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Build Updates

The following updates have been made to the Actions Wizard since it was initially introduced.

Summer 2006

·      Support for multiple environments – all actions can now be run within sites, across sites, across site collections, and across virtual servers, as long as they are executed within the same configuration database

·      Ability for the user to supply data values for actions when an action is executed (Select at Runtime), and to order the prompts for that data

·      Support for required fields, and definition of field order

·      Additional date selection methods: Select at Runtime, add or subtract days

·      Ability to include SharePoint error details when an action fails

·      Pop-up messages removed for all action types except Delete List Item

·      Success and failure messages required

·      Support for additional variables: [CurrentSiteTitle], [Date], [ItemDisplayFormUrl], [ItemEditFormUrl], [Me], [Time]

·      Ability for Go To URL actions to be executed from an action-enabled roll-up

·      Support for line breaks in Notes fields (rich text and plain text)

·      Ability to append to existing text in multi-line text columns in the Modify List Item action type

·      Several Email Item Link enhancements:

Ability to send multiple links in a single email

Ability to link directly to documents

Addition of Mail To and CC fields, with ability to either manually enter or select from a list of email addresses

Addition of Link Field property, used to identify a field to hyperlink in the body of the email, rather than showing the URL of the linked item

·      Publisher action support to copy documents between sites

·      Resolved error message displayed by Publisher actions when documents are successfully copied within a site

Winter 2006 Update

·      Support for document libraries, including InfoPath libraries and picture libraries

·      Support for attachments

·      Ability to update user display column values, such as Assigned To

·      Ability to update date column values, such as Start Date and End Date

·      Added Date Picker and support for CorasWorks date functions

·      Support for new [CurrentSiteURL] function

·      New action type: Publisher

·      Fixed an issue with URLs that include a space

Winter 2006

·      Initial release