Chris Banner
Jun 5, 2017
  2719
(3 votes)

What's new in Episerver Social 1.4?

Episerver Social 1.4 releases this week. Below you'll find the highlights of what's new in this release. (For an individual breakdown of changes, check out the release notes.)

Enhanced expression library

Episerver Social emphasizes the ability to model your social content to meet the needs of your application. Supporting that flexibility, the Episerver Social framework allows you to define completely custom filters for your content using its expression library. With the release of version 1.4, the library of expressions has grown to include two new ones.

ContainsExpression
Apply the ContainsExpression to contruct a filter matching content where a collection field (an array, list, etc.) contains a specific value.

Consider an example where I wish to match Comments, which have been extended to include an accompanying Tags array, by a specific tag value. I can construct a correponding filter using the ContainsExpression as demonstrated below.

var containsSportsTag = FilterExpressionBuilder<MyCommentExtension>.Field(d => d.Tags).Contains("sports");

OrExpression 
The framework, which previously included the ability to logically AND filters together, now also includes the ability to logically OR your filters.

Consider an example where I wish to match Comments, which have been extended to include an accompanying LuckyNumber field, by those that equal 2 or 7. I can construct a corresponding filter using the OrExpression as demonstrated below.

var luckyNumberField = FilterExpressionBuilder<MyCommentExtension>.Field(d => d.LuckyNumber);
var luckyNumberOf2Or7 = FilterExpressionBuilder<MyCommentExtension>.Or(
    luckyNumberField.EqualTo(2),
    luckyNumberField.EqualTo(7)
);

These expressions, like the others in the library, can be applied in all of the Episerver Social features. (You can find a full overview of filtering by extension fields in the developer guide.)

Sorting by mean

Episerver Social's Ratings feature automatically tabulates statistics for ratings that have been contributed. We're focused on progressively enhancing this feature over the coming months. In this release, a Mean property has been introduced on the RatingStatistics model. Additionally, statistical data can now be sorted by the mean value in either ascending or descending order.

Performance enhancements for filtering

We're perpetually focused on improving performance within the platform. Among the more prominent performance enhancements in this release are improvements in the filtering of your extension data.

Authentication troubleshooting

A failure to authenticate with Episerver Social is unlikely if your application is configured with the appropriate credentials. However, there are times when environmental factors (such as firewalls or proxies) might interfere, preventing your application from connecting with Episerver Social. Such scenarios may result in unexpected behavior. With that in mind, the SocialAuthenticationException has been enhanced with supplementary information to aid in the troubleshooting of your situation.

Jun 05, 2017

Comments

192.168.l.254 192.168.1.254
192.168.l.254 192.168.1.254 Sep 7, 2018 05:28 PM

192.168.l.254

Please login to comment.
Latest blogs
Optimizely CMS and weekly updates

Learn how reporting bugs in Optimizely CMS not only helps improve the platform but also benefits you and the entire user community.

Tomas Hensrud Gulla | Sep 12, 2024 | Syndicated blog

Introduce the ablility to select then delete items manually on FIND UI

In FIND 16.3.0 we introduce an ability to select items and delete them manually, it will helps you to delete unexpected items from the UI without a...

Manh Nguyen | Sep 12, 2024

The composable consulting model our industry needs

The architecture of a modern consulting business is ‘composable’. Certainly, we think of ourselves a composable consulting business and have done...

Mark Everard | Sep 12, 2024 | Syndicated blog

Keynote Summary from Opticon 2024, Stockholm

At Opticon in Stockholm, marking the 30th anniversary of Optimizely, the company celebrated significant achievements. These included surpassing $40...

Luc Gosso (MVP) | Sep 11, 2024 | Syndicated blog