Hello Roberto --
Glad to see you back around.
I'm interested in testing out too. Could you create a Docker upgrade for
this, as that is how I'm deployed with Django Storages for offloading files.
Thanks,
David
On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 9:21:03 PM UTC-4, Roberto Rosario wrote:
>
> This version is meant for users experienced with Mayan EDMS. Please do not
> in production. The purpose of this release is get feedback on all the
> changes and testing and bugs reporting. If want to test against real data,
> please make a separate copy of your documents and database first and use
> this copy for testing.
>
> Almost all the changes of Mayan EDMS NG 2.8 and Mayan EDMS NG 3.0 have
> been merged.
>
> The release notes summary is as follows:
>
>
>- Turning Mayan EDMS into a single page app. Views are rendered using
>partial templates. On the first render a root template containing the
>menus, JavaScript and stying is sent to the browser. On subsequent usage
>only the area below the menu is refreshed. This results is a big speed
>boost and much less bandwidth consumption.
>- Project moved to Django 1.11.
>- Event notification. It is possible to subscribe to an event type for
>the entire system or to the event type of a specific document. If any of
>these subscribed events occur an entry will be added to the notification
>menu entry. The default for this menu entry is to display a bell icon and
> a
>badge with the number of unread notifications.
>- All the Python dependencies have been upgraded to their latest
>version.
>- The logic for searching documents is now different. Before, all the
>documents that matched at least one of the search terms were returned. Now
>only the documents that match all the terms are returned. This is in
>essence an "AND" style logic. To allow the previous behavior, the "OR"
>search syntax was added. The syntax must be added in uppercase and between
>the optional terms.
>- Normally the resolution for the display modes of documents was
>specified as a string containing the width and height concatenated with
> the
>character 'x'. The display resolution settings have been separated into
>distinctive width and height settings. Instead of
> DOCUMENTS_THUMBNAIL_SIZE,
>the settings are now DOCUMENTS_THUMBNAIL_WIDTH and
>DOCUMENTS_THUMBNAIL_HEIGHT. The same applies to the preview, display and
>print resolutions.
>- The upload wizard now features dynamic steps. The steps are defined
>by a new class called WizardStep. This allows integrators to customize the
>upload wizard to add their own steps without having to modify the core
>code. This change also add the capability of disabling existing wizard
>steps form third party apps without having to make core code modifications.
>- A new default step was added to the upload wizard to specify the
>cabinets of new documents.
>- The code that detect the automatic orientation of PDF has been
>disabled by default. It can be enabled via the
>DOCUMENTS_FIX_ORIENTATION=True setting.
>- A new proposal system has been added via the Mayan EDMS Request for
>Comment (or MERC for short) documents. The first two MERCs have been
>approved. MERC-1 which documents the process itself and MERC-2 which
>documents how API tests are to be written. Other MERCs are in review
>process.
>- If the duplicates of a document were deleted the original document
>would still show up in the duplicated document list with a duplicate count
>of 0. This has been fixed.
>- Support was added to pass arguments to the storage drivers. This
>removes the need to subclass a storage driver to change its behavior. This
>also means that passing global variables via the local.py file to use S3
>style object storages is no longer required. These storage drivers can be
>configure by passing their arguments in the new
>DOCUMENTS_STORAGE_BACKEND_ARGUMENTS as a YAML string.
>- If is possible to list only the system events executed by one user.
>This can be accomplished via the user list view in the setup menu. Or by
>clicking on the user name of the event list view.
>- The checkbox behavior in all the views that display a list items has
>been improved. A "check all" checkbox was added that will auto select all
>items. The submit button from dropdown list of actions was removed.
> Instead
>the action of selecting an item from the action dropdown will trigger the
>action. The checkbox also allow block selection. Clicking on the checkbox
>of the first item, later on the checkbox of the fifth item while holding
>down the shift key will cause the checkboxes of items 1 to 5 to be
>selected. The same applies to deselection.
>- A JavaScript library manager was added. This means that third party
>
