The SAP Community implementation team in SAP IT provides regular updates to the SAP Community platform. Here we provide regular release notes to inform our community members about new features and bug fixes.
SAP Community Release Notes of 2017
SAP Community Release Notes of 2016
March 19th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) Additional information available when adding an answers (SOC-8396)
Fixes
- (Answers) Minor UI fix for list of managed tags on question detail page (SOC-8102)
- (Answers) List of answers and comments to a questions are now sorted chronological (SOC-8433, SOC-8608)
March 13th, 2019
New Features
- (Answers) Applied various performance improvements, e.g. to Answers landing page (SOC-8511)
Fixes
- (Activities) Updated wrong wording for liking a discussion (SOC-8298)
(Blogs) Fixed an issue with special Latin characters where handled incorrectly (SOC-5741)
February 27th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) Provide text templates for moderators why a report was closed or content was deleted (SOC-8445)
Fixes
- (Activities) Issue fixed that tag filter did not filter correct activities (SOC-8576)
- (Answers) Fixed an IE11 bug when inserting code blocks did not work (SOC-5096)
- (Answers) Fixed an IE11 bug when a profile link was not correctly converted to mention user information (SOC-8320)
- (Blogs) Fixed the issue that it was not possible to follow the tag 'Open Source' (SOC-8555)
February 18th, 2019
New Features
- (Blogs) Now it is possible to alert a moderator not only about problematic blog posts but as well about blog post comments (SOC-8212)
February 13th, 2019
New Features
- (Activities) Introducing new filter option to show only activities of your network, i.e. people a user is following (SOC-8251)
- (All applications) Increased the header width to align with breadcrumb width (SOC-8443)
- (Answers) Reduced number of actions available for pre-moderated answers (SOC-8364)
- (Answers) Alerted questions are highlighted for moderators (SOC-8461)
- (Archive) Archive URLs are now case insensitive (SOC-8448)
- (Blogs) Authentication for blog post follow button is now also modal pop up window (SOC-8452)
- (Blogs) Changed label of archive filter to "By month" (SOC-8369)
Fixes
- (Activities, Coffee Corner) Fixed issue that no following activity for discussion appeared in users activity stream (SOC-5493)
- (Answers) Bookmark icon is not overlapping anymore on Answers when using Firefox (SOC-8477)
- (Answers) Fixed an issue where formatting of question was incorrect (SOC-8440)
- (Answers) Comments are now shown in correct date order (SOC-8350)
- (Answers) Fixed small UI issues with pre-moderated replies on 2nd and lower hierarchy (SOC-8318)
- (Answers) List entries in moderation queue are now pointing to correct location in moderation queue (SOC-8434)
- (Answers, Blogs) Hero section is not jumping anymore which was caused by bookmark icon (SOC-8405)
- (Blogs) Fixed an issue where Blog subscriber info page was sometimes returning an error (SOC-8484)
- (Notification) Notification icon is not more cropped anymore in user fly out menu (SOC-5969)
January 30th, 2019
New Features
- (Blogs) Renamed moderator alert reason from 'Incorrect Tag' into 'Incorrect Tag/Category' (SOC-8368)
- (Blogs) Introducing a blog post like button which is much more prominent (SOC-8361)
- (Answers) You will now receive a notification in case a moderator changed your content in Answers (SOC-8147)
- (Answers) As a moderator you will now see pre-moderated answers and pre-moderated comments already in the question detail page (SOC-8155)
- (Answers) As a moderator you now see alerted comments and alerted answers highlighted in a special way in the question detail page (SOC-8154)
- (Answers) We renewed the moderation process in Answers. As a moderator you can now specify reasons why certain content is deleted or a report has been closed. That reason is forwarded as notification to the content owner including the question owner and as well the person who alerted the content in case an alerted content is deleted. If a report for an alerted piece of content was closed the corresponding content reporter will get an email including the reason for the closure (SOC-8367)
- (People) Introducing Activity Log. Users can see all the activity they did on Community by going to Content & Following→Activity Log. Page is part of the private user profile. (UXP-2159)
Fixes
- (Activities) Fixed an issue that sometimes activities appeared in users activity stream even if the user was not following the author of that activity or the managed tag of that activity (SOC-8380)
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that certain actions are not available for questions that have special symbols in the title (SOC-8401)
- (Blogs) Fixed the issue for users when trying to follow a tag actually the user was following a blog post instead. This happened only when clicking on the follow link as an anonymous user (SOC-8324)
January 16th, 2019
New Features
- (Activities) Removed filters "Profile Updates" and "Social Activities" (SOC-8056)
- (Answers, Blogs) Providing option to bookmark pages in Answers and Blogs. Available on tag, user tag, individual question & blog post pages and as well on blog archive pages. Bookmarked pages can be found in the people profile. (SOC-7856, SOC-7859)
- (Answers) Add additional comment to question link at the end of the comments sections if the question already have 3 or more comments. (SOC-8146)
- (Answers) Visualise number of question revisions and make them accessible (SOC-8185)
- (People) Bookmarks - Added the ability to create and manage bookmarks, display favorites on a Bookmarks Dashboard widget.
- (People) Bookmarks - Old SCN bookmarks data has been imported and is available to users who had saved bookmarks on SCN (Jive) system.
Fixes
- (Activities) Fixed resizing issues when filters on right hand side were not available (SOC-8297)
- (Activities) Mouse pointer is now correctly showing when hovering over content (SOC-8299)
- (Blogs) Fixed the issue that tables sometimes are cut in blog posts (SOC-8343, SOC-8247)
- (Blogs) Fixed style issues in blog posts e.g. paragraph headers are sometimes displayed in larger fonts than the post title or overlapping right hand content section (SOC-8315, SOC-8302)
- (Blogs) Fixed table issue on blogs comment where table is cut off after resizing (SOC-8269)
- (Coffee Corner) Fixed the issue that a moderator could not edit a pre-moderated comment in the coffee corner (SOC-8230)
- (Notifications) Fixed link to adjust email notification settings (SOC-8225)
December 19th, 2018
New Features
- (Activities) New experience for Activity Stream, e.g. activities contain up to 5 managed tags which lead to the respective tag pages on Answers or blogs. Additionally reduced set of activities will show up in users Activity Stream to focus on important content updates. In detail only new content will be shown in case a user is following a primary tag. If user is following a particular question or post more activities will be shown. If following a person activities will be shown where the person initiated an action, e.g. like of a blog post. In general update activities, e.g. update of question or profile information has been removed. ( SOC-7822, SOC-8044, SOC-8117, ....)
- (Answers) Now new community members that are still under pre-moderation can as well create comments in our Q&A platform. (SOC-8059, SOC-8149, SOC-8151)
- (Blogs) Introducing blog categories. Now every blog post will be categorized to make it easier to find and filter blog post content (SOC-7937, SOC-8047, SOC-8067, SOC-8066, SOC-8186, SOC-8180)
- (Blogs) New experience for blog detail page ( SOC-7992, SOC-7987, SOC-7984)
- (Blogs) Added to blog detail page the average reading time for a post (SOC-7986)
December 5th, 2018
New Features
- (Answers, Blogs) Reduced the possible reasons for moderator alerts to 5 (SOC-8030, SOC-8031)
- (Blogs) RSS feeds added to tag pages (SOC-8035)
- (Blogs) Updated wording for titles on blog list views (SOC-8040)
- (Coffee Corner) RSS feeds added to landing page of coffee corner (SOC-8037)
November 21st, 2018
New Features
- (Answers) RSS feeds added to tag pages (SOC-8036)
- (Answers) Updated styles for side widgets, e.g. popular tags
- (Blogs) Syntax highlighting in blogs supports now also Perl and Swift (SOC-7706)
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that the description for the user tag field was missing in the ask a new question screen (SOC-7981)
- (Blogs) When adding a link to the content section of a user profile that link was resolved with former member. (SOC-8001)
- (Blogs) It was not possible to add the user tag C## to a blog post. The tag was automatically exchanged with C++. Now this is possible (SOC-7710)
November 8th, 2018
New Features
- (Answers) Number of initially displayed items in "Followed Tags" widget has been set to 10 (SOC-7939)
- (Answers) Added "Ask a question" button to user tag pages (SOC-7919)
- (Answers) Adjusted error messages and pop up messages for "Ask a question page" (SOC-7815)
(Answers) Added number of contributors for tag pages to the statistics section (SOC-7908)
- (Blogs) New user experience for lists of blogs, e.g. a blog tag page. Including options to easily identify number of comments and likes per blog post as well options to sort by most liked and created blog posts. Also widgets in right hand column are updated with new design. Followed tags widget shows initially 10 followed items, if more exist, user can simply "View all ...." with a single click (SOC-7010, SOC-7933, SOC-7766, SOC-7767...)
- (Coffee Corner) Editorial guidelines are available on the coffee corner landing page and when starting a new discussion (SOC-7861)
- (People) New icon for Role - Tech Ambassador
Fixes
- (Answers) After deleting a hierarchy of comments the buttons reply and comments does not work any more. Only after a refresh these buttons become responsive again. This issue is now fixed (SOC-7896)
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that the follow button was active but not working for anonymous users. Now the button is responsive (SOC-7926)
- (Answers) Reset button is working correctly on "All tags" page (SOC-7774)
- (Answers) Role icons are not any longer changed when opening all comments for a question or answer (SOC-7909)
- (Blogs) Former Member link is not anymore clickable in IE11 / Edge browsers (SOC-7996)
- (Coffee Corner) When starting a new discussion the system is suggesting already existing similar discussions that might cover the topic. These suggestions did not work in the past and lead to 'Page not found'. Now they do (SOC-7889)
- (Coffee Corner) When starting a new discussion but do not publish it and finally cancel the action did not bring user back where user came from but redirected to the all question page. Now user is send back where user came from. (SOC-7863)
- (Coffee Corner) Usually the author information of a community member who left the company is replaced by the text 'former member'. For discussions in the coffee corner the author information was missing at all and not text 'former member' was displayed. This is now fixed. (SOC-7958)
- (General) Now the link to change the profile privacy in the consent page points directly to the section where the visibility can be changed (SOC-7852)
October 29th, 2018
New Features
- (Activity Stream) Tags in activities now point to the corresponding tag pages in Answers or Blogs (SOC-7816)
- (Notifications) Tags in notifications now point to the corresponding tag pages in Answers or Blogs (SOC-7820)
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed a misaligned pagination icon (SOC-7529)
- (Answers) Former member no more appears with a clickable but not working link (SOC-7709)
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that clicking on the 'x' sign does not remove the search term form the input field in the search result page (SOC-7752)
- (Coffee Corner) Adjusted the sorting options in coffee corner from votes to likes (SOC-6724)
October 11th, 2018
New Features
- (Answers) Your followed tags' widget in Answers is no longer restricted to max 20 entries (SOC-7700)
- (Answers) You receive a proper notification in case a moderator leaves a moderation comment to your content (SOC-7771)
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed pagination issue when it is sometimes cropped (SOC-7529)
- (Answers) Former member no more appears with a clickable but not working link (SOC-7709)
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that search term is not removed even the 'x' sign has been clicked on search result page (SOC-7752)
- (Answers) When locking comments in answers it is not possible anymore to add additional comments to answers (SOC-7758)
- (Coffee Corner) Adjusted the sorting options in coffee corner from votes to likes (SOC-6724)
September 27th, 2018
New Features
(Answers, Coffee Corner, Blogs, Messages, Archive SOC-6570) Redesigned breadcrumb and actions section which makes it now easy to create new blog posts or ask a question no matter where you are
(Answers SOC-6835) Complete overhaul of the question and answers platform which includes
- Redesigned UI across all pages
- Main page for all question and the individual tag pages offer now valuable information at a first glance: Number of answers per questions and if the question has an accepted answer
- When checking individual questions the accepted answer is highlighted in green and is moved to the top below the question
- Initially max 3 comments for a question and one comment for each answer is displayed to keep the focus on the question/answers. Surely it is possible to show all comments
- Moderator comments will be publicly visible from now on
- Comments are now shown in a flat list instead of a hierarchy. No replies are possible to comments anymore
- Pagination instead of 'show more' button
- The additional "Related Tags" widget on the tag pages helps users to open associated tag pages
- A new widget "Popular Tags" informs you about trending tags
- New page that lists all available tags in the Q&A platform
(Coffee Corner SOC-6716) A redesign of the coffee corner overview page and start a new discussion page to match the UI of questions and answers
(Blogs)
- (SOC-7673) New widget on the blogs main page about trending tags also named "Popular Tags"
- (SOC-7545) New page that lists all available tags that can be assigned to a blog post
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that is was possible to answer a closed question by converting an existing comment into an answer (SOC-5593)
- (Answers) Now links with ')', '(', '+', ' ' ' symbols are supported (SOC-6906)
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that is it not possible to edit your own comment in the coffee corner (SOC-7570)
September 26th, 2018
New Features
(People)
For complete overview of the new Profile read here
- Complete visual design revamp
- Previous functionality made more usable
- Visibility settings: what data is publicly visible and what is private
- Dashboard: widgets with most useful information and action items in one place
- Account & Settings: More data, upgraded bio, Work History, Education History, new icons. Each section / field can be made private or publicly visible
- Content: All content you ever written, engaged with, including comments and drafts and content under moderation in one place
- Following: list of tags and content items that you follow
- Connections: manage your following/followers, ability to follow / unfollow and contact them, directly from the list.
- Reputation: earned badges, badge showcase, available and earned missions, blogger role and karma credits, legacy SCN points and badges
- Public Profile – your publicly visible information you share with other users.
Release August 29th, 2018
Fixes
(Answers) In case you leave your browser open on Questions & Answers for a long time and the session expires and you re-login on that expired session you are forwarded to https://answers.sap.com/index.html . This is now fixed and you stay on the same page after re-login to an expired session (SOC-6786)
(Notifications) Fixed an issue where notifications are not received for new messages (SOC-7253)
(Archive) Fixed an issue that links to blog posts of former members in the Blogs platform does no longer work (SOC-7493 )
Release August 15th, 2018
Fixes
(Answers) Actions menu has been removed for users on deleted questions and deleted discussions (SOC-5905)
(Blogs) Fixed issue when editing comments with a link returned an error message (SOC-5665)
Release August 1st, 2018
Fixes
(Answers, Blogs) Fixed an issue when asking/editing a question / post that tags are suggested which could not be selected (SOC-6818)
(Blogs) Fixed issue that liking of posts with videos works incorrectly (SOC-7310)
Release April 25th, 2018
New Features
- (Answers & Blogs) Now we support RSS feeds. We added feed support for latest questions and blog posts of a specific tag as well as latest answers including comments of a specific question and comments of a blog post. (SOC-6686)
- (Answers & Blogs) We adjust the list of select-able tags for blog posts and questions for languages other than English (SOC-6640)
- (People) Now we support RSS feeds on Profile where you can subscribe to the user's content as an RSS feed from their profiles. (UXP-1645)
Release March 28th, 2018
New Features
(Gamification) Community goes Gamification. Now you can earn badges that gives insights about your experience level. Get more information here (SOC-6593)
- (People) Ability to hide / show your public profile. You can give / revoke consent to displaying your public profile via Account Settings→Privacy Settings. (UXP-1563)
Please note: Privacy Settings will go into effect only on May 25th.
Release March 22nd, 2018
Fixes
(SAP.com) Community Homepage Feeds on a specific Topic(e.g. "Mentor Blogs"): secondary tags in addition to primary are included into filtering blogs/questions
Release March 21st, 2018
Fixes
(Activity Stream) Changed wording in activity stream when a question got replaced (SOC-6270)
(Notification) Notifications are now available for content which has to be retagged (SOC-5740)
Release March 14th, 2018
Fixes
- (Moderation) Fixed one issue that pre-moderated items get stuck in moderation queue (SOC-6537, SOC-5514)
- (Q&A) Showing correct author in case a comment get converted to an answer (SOC-3254)
Release February 28th, 2018
New Features
- (Search) Header search is now using the new search experience (SOC-6406)
Fixes
- (Q&A) Adjusted information pop-up that is displayed when you try to alert a moderator about content for which you already sent an alert. Now the text is more intuitive and hold only one button. In the past the second button cancelled your initial alert without even informing you about that action. (SOC-6407)
(Q&A) Fix the issue that the number of comments was sometimes not correctly displayed (SOC-4770)
Release February 14th, 2018
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that 'SAP SQL Anywhere' was not available as primary tag for Japanese (SOC-6287)
- (Answers) Fixed UI bug that actions menu for questions sometimes disappeared (SOC-6044)
- (Answers) Tag picker is working correctly when changing primary tag in questions (SOC-6244)
- (Blogs) Moderator report is not anymore exceeding page width (SOC-6208)
- (Notifications) Fixed the issue that title of accepted answer was missing in notifications (SOC-6271)
- (Notifications) Icons where not available in email notificiations (SOC-6370)
Release February 13th, 2018
Fixes
- (Coffee Corner) Karma credits have been recalculated based on new Coffee Corner settings
Release January 31st, 2018
Fixes
- (Coffee Corner) Karma credits can not be received anymore for activities in coffee corner
Release January 17th, 2018
New Features
- (Answers, Blogs) New language specific tag for Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese are available (SOC-6147)
Fixes
- (Activity Stream) Improved messaging in case user could not authenticate successfully to Activity stream (SOC-6087)
- (Activity Stream) Fixed the issue that Activities Stream and Notification Inbox appeared blank in special cases (SOC-5853)
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that moderators where able to moderate content even though they have lost their moderation permissions (SOC-6216)
- (Answers) Search results do not contain Coffee Corner discussions anymore when redirection questions (SOC-6004)
- (Answers) Fixed that the secondary tag 'API ' was removed after saving a question (SOC-6221)
- (Answers) Adjusted the end user message in activity stream in case a message has been unaccepted (SOC-5485)
- (Blogs) Moderation alert is now also recovered when an alerted and trashed blog post is undeleted (SOC-3463)
- (Notifications) Fixed wrong timestamps for notifications from Messages (SOC-5305)
Release January 9th, 2018
Fixes
(People) Fixed missing Legacy Reputation not being shown when user has only point and no badges (UXP-1519)