ChangeLog

14th April 2012 NGPP 1.4 Build 3: Access Control & State Machine enhancements

• Simplification of Access Rights

Any user can now EDIT, UPLOAD or REVISE a contribution even if he's not its main contact. In such a case, a notification e-mail is sent to the main contact.

• Navigation enhancements

Upon login, the user is not redirected to the portal home page anymore but stays on current page.

• State Machine modifications

It is now possible to withdraw a Revised contribution.

• Remote Consensus notifications

In notification, hyperlinks were added to point to contribution details.

29th February 2012 NGPP 1.4 Build 2: New features added to the contribution application

• Late contribution threshold

This feature allows to flag as "Late" any contribution reserved or uploaded after a defined Late Threshold Date. This information only exists for contribution allocated to a meeting.

• Block Reservation

Contribution "Block Reservation" is a functionality that allows to pre-reserve a range of contributions for a targeted meeting by re-using and copying the general fields/information (title, source, …) of existing contributions from previous meetings. This will typically be used when TB meetings have a recurring pattern for their first n contributions (invitation, agenda, IPR call, Status of WPM, WG reports, etc).

• VIP Mode

Only active TB support staff and active Officials of the concerned TB have Write access to the Contribution objects of a community for which the "VIP mode" has been enabled, other users have Read access only i.e. Board and General Assembly.

30th November2011 NGPP 1.4 Build 1: Additional enhancements to the Contribution application

• Evolution of the Contribution numbering scheme

Starting from 2012 contributions and for contributions created in 2011 and attached to a 2012 meeting the new numbering scheme will be as the following:

                                               TBName(YY)XXXZZZ --> <CommunityId>(YY)<MeetingID><contribSeqNb>

Meeting ID: optional can be defined to reflect the Meeting reference. Otherwise for the Comittees who wish to keep the yearly contributions numbering scheme, THEN the XXX will be set to 000

ContribSeqNb:

IF Meeting ID defined THEN starts at 1 until last contribution linked to this meeting is reserved and/or <ReservationEndDate> is reached

IF Meeting ID not defined THEN the contribution numbering system takes over and allocates an automatic yearly numbering scheme

• Contributions can be assigned to several meetings

• Contributions assigned to a meeting and postponed to another meeting will keep its UID origin

• Possibility to set Reservation Start and End Dates with the option to block upload outside of the reservation range

• The Contribution File Name can now be changed in the contribution detailed view.

20th October 2011 NGPP 1.3 Build 5: Ergonomics enhancements

Changes to the portal screen

• New contribution link allows to choose the type from the portlet

• A new search box allows you to enter text and perform search on titles, contacts, and sources of the contributions.

Contribution list Main Screen

• New quick access panel divided in 3 parts
  • Access to saved queries
  • Access to contributions which have been linked to recent, on-going and future meetings
  • Access to contributions associated to preferred committees

• NEW: Simple/Advanced search panels

• UPDATED: Enhanced contribution list
  • Statuses and UID are now displayed in different colours depending on their status
  • The most usual actions are now displayed as Icons

• UPDATED: “New contribution” button which unfolds allowing to choose the type of contribution

Contribution details Windows

• Reviewed to match with the look and feel of the contribution cover page
• The main contact for a contribution is now a single person and you can retrieve his contact details by clicking on the link.
• The related WIs tab has been replaced by in line information display..