Release Notes 2023

13th December 2023

What’s New?

New Onboarding feature for new users with access to use cases and interactive demonstrations.

Open

Accessed through the Apps options in the Confluence left-side or top menu.

Open

Updates

• updated source space publishing dashboard

• updated in-app support links to the Appfire support portal

23rd Nov 2023

Updates

• Confluence API v2 updates

Bugfixes

• fixed a problem that prevented the setup of Comala Publishing in a personal space

6th Nov 2023

Updates

• Confluence API v2 updates

Bugfixes

• fixed an error publishing a page after a change of publishing target space configuration

• resolved a problem that caused the publishing set-up wizard tool to stop working

25th Oct 2023

Updates

• Confluence API v2 updates

• library maintenance

Bugfixes

• fixed an error using the Space publishing option when a space has no homepage

16th Oct 2023

Updates

• an admin user in the source space who does not have the required permissions in the target space has the source space dashboard options disabled and is displayed a message confirming that they do not have enough permissions in the target space

  • change target space option

  • enable/disable Publishing

  • clear configuration option

9th Oct 2023

What’s New?

New space publishing configuration set-up wizard tool available when first setting setting up a space for publishing.

Access the configuration set-up tool by choosing the new Configure Publishing button option in the space settings publishing dashboard.

Bugfixes

• resolved an issue displaying the warning message when changing the target space if no pages had been published

• resolved an issue reporting error messages

6th Oct 2023

Improvements

• updates to our publishing process to use Confluence REST API v2

Bugfixes

• fixed some errors in the log when publishing a single page

3rd Oct 2023

Improvements

• updated our background publishing process used to publish the whole space and reindexing a space to improve stability and performance

Bugfixes

• resolved an issue that caused a page to be duplicated in the target space instead of being replaced when a new page in a source space was published that had an existing page with the same name in the target space

• updated the message displayed on publishing a child page of a unpublished parent page to include a warning that the page has been published to the root of the target space

27th Sept 2023

Bugfixes

• fixed an error that occurred when reindexing

  • a personal space

  • or a space with a spacekey beginning with a numeric character

• fixed a problem causing a page to be duplicated when published and there was an existing page with the same name in the target space

21st Sept 2023

Updates

• the single page publishing on-screen publishing success message is now shown only once. The success message now disappears and is not displayed again

  • after the page is refreshed

  • on a subsequent page view if the message is cleared by a user

  • on returning to the page after using the View published version link

• target space publishing dashboard configuration information has been updated from Edit configuration on Draft Space to display Edit configuration on the Source Space

Bugfixes

• updated publishing progress bar to correctly display the duration of the publishing process

6th Sept 2023

Updates

• updated the app name to Comala Publishing in space settings App links

Bugfixes

• publishing status no longer changes to Out of Sync when a personal label is added/removed, for example, when a user chooses to Star this page for later

29th August 2023

Bugfixes

• fixed a problem displaying the on-screen confirmation when a target space is initially added to the source space

24th August 2023

What’s New?

When configuring a target space in the space publishing dashboard in a new source space, if the space selected from the target space dropdown menu is already configured as an existing Comala Publishing source space or target space, the Change target space button will be disabled and a warning message is displayed.

Updates

• No pages to publish message is displayed when there are no NEW or OUT OF SYNC pages to publish on a space publish action and now includes

Bugfixes

• fixed a problem displaying the View Source version link button in the target space publishing popup

• resolved an issue that repeatedly displayed a No pages to publish warning message on space publishing actions from a space with a new single page

17th August 2023

What’s New?

Unlinking a source space and a target space now completely clears the publishing configuration for each space.

Updates

• the space publishing dashboard can now be found using Space Settings>Apps Links

• updated our vendor name in the Manage apps screen to Appfire

20th July 2023

Updates

• when migrating Comala Publishing from server to cloud, if a source space page or the linked target space page have page restrictions, migration now sets the page publishing status in the cloud source space to NEW to avoid misaligning the publishing status for these pages

Bugfixes

• fixed an error that occurred for pages with restrictions during a space publishing reindex

19th July 2023

Improvements

The source space publishing dashboard target space dropdown menu now automatically displays the last 10 spaces accessed by the current user.

Updates

• updated message notification displayed when trying to edit a page in a target space. The message is also now displayed when creating a page in a target space

4th July 2023

Updates

• library maintenance updates

• added a column to the Incomplete tasks page issues table in the space publishing report to display the space for each listed page

Bugfixes

• fixed a problem displaying warning flag message notifications in the target space when a user

  • edits a previously published page in the target space

  • creates a new page in the target space

21st June 2023

Bugfixes

• resolved an issue that prevented the publishing of a single page (using single-page publishing)

14th June 2023

Updates

• library maintenance updates

• app version installed is now displayed in the space publishing dashboard

Bugfixes

• fixed an issue when publishing a whole space that caused some child pages to be published to the root of the target space

5th June 2023

What’s New?

Migration

Comala Publishing for Data Center/Server can now be migrated to Cloud using the Atlassian Migration Assistant.

Comala Publishing Migration Guide

Product Comparison - Comala Publishing Data Center/Server and Cloud

Copy content properties

New Copy content properties in the space settings space publishing dashboard to enable or disable the copying of the content properties when publishing.

The Copy content properties option can be disabled if you don’t want to override a content property from any other 3rd party app in the target space. For example, if a workflow from the Comala Document Management family of apps is applied in the source space and in the target space, the Copy content properties option should be disabled to avoid overriding the workflow applied in the target space.

31st May 2023

Improvements

Improvements to the space publishing and single-page publishing user interfaces including

• progress bars display time elapsed and remain blue if errors are found on completion

• space publishing progress bar and space publishing report display the names of the source and the target spaces

• last space publication summary in the source space publishing dashboard now includes the number of pages published; the name of the target space and the full date and time of publication

Updates

• minor updates in the space publishing dashboard to improve user experience

Bugfixes

• fixed a problem publishing to the correct hierarchy a previously published source space page when it is moved from the source space root to be a child of the home page*

24th May 2023

Bugfixes

• resolved a problem that prevented the update of the publishing sync status when an attachment was added

• when several publish and sync actions occur in a short time period the latest version is published and synced

2nd May 2023

What’s New?

• new progress bar showing publishing status update progress when changing the target space after publishing

19th April 2023

Improvements

• improved context details in error logs

Updates

• general performance updates

Bugfixes

• adding or removing labels in the target space now sets the publishing status to Out of Sync

• fixed a problem displaying some UI elements in the source space publishing dashboard

13th April 2023

Improvements

• updated publishing process to better support publishing a page to a target space with an applied Comala workflow

Bugfixes

• resolved a problem that displayed a 404 error and caused some problems when scrolling down a page

• source space target space is now cleared if the target space is deleted or does not exist (for example after the source space has been imported)

5th April 2023

Bugfixes

• fixed a problem that sometimes prevented the successful publishing of some pages

27th March 2023

Updates

• general performance improvements

Bugfixes

• fixed an error when the app was uninstalled

• amended space publishing dashboard button to Save when adding a target space for the first time

• updated an error message displayed if a single-page publishing action did not succeed

• added a warning flag in the message displayed to a user when a page is published with no parent in the target space

16th March 2023

Bugfixes

• resolved a problem that occasionally generated an incorrect error message when a page was successfully published using single-page publishing

14th March 2023

What’s New?

Comala Publishing Cloud now supports the application of a Comala Document Management family of apps workflow on pages in a space configured as a target space for publishing

Updates

• Atlassian Cloud Connect toolkit compatibility update

9th March 2023

What’s New?

• After changing the target space a publishing action now publishes all pages to the new target space

  • this includes any pages previously published to a different target space

Updates

• new Publish confirmation dialog box after choosing to publish a whole space

• when publishing a space all other publishing by users in the space (both page and space publishing) is disabled until the space publishing is complete

• maintenance updates to improve performance and stability

2nd March 2023

Updates

• archived pages in the publishing source space are no longer included in the space publishing action

  • What is published?

  • What is not published?

Bugfixes

• fixed a problem publishing some pages correctly when publishing all the pages in a space with a large number of pages

22nd February 2023

Bugfixes

• fixed the source space link in the target space space publishing dashboard when the target space is a personal space

8th February 2023

What’s New?

Updated the UI when publishing a single page using the Publish option in the on-page publishing popup. The popup now displays

• the publishing progress

• confirmation of a successful copy to the target space

Updates

• maintenance updates to improve stability and performance

30th January 2023

Bugfixes

• resolved a problem that allowed a user without space admin permission to publish a space

• fixed a problem that allowed a user without view permission to publish an individual page

• resolved an issue that prevented a source space page and target space page moving to OUT OF SYNC if a page with restrictions was updated