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Overview

Application Development Framework (ADF) version 1.8.0 is a rollup of all of the bug fixes and enhancements that were developed under the 1.7.1 and 1.7.2 development versions. If your site is using the 1.7.1 or 1.7.2 development builds of the ADF please upgrade to ADF 1.8.0 release!

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 v1.8.0 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 1.8.0 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

1.7.0 Release Notes

Supported CommonSpot Versions:

9.0.1, 9.0, 8.0.2, 8.0.1, 8.0, 7.0

Supported ColdFusion Versions:

All supported CommonSpot versions

The release version of ADF 1.8.0 contains significant enhancements and bug fixes. 

Notable Enhancements: 

• ADF General
• • Added a post initialization process to run “postInit()” methods found in each LIB component after the ADF Lib components and Site Level Components have loaded by the ADF Object Factory.
• • CCAPI Conduit Page Pool an exciting new enhancement for increasing the performance of populating content in Global Custom Elements via the CCAPI. As well as streamlining the steps for configuring the CCAPI conduit page(s) for multiple Global Custom Elements. See the CCAPI Conduit Page Pool configuration documentation for more information.
• • Security Enhancement to obfuscate the stored CCAPI Config User credentials when using the URL parameter for ADFdumpVar
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• Custom Fields Types
• • Improved the Custom Element DataManager Custom Field Type Properties panel interface 
• • Added a new Padding Settings Custom Field Type for setting padding parameters via a set of four selection dropdowns.
• • Added a new Font Awesome Custom Field Type for visually selecting Font Awesome Icon classes and parameters
• • Renamed the Element Selector Custom Field Type to Element Selector by CS_URL. 
• • Updated all ADF Custom Field Types to remove the deprecated CommonSpot doLabel and jsLabelUpdater javascript calls
• • Created new .zip Archive files for all ADF Custom Field Types in the ADF extentions customfields directory

• Library Components
• • Updates to the CCAPI wrapper components to utilize the new CCAPI Conduit Page Pool functionality. Specifically to improve the locking when CCAPI transaction are being handled by the new CCAPI Conduit Page Pool.
• • Updates to the Custom Element SQL VIEW naming methods used in the CEData BuildView() and BuildRealTypeView methods to generate readable view names based on the Custom Element’s name instead based on the Custom Element’s formID. 
• • Enhanced the Custom Element SQL VIEW naming methods to allow the options to handle backwards compatibility for SQL VIEW naming conventions used past ADF versions.
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• Third Party