ADF Release Notes v1.7


Overview

Application Development Framework (ADF) version 1.7 updates the recent 1.6.2 release with enhancements and bug fixes.

 

For detailed instructions for installing the ADF, see the ADF Installation Guide.

For detailed instructions for upgrading from a previous version of the ADF, see the ADF v1.7 Upgrade Guide.

Before installing or upgrading to this release of the ADF, please review these Important Notes.


Important Notes

Review the following important notes before installing or upgrading to version 1.7 of the ADF.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release, we strongly recommend that you also read the following:

1.5.0 Release Notes

1.5.1 Release Notes

1.5.2 Release Notes

1.6.0 Release Notes

1.6.1 Release Notes

1.6.2 Release Notes


Supported CommonSpot Versions:

9.0

8.0.2

8.0.1

8.0

7.0


Supported ColdFusion Versions:

All supported CommonSpot versions

 

The release version of ADF 1.7 contains many of the many fixes and enhancement that were in progress during the development of ADF 1.6.2. To review these additional enhancements and fixes please review the ADF 1.6 2 release notes.

 

Notable Enhancements: 

  • ADF General
    •      Added a CS module to better handle ‘IN’ criteria in ColdFusion queries
  • Custom Fields Types
    •     Updated ‘Custom Element Select Field’
      •         Added option to render list as list of checkboxes or radio buttons
      •         Added Render Mode filter style custom element record select option filtering
      •         Added 'Select All' and 'Deselect All' links
      •         Improved Sort Order field option handling
    •     New 'Object Hierarchy Selector' custom field type
    •     New 'Custom Element Data Manager’ custom field type
  • Custom Scripts
    •     Added 2 New caching custom script modules for Render Handlers
  • Library Components
    •   CE Data
      •         Updated Custom Element View creation (now supports Oracle)
      •         Updated getCEData to provide performance enhancements
      •         Resolved CSSECURITY is undefined issue in ceData_2_0
    •     Fields
      •         Added a new Fields component for field specific methods
    •     Forms
      •         Moved Field specific methods to the new Field component
    •     Utils
      •         Added addition error handling and logging to AjaxProxy  

 

Notable Bug Fixes:

  • ADF General
    •     Resolved issue when loading the Site Level override version of a Library Component for Library Components Dependencies
    •     Resolved issues with ADF Lightbox for CommonSpot 9
    •     Fixes to ADF methods to be consistent with best practices for var’ing variables
  • Custom Fields Types
    •     Custom Element Select Field
      •          Fixes for custom element select to handle duplicates in list.
      •          Added a CS module to to better handle ‘IN’ in Query of Queries
    •     General Chooser
      •          Resolved issue with javascript case-sensitivity when using the ‘Add New Item’ option
        • Library Components
          •     CE Data
            •          Fixes for getCEData when returning data sets from Local Custom Elements