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Feb 11, 2012 2:56 AM

Migration to 5.0 ?

SBS has some new features like What Matters and better mobile support.

Using 5.0 we will likely get a new design, some things may be harder to find. At least that was my impression when jivesoftware.com did update.

 

Do you also want to use 5.0 here?

  • wroot KeyContributor
    wroot
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    Feb 11, 2012 4:01 AM (in response to LG)
    Re: Migration to 5.0 ?

    What makes you think Jive will bother upgrading us? As about 5.0, i don't know. Maybe you can get used to it, but it looks too flat and unproductive. What Matters screen is not appealing to me. I prefer my current start screen with the widgets i want and placed the way i prefer. Unless 5.0 will let me have the same layout, but i can't find such option in Jive Community. So this can make my day to day activities harder (more clicks and loading pages) as i usually need to see recent content (discussions, docs, etc.), my bookmarks by hand, some links to communities, docs, blogs and all the menu stuff with PM (and PM is gone in 5.0 as i remember, though there is Send Direct Message, but that's abit different), Admin Console, Notifications etc. I remember how excited i was when we first moved to SBS. I'm not excited about 5.0 though.

     

    We can at least have some patches for 4.5. Like this https://community.jivesoftware.com/docs/DOC-46922

    • Daryl Herzmann KeyContributor
      Daryl Herzmann
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      Feb 11, 2012 4:57 AM (in response to wroot)
      Re: Migration to 5.0 ?

      Benjamin indicated that he would gladly update us, if somebody helped with any JSP updates that were necessary.  Jive is very generous with their support of this site, so I think it is a good idea to keep current with their software.

      • wroot KeyContributor
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        Feb 11, 2012 5:22 AM (in response to Daryl Herzmann)
        Re: Migration to 5.0 ?

        Maybe at Jive it is not allowed for users to change Home screen layout? Can someone confirm that or give an example of a community using 5.0 so i can login in there and play with the settings?

    • LG KeyContributor
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      Feb 11, 2012 6:00 AM (in response to wroot)
      Re: Migration to 5.0 ?
      Unless 5.0 will let me have the same layout, but i can't find such option in Jive Community. So this can make my day to day activities harder ...

      This may be the case, so we must not update if the price is too high.

      5.0 still has a Recent Content widget which shows all (I hope) content.

      It has a /bookmarks page which contains all bookmarks, so maybe there is also a small widget to add everything to a custom overview page.

      "@PM" ... good point, I'll create a requirements document so we can make sure that we don't forget important things.

      "@patches" - there are a lot but which one would help us? As long as 4.5.8 is only a nice-to-have version I'm happy to stay with this one.

       

      One of the ignite servers may have enough free resources to get a fresh 5.x version installed, or maybe we can access one of the hosted sandboxes.

       

      The EOL dates for both versions are nearly the same:

      EOL for 4.5 is 15.4.2013

      EOL for 5.0 is 30.6.2013

  • Guus der Kinderen KeyContributor
    Guus der Kinderen
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    Feb 11, 2012 4:50 AM (in response to LG)
    Re: Migration to 5.0 ?

    I have no preference for either version. I'm not sure if both are still supported. This might be of interest for security-related bugfixes and the like.

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