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.
Dec 17th, 2020
Fixes
- (People) Communications page: Toggles were working inconsistently on the UI. Now every click triggers the correct toggle on UI.
Dec 16th, 2020
New Features
- (Answers, Blogs) Fixed an issue that not all tags could be found on All Tags page (see Answers and Blogs)
Dec 2nd, 2020
New Features
- (All) New look & feel for avatar fly out
Fixes
- (People) Notifications: Subscribers to content in case of Answer Accepted scenario didn't receive notifications.
Nov 16th, 2020
Fixes
- (People) Connections page of user's public profile. Contact button was available for every user instead of those who follow the "visiting" user.
Nov 5th, 2020
New Features
- (Answers) Added new feature to easily follow and upvote a question named "I Have a Similar Question"
Oct 28th, 2020
New Features
- (People) Notifications: Ability to add attachments to Notification emails: added support for non-English filenames.
- (People) Notifications: Adjust logic to reduce notification duplication in specific cases.
Oct 8th, 2020
New Features
- (People) Enable SAP Champions to reach out via DM to any user
- (People) Content: Profile switches to new and faster API released as CSE (Content Service on Elastic Search 7.x)
- (People) Notifications: Ability to add attachments to Notification emails
Fixes
- (People) Notifications: SAP Logo vertical alignment in notifications header adjusted
- (People) Content: Tag filter logic fixed. OR logic is used when filtering by tags instead of AND
- (People) Content: New CSE API had issues with "searching by tag" and for Answers filter set to "accepted=false"
Oct 8th, 2020
Fixes
- (People) Mega menu: adapted to changes from SAP.com where images where removed from header navigation
- (People) Reputation: users were missing latest reputation updates for over a certain period of time. Reputation updater was fixed.
Oct 7th, 2020
New Features
- (Answers) Editing of questions which have been answered is now possible (a new revision will be created)
Sept 26th, 2020
New Features
- (Answers) New behaviour for voting and liking
Sept 24th, 2020
New Features
- (Search) New design for Best Bets
Sept 10th, 2020
New Features
- (Answers) New question detail page layout
- Comments are clearer associated to its question or answer
- Additional tool tips for comments and answer button/link
- Assigned tags are listed on right container
Aug 27th, 2020
New Features
- (Answers, Blogs) Simplified Contribution: Single SAP Managed Tags Field with limitation of seven tags
- (Blogs) Images with link removed from lightbox
- (Search) Add a survey in the Search page
- (Blogs, Answers) Additional Accessibility improvements for screen readers
Fixes
- (Answers) Reduce white space for comments in mobile (SOC-10905)
Aug 19th, 2020
New Features
(Community Live) Community Live is live!
July 29th, 2020
Fixes
- (Search) Issue that error message was in special cases visible together with welcome message has been fixed
- (Search) Fixed an issue that expression where not correctly applied when triggering expression based search from Answers or Blogs system
July 7th, 2020
New Features
- (Search) New SAP Community Search available at https://community.sap.com/search, see also https://community.sap.com/resources/what-is-new#new-search-experience-on-sap-community
Search existing SAP Community content from Q&A, Blogs, Community Pages, Coffee Corner, Archive Documents, People
- Search can be triggered from SAP Community platforms, e.g. SAP Answers question detail page, SAP Blogs tag pages, etc or from the unified header on SAP Community applications
- Find content by entering a search term or browse content of specific tags or content type
- Filter content by
- content types like Q&A, Blog Posts, Documents, Discussions, etc.
- question status
- blog categories
- managed tags
- language
- Sort result lists by relevance or last updated
- "Stay on search" feature which allows user to click on tags in the search results lists
- Share URL of search criteria with others
Offering advanced search options using expressions in the input field additionally to the search term
user tag several can be added, e.g. userTag:abap userTag:my_abap
author, e.g. author:mirko.friedrich
age by hours (h), days (d), months (m) and years (y), e.g. age:3d
syntax is <search term> <criteria1>:<value1> <criteria2>:<value2> <criteria3>:<value>
Example: HANA userTag:abap author:mirko.friedrich age:3y
June 17th, 2020
New Features
- (Blogs) Image light box offers option to zoom in and out
(Blogs) Added a cancel button for writing or updating a blog post
Fixes
(Blogs) Fixed an issue that light box was not working for some images which
June 3rd, 2020
New Features
(Blogs) Closing the image light box has been made easier, e.g. using ESC button is possible
Fixes
- (Blogs) Removed restriction that links to other blog posts where not allowed
- (Blogs) Fixed an issue where # sign could not be used within blog post display name
May 20th, 2020
New Features
- (Answers, Blogs) Any primary tag is available in any language
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed wrong translation on mobile buttons
- (Content Pages) Fixed filtering issues on Events, Influence Finder and Voice Newsletter
May 12th, 2020
Fixes
- (People) Fixed issue with SAP employee icon was not visible on their public profiles.
May 11th, 2020
New Features
- (Blogs) Light box for images within a blog posts and comment section
May 7th, 2020
Fixes
- (People) Fixed issue where content section wouldn't load on user's own profile.
May 6th, 2020
Fixes
- (Blogs) Fixed issue that links could not be added to libraries where SAP appeared as term
May 4th, 2020
New Features
- (People) Major backend update
- (People) Added ability to change visibility settings directly on personal info (bio, expertise…etc)
- (People) UI update for visibility toggles in Personal Info and Privacy sections.
April 8th, 2020
Fixes
- (Activities) Fixed misaligned tags on activity stream
- (Answers) Fixed issue that adding URL with port information was not possible
- (Blogs) Fixed misaligned Follow/RSS/Like button on mobile devices
- (Community Pages) Image titles are now shown for image widget
March 25th, 2020
New Features
(Blogs) Sticky buttons for follow, like, and RSS on blog detail page while scrolling the post
February 12th, 2020
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed a UI glitch on Answers tag pages where blue line appeared focus on search field was lost
(Community Pages) Removed event type link in case no link is maintained
(Gamification) Changed calculation for Diligent Solver
January 29th, 2020
Fixes
- (Blogs) Fixed issue that authors could not add a link to already uploaded images
(Blogs) Fixed issue that authors could not add links to SAP domains when link contained trailing space
January 15th, 2020
New Features
(Topic Pages) Added "See all" link below question and blog list
- (People) New version of the navigation header
Fixes
(Answers) Fixed issue with inserting images on answers
January 8th, 2020
New Features
- (People) Reputation: Available missions are now ordered by completion percentage (high to low)
Fixes
(People) Fixed issue Profile loading loop when user logs to Community sites first and then goes to Profile
November 20th, 2019
Fixes
- (Blogs) Fixed the issue that results on All tags page are not adjusted after pressing "Reset" button
November 6th, 2019
Fixes
- (People) Notifications: email body text alignment fix for various email clients
October 23rd, 2019
New Features
- (All) Added new entry "Support" to the footer to make it easier to contact support via email
- (Gamification) Diligent Solver badges include now the month and year when the badge has been achieved
Fixes
- (Activities) Minor UI corrections, e.g. wrong text size in "Followed Tags" widget in case no subscriptions are available and fixed incorrect styling of button
September 30th, 2019
New Features
- (Answers, Blogs, Influence finder) Display of additional role icons for users, e.g. Tech Ambassador
- (Influencer finder) New Influence finder to connect with an expert such as SAP Champions, SAP Mentors, SAP Technology Ambassadors, and more.
September 11th, 2019
New Features
(Header/Navigation) New Community Header and navigation are live including a switch of community specific web pages to the new community.sap.com domain
(Blogs) Added number of search results on specific pages for Web & Mobile
September 10th, 2019
New Features
(People) New header and footer design.
(People) New Search in new header with built-in suggestions without leaving the page.
Fixes
- (People) Change password didn't trigger logout.
August 28th, 2019
Fixes
- (Answers) Fix issue with Up/Downvote buttons in IE11
August 14th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) New up and downvoting icons on questions and answers also showing own votes
(Gamification) Introducing a new mission: Diligent Solver
Fixes
- (Answers) Pagination issues have been fixed, i.e. liking a comment and commenting was not possible after navigating to another comments or answer page
- (Answers, Blogs) Fixed the issue that messaging was incorrect in case a comment hierarchy has been deleted
July 17th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) Ask a question form can be opened with pre-filled primary and additional managed tags using the following format https://answers.sap.com/questions/ask.html?primaryTagId=<primary tag ID>&additionalTagId=<additional tag ID 1>&additionalTagId=<additional tag ID 2>...
Fixes
- (Gamification) Improved trigger for recalculation of blogger and answer progression
July 3rd, 2019
New Features
(Answers) Additional filter option to filter questions which are answered, but not have an accepted answer
Fixes
- (Gamification) Improved blogger progression calculation
June 19th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) Allow question author unaccept an answer that was accepted by a moderator
Fixes
- (Answers) Duplications in Karma points were removed
- (Gamification) Fix notification spamming for "Hello World" mission
June 18th, 2019
New Features
(Gamification) New mission Hitchhiker has been made available, see SAP Community available missions
June 5th, 2019
New Features
- (Answers) Actions on question detail page trigger a login for up-/downvoting, liking and following if user is not authenticated
Fixes
(Gamification) Fixed a rounding issue when calculating progressions
May 28th, 2019
New Features
(GDPR) Easier way to make a profile public when logging on to SAP Community
May 25th, 2019
New Features
(Gamification) New mission Hitchhiker has been made available, see blog post
May 22nd, 2019
Fixes
- (Moderation) Fixed an issue where moderation actions where inactive after using pagination in moderation queue
April 30th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) New filter box for questions on landing page, tag and user tag pages to filter by question type, i.e. questions with no response, no answers, answers or only accepted answers
April 24th, 2019
New Features
- (Answers) Extended reasons for moderation alerts
- (Answers) Changed karma credit link in hero section
Fixes
- (Answers) Fixed styles for archive migrated content on blockquotes and list items
- (Answers) Fixed issue that images could not be resized
(Blogs) Fixed an issue that user could not attach images to blog posts or comments
April 3rd, 2019
Fixes
- (People) Mentioning new users wasn't possible
March 29th, 2019
New Features
- (People) Reputation redesign, legacy level badge, legacy badges migrated into main reputation, achievements by year
- (People) Reputation Snapshot, Karma Credit link to Karma Credit log
Fixes
- (People) Accessibility: Left Hand Navigation was not reachable with tab key
- (People) Accessibility: Avatar overlay was not focused on with tab key
March 28th, 2019
New Features
- (Answers) SCN lifetime points have been migrated into karma credits
- (Answers) New karma credit log where you can see the history how you gained your karma credits
- (Blogs) Likes and views of veteran SCN blog posts have been migrated to Blogs
- (All) Fixed the issue that avatar fly out menu was not closing sometimes
- (Answers) Fixed an issue where comments have been multiplied when viewing them
- (Blogs) Incorrect bullet point formatting has been solved
March 19th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) Additional information available when adding an answers
Fixes
- (Answers) Minor UI fix for list of managed tags on question detail page
- (Answers) List of answers and comments to a questions are now sorted chronological
March 13th, 2019
New Features
- (Answers) Applied various performance improvements, e.g. to Answers landing page
Fixes
- (Activities) Updated wrong wording for liking a discussion
(Blogs) Fixed an issue with special Latin characters where handled incorrectly
February 27th, 2019
New Features
(Answers) Provide text templates for moderators why a report was closed or content was deleted
Fixes
- (Activities) Issue fixed that tag filter did not filter correct activities
- (Answers) Fixed an IE11 bug when inserting code blocks did not work
- (Answers) Fixed an IE11 bug when a profile link was not correctly converted to mention user information
- (Blogs) Fixed the issue that it was not possible to follow the tag 'Open Source'
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
February 13th, 2019
New Features
- (Activities) Introducing new filter option to show only activities of your network, i.e. people a user is following
- (All applications) Increased the header width to align with breadcrumb width
- (Answers) Reduced number of actions available for pre-moderated answers
- (Answers) Alerted questions are highlighted for moderators
- (Archive) Archive URLs are now case insensitive
- (Blogs) Authentication for blog post follow button is now also modal pop up window
- (Blogs) Changed label of archive filter to "By month"
Fixes
- (Activities, Coffee Corner) Fixed issue that no following activity for discussion appeared in users activity stream
- (Answers) Bookmark icon is not overlapping anymore on Answers when using Firefox
- (Answers) Fixed an issue where formatting of question was incorrect
- (Answers) Comments are now shown in correct date order
- (Answers) Fixed small UI issues with pre-moderated replies on 2nd and lower hierarchy
- (Answers) List entries in moderation queue are now pointing to correct location in moderation queue
- (Answers, Blogs) Hero section is not jumping anymore which was caused by bookmark icon
- (Blogs) Fixed an issue where Blog subscriber info page was sometimes returning an error
- (Notification) Notification icon is not more cropped anymore in user fly out menu
January 30th, 2019
New Features
- (Blogs) Renamed moderator alert reason from 'Incorrect Tag' into 'Incorrect Tag/Category'
- (Blogs) Introducing a blog post like button which is much more prominent
- (Answers) You will now receive a notification in case a moderator changed your content in Answers
- (Answers) As a moderator you will now see pre-moderated answers and pre-moderated comments already in the question detail page
- (Answers) As a moderator you now see alerted comments and alerted answers highlighted in a special way in the question detail page
- (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
- (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.
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
- (Answers) Fixed the issue that certain actions are not available for questions that have special symbols in the title
- (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
January 16th, 2019
New Features
- (Activities) Removed filters "Profile Updates" and "Social Activities"
- (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.
- (Answers) Add additional comment to question link at the end of the comments sections if the question already have 3 or more comments.
- (Answers) Visualise number of question revisions and make them accessible
- (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
- (Activities) Mouse pointer is now correctly showing when hovering over content
- (Blogs) Fixed the issue that tables sometimes are cut in blog posts
- (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
- (Blogs) Fixed table issue on blogs comment where table is cut off after resizing
- (Coffee Corner) Fixed the issue that a moderator could not edit a pre-moderated comment in the coffee corner
- (Notifications) Fixed link to adjust email notification settings