Two new parameters, Subdomain Suffix and Base Host, are now available under Multitenant for specifying the suffix of the URL for accessing the tenant and the host name of the base tenant, respectively.

The above two parameters were available in Release 4.0.0.

• New appendix on SAML Authentication for IWA Through AD FS We have added to the tibbr Installation and Configuration manual Appendix F, which describes how to set up Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication through a SAML server, such as Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS).


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• Influence score The tibbr influence score (part of tibbr 4.0.0) measures how influential you are within a tibbr network. Behind the scenes is a proprietary algorithm that aggregates your contribution to the network and a subsequent calculation of the effect your actions have on conversations, subjects, and other users.

• New utility (import_old_notifications) This utility imports the notifications that were generated in an older version of tibbr after an upgrade to Release 4.0 or later.


• tibbr apps Available now are two categories of apps:

— Company Apps — These are apps shipped with tibbr (such as Ideation), apps developed and registered by your organization, event streams, and apps that your administrator has imported into tibbr (such as Box).

— Marketplace Apps — These are apps that are developed by TIBCO or its application partners and that complement the capabilities of tibbr. Administrators can import these apps into the tibbr environment, subsequently displaying them under Company Apps.

• Insight (analytics) We have revamped the tibbr analytics and now offer many more facts and statistics on your organization’s activities on tibbr. You can view the data for the past seven days along with leaderboard statistics on users and posts.


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• Enhanced UI We have revamped the UI on the home page with numerous enhancements. For example:

— Tabs in left panel The capabilities previously available in the top navigation bar have been moved to the left panel.

— Filter Posts menu Your wall now features a Filter Posts drop-down menu with three items: My Wall, Events, and Polls.

— Posts with mentions of your name You can view all the posts that mention your name by clicking your name under Main Wall in the left panel of your home page.

— Customize Sidebar menu With this drop-down menu, you can hide or show the panes in the right panel of your home page.

— Actions menu on subject pages This menu enables you to perform various tasks on a subject page, such as managing followers and editing subjects.

— UI distinction of departed users tibbr now grays out the pictures of those users who have been deleted from the company directory, such as employees who have left.

• @ mentions of people and subjects While typing your post, prefixing a person’s or subject’s name with the symbol @ makes the name a link when the post is live.

• tibbr Connect and app framework for developers A new Web site, developers.tibbr.com, offers a wealth of resources to developers: tibbr Apps, tibbr Enterprise Social Graph, tibbr Connect, API Reference.

• Customization of personal profiles Besides editing the basic information in your profile, you can now customize the latter by specifying your language of choice, time zone, specialties, and other details. Additionally, you can highlight your projects, accomplishments, and such by attaching the relevant files, pointing to the relevant URLs, or both.

• Timeline view of subjects We have reorganized the subject pages, which now have a new section in the right panel that shows the number of posts now and in timeline fashion. Also displayed are clickable pictures of the new followers and the activities for the selected month.

• Support for multitenancy Administrators can now set up or edit multitenancy on tibbr, that is, a single tibbr deployment that runs on one or multiple servers and that serves multiple tenants.

• Ideation app The new Ideation app enables the creation, archiving, promotion, and administration of innovative ideas within your organization.

• Integration with Box tibbr is now integrated with the Box application, enabling you to share Box documents with other tibbr users and facilitating collaboration directly from tibbr.


6 | Release Notes

• Sharing of Web pages on tibbr You can now share a Web page as a tibbr post. Start by dragging the Share on tibbr button at the bottom of the right panel to your bookmarks toolbar.

• Private profile for users Administrators can set the new Private Profile parameter under User in the application configuration manager to True to make the posts on the user’s wall not viewable unless approved by the user.

• New utilities The following new utilities are now available:

— Enabling the Manage Pages option for all subjects: enable_manage_pages

— Merging subjects: merge_subjects

— Generating influence scores: generate_influence_data

• New API methods The following API methods are new in this release:

— Notify User of Password Reset

— Get Subject Details

— Add Users Or Group to Subject

— Find User by Email Address

— Find User by Login Name

— Create Notifications

Release 3.6.1Besides English, Release 3.6.1 contains language packs in Chinese (Simplified), French, French (Canada), German, Japanese, and Spanish.


• Performance improvement We have incorporated a number of improvements into this release to make tibbr much more responsive than before.

• Enhanced UI We have improved the user interface, which is now more intuitive, and replaced a number of icons with new ones.

• Slide show for images For multiple images that are attached to a post, tibbr now offers a slide-show capability. Instead of having to open the images one by one, just click one of them and click through the rest.

• Automatic attachment of links tibbr automatically attaches a URL in the text of a post as a link. With this capability, you can add multiple links to a post.


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• Support for themes You can customize several aspects of tibbr (theme, email template, home page, and so forth), as desired by your company. For details, see the chapter on customization in the tibbr Installation and Configuration manual.

• SharePoint enhancements This release contains the following enhancements for SharePoint:

— You can import preconfigured SharePoint sites called mysite, which contains tibbr Web parts.

— SharePoint Web parts are rendered with the SharePoint look and feel along with pagination for the Web parts.

— A site template called tibbr Community with preconfigured tibbr Web parts is available for import.

• Announcements gadget A new gadget is now available for displaying announcements that are marked as global announcements by the tibbr administrator.

• New administration utilities Four new utilities are now available:

— cache_warmup_users.sh — For caching user data before making tibbr available to users.

— change_user_login — For changing an existing user’s login name.

— replicate_ldap_groups — For replicating LDAP groups into tibbr’s people groups.

— remove_subscription — For removing subscribers (followers) from one or more subjects.

• Message-display choices for Subject Messages gadget You can now display only polls, private posts, starred posts, or calendar events on the Subject Messages gadget.

• Subject announcements You can now make an announcement on a subject page by clicking Make an Announcement in the left panel and configuring the settings in the related dialog box that is displayed.

• Mixed-mode authentication The capability of authentication chaining in tibbr enables you to specify multiple authentication schemes.

Release 3.5.1No new features are in Release 3.5.1.


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• tibbr Geo tibbr Geo converts physical places into data hubs that stream related location-specific data. With tibbr Geo, you can associate a geolocation with a subject or person and, consequently, tag important places and present relevant in-stream information to nearby tibbr users.

• Notifications Two notification icons with “badges” to the left of the Search field do the following:

— The icon on the right alerts you of noteworthy events, such as replies to your posts.

— The icon on the left alerts you that requests are pending your approval, that is, someone is asking to follow one or more subjects that you own.

• Calendar You can create calendar events in the form of posts to a list of invitees, who can then respond on tibbr and add the events to their iCal or Outlook calendar, as desired.

• Multiple attachments You can add multiple attachments to a post or reply.

• Multiple announcements Administrators or subject owners can mark multiple messages as announcements to be displayed at the top of the home page or subject page, as applicable.

• Single sign-on (SSO) Administrators can configure authentication through a Web server plug-in with third-party SSO software, such as apache_auth_tkt.

• People groups As a time saver when posting and inviting people to follow subjects, you can create a people group with the names of colleagues in your organization—similar to an email alias. Similarly, administrators can import groups from LDAP.

• Integration of external content into subject pages Subject owners can incorporate external Web pages into subject pages.

• Search within subjects You can search for posts within a subject on its page. Also available are advanced search options, which enable you to specify the message’s originator, the period in which the message was posted, and the message type.


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• Enhancements for integration of SharePoint into tibbr

— You can configure SharePoint Web services for SSO with the Kerberos environment in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS).

— While creating a subject, you can specify the default document library from which to upload SharePoint files for the subject.

— Three new gadgets, Search Messages, Search Subjects, and Search People are available for SharePoint search.

• Multiple LDAP domains tibbr supports multiple LDAP domains for authentication. Configure by editing the app_config.yml file.

• End date and time for polls While creating a poll, you can specify its end date and time, which you can change once the poll is in place.

• Hiding and unhiding of messages If a message and its replies, if any, are of no interest to you, you can hide them and prevent future replies from being displayed on your wall. You can redisplay the message and its related replies later, if desired.

• Mouse-over display of user information On mouse-over of a user’s picture on the wall, tibbr displays that person’s profile information in a panel.

• Collection of liked posts tibbr collects in a central place all the posts on which you have clicked Like: in the My Likes tab under My Profile.

• Post divider A divider in the form of a double line separates new posts from the old ones on your wall.

• Disablement of service-unavailable error message on tibbr startup Previously, in case of errors at startup, tibbr displayed a spurious error message: 503 Service unavailable error. A more informative message is now displayed.

• Analytics for administrators Two new graphs are available under Analytics in the Administrator tab:

— Displayed under Statistics Summary is a new section called Total Unique Users with three tabs: Two Months, Six Months, and One Year. Click the appropriate tab for a graphical display of the number of unique tibbr users within your organization in the past two months, six months, or the past year.

— Displayed under Site Statistics is a new tab called Clients in addition to Messages, Subjects, and Users. Clicking Clients displays the number of users who accessed tibbr through the commonly used browsers and through tibbr Desktop in the past two months, six months, and the past year.


10 | Release Notes

• Monitoring of processes Sample scripts for monitoring tibbr processes are part of Release 3.5.0 for integration with your tools, if desired.

• Role privilege of creating root-level subjects Administrators can remove or assign the privilege of creating root-level subjects to predefined user roles.

• Role privilege of creating user accounts Administrators can remove or assign the privilege of creating user accounts to predefined user roles.

• Support for IMAP and Exchange As part of the email server setup, administrators can configure parameters for Internet Message Access Protocol and Exchange in addition to POP3 for incoming email.

• Message Delivery gadget A new Message Delivery gadget enables you to set up message-delivery channels, which alert you by email in real time, daily, or hourly, depending on your choice, when new messages arrive.

• New to tibbr? or progress bar on setup Depending on the setting configured by the administrator, tibbr displays at the top of the home page’s right pane the New to tibbr? section or a progress bar of the user’s tibbr setup process.

• All Posts stream A stream called All Posts, which displays all the posts that are accessible to you, is available below the My Wall stream on your home page’s left panel.


• Corporate branding on mobile devices You can add your corporate logo to all mobile applications for tibbr. To do so, first create your logo named, for example, logo.png, with a size of 181 x 117 pixels and then do the following:

1. Create a subdirectory called branding under the directory tibbr_home/tibbr/public/images.

2. Place logo.png in tibbr_home/tibbr/public/images/branding.

3. Add the following section to the end of the app_config.yml file:

branding: enabled: true logo_url:/images/branding/logo.png

4. Restart the tibbr server.


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Your tibbr mobile application will then show the logo after login.

• Browser Support tibbr works in the following browsers:

— Mozilla Firefox, versions 6.x and later

— Microsoft Internet Explorer, versions 8 and 9

— Google Chrome, versions 11 and later

— Apple Safari, version 5.x

• Performance Enhancements tibbr now loads pages faster.


• Video Conferencing (tibCast) You can invite other tibbr users from the context of a subject to join a video conference, audio conference, or Webinar, then start the event, and record it for playback. Note: This capability is available only if you subscribe to tibCast Service.

• Polls You can survey other tibbr users with a poll and have them vote on the options that you specify.

• Communities Communities, which are added by administrators, are tibbr instances for your organization’s partners, vendors, or customers. Once the communities are created, they are available as links on the left panel of your home page. You can then access the related posts. Administrators can also edit or delete communities.

• New-Message Counters tibbr now displays the number of messages that have arrived for My Wall and Privates Messages on the left panel of the home page.

• tibbr Desktop tibbr Desktop is a desktop application through which you can access tibbr’s key features: chat, subjects, notifications, and tibCast Service.

• Analytics Both administrators and users can visually analyze and monitor the tibbr statistics and trends within your organization.

• Posting Locations The messages that you post from mobile devices now also show the geolocations.

The preceding procedure applies to tibbr for iOS 3.0.0, tibbr for BlackBerry 3.0.0, tibbr for Android 3.0.0, and tibbr, tibbr Service, tibbr Community, and tibbr Community Service 3.0.1.


12 | Release Notes

• Quick Navigation By mousing over the Subjects or People tab in the navigation bar at the top, you can quickly navigate to the subjects or people you would like to find.

• Web-Based Configuration for Installation As an alternative to editing configuration files, administrators can now set up parameters for the tibbr application through intuitive browser screens, complete with examples and descriptions.

• Native Web Parts for SharePoint For SharePoint, tibbr now bundles native Web parts, which you can install and run on SharePoint. In addition, tools are in place for synchronizing SharePoint user profiles.

• SAP and Oracle Event Streams You can create event streams that connect to SAP CRM, Oracle Expenses, and Oracle Order Management, and monitor updates within tibbr.

• Banned Words in Posts Administrators can filter profanity or undesirable text in posts by specifying that certain words be prohibited from being posted.

• New Gadgets (tibSmartWidgets) You can embed tibbr gadgets into Web sites to access tibbr from the context of applications, such as intranet portals and SharePoint. Release 3.0.0 contains four new gadgets: tibbr Messages, Followers, People Directory, and User Profile.

• API Enhancements

— We have added two new parameters:

params[session_manager] in the Log In (Default or LDAP Authentication) method

params[set_actions] in the Search for Messages method

— A new feature, impersonation, through which you can make a request on behalf of another user, is in place.

— Event-stream-related methods, such as Get Event-Stream Definitions, Delete Event-Stream Definition, and Undelete Event-Stream Definition, are now available.

— Poll-related methods, such as Create Poll and Get Poll Question, are now available.


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Changes in Functionality

This section describes the changes in tibbr’s capabilities by release.

Release 4.1.0Following are the functionality changes in Release 4.1.0:

• Followers and following Instead of displaying a count of your followers and the people you are following below your profile picture in the left panel, tibbr now displays that information when you mouse over your picture in the left panel.

• Deletion of subjects from posts You can now delete a subject from a post, assuming that you are the subject owner or you have message-management privilege. Previously, you could delete the post in question but can no longer do so.

• Notification enhancements The following enhancements are now available for notifications:

— For an @ mention of your name in a post, the message in the notification icon now reads, for example, “XYZ mentioned you in a post” instead of “XYZ sent you a private post.”

— In the message, tibbr displays the first part of the post in question.

• Search enhancement Search now works seamlessly for search keywords that are singular or plural nouns, also for verb variants, for example, listen and listening.

• Enhanced display of image carousel For multiple images attached to a post, forward and backward arrows are now available for scrolling through them.

• Enhancements under What’s Happening The following enhancements are now available for the What’s Happening panels:

— Pop-ups that contain more details, such as members, posts, and @ mentions.

— For the panel on posts, their trends are now displayed for the last 30 days instead of on a weekly basis.

• Social bar in tibbr Connect plugins We have enhanced the three tibbr Connect plugins (Like, Share, and Comment) so that you can now embed them in a social bar, as shown here: .


14 | Release Notes

• Email alerts The UI for setting up email alerts has been enhanced to be more intuitive. Also, tibbr now sends out email alerts according to a new set of templates.

Release 4.0.3We have updated a configuration step for the Twitter social app on tibbr to accommodate a Twitter API change. The tibbr administrator need not set Twitter’s api_id value in the app_config.yml file any more; that is, step d under Twitter in the Social Apps section in the tibbr Installation and Configuration manual no longer applies.

Instead, type the appropriate values in the Twitter consumer key and Twitter consumer secret fields in the Twitter setup screen under Marketplace Apps and then click Update. See this screenshot for an example:

Note: While creating your app on dev.twitter.com, be sure to select the following options under Application Type:

• Read, Write and Access direct messages under Access



• Allow this application to be used to Sign in with Twitter

The UI for Twitter on tibbr remains unchanged.


• Relocation of chapter on administration interface The description of the administration interface was previously in Chapter 13, Administration, in the tibbr How-To Guide. That chapter is now Chapter 7 in the tibbr Installation and Configuration manual.

• Deletion of Poll > Enabled configuration parameter Since Release 4.0.0, the Poll tab is always available at the top, hence the deletion of the Poll > Enabled parameter from the tibbr Application Configuration Manager. Correspondingly, the enabled parameter in the poll section of the app_config.yml file is no longer available.

• SSO authentication for tibbr through IWA We have updated the Application Request Routing (ARR) setup for configuring Internet Information Services (IIS) for single sign-on (SSO). For details, see Appendix D in the tibbr 4.0.2 Installation and Configuration manual.


• Configuration for HTTP mode For security, tibbr disables login in HTTP mode by default. To run tibbr in HTTP, set the enable_ssl parameter to false in the app_config.yml file.

• Relocation of Edit Application capability In the Administrator tab under Manage Applications, we have moved the Action > Edit Application menu item to under See Details, the button that you click while setting up an application.


• API Reference The tibbr API Reference manual, previously available as part of the documentation set, is now on developers.tibbr.com.

• User interface We have enhanced the user interface on the home page for intuitiveness and simplicity.


16 | Release Notes

• New configuration parameters The following configuration parameters are new in this release:

— Integration with Microsoft Lync A configuration parameter is now available for enabling integration of tibbr with the Microsoft Lync communications platform.

— Send Attachments By setting the screen parameter Send Attachments to True, administrators can enable the ability to attach files to tibbr posts that are sent by email.

• Event streams Event streams are now available in the Apps tab in the left panel.

• Analytics Analytics are now available to both users and administrators in the Insight tab in the left panel. The Analytics section is no longer in the Administrator tab.

Release 3.6.1Release 3.6.1 contains no functionality changes.


• Placement of announcements tibbr now displays announcements in the right panel instead of at the top of the center panel.

• Procedure for posting private posts Posting a private post is now simpler to do: Just choose Private post to from the Post to menu and then compose your post.

• Display of site image for links tibbr now displays the image of the site that is attached as a link to a post.

• UI label changes As part of the UI enhancement process, we have changed the labels of a number of UI elements. For example, Private Messages and Starred Messages in the left panel of the home page are now called Private Posts and Starred Posts.

• User page tabs On user pages, we have changed the tabs above the posts from user-name’s Wall and user-name’s Posts to Posts and Wall.

• Subject Pages The Subject Pages capability is enabled by default. Subject owners can add external pages to a subject.



For the administrator to assume control of this capability, set the Subject > Manage Pages > Enable parameter to False in the Application Configuration Manager.

• Procedure for localization We have simplified the procedure for making localized versions of tibbr available to users.

• Menu-item change for redisplaying messages After hiding a message, you can redisplay it by choosing More > Show at the bottom of the message. Before, that item was More > Unhide.

• Button-label change for setting up email alerts of new posts You now click a button called Set Up Alerts in the left panel of a subject page to have tibbr notify you by email of new posts. Before, that button was called Notifications.

• Display Name field in Create a New Subject dialog box A new field, Display Name, in the Create a New Subject dialog box enables you to specify an alternative subject name to be displayed, which might offer more explanatory information. Unlike the Name field, spaces and certain special characters are allowed in Display Name.

• Authentication through LDAP Authentication through LDAP now takes into account search criteria for users.

Release 3.5.1Release 3.5.1 contains no functionality changes.


• Sorting of subject followers Clicking See More at the bottom of a subject’s Followers list now displays the followers in alphabetical order on the center pane. The Followers list on the right pane continues to be in reverse chronological order.

• Display of new posts on user wall only If new posts arrive when you are on another person’s wall or a subject wall, tibbr no longer displays them there. The posts appear on your wall only.

• No limit in URL length The 250-character limit for URLs that are posted on tibbr no longer exists. URLs can now be up to 3,000 characters long.

• Removal of header and footer in email communications To avoid branding problems, we have removed the header and footer from the email communications from tibbr.


18 | Release Notes

• Alphabetical sorting of My Filters listing The list of items in the My Filters section on the left pane of the home page is in alphabetical order.

• Display of URLs Instead of converting URLs in tibbr posts to hyperlinks called [Link], tibbr displays them with a 50-character limit.

• Interface for setting up email alerts To set up email alerts for new posts, you click My Profile in the top navigation bar and then click Set Up Alerts on the left pane.

• Interface for requests to follow subjects that require owner approval Instead of displaying a message on the left pane to the owner of a subject that requires prior approval for following, tibbr now alerts the owner through a notification icon on the home page.

• Removal of tibCast license holders and reassignment of tibCast licenses Administrators can reassign freed-up tibCast licenses to other users.

Release 3.0.1We have prioritized delayed job processes in Release 3.0.1. Here is a list of the processes that are run:

• Main Job Runner Runs the background jobs that are critical to tibbr’s operations, such as message dispatches and updates of search indexes.

• Supplemental Job Runner Runs the background jobs that dispatch notifications and other tasks.

In addition, you can set the number of workers that run for each of the processes by changing the value of the MAXWORKERS parameter in the related startup script. Increasing the number of workers enables the handling of more jobs in case of larger deployments.

Release 3.0.0Following are the changes in functionality in Release 3.0.0:

• The defaults for tibbr’s parameters all reside in a file called default_app_config.yml in the tibbr_home/tibbr-config directory. To manually edit parameters, first copy the appropriate section from the default section in the default_app_config.yml file to the production section in the app_config.yml file and then specify the settings. This change helps administrators copy the configurations from a previous version during an upgrade.



For details, see the section Configuration Files and Parameters in the tibbr 3.0 Installation and Configuration manual.

• In the Posted to display for a message, tibbr now displays both the subject and people targets, which include those targets that you might not be following. Here is an example of the display for the subjects and people that you are not following:

1 more person2 more subjects

• On the left panel of a subject page, the Suggest to People link has been renamed as Invite People, enabling you to invite colleagues by email to follow the subject in addition to specifying names in the Find People field.


20 | Release Notes

Deprecated Features

This section describes the deprecated features (if any), and lists the features, if relevant, that might be useful alternatives to the deprecated features. Any use of a deprecated feature should be discontinued as it may be removed in a future release. You should avoid becoming dependent on deprecated features and become familiar with the suggested alternative features.

For details on browser support, see the Readme file.


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Migration and Compatibility

For details on how to migrate from a previous release to the current release, see the section Upgrade or Restore in the tibbr 4.0.2 Installation and Configuration manual.

In addition to performing the migration steps, be sure to run the import_old_notifications utility.


22 | Release Notes

Closed Issues

The following table describes the issues that were closed in the named releases.

Closed in Release

Key Summary

4.1.0 TIBR-9741 Enhancement: Subject owners or people with message-management privilege can now remove subjects from posts.

4.1.0 TIBR-10392 If multiple job runners were executed on the tibbr server, a dead lock occurred and killed the job-runner process.

4.1.0 TIBR-10766 The subject analytics API caused abnormally high CPU usage in the search server, causing a degradation in performance.

4.1.0 TIBR-11032 tibbr erroneously created duplicate entries for push notifications in the delayed_jobs table, delaying email alerts.

4.1.0 TIBR-11116 Enhancement: tibbr does not display the related file names below image attachments any more.

4.1.0 TIBR-11117 The Follow button for By Approval subjects was misleading. You can now customize the button label as you deem appropriate.

4.1.0 TIBR-11199 Enhancement: tibbr now supports rich text for subject announcements and for their display in the right panel of the subject followers’ wall.

4.1.0 TIBR-11276 Search did not support stemming, for example, the search results for technology did not match those for technologies.

4.1.0 TIBR-11416 Enhancement: You can now drag and drop files as attachments to a post.

4.1.0 TIBR-11499 We have removed the Created By column for popular subjects.

4.1.0 TIBR-11792 Posts that contained the < symbol caused display errors.

4.1.0 TIBR-11951 The UI for setting up email alerts has been enhanced to be more intuitive. Also, tibbr now sends out email alerts according to a new set of templates.

4.1.0 TIBR-12250 Enhancement: tibbr now displays on tibbr posts a thumbnail image for inline videos hosted by all streaming providers.


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4.1.0 TIBR-12590 After logging out of tibbr Chat, if you opened a new browser window for a new tibbr session, tibbr logged you in automatically.

4.1.0 TIBR-13093 Enhancement: You can now upload multiple Box files to a tibbr post from tibbr.

4.1.0 TIBR-13170 While you were typing a message on tibbr Chat, tibbr displayed an empty Chat window on the receiver side.

4.1.0 TIBR-13249 In Internet Explorer 8, the tibbr Connect text-field prompt “Say something about this” was not cleared after you had started typing in the field.

4.1.0 TIBR-13324 Posting in tibbr 4.0.2 to a community that was created in tibbr 3.6.1 did not work.

4.1.0 TIBR-13329 Enhancement: tibbr now displays the posts that were made in the last seven days to popular subjects.

4.1.0 TIBR-13336 Enhancement: You can now upload files from Box to a tibbr post.

4.1.0 TIBR-13413 tibbr did not take Daylight Saving Time (DST) into account for time zones.

4.1.0 TIBR-13418 tibbr did not display the prompts in the Where and More Details fields subsequent to an event post.

4.1.0 TIBR-13503 The tibbr Connect plugin stored an incorrect URL, causing errors in the Like and Share counts.

4.1.0 TIBR-13509 tibbr did not display the new data after an edit of an event’s date and time.

4.1.0 TIBR-13524 In tibbr’s French version, adopting the default value (today’s date) in an event’s Start Time field caused an error.

4.1.0 TIBR-13537 Clicking the link View in Hierarchy in the pane that was displayed on a mouse-over of a user name did not take you to the hierarchy page.

4.1.0 TIBR-13538 Email alerts failed because of locks in delayed jobs.

4.1.0 TIBR-13540 The Posted to field was not displayed for posts that were shared through the Share on tibbr bookmark.

Closed in Release

Key Summary


24 | Release Notes

4.1.0 TIBR-13541 All private subjects were accessible to administrators in the Subject Directory tab in error.

4.1.0 TIBR-13542 The Shared Connections section in the Following tab of a user profile took too long to render. We have enhanced the performance of the related API call.

4.1.0 TIBR-13560 The permissions API caused an abnormally high CPU usage in the database server and resulted in degradation in performance.

4.0.1 TIBR-13661 Clicking the New Documents panel under What’s Happening and then clicking Download for a deleted message caused an error.

4.1.0 TIBR-13672 By continuously clicking the Next link in the Announcements pane in the right panel, you ultimately reached a final count that exceeded the total, for example, 18 of 15.

4.1.0 TIBR-13668 Redundant white space abounded between a post and its replies.

4.1.0 TIBR-13736 An @ mention of a user name in a post did not cause that name to be placed in the Posted to field. Hence, the post did not appear on that user's wall.

4.1.0 TIBR-13824 With the OAuth2 API, if you opened a page that required app authorization to tibbr, you were redirected to tibbr and prompted for your login credentials. If authentication succeeded, you were asked to allow access to the app. However, if you then clicked Do Not Allow in the dialog box in question, a syntax error was displayed.

4.1.0 TIBR-14420 Opening multiple instances of tibbr consumed a lot of memory in the browser and caused the browser to crash.

4.1.0 TIBR-14578 Enhancement: The tibbr mobile clients now match the text of the alerts for push notifications with that of the regular notifications in the tibbr app. Also, the badge count on the mobile clients is the same as that of the unread notifications in the notification icon in the tibbr app.

4.1.0 TIBR-14637 Even though the links below a post were clickable, they were not clickable in the post body.

4.1.0 TIBR-14838 The scrollbars in a dialog box were not clickable in Chrome on Windows.

Closed in Release

Key Summary


Closed Issues | 25

4.0.3 BTBR-365 In the case of tibbr being configured for SAML authentication, logins for the tibbr for BlackBerry app did not work.

4.0.3 TIBR-8251 The tibbr 4.0.2 How-To Guide contained an erroneous description on banned words. The correct scenario is that once your administrator has defined the banned words for your organization, if you attempt to post with one or more banned words, tibbr displays an error message.

4.0.3 TIBR-9252 Group search did not work if the search keyword contained a hyphen that was preceded and appended by a space.

4.0.3 TIBR-10321 Adding users to a role in the Administrator tab resulted in an incorrect group count in the Group tab.

4.0.3 TIBR-10361 In the Chat window, tibbr continued to display the date in the English format despite a profile change to French.

4.0.3 TIBR-10921 tibbr displayed a maximum of 10 followers only on a subject’s follower list.

4.0.3 TIBR-11262 The Invite People item was in the Actions drop-down menu for broadcast subjects in error.

4.0.3 TIBR-11921 The capability of moving subjects in a hierarchy in tibbr 3.6 did not work for certain subjects.

4.0.3 TIBR-12292 The Twitter life stream did not work on tibbr due to a deprecated JavaScript API.

4.0.3 TIBR-12312 In certain cases, following users did not work.

4.0.3 TIBR-12562 You could save the Edit Profile page even without filling in the required fields.

4.0.3 TIBR-12667 Setting the configuration parameter join_tibbr: false activated the Delete item for users in the Action menu under the Administrator tab only, but not the Reset Password and Reset Email items.

4.0.3 TIBR-12681 tibbr continued to send email alerts of new posts on broadcast subjects to users who had already been deleted from those subjects.

Closed in Release

Key Summary


26 | Release Notes

4.0.3 TIBR-12888 tibbr incorrectly displayed the subject timeline heading of November 2013 for the months of November and December 2012. Also, the January 2013 posts were displayed under that heading in error.

4.0.3 TIBR-12953 tibbr displayed an empty preview pane on a click of the Preview link on the user wall despite an unread post count on the My Wall tab in the left panel.

4.0.3 TIBR-12957 In the Following tab on your profile page, clicking See All under Subjects in the Following section and then searching for subjects returned subjects that you were not following.

4.0.3 TIBR-13161 The number of followers in the Following tab on your profile page did not match the count that was displayed when you clicked See All under Followers on that page.

4.0.3 TIBR-13296 Deselecting options for a custom profile field on the Edit Profile pages for users and the Edit Group pages for groups and then saving them resulted in the options still being selected.

4.0.3 TIBR-13373 For files uploaded from tibbr to SharePoint, the content was empty.

4.0.3 TIBR-13380 If you shared a Box file in tibbr and moused over the file icon, tibbr incorrectly displayed a URL with the box.com domain name instead of the box.com URL configured for your organization.

4.0.3 TIBR-13405 Deleting a post erroneously resulted in notifications not being displayed on clicking the notification icon.

4.0.3 TIBR-13409 After you had assigned a group to a subject, tibbr did not display the related information when you moused over the Group icon for the groups in the Followers section of the subject wall.

4.0.3 TIBR-13438 If you had multiple SharePoint Web Parts on the same page, clicking the user or subject link on a Web Part did not automatically reload the other relevant Web Parts.

4.0.3 TIBR-13440 The My Subjects Web Part displayed multiple scrollbars. Also, it had no vertical and horizontal scrollbars and did not resize as the other Web Parts did.

4.0.3 TIBR-13441 All Web Parts contained a horizontal scroll bar in error.

Closed in Release

Key Summary


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4.0.3 TIBR-13442 Mousing over a user’s profile image in a SharePoint Web Part erroneously displayed a pop-up pane with more user details and links, such as View in Hierarchy, that did not work.

4.0.3 TIBR-13443 When you viewed another user’s wall in a SharePoint Web Part, the tab above the user posts read My Wall in error.

4.0.2 TIBR-8603 In the search results in the Directory tab, tibbr did not sort alphabetically the last names of the people in case of multiple matches for the same first names.

4.0.2 TIBR-8661 tibbr did not display the related subjects on a selection of Subjects I Own in the My Subjects tab.

4.0.2 TIBR-9250 Even after deletion, a user who was also a subject owner still remained as the owner of the subject in question.

4.0.2 TIBR-9353 tibbr did not display the badge number in the notification icon even though tibbr showed the items on a click of the icon.

4.0.2 TIBR-9485 Search did not work for keywords with special characters and for names whose first letter contained a special character.

4.0.2 TIBR-9751 tibbr’s quick-search capability returned erroneous results, such as inconsistent results for the same keywords.

4.0.2 TIBR-10101 The Filter Name field in the Manage Filters dialog box accepted double quotes in error.

4.0.2 TIBR-10294 In Internet Explorer 9 and 8, posting with a link or HTML tags hid your profile image and caused the Continued link to fail. In Firefox, performing the same task truncated the link.

4.0.2 TIBR-10422 In Internet Explorer 9, deleting an announcement resulted in an error in the announcement count.

4.0.2 TIBR-10568 After turning on sound in tibbr Chat, you could not turn it off.

4.0.2 TIBR-10984 Searching for people whose second names contained initials separated by spaces did not work.

4.0.2 TIBR-11197 Choosing More > Add to add an addressee to a post caused multiple email alerts of the same content to be sent to the post’s followers.

Closed in Release

Key Summary


28 | Release Notes

4.0.2 TIBR-11705 tibbr did not display the name of your most recent follower in the notification pane.

4.0.2 TIBR-11875 Inline links that spanned beyond the 200-character boundary broke the UI.

4.0.2 TIBR-11893 Announcements expired in a day despite a setting of Manually remove it in the dialog box for creating announcements in broadcast subjects.

4.0.2 TIBR-11959 The badge number on the notification icon continued to be displayed even after you had viewed the notifications.

4.0.2 TIBR-12247 The Rake process for creating custom themes threw an error.

4.0.2 TIBR-12275 Posts with images in bitmap (BMP) format did not display well on Firefox.

4.0.2 TIBR-12280 A discrepancy existed between the number of @ mentions in the Received xx @ mentions pane and the number that pertains to you in the There were xx total @ mentions pane on the What’s Happening page under Insight. That was because the first pane counted only the public @ mentions. In tibbr 4.0.2, both numbers reflect both public and private @ mentions.

4.0.2 TIBR-12281 On the What’s Happening page under Insight, the number of posts reflected the public ones only, a source of confusion to users. The count in tibbr 4.0.2 now includes both public and private posts.

4.0.2 TIBR-12283 The chronological order of the replies on a user’s wall was sometimes in error.

4.0.2 TIBR-12284 On the Leaderboards page under Insight, the number of posts made by the user in the table of users with the most activities did not match that under the Most Posts pane on the What’s Happening page. The count in tibbr 4.0.2 now includes both public and private posts.

4.0.2 TIBR-12285 tibbr randomly added one @ mention only in case of multiple @ mentions in a post.

4.0.2 TIBR-12286 After a deletion of a subject, you could not reply to a post that was originally addressed to that subject.

Closed in Release

Key Summary


Closed Issues | 29

4.0.2 TIBR-12304 Logging in to the Wall Messages gadget through SAML authentication failed.

4.0.2 TIBR-12313 In tibbr 3.6.1, the Subject Trends page on the subject wall contained errors: missing legends, hyperlink issues, inaccurate statistics.

4.0.2 TIBR-12314 Opening a user profile in a new window did not work on Internet Explorer 8.

4.0.2 TIBR-12316 After clicking More > Hide for a post, you continued to receive notifications of new replies. Clicking Preview displayed no posts, however.

4.0.2 TIBR-12317 In tibbr 3.6.0, the default display for a user’s profile was Posts instead of About, which was more logical. The UI in tibbr 4.0 was enhanced to reflect this change.

4.0.2 TIBR-12318 Several favicons were inconsistent on Internet Explorer and Firefox.

4.0.2 TIBR-12319 The number of posts in the left panel of a subject wall did not change even after deletion of posts that pertained to that subject. The UI in tibbr 4.0 was enhanced to resolve this issue.

4.0.2 TIBR-12320 The chronological sequence of new followers’ names as shown in the notification icon was incorrect.

4.0.2 TIBR-12324 tibbr displayed both the owners and the followers of broadcast subjects in tibbr 4.0, but only the owners in 4.0.2 because everyone in the organization follows broadcast subjects.

4.0.2 TIBR-12327 On Internet Explorer, if as a first-time tibbr user you agreed to the End-User License Agreement (EULA) on the email alert from tibbr, tibbr directed you to the home page instead of the link on the alert.

4.0.2 TIBR-12329 In tibbr 3.6.1, you could not return to the subject wall after clicking See More Followers for the subject’s Followers page. The UI in tibbr 4.0 was enhanced to resolve this issue.

4.0.2 TIBR-12330 The dialog box that was displayed on a click of Share Box File on the Box app did not load properly.

4.0.2 TIBR-12331 Clicking a company app, such as LinkedIn, caused a JavaScript error.

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30 | Release Notes

4.0.2 TIBR-12332 You could not send email by choosing More > Email at the bottom a post on the subject wall.

4.0.2 TIBR-12333 The number of posts in the left panel of a subject wall did not change even after creation of posts that pertained to that subject. The UI in tibbr 4.0 was enhanced to resolve this issue.

4.0.2 TIBR-12334 The Set Up Video Conference capability was not disabled if you did not have the required privilege.

4.0.2 TIBR-12336 tibbr did not dynamically update the list of Box files in the Box app after new files had been added.

4.0.2 TIBR-12337 The presence of checkboxes in the Box app UI in the dialog box for sharing files implied that you could select multiple files for sharing.

4.0.2 TIBR-12344 tibbr repeated the month-timeline view on the subject wall.

4.0.2 TIBR-12350 Daily and hourly email alerts sent out multiple, old messages.

4.0.2 TIBR-12351 Search on subject pages returned incorrect results.

4.0.2 TIBR-12352 Announcements disappeared from the wall within minutes.

4.0.2 TIBR-12353 Files shared from the Box app appeared on the sharee’s wall but not on the sharer’s.

4.0.2 TIBR-12354 tibbr did not dynamically add or delete subject followers to or from the list of followers.

4.0.2 TIBR-12355 tibbr sent out multiple email alerts on a post.

4.0.2 TIBR-12356 The Continued link for posts did not work.

4.0.2 TIBR-12357 The share and like capabilities for apps did not work.

4.0.2 TIBR-12358 In tibbr 3.6, the percentage shown in the Your progress bar in the New to tibbr pane did not reach 100 even if all the items had been completed.

4.0.2 TIBR-12359 The hyperlinks for @ mentions of users and subjects did not work on Internet Explorer 8.

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Closed Issues | 31

4.0.2 TIBR-12360 The Showcase capabilities under Edit Profile did not display a default icon for links.

4.0.2 TIBR-12367 On Internet Explorer 8, you could not drag and drop the Share on tibbr button to the browser’s bookmarks toolbar. tibbr 4.0.2 displays the correct procedure for sharing on tibbr.

4.0.2 TIBR-12375 tibbr did not display thumbnail images of uploaded files in the Showcase tab on the Edit Profile page.

4.0.2 TIBR-12397 The hyperlink for subjects with the most activities on the Leaderboards page under Insight did not work.

4.0.2 TIBR-12400 The Showcase tab on the Edit Profile page was not separated from the Customization tab.

4.0.2 TIBR-12401 Deleting an @ mention in a post left a highlighted area in the text field.

4.0.2 TIBR-12402 tibbr only displayed the Reply icon for posts that were made during the day.

4.0.2 TIBR-12413 tibbr did not display posts according to the month you specified under Subject Timeline.

4.0.2 TIBR-12415 The Change Password link was not disabled for LDAP mode.

4.0.2 TIBR-12416 The badge count in the notification icon was incorrect.

4.0.2 TIBR-12417 Word-wrap for instance names in the Manage Instance capability under Applications did not work.

4.0.2 TIBR-12419 The dialog box for managing filters did not close after you had created a filter and clicked Save.

4.0.2 TIBR-12425 On the What’s Happening page under Insight, tibbr did not update the analytics data on users who viewed your profile and on users who updated their profiles.

4.0.2 TIBR-12427 In the Showcase tab on the Edit Profile page, after a deletion of an image, the remaining images and links did not realign properly.

4.0.2 TIBR-12428 On Internet Explorer 8, tibbr displayed a warning if you chose Filter Posts > Poll on the wall.

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32 | Release Notes

4.0.2 TIBR-12434 In tibbr 3.6.0, even though you could add users in the conversations under Chat History, tibbr did not perform that task because it was moot. The add option does not exist in tibbr 4.0.0 any more.

4.0.2 TIBR-12435 For every chat conversation in Chat History, tibbr displayed the string 1 private subject instead of the addressee in the Posted to section.

4.0.2 TIBR-12437 tibbr did not display the Reply and Like icons for posts.

4.0.2 TIBR-12439 Under Shared Connections in the Following tab of a user profile, tibbr displayed apps that had not been enabled.

4.0.2 TIBR-12441 tibbr continued to display the name of the main subject on the wall of a subsubject even if the main subject had been deleted. Clicking the main subject caused an error.

4.0.2 TIBR-12442 tibbr did not refresh the data under What’s Happening in the home page’s right panel if you clicked See More to go to the What’s Happening page itself and then returned to the home page.

4.0.2 TIBR-12444 Chat conversations were counted as private posts under Most Posts on the Leaderboards page.

4.0.2 TIBR-12445 On Chrome, the Reply and Like icons were not displayed.

4.0.2 TIBR-12446 If you had more than 10 items in the notification icon, clicking the icon the first time displayed the first 10. Clicking it a second time displayed only those beyond the first 10 items, which was confusing.

4.0.2 TIBR-12450 Occasionally, tibbr did not notify you of new posts in real time through the Preview capability on the home page.

4.0.2 TIBR-12452 The post count on the notification icon was in error.

4.0.2 TIBR-12453 tibbr did not display responses to polls.

4.0.2 TIBR-12456 tibbr did not display calendar events in broadcast subjects under Upcoming Events on the home page.

4.0.2 TIBR-12457 tibbr did not notify you if you posted to people you were not following.

4.0.2 TIBR-12460 Adding @ mentions to a post on a private subject resulted in the post becoming public.

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Closed Issues | 33

4.0.2 TIBR-12461 Under User on the Leaderboards page under Insight, the number of posts did not match that under Most Activities because the count of Most Activities did not include both private and public posts.

4.0.2 TIBR-12463 You could not reply to a post if one of the subjects to which the post was made had been deleted.

4.0.2 TIBR-12464 tibbr displayed an incorrect time zone in calendar events while creating them.

4.0.2 TIBR-12474 People who were specified within posts in @ mentions and their followers sometimes received multiple email alerts after replying to the original posts.

4.0.2 TIBR-12527 The tibbr documentation did not specify the port numbers to configure for the mobile versions of tibbr.

4.0.2 TIBR-12529 tibbr displayed gray boxes for deleted images under Showcase on the My Profile page.

4.0.2 TIBR-12545 The iPhone and Android versions of tibbr crashed if posts on the wall contained files with the extension .msg.

4.0.2 TIBR-12548 tibbr was slow when accessing subject and user directories.

4.0.2 TIBR-12550 The env.sh script skipped running the ulimit -n 10000 command-line.

4.0.2 TIBR-12667 Setting the configuration parameter join_tibbr: false activated the Delete item for users in the Action menu under the Administrator tab only, but not the Reset Password and Reset Email items.

4.0.2 TIBR-12701 Posts sometimes took a long time to appear on the wall.

4.0.2 TIBR-12702 Clicking See More at the bottom of your wall took you to the same posts on the first page instead of older posts on the next page.

4.0.2 TIBR-12859 Clicking a link for a post that was part of an email alert took you to the tibbr wall instead of to the target post.

4.0.2 TIBR-12890 Clicking a subject on the View/Edit Subjects page in the Administrator tab caused an error.

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34 | Release Notes

4.0.2 TIBR-12903 On tibbr's mobile versions, tibbr displayed private posts on the walls of those who were not the addressees.

4.0.2 TIBR-12905 Occasionally and for some users, tibbr did not display the influence score.

4.0.2 TIBR-12907 The date in the timeline section of a subject wall showed the wrong year for the last months in 2012.

4.0.2 TIBR-12935 The More > Hide capability for events, polls, and posts did not work.

4.0.2 TIBR-13064 Clicking See More in the Upcoming Events tab on a subject wall displayed a blank page.

4.0.1 TIBR-9073 The See More link for the Facebook and LinkedIn apps was not visible on the wall or under News Feed.

4.0.1 TIBR-9551 The follower count on a subject page did not match that in the Popular Subjects pane in the right panel.

4.0.1 TIBR-9706 On the Subject Trend page, no legends were available for the graph; also the statistics and the number of views did not match.

4.0.1 TIBR-10551 Sharing ideas on the Ideation app on Internet Explorer 8 and 9 produced an error.

4.0.1 TIBR-10552 tibbr apps did not run on Internet Explorer 7.

4.0.1 TIBR-11347 tibbr could not grant permissions for running tibbr apps.

4.0.1 TIBR-11539 The Wayin app did not run on tibbr even after being enabled.

4.0.1 TIBR-11697 tibbr displayed inaccurate statistics on new documents on the What’s Happening page under Insight.

4.0.1 TIBR-11735 tibbr did not display an error message on an upload of an image of an unsupported format to a profile.

4.0.1 TIBR-11738 The Fileboard app did not run on tibbr even after being enabled.

4.0.1 TIBR-11789 tibbr Connect plugins did not work on Internet Explorer 7.

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Closed Issues | 35

4.0.1 TIBR-11790 The More > Announcement link was available to only the first owner of a subject.

4.0.1 TIBR-11791 tibbr erroneously displayed an error message if you made a private post to a user while on that user’s profile page.

4.0.1 TIBR-11847 tibbr erroneously displayed private subjects in the Influence tab of user profiles.

4.0.1 TIBR-11855 After registering an app, if the administrator edited the app’s URL and renamed the app, no updates occurred. This capability is now under Apps in the left panel.

4.0.1 TIBR-11857 The type value in the cache_store section of the app_config.yml file for configuring multiple cache servers was updated from mem_cache_store to dalli_store.

4.0.1 TIBR-11862 After logging in to LinkedIn from tibbr, clicking the News Feed tab displayed a blank page.

4.0.1 TIBR-11872 On Internet Explorer 8, running the Ideation or Box app required clearing the cache repeatedly.

4.0.1 TIBR-11879 Adding an LDAP group to a subject as a follower did not result in appropriate actions on the subject page. For example, even though users in the LDAP group became the subject’s followers, the Follow link did not change to read Unfollow. Restarting the cache server resolved that problem.

4.0.1 TIBR-11880 tibbr displayed the start time of a calendar event according to the system time zone instead of the your profile’s time zone.

4.0.1 TIBR-11885 The dates on the Subject Trends page were incorrect.

4.0.1 TIBR-11887 tibbr did not display replies to posts in case the posts contained numerous replies.

4.0.1 TIBR-11891 If you clicked Manage Applications under Administrator after being added as a user to a newly created role, an error occurred.

4.0.1 TIBR-11930 Logins to Facebook on tibbr failed.

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36 | Release Notes

4.0.1 TIBR-11944 On Internet Explorer 7, sharing a Box file with a large number of users or subjects resulted in the Share button becoming invisible.

4.0.1 TIBR-11949 On Internet Explorer 8, you could not log in to Facebook again after logging out. Clearing the browser history resolved that problem.

4.0.1 TIBR-11952 Clicking a deleted idea’s link caused the Ideation app to hang with no error messages.

4.0.1 TIBR-12037 The Influence graph did not display on Internet Explorer 7,

4.0.1 TIBR-12092 For subjects with more than 10 followers, tibbr displayed an incorrect follower count on the My Subjects page and on the results page from a subject search.

4.0.1 TIBR-12097 The News Feed tab for Facebook on tibbr did not work.

4.0.1 TIBR-12117 The Continued link at the end of long replies did not work.

4.0.1 TIBR-12127 tibbr called the API method for checking the number of new posts and notifications twice instead of once a minute.

4.0.1 TIBR-12133 Adding @ mentions to private-subject posts caused the posts to become public.

4.0.1 TIBR-12136 On the user profile, tibbr displayed the user’s reporting structure even though the hierarchy setting was disabled.

4.0.1 TIBR-12157 After enabling Twitter on Chrome and Internet Explorer 8, you could not run the app even after clicking its icon under Apps.

4.0.0 TIBR-680 Occasionally, running tibbr on iOS6 on iPad 3 in landscape full-screen mode was problematic.

4.0.0 TIBR-10943 Clicking the Administrator tab sometimes resulted in an error message.

4.0.0 TIBR-10768 Following a login to LinkedIn from tibbr, some operations did not work, for example, updates failed to load.

4.0.0 TIBR-10714 Occasionally, tibbr did not delete user profiles that had been deleted from the LDAP database.

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Closed Issues | 37

4.0.0 TIBR-10420 tibbr announcements expired on the day after creation even with a selection of the Manually Remove It option.

4.0.0 TIBR-10362 User names in the Chat window overlapped with one another.

4.0.0 TIBR-10361 Even after a locale change to French, the date in the Chat window was displayed in English.

4.0.0 TIBR-10323 tibbr did not display the appropriate error message after the addition of the name of a user who had already been assigned to a role under Role Management in the Administrator tab.

4.0.0 TIBR-10247 Attempting to access a private subject resulted in a 404 error message.

4.0.0 TIBR-10094 For long subject names, clicking View/Edit Subjects in the Administrator tab garbled the names and rendered them unreadable in the table that was displayed.

4.0.0 TIBR-10057 Deleting a post with attachments or links did not delete the attachments or links, which tibbr continued to display in the right panel.

4.0.0 TIBR-9752 tibbr did not display the subject scope along with the subject in the UI.

4.0.0 TIBR-9742 While setting up your email-alert schedule for new posts, clicking Apply to All without clicking Save at the bottom did not save the setup. However, in the case of a large number of followers and subjects, the Save button was below the fold and not readily visible.

4.0.0 TIBR-9582 If a post contained a URL that started with www, for example, www.tibco.com, tibbr displayed two links: one as text and the other as a hyperlink. Prefixing the URL with http://, for example, http://www.tibco.com, resulted in two hyperlinks.

4.0.0 TIBR-9562 Mousing over an event icon in the Upcoming Events pane in the right panel of the home page displayed no event details.

4.0.0 TIBR-9551 The number of followers for the subjects shown under Popular Subjects in the right panel was incorrect.

4.0.0 TIBR-9498 In the French locale, the date and time formats in the display in the Notifications icon at the top were garbled.

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38 | Release Notes

4.0.0 TIBR-9486 tibbr did not issue a warning if you set a time that was in the past for a calendar event.

4.0.0 TIBR-9022 Owners of calendar events could not edit the event details.

4.0.0 TIBR-8547 Mousing over a user’s profile image displayed a blank text pane instead of the user profile.

4.0.0 TIBR-7548 Replying by email to a post that was shared from tibbr involved a correction of the addressee in the To field.

4.0.0 TIBR-7487 An enhancement request was received for an API method that returns deleted messages.

4.0.0 TIBR-7380 An enhancement request was received for an extraction of all email along with the related attachments through the email event stream as posts to a subject.

4.0.0 TIBR-7282 An enhancement request was received for the localization of gadgets.

4.0.0 TIBR-7268 An enhancement request was received for the disabling and enabling of the Apps tab by the administrator.

4.0.0 TIBR-6870 An enhancement request was received for a larger font size for email notifications.

4.0.0 TIBR-6691 Inserting an HTML tag in a post resulted in that tag being displayed in the Subject line of the email notification.

4.0.0 TIBR-5805 In the People gadget, clicking See More and then clicking Follow to follow a user took you to the top of the page, causing a context loss.

4.0.0 TIBR-5795 An enhancement request was received for a display of the first owners instead of the creators of subjects under My Subjects and Directory.

4.0.0 TIBR-5314 The same posts that were made to two subsubjects of the same main subject appeared twice on the main subject wall.

4.0.0 TIBR-3819 An enhancement request was received for sorting posts by time.

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Known Issues | 39

Known Issues

The following table describes the known issues by release.

Release Key Description

4.0.2 TIBR-12146 You can edit the text under About on the My Profile page even with the editable parameter under ui_type set to false. However, you cannot save the changes.

4.0.2 TIBR-12472 With the de (German) locale, the tibbr home page keeps on loading after login.

Workaround: Switch to the English locale or add the missing translations to the German translation files.

4.0.2 TIBR-12621 Enclosing search keywords within double quotes does not return matches that reflect exactly the same keywords.

4.0.2 TIBR-13225 You cannot access Facebook from tibbr on Internet Explorer 7 because the Facebook API does not support IE 7.

4.0.1 TIBR-8834 Clicking the Login to SharePoint button while creating a subject in the Administrator tab takes you to the home page.

Workaround: Perform the task again.

4.0.0 TIBR-11559 Under Leaderboard in the Insight tab, the data under Subjects includes that for both public and private subjects if some of the posts in question are made to both types of subjects and if the number of such posts exceeds the count in the top 10 public subjects. This irregularity is a rare occurrence.

4.0.0 TIBR-11286 After you have assigned users a tibCast license, the updated list of tibCast license holders in the Administrator tab is not displayed.

Workaround: Refresh the page.

4.0.0 TIBR-11247 In the Administrator tab, clicking a user’s image for the user profile does not work.

Workaround: Search for the user name in the Search field in the top right corner and click the related image in the results pane.

4.0.0 TIBR-10705 Search replication does not work if tibbr is in multitenancy mode.


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4.0.0 TIBR-10645 Even if you have added more than 10 pages to a subject, tibbr displays only 10 of them on the subject wall.

4.0.0 TIBR-10552 tibbr apps do not run on Internet Explorer 7.

4.0.0 TIBR-10392 If tibbr is deployed on the MS SQL server, job-runner processes stop functioning intermittently with deadlock errors on databases.

Workaround: Restart the tibbr server process.

4.0.0 TIBR-9535 Localization is not available for the RSS Client Facebook and Twitter applications.

Release Key Description
