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Connect Dev Notes: 10 Jan 2013
Kevin M. | 10 Jan 2013 | 1 comment

User Facing: Desktop

  • Created a new tool that gives users the ability to generate a link to a filtered list page and share that link with their teams. The tool lets you generate links to download pages, for example, that are tagged with topic X and with topic Y. (You really have to try it to appreciate it.) We've added a link to the tool and some brief instructions to the Connect FAQ.
  • Added the ability for users who receive email notifications to click a link in their notification email and unsubscribe to future notifications that are related to the target thread.
  • Improved the language filter on blog listing pages so if the user changes the UI language, to Spanish for example, the list of blog posts will refresh to only show those posts in the Spanish language. Once the UI language is changed, if the user then wants to view the target blog's posts in another language, they can do so by using the blog...
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Connect Dev Notes: 27 Dec 2012
Kevin M. | 27 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

User Facing: Desktop

  • Updated all create forms to include a link to the Community-Product map so content contributors can easily refer to the reference and (hopefully) submit their posts to the correct community.
  • Updated the "Author" filter on article list pages to only display authors who have published articles in the community being viewed. Users will no longer choose an author from a filter and get no results.
  • Fixed a problem with UI elements on machine translated versions of Japanese and Chinese Simplified articles not displaying in the proper language.
  • Added the ability for members of "Symantec IT Risk and Compliance Product Group" subgroups to subscribe to notifications of Control Compliance Connector status changes.
  • Removed the "All Time" label from the Trusted Advisor list widget based on user feedback that the label was confusing.
  • Changed the...
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Symantec Secures Eight Honors from Windows IT Pro and DevPro Magazines
Spencer Parkinson | 03 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Windows IT Pro (and sister publication DevPro) announced their 2012 Editor’s Best and Community Choice winners recently.  Symantec was honored with eight awards with great representation across our diverse portfolio of products.

 

WINDOWS IT PRO

Best Antivirus/Anti-Malware Product

Editors' Best                                       

Gold: Symantec Endpoint Protection

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Connect Dev Notes: 28 Nov 2012
Kevin M. | 28 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

User Facing: Desktop

  • Added a "Language Translation" option that allows users to view a machine-translated version of any article in either French, German, Spanish, Japanese, or Simplified Chinese. Read more here: http://www.symantec.com/connect/machine-translation
  • Added code that flushes blog home pages from the Akamai caching servers when a new blog is posted that should be displayed on the home page.
  • Added an automated test for SymAccount outages. When the test discovers that SymAccount is down, a message is automatically displayed that explains the outage to users.
  • Updated collaborative articles code to properly display the list of users who contributed to a collaborative article.
  • Removed IT Trends feeds from non-trends pages.
  • Retooled Twitter feeds on Blog pages to support Twitter's new...
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One Million Posts and Going Strong!
Kevin M. | 15 Nov 2012 | 4 comments

This morning, Symantec Connect users posted for the one millionth time to the vibrant social business network.

The site currently has more than 285,000 users of Symantec products that share their technical experiences and savvy.

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Connect Dev Notes: 14 Nov 2012
Kevin M. | 14 Nov 2012 | 2 comments

User Facing: Desktop

  • Updated the list of groups available at the "Account > My Groups" area to hide groups where membership status is pending.
  • Fixed an issue with video pages displaying the video player when the video is a download and does not need a player.
  • Fixed the ability to sort lists of content by "Highest Score".
  • Updated the display of RSS feeds for groups so they display the group name in the RSS title.
  • Implemented an "advertising free" spell checker on content submission forms.
  • Fixed an issue reported when users attempted to preview an Article before posting.
  • Added Japanese and Simplified Chinese user interfaces to Connect.
  • Removed the "Store" menu from the main navigation when the UI language is switched to Japanese.
  • Added the ability to link IT Trends to blog posts via user submitted "free tags".
  • Removed more than 1,...
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Connect Dev Notes: 31 Oct 2012
Kevin M. | 07 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

User Facing: Desktop

  • Modified our spam detection code so it would not allow spammers to avoid detection by successfully entering a word phrase (captcha).
  • Modified the permalinks on comments to include the more useful thread Title (instead of the comment timestamp) when bookmarking.
  • Changed the color of the thumbs down voting widget from green back to red.
  • Tested the content counter to ensure it would work after submissions hit the 1,000,000 mark.
  • Added image rotation to home page hero region.
  • Updated the blog list pages to display, by default, blogs in the user's currently selected language.
  • Fixed an issue in the user registration form that was pre-selecting the first options in each of the fields as default input. Selected options are now "Choose one" which should result in more accurate data collection.

Admin Facing

  • Created an admin tool that gives...
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Connect Updates (18 Oct 2012)
Kevin M. | 29 Oct 2012 | 0 comments

User Facing: Desktop

  • Added an "IT Trends" community to Connect. This new community gives users a simple, easy-to-navigate view of what other Symantec users are talking about.
  • Fixed an issue with partner badges being systematically added to the profiles of Symantec employees when they were added to the PartnerNet group.
  • Fixed an issue with blog posts changing breadcrumbs on submission.
  • Removed the duplicate navigation bar that authenticated users were seeing on their profile pages.
  • Modified the featured article carousel on community overview pages to allow modification by community managers and inclusion of special-use HTML.
  • Created a new permission that will give content reviewers (like product managers) the ability to view and review unpublished submissions.
  • Fixed an issue with a URL that's embedded in a product UI:...
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Explore Today's Hottest IT Trends on Connect
LeslieMiller | 18 Oct 2012 | 1 comment

We're excited to launch a new section on Connect called IT Trends. This section will make it easier for you to follow conversations about today's technologies across Connect. For the most part, conversations will still happen in their respective product communities. However, you can follow those conversations and have discussions on the general technology on their respective trends page. You can follow Cloud Computing content here and Enterprise Mobility content here.

How Trends Works:
Pieces of content still live in their respective product communities. However, the trends page allows users to "view" the topics in one centralized place. In other words, Connect gathers all of the conversations happening about a particular trend topic and provides users to links to those various...

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Symantec Connect Articles Translated in Real-Time
Kimberley | 17 Dec 2012 | 10 comments

A New Beta Program Introduces Machine Translation of Connect Content

Accessing the great articles content on Symantec Connect in the language of your choice is now just a click away. As a beta program, we’ve introduced machine translation of article content that is available in five languages: French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese.

With real-time translations of Connect articles content, you can now experience both user interface and content in your native language. An easy-to-maneuver toggle lets you flip between source English content and the machine-translated language content for easy comparison. And a feedback survey on every page lets you rate the translation quality and let us know how we’re doing!

To access machine...

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