The latest release information about the Web Forms for Marketers module version 2.2.
1. Release History
Some of the issues described on this page contain internal reference numbers. You can use these reference numbers when communicating with Sitecore about a particular issue or feature.
November 16, 2011
The Web Forms for Marketers module 2.2.0 rev.111104 is released.
Tested with Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev. 111003.
Important: Web Forms for Marketers 2.2.0 is compatible with Sitecore CMS 6.4 (rev. 101012) or later. This version is not compatible with versions of Sitecore CMS earlier than 6.4.
Please visit the appropriate Module Upgrade section for instruction how to upgrade the module.
New Features
- A new Form Verification “Assess Security Risk” has been added, which is enabled by default. This evaluates entered form data to ensure it does not contain scripts or similar data which could pose a security risk. (351745, 352285).
Important Changes
- Web Forms for Marketers has been optimized to work with SQLServer session state mode. (354072, 352167)
Issues Resolved
- Save Actions
- An issue which caused appearance of error message while using Send Standard Message action in ASYNC mode has been fixed (348990).
- An issue which caused empty dropdown list in the Send Mail action under Japanese version has been fixed (345766).
- An issue which caused incorrect saving of the inserted fields to the body of the message in the Send Mail action has been fixed (349931).
- CRM Save Actions
- An issue which caused problems with CRM Save Actions while connecting to the European and Asian services of CRM Online 2011 has been fixed (351252).
- An issue causing impossible mapping fields in CRM Save Action has been fixed (354192).
- Fields and Validation
- An issue which caused missing icons in the Captcha field type on the Content Delivery server has been fixed (348579).
- An issue which caused appearance of an extra warning message while using Multi-Line text field type with default MaxLength value has been fixed (347720).
- An issue causing incorrect converting of some symbols in the Regular Expression field of the Multi-Line text field type has been fixed(348456).
- An issue which caused incorrect working of Custom field validation in case if parameters order was changed has been fixed (345521).
- Architectural and Support Issues
- An issue which might affect on WFFM module functioning while using NETWORK SERVICE as Identity of Application Pool has been fixed (352171).
- An issue which caused dependency of the WFFM from “msidcrl40.dll” has been fixed (351269).
- Some misprints were fixed in the Dropout Report and in the Form Validation sections (346810, 349096).
March 18, 2011
The Web Forms for Marketers module 2.2.0 rev.110303 is released.
Tested with Sitecore CMS 6.4.1 rev. 101221.
Important: Web Forms for Marketers 2.2.0 is compatible with Sitecore CMS 6.4 (rev. 101012) or later. This version is not compatible with versions of Sitecore CMS earlier than 6.4.
Please visit the appropriate Module Upgrade section for instruction how to upgrade the module.
New Features
- Support has been added for Oracle DBMS, in the form of an Oracle data provider. The Oracle database can be used to write/read forms data.
Important changes
- Clicking the “Properties” button in the edit frame associated with a form will now launch the Rendering Properties window. In version 2.2.0 rev.101207 this launched the Form Designer.
- The module no longer uses the "uiLoadHtml” pipeline in the web.config as it is obsolete. (339775)
Issues resolved
- General
- Forms couldn't be rendered with invalid value in the “Accept-Language” header. (337260)
- Forms couldn't be submitted if the page contained more than 1 form html tag. (338620)
- The "Could not find the configuration node: databases/database[@id='master']" exception appeared when trying to view a form on a content delivery server. (339615)
- If you were using Web Forms for Marketers with CMS 6.4.1 and Internet Explorer 8 in Compatibility mode the Page Editor stoped working correctly after inserting a new form. (339755)
- The Insert a new form wizard was unable to insert a new form if the definition of the website site was absent in web.config. (339756)
- If the Form rendering was added to an item using the design layout and not the the Form Designer, opening the rendering properties dialog for the Form rendering in the Content Editor raised an exception. (339361)
- When using Web Forms for Marketers 2.2 with CMS 6.4.1, adding new list fields in Form Designer returned an exception. (339668)
- The "Do you want to save the changes to the item?" dialog appeared in Form Designer even if no changes have been made. (339869)
- When using the Content Editor to insert a form, the “Select a Placeholder” page in the Insert Form Wizard could hang in some cases. (333312)
- Form Reports
- When web.config AutomaticDataBind setting was set to true, the Form Reports might fail to show all records and paging might not work properly. (326938)
- When web.config AutomaticDataBind setting was set to true, the Form Reports did not show menu commands on the toolbar of the Form Report application. (326763)
- In IE8 downloading large files from the ‘Form Reports’ application could freeze. (327686)
- Form Fields & Validators
- When web.config "Media.UploadAsFiles" setting was set to "true" the File Upload form field failed to upload files to media library. (327338)
- The File Upload form field didn't upload files from Content Delivery servers to the Master Content server. (340025)
- The Email validator could make the page freeze when more than 50 letters entered to the Email form field. (335413)
- In some cases existing values in the List Items dialog could not be changed to new values. (340035, 339668)
- When using Custom Validations values entered in the Regular Expression field were not correctly saved. (338334)
- Save Actions
- Several issues with Subscribe to Target Audience Save Action were solved. (339105, 339827, 339884)
- When using Compatibility View in Internet Explorer, and editing the Send MMS Save Action, an error might appear. (337034)
- When using Internet Explorer, and editing the Send Standard Message Action, an error might appear. (335467)
December 15, 2010
The Web Forms for Marketers module 2.2.0 rev.101207 is released.
Tested with Sitecore CMS 6.4.0 rev. 101124.
Please visit the appropriate Module Upgrade section for instruction how to upgrade the module.
Compatibility
This version of the module only runs on Sitecore CMS 6.4.
Change log
New Features
- Support has been added for the Page Editor featured in Sitecore CMS 6.4. This has resulted in major changes to the module. See the “Important Changes” section of the release history.
- Support has been added for browsers other than Internet Explorer. The following browsers are now supported:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and later versions. Sitecore does not support Internet Explorer 9 beta.
- Mozilla Firefox 3.6
- Google Chrome 6
- Apple Safari 5
Important changes
- In previous versions of the module, forms were added to the page in the Page Editor using the “Insert Form” button in the Form group in Presentation tab of the Page Editor ribbon. Neither the “Presentation” tab, nor the “Insert Form” button is available in the Page Editor in 6.4.
- Forms can still be added to items in the Content Editor using the Insert Form button.
- In the Page Editor, forms should now be added to a placeholder by clicking on the placeholder or by selecting “Add New” in the Component group in the Home tab , and clicking “Add to Here” in the desired location. The “Select Renderings” dialog will appear with a “Form” thumbnail. Selecting this thumbnail will open the Insert Form Wizard
- The Form Designer no longer appears inline, at the top of the page in the Page Editor. Instead it appears as a modal window.
- Forms can still be edited in the Page Editor using the “Edit” button in the edit frame associated with a form to launch the Form Designer.
- Clicking the “Properties” button in the edit frame associated with a form will also launch the Form Designer. (337530)
- Forms now require unique names. When creating forms using the Create a New Form wizard users will only be able to create forms with unique names. (336398)
- The default rendering for Forms, has been changed from “Form Interpreter” to “Form.” (336475)
- Support for Layout Deltas has been added.
2. Known issues
The following known issues are present in the latest version of the Web Forms for Marketers:
Installation error
Reference number: 326481
If you are upgrading from Web Forms for Marketers 2.1 or 2.2 using the Update Installation Wizard, you may encounter an installation error: “Error installing <package name>.” An exception occurred when installing the package. If you encounter this issue try to rename the package to a shorter name and install it again. If you still experience issues please contact Sitecore Customer Service via http://support.sitecore.net (using reference number 326481).
Email Campaign Manager upgrade deletes three files required by the Web Forms for Marketers module
Reference number: 338003
Upgrading process of the Email Campaign Manager module to the version 1.1.0 rev.101119 deletes the following files required by the Web Forms for Marketers module:
- bin\MSCaptcha.dll
- bin\Sitecore.Captcha.dll
- App_Config\Includes\Captcha.config
Workaround:
1. Go to Website_root\temp\ __UpgradeHistory\ Upgrade_E-mail Campaign Manager-1.1.0 rev. 101119_[iso date when the package was installed]\deleted
2. Copy the following files:
bin\MSCaptcha.dll
bin\Sitecore.Captcha.dll
App_Config\Includes\Captcha.config
3. Paste the files to the appropriate folders in Website_root.
Hyperlink manager dialog box cannot be closed in Mozilla Firefox
Reference number: 337033
If you are using the Firefox browser, and adding a hyperlink to the body of a mail in the Send Mail Save Action, the Hyperlink manager dialog cannot be closed using the “OK” or “Cancel” button. The hyperlink is, however, added correctly.
Impossible to add a form in Page Editor when the Datasource Location is empty or contains path to a non-existent item
Reference number: 352647
If the “Datasource Location” field of the “/sitecore/layout/Renderings/Modules/Web Forms for Marketers/Form” item is empty or contains a path to a non-existent item, the form inserting functionality in Page Editor may stop working. This may happen when the “/sitecore/context/home” item is deleted or renamed, because initially the field contains the path to this item.
Workaround:
Change the “Datasource Location” field value to path to an existing item to which the most of the page editor users have the read access (for example, the site root item).
Web Forms placed on the cached sublayouts don't work.
Reference number: 354946
Web Forms placed on the sublayouts with the enabled caching do not work. It is an expected behavior. When the cached sublayout is requested Sitecore returns the cached HTML output omitting the usual ASP.NET web control life cycle. For more information about the Output Caching in Sitecore CMS, see Presentation Component Reference.
Workaround: Disable caching for sublayouts containing the web form.