What's New

Content Templates

As of this version, MatchPoint Snow displays content-type specific information in the content overview. For example when browsing task you can see the "Due date" and the "Status".

This gives the users quicker access to the information they actually need, without needing to open the item. Per default only the values are displayed, to toggle the labels, the values can be clicked.

Possibility to use SearchDataProvider for Workspace aggregation

SharePoint has a limitation regarding the number of items which can be queried in a SharePoint caml-query.

As MatchPoint stores its workspace items in a document library, the limit can be reached in large environments. At that point exceptions will be thrown when aggregating workspaces, as this is done via the WorkspaceDataProvider which internally uses a ListDataProvider (CAML-based). In case you have such issues, we now provide a set of configurations which use a SearchDataProvider instead of the WorkspaceDataProvider. When using these configurations there is no such limit, but there is the disadvantage of being crawler dependent, e.g. new workspaces don’t popup immediately. For details have a look at the chapter "Environments with many Workspaces" in the MatchPoint Snow Installation Guide.

Additionally when you use the search based configurations to aggregate workspaces in MatchPoint Snow, it is strongly recommended to use the Content Enrichment Web Service (CEWS) to ensure correct tag refinement values are displayed to the user. More information on how to install the CEWS can be found in the MatchPoint Installation Guide.

"AddPost"-expression supports Workflows and TimerJobs

The expression variable MPSTimelineHelper has a method called AddPost – this is what we use internally to create posts on the timeline. This method has been adjusted so it can be used without any SPContext, e.g. in TimerJobs or from within MatchPoint Workflows. We recently wrote a blog post which explains how this works in detail.

Additional information

• We also support host-named my sites, but do not yet support host-named workspaces.
• Next to the above mentioned functionalities, there are some UI improvements:
  • The "panel-togglers" now always stick to their position. That way you can hide/show the panels without needing to scroll to the top of the screen.
  • While switching between different pages, the ribbon was sometimes shown for "regular" users, who shouldn’t actually see the ribbon on normal pages.
  • Support for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.
  • The titles of web parts containing aggregated data (e.g. documents overview within a workspace) point to list, enabling the user to quickly browse to the source of the content.
• And lots of other fixes and improvements. For a list of all changes, please see the release notes.