webcollab-users — Mailing list for WebCollab users

[Webcollab-users] WebCollab 1.80 - Ardness

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

I am pleased to announce WebCollab 1.81 - Ardness, released a few days
ago.  This is minor bugfix and translation update release.

Minor bugs from WebCollab 1.80 have been fixed; Chinese, Czech, Greek
and Turkish translations have been added.  The Chinese language consists
of two translations - Traditional Chinese & Simplified Chinese.  The
translator has emphasized that the Traditional Chinese translation is a
Hong Kong variant (not a Taiwanese variant).

The Chinese language, being a multibyte encoding, is only in the Unicode
version of WebCollab.   

Regards

Andrew Simpson

[Webcollab-users] WebCollab 1.80 (Allendale)

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

Hi all,

I am pleased to announce WebCollab 1.80 (Allendale), has been released. 
This release includes both the standard and Unicode versions.

Included is SMTP PIPELINING which should increase the throughput of
emails dramatically - I have seen figures of 30% suggested - though this
would depend on a number of variables.  A number of user requests have
been implemented and some small improvements have been made to the
graphical layout.  The CSS files are now referenced in the config file
to make it easier to implement custom CSS.

All the pages have been revalidated as XHTML (strict), and the APD
profiler used to identify some PHP bottlenecks.

A Serbian translation has been added, and a Greek translation was
uploaded to CVS just after this release.

Regards

Andrew Simpson      

[Webcollab-users] WebCollab 1.71a (Karekare) released

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

I am pleased to announce WebCollab 1.71a - Karekare, which has been
released a few days ago.  This release has been done with the standard
and Unicode versions at the same time.

This is minor bugfix release of the original WebCollab 1.71 release. 
The changes are listed in the changelog, and are principally usability
issues.

The Spanish language translation has also been updated.

For something more cutting edge: The CVS should be relatively stable and
has some fairly intensive code reviewing and bug squashing.  In
particular, the email code is much faster.

Regards

Andrew Simpson

[Webcollab-users] Accessing WebCollab with different URLs

[Patrick M. <pat...@ci...>]

Newb question:

I recently installed webcollab (v1.70) on a machine behind a firewall. 
The BASE_URL is "http://inside-name/webcollab/", which gives me easy 
access from all the local computers.

I want to access it from home through the firewall and I have been using 
ssh tunneling. So from home it is something like 
"http://localhost:1234/webcollab/", which doesn't work because the 
redirects contain the BASE_URL, which has no meaning outside of the office.

To be specific, I set up ssh
$ ssh -L 1234:localhost:80 me@firewall-ip:forwarded-ssh-port
and browse to
http://localhost:1234/webcollab/
I get the login screen, but it fails after that.

I have a work-around, where I add "inside-name" to my hosts file as an 
alias for 127.0.0.1, and set up my ssh tunnel to use local port 80. It 
works, but to use port 80 requires root privileges on Linux, and if I am 
running a web server on my local machine, I have to shut it down.

This works:
In hosts file:
127.0.0.1  localhost  inside-name
$ ssh -L 80:localhost:80 my@firewall-ip:forwarded-ssh-port
and browse to
http://localhost/webcollab/
or
http://inside-name/webcollab/

Does anyone know a better way to do this?

Thanks,
Patrick McCabe

[Webcollab-users] WebCollab 1.71 - Karekare

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

I am pleased to announce WebCollab 1.71 - Karekare, which has been
released a few days ago.  This release has been done with the standard
and Unicode versions at the same time.

This is primarily a bugfix release.  A significant number of minor bugs
have been uncovered and reported by various users (Thank you). The
project list homepage and todo lists have been refactored to reduce
database calls by memory caching of results.  This gives better
execution speed and efficiency.  

The calendar has been reworked by Manolis Stamatogiannakis (mstamat) and
is vastly improved.

Five new languages have been added - Swedish, Russian, Hungarian, Korean
and Japanese.  The Japanese language is in UTF-8 character set, while
the Korean language is in EUC-KR character set.  Both these latter
languages are only in in the Unicode version of WebCollab.

The intention is to merge the Unicode version into the standard
WebCollab as later versions of PHP (with multibyte support for Unicode)
and MySQL version 4.1+ (which has Unicode support) become more
mainstream.  At present, these versions are still too new for the
majority of bundled software packages and hosting providers.

Special thanks to contributors and translators that have put together
this release. 

Andrew Simpson

Re: [Webcollab-users] Editing Usergroup Membership; User Passwords

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Andrew Simpson wrote:

> Yes you can. Highlight the groups you want and press the 'submit' button.
> The user will be added to these selected groups.

Andrew,

   Aha! _Now_ I see what is going on. On the "Edit a user" page, all
usergroups are listed in the listbox, but that specific user's group
membership is indicated by the highlighted group(s). That's what I did not
understand before. I thought that only group membership was displaed in the
box, not all groups. There was my hangup.

   Thanks.

   Next: can users change their passwords themselves when they log in? I've
given them all default passwords, but I prefer to let each select his/her
own.

Rich

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Re: [Webcollab-users] Editing Usergroup Membership; User Passwords

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 13:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rsh...@ap...> wrote:

> Andrew,
> 
>    I saw the small message and it works like a charm: holding the ctrl
>    key
> when clicking highlights as many entries as I wish. However, once
> highlighted I can still do nothing with them.
>

Yes you can.  Highlight the groups you want and press the 'submit'
button.  The user will be added to these selected groups.  
 
>    For example, "Administrator" is a member of the two user groups I
>    set up. I
> want to remove this user as a group member. Even when highlighted I
> cannot remove that username.
>

You aren't meant to remove the username.  The user will be removed from
any de-selected groups when you press 'submit'. 
 
>    From the other side, when logged in as "admin", I can "manage"
>    users and
> pull up a user's account for editing. However, I cannot remove
> membership from a usergroup by pressing the [Del] key with one or more
> groups highlighted.
>

See above.  The [Del] key won't (shouldn't) have any effect.
 
>    In other words, every user I've entered is automatically a member
>    of all
> user groups and I cannot control this. Is this a file permission
> error? If not, why doesn't the [Del] key remove membership in a
> usergroup?

Re: [Webcollab-users] Editing Usergroup Membership; User Passwords

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrew Simpson wrote:

> The small message in italics next to the box is the clue.  Hold the [cntrl]
> down and click on the names. Alternate clicks will highlight the name, or
> remove highlighting.

Andrew,

   Another thing. When I go to add a new user, the usergroup box contains the
names of both groups defined so far. That's why each new user is
automatically added to both groups.

   I know it must be something simple, but I just don't see it.

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: [Webcollab-users] Editing Usergroup Membership; User Passwords

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrew Simpson wrote:

> The small message in italics next to the box is the clue.  Hold the [cntrl]
> down and click on the names. Alternate clicks will highlight the name, or
> remove highlighting.

Andrew,

   I saw the small message and it works like a charm: holding the ctrl key
when clicking highlights as many entries as I wish. However, once highlighted
I can still do nothing with them.

   For example, "Administrator" is a member of the two user groups I set up. I
want to remove this user as a group member. Even when highlighted I cannot
remove that username.

   From the other side, when logged in as "admin", I can "manage" users and
pull up a user's account for editing. However, I cannot remove membership
from a usergroup by pressing the [Del] key with one or more groups
highlighted.

   In other words, every user I've entered is automatically a member of all
user groups and I cannot control this. Is this a file permission error? If
not, why doesn't the [Del] key remove membership in a usergroup?

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: [Webcollab-users] Editing Usergroup Membership; User Passwords

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 07:40:59 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rsh...@ap...> wrote:

>    I'm setting up a project, adding users, and adding usergroups. Each
>    new
> user is assigned to all existing usergroups and I cannot remove them
> from the inappropriate groups.
> 
>    For example, I select "Manage Usergroup" from the menu on the left.
>    There
> is a list box widget with all users (including Administrator), but I
> cannot remove users from that group. Highlighing a name and pressing
> the [Del] key does nothing.
> 
>    Similarly, when I have the "Edit User" page displayed for a single
>    user, I
> cannot change the usergroups to which s/he is assigned.
> 
>    What have I missed, please?
> 

The small message in italics next to the box is the clue.  Hold the
[cntrl] down and click on the names.  Alternate clicks will highlight
the name, or remove highlighting.

Andrew Simpson  

Re: [Webcollab-users] A Cosmetic Question

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 07:12:08 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rsh...@ap...> wrote:

>    I have only two locally installed apache applications: SQL-Ledger
>    and
> Webcollab; my business web site is hosted and maintained by my ISP.
> 
>    Firefox is my main browser. When I open Webcollab in a new tab it
>    displays
> the SQL-Ledger logo on the left edge of the tab. Is there a Webcollab
> logo? If so, where within the filesystem should it be placed so it
> displays on the tab?
> 

Sounds like your getting a favicon from SQL-Ledger.  See this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favicon

I've never done a favicon for WebCollab - the present logo is too big
anyway.  Are there any graphic artists out there with some spare time?

Andrew Simpson

[Webcollab-users] Editing Usergroup Membership; User Passwords

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

   I'm setting up a project, adding users, and adding usergroups. Each new
user is assigned to all existing usergroups and I cannot remove them from the
inappropriate groups.

   For example, I select "Manage Usergroup" from the menu on the left. There
is a list box widget with all users (including Administrator), but I cannot
remove users from that group. Highlighing a name and pressing the [Del] key
does nothing.

   Similarly, when I have the "Edit User" page displayed for a single user, I
cannot change the usergroups to which s/he is assigned.

   What have I missed, please?

Thanks,

Rich

-- 
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
<http://www.appl-ecosys.com>   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

[Webcollab-users] A Cosmetic Question

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

   I have only two locally installed apache applications: SQL-Ledger and
Webcollab; my business web site is hosted and maintained by my ISP.

   Firefox is my main browser. When I open Webcollab in a new tab it displays
the SQL-Ledger logo on the left edge of the tab. Is there a Webcollab logo?
If so, where within the filesystem should it be placed so it displays on the
tab?

TIA,

Rich

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Re: [Webcollab-users] Installation/Setup Help Needed

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Andrew Simpson wrote:

> I'm a bit confused as to what you've done to get to this point.

Andrew,

   I apologize for my brevity and lack of connection. Very briefly, I did not
have php installed on this box and that meant that trying to log in to the
setup page resulted in a blank page. It took me most of yesterday to figure
out how to properly re-build the Slackware php-4.3.10 package to include
postgres support (and remove imap since we use pop3). Anyway, that was
accomplished, but I could not successfully log in using the default "admin"
and "admin123" on the initial setup.php page.

> That said, it sounds like the config file has been altered at least
> partially. Go into [webcollab]/config/config.php and change the value
> associated with 'DATABASE_NAME' to "" (null). This will allow setup to run
> without requesting a password.

   That did the trick. I had the database name, username and password entered
in the file manually. Aparently that was the wrong thing to do. As soon as I
removed the three strings, webcollab took the same information and I went on
from there. It's up and running now.

   So, back to reading the Linux Journal article to learn how to use it now
that it's working.

   Thank you very much for both the immediate pointer that solved the problem
and for creating a tool that will help us coordinate and be productive
despite the long distances that separate most of us.

Rich

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Re: [Webcollab-users] Installation/Setup Help Needed

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:06:00 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rsh...@ap...> wrote:

>    I'm trying to get webcollab-1.70 up and running on Slackware-10.0
>    (upgrade
> this weekend to 10.1) with php-4.3.10 and postgresql. Finally, when I
> point firefox to http://localhost/webcollab-1.70/setup.php and enter
> "admin" and "admin123" as username and password, instead of a blank
> page I now get an error message that it's an invalid username or
> password.
> 
>    Also tried my username/password and root's username/password. Same
>    error
> message. Looked on the FAQ but no help there that I saw.
> 

I'm a bit confused as to what you've done to get to this point.

That said, it sounds like the config file has been altered at least
partially.  Go into [webcollab]/config/config.php and change the value
associated with 'DATABASE_NAME' to "" (null).  This will allow setup to
run without requesting a password.

Write back with more details, if doesn't help.

Andrew Simpson


 

[Webcollab-users] Installation/Setup Help Needed

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

   I'm trying to get webcollab-1.70 up and running on Slackware-10.0 (upgrade
this weekend to 10.1) with php-4.3.10 and postgresql. Finally, when I point
firefox to http://localhost/webcollab-1.70/setup.php and enter "admin" and
"admin123" as username and password, instead of a blank page I now get an
error message that it's an invalid username or password.

   Also tried my username/password and root's username/password. Same error
message. Looked on the FAQ but no help there that I saw.

   Would greatly appreciate some assistance in overcoming this impasse.

Thanks very much,

Rich

-- 
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Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:17:47 -0500
"weaselbear" <bea...@ho...> wrote:

> Correction - the problem still exists in Mozilla browser, but not in
> IE...
> 
> TR
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "weaselbear" <bea...@ho...>
> To: "Andrew Simpson" <and...@pa...>; 
> <web...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling
> 
> 
> > I've confirmed that the problem does not exist if you use Acrobat
> > 5.x or  Acrobat 6.0.
> >
> > I'm running Apache 2.0.52/MySQL 4.0.23/PHP 4.3.10/WebCollab 1.70 on 
> > Windows XP Pro SP2
> >

Hmmm... just had a look at Mozilla on my machine.  Under 'Edit' ->
'Preferences' ->  'Navigator/Helper Applications' is a box for listing
mime types and their applications.

Looks promising.

Andrew 

Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling

[weaselbear <bea...@ho...>]

Correction - the problem still exists in Mozilla browser, but not in IE...

TR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "weaselbear" <bea...@ho...>
To: "Andrew Simpson" <and...@pa...>; 
<web...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling


> I've confirmed that the problem does not exist if you use Acrobat 5.x or 
> Acrobat 6.0.
>
> I'm running Apache 2.0.52/MySQL 4.0.23/PHP 4.3.10/WebCollab 1.70 on 
> Windows XP Pro SP2
>
> TR
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Simpson" <and...@pa...>
> To: <web...@li...>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling
>
>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:57:45 -0500
>> "Tom Ross" <bea...@ho...> wrote:
>>
>>> found this article...
>>>
>>> http://www.lookingoutfornumberone.com/article.php?cat=&id=6
>>>
>>> >
>>> >I just began using Webcollab, and have noticed that it does not
>>> >handle PDF's.  It opens a new tab in Firefox and then attempts to
>>> >open file, which results in a bunch of garbage on screen.  Any
>>> >suggestions?
>>> >
>>
>> Interesting article.
>>
>> A few people have had problems like this with downloads.  I have
>> suspected the Mime Type being the problem, but no one has ever
>> confirmed.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling

[weaselbear <bea...@ho...>]

I've confirmed that the problem does not exist if you use Acrobat 5.x or 
Acrobat 6.0.

I'm running Apache 2.0.52/MySQL 4.0.23/PHP 4.3.10/WebCollab 1.70 on Windows 
XP Pro SP2

TR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Simpson" <and...@pa...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling


> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:57:45 -0500
> "Tom Ross" <bea...@ho...> wrote:
>
>> found this article...
>>
>> http://www.lookingoutfornumberone.com/article.php?cat=&id=6
>>
>> >
>> >I just began using Webcollab, and have noticed that it does not
>> >handle PDF's.  It opens a new tab in Firefox and then attempts to
>> >open file, which results in a bunch of garbage on screen.  Any
>> >suggestions?
>> >
>
> Interesting article.
>
> A few people have had problems like this with downloads.  I have
> suspected the Mime Type being the problem, but no one has ever
> confirmed.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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Re: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 20:57:45 -0500
"Tom Ross" <bea...@ho...> wrote:

> found this article...
> 
> http://www.lookingoutfornumberone.com/article.php?cat=&id=6
> 
> >
> >I just began using Webcollab, and have noticed that it does not
> >handle PDF's.  It opens a new tab in Firefox and then attempts to
> >open file, which results in a bunch of garbage on screen.  Any
> >suggestions?
> >

Interesting article.  

A few people have had problems like this with downloads.  I have
suspected the Mime Type being the problem, but no one has ever
confirmed.

Andrew  

RE: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling

[Tom R. <bea...@ho...>]

found this article...

http://www.lookingoutfornumberone.com/article.php?cat=&id=6

>From: "Reed Porada" <po...@it...>
>To: <web...@li...>
>Subject: [Webcollab-users] Document Handling
>Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:20:12 -0500
>
>I just began using Webcollab, and have noticed that it does not handle
>PDF's.  It opens a new tab in Firefox and then attempts to open file,
>which results in a bunch of garbage on screen.  Any suggestions?
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Reed Porada
>

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[Webcollab-users] Document Handling

[Reed P. <po...@it...>]

I just began using Webcollab, and have noticed that it does not handle
PDF's.  It opens a new tab in Firefox and then attempts to open file,
which results in a bunch of garbage on screen.  Any suggestions?

=20

Thanks,


Reed Porada=20

[Webcollab-users] WebCollab Unicode 1.62 Release

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

Hi all

Pleased to announce the release of WebCollab Unicode 1.62.  This is a
complementary UTF-8 (Unicode) version to match WebCollab 1.62a
(Canopus).

Like most other web-based software, the default WebCollab uses the
ISO-8859-x character set.  This works well for Western European
originated languages, but has two major disadvantages:

 - Each ISO-8859-x character set only works for a narrow set of
languages.  For instance, German and Bulgarian use ISO-8859-1 and
IS0-8859-5 respectively, and cannot be mixed.
   
 - Other languages (not originating in Western Europe) have varying
support. 

This package uses the Unicode (UTF-8) character set, which natively
supports over 650
languages, and as such is a 'universal' character set.

The intention is to eventually merge this package into the mainstream
WebCollab source.  However, at present UTF-8 requires very recent
databases (MySQL 4.1) and optional libraries in PHP (mb_strings).

For the mainstream WebCollab: The CVS is currently stabilising towards a
version 1.70 release.  Most translation files will need updating in due
course.

Regards

Andrew Simpson

[Webcollab-users] WebCollab-1.62 (Canopus) released

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

Hi all,

I am pleased to announce WebCollab-1.62 (Canopus) has been released. 
This release picks up minor bugs that have been found, updates the
Italian translation and provides timezone settings.  Essentially it is a
bugfix and maintenance release. 

Andrew Simpson

[Webcollab-users] WebCollab 1.61 - Celmisia

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

I am pleased to announce WebCollab 1.61 - Celmisia, which has been
released a few days ago.

Essentially this is a bugfix release for the WebCollab 1.60 of a few
weeks ago, which was a bit more buggy than I would have wished - despite
some rigorous pre-release testing.

Various minor bugs have been fixed, including a bug that prevented
PostgreSQL databases being created properly. The code now produces valid
XHTML 1.0 Strict, and should render in standards mode in all
contemporary browsers.

This maintenance release puts the current version significantly ahead of
the very successful 1.51 Hebe version in terms of functionality, 
scalability and execution efficiency.  

Andrew Simpson