JForum Development
Discussion & Private Messages Tool

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Below is a tentative list of JForum dev/nt work, known issues, and feature requests. 

New Feature Requests

JFSI-832 selective import / export of forums
JFSI-807 Add "accept until" date in Jforum
JFSI-862 Support sending PM message through Syllabus tool
JFSI-864 Add gender option in My Profile
JFSI-798 Math support in the forums editor
JFSI-735 Tag 'late' contributors in grading to aid instructors in fair scoring
JFSI-599 "Mark as Evaluated" to mark quickly what has been graded?
JFSI-660 Add ability to cc: site members in PM messages
JFSI-560 Ability to sort replies to debate topics by agree or disagree
JFSI-663 Russian translation
JFSI-451 Redesign Jforum's search
JFSI-279 allow anonymous post in forums (optionally)
JFSI-452 integrate Jforum with Site stats tool
JFSI-458 Networking capability based on My Profile interests
JFSI-754 Ability to see all messages from a single user in one page
JFSI-205 make posts visible/invisible @ x date/time
JFSI-369 Add control of max # of users to PM at the role level (site aware)
JFSI-493 anonymous posting"
JFSI-520 improve info on breadcrumps of discussions
JFSI-538 add 'description' of avatar to serve as an alt tag
JFSI-561 Ability to add a set of "My Comments" options for graders
JFSI-576 Add events in Jforum"
JFSI-603 sort topics by date
JFSI-602 make default color for 'instructor' replies different
JFSI-680 Configurable property for word pastes into JForum to be plain text in configurable property file
JFSI-726 Bulk Mark PM's as Read
JFSI-490 Debate Functionality
JFSI-492 add new topic type, "debate"
JFSI-743 Daily digest of all forum posts email pref
JFSI-787 grading rubrics for discussions
JFSI-815 Profile option to be notified via PM when grade is posted
JFSI-359 Mark topics as read as they are opened"
JFSI-403 add ability to hide/reveal categories
JFSI-440 integrate Jforum with Sakai's help tool
JFSI-491 review color use for agreement, disagreement, and new activity"
JFSI-465 Implement ability for peer-review of posts (rate)
JFSI-495 Word count"

Improvements

JFSI-859 Change arrows to numbers for sorting forums & categories
JFSI-664 avoid the updating of the FCk editor's config file to mask the image icon in FCK Editor
JFSI-577 Integrate TinyMCE with Jforum
JFSI-578 Icons uniformity
JFSI-673 grading efficiency - keep grade forum page open?
JFSI-683 add target="_blank" to hyperlinks in posts
JFSI-752 ability to delete topics in gradable forums
JFSI-581 show instructors topics or forums that are 'ungraded'
JFSI-858 Adding persistence in grading views
JFSI-861 Ability to go to topic from email and speficy which forum it's from
JFSI-721 Add new jforum.grade permission
JFSI-386 move attachments dialogue/browse box higher (not visible to users).
JFSI-387 prompt guest users to add last/first name so that they are not shown as Guest
JFSI-463 Add ability to go to first and last page in Members Listing
JFSI-604 go to specific post from grading view of student contributions
JFSI-842 A few accessibility issues in Jforum
JFSI-833 Subject character limit is confusing with the alert message
JFSI-716 Do we need jforum_sessions table?

Tasks

JFSI-488 Add archive for topics
JFSI-865 Create service for course map - refer MAP-3
JFSI-575 Add JforumDocs for private content
JFSI-609 Move the shared files of jforum to use content hosing
JFSI-654 Avoid storing sakai user information in jforum

Bugs

JFSI-872 On the main page the unread icon shows up for the forum even all the topics are read.
JFSI-615 Add validation to avoid groups if grading is enabled for forums while managing forums
JFSI-619 Rethink grading forum and topic pages implementation related to query
JFSI-618 Dead lock with jforum session
JFSI-634 templateName is undefined on line 6, column 14 in exception.html
JFSI-636 Teaching Assistants and guests should not be listed in grading
JFSI-640 Category.getForums exception in production tomcat logs
JFSI-639 Edit posts does not truncate extra text from the old post. Related to Oracle
JFSI-642 JForum.service() InvocationTargetException & NullPointerException from production tomcat logs
JFSI-646 WARN: Problems while parsing the html from production tomcat logs
JFSI-648 .InvalidURLPatternException... from production tomcat logs
JFSI-644 ForumRepository.getLastPostInfo(int) throws ... from production logs
JFSI-641 MultipartHandlingException from production tomcat logs
JFSI-643 ConflictingAssignmentNameException from production tomcat logs
JFSI-653 warn message from production logs related to updating existing gradebook
JFSI-661 slow query in production related to search
JFSI-357 Enforce foreign key constraints on tables
JFSI-405 when a TASK topic reaches 3 pages, mark as read (any option) doesn't work
JFSI-446 code style lines are underlines in FCK Editor
JFSI-193 always allow html option in profile does not work
JFSI-197 sakai admin role should not show in member listing and manage
JFSI-198 Watch this topic only sends notification for the first reply but not subsequent ones
JFSI-202 clicking on last message icon does not stay in message
JFSI-203 when using the SU tool and becoming another user throws error
JFSI-262 do not see the list of current attachments and the buttons for removing them or attaching more
JFSI-289 Percent signs in JForum topics interferes with recent topics listing
JFSI-296 new words when editing posts not captured in search
JFSI-313 Using sakai's email in jforum, rather than configuring it manually - Merging Josh's changes
JFSI-342 Remove Disable HTML checkbox from posting topic page.
JFSI-362 sort by author in 'search' does not work
JFSI-363 Selective addition of signature when replying to posts does not work.
JFSI-379 search does not (always) find words searched for, though they exist
JFSI-398 search query needs optimization
JFSI-474 reside embedded images if larger than 600 pixels
JFSI-525 default properties for 'archives' forum should show its access type
JFSI-528 trying to move archived topics returns java exception
JFSI-529 trying to delete archived topics returns java exception
JFSI-635 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in the tomcat logs
JFSI-727 Jforum - SQLException with session data
JFSI-764 when choosing to delete multiple topics, not all of them get deleted
JFSI-294 Aim info not showing in profile (member listing view)
JFSI-297 XX - large size font wrap, etc. issues
JFSI-352 With the post the attachments with extensions that are not configured are allowed to upload
JFSI-389 attached .GIF files do not get transferred during export/import (case sensitivity)
JFSI-448 Remove groups and roles related code and sql's
JFSI-650 quotes in attachment description causes widget to disappear
JFSI-691 Modifying account name does not take effect in Discussion Home
JFSI-551 Editing the title of a bookmark doesn't show change until next visit
JFSI-830 Remove the domain names and tool id's in the URLs that are linked to another posts in the message
JFSI-831 Click on Grade link on the topic post refreshes the page and new topic posts background is lost

(See implemented features and fixes in past releases)

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