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CiviCRM 4.7.16

Released February 8, 2017

• Features
• Bugs resolved
• Miscellany
• Credits

Features

Core CiviCRM

• CRM-19925 Add metadata to fields array with entity info & date format info (9727)

  The data access objects (DAO) now include additional information for each field, including the table name, entity, and business access object (BAO).

• CRM-19829 Activity feed (9714, 9649, and 9624) (Preliminary work)

  The Attachment API now includes the appropriate icon class name from Font Awesome, a CRM.cache object in Javascript is available to set and retrieve information from window.localStorage, and a new Angular utility crmThrottle prevents a function from running concurrently if called several times in rapid succession.

• CRM-19893 Activity Type Categories (9696) (Preliminary work)

  The option value form now displays the option's grouping if available.

• CRM-19831 Function CRM_Contact_BAO_Group::getGroupsHierarchy performes bad with 3000 groups (9673 and 9633)

  Group listing performance is improved on sites with many groups.

• CRM-19256 Add a hook to dynamically escalate permissions (8916)

  A new hook_civicrm_permission_check is invoked whenever a user's permissions are evaluated. (See hook documentation for details and examples.)

• CRM-19853 Change interval select controls in Scheduled Reminders with number controls (9664)

  A few drop-down fields in the Scheduled Reminders interface that were simply picking integers have been replaced with regular text fields.

• CRM-19769 Colors for tags and CRM-19779 Colors for activity statuses (9660, 9600, and 9554)

  You can choose colors for tags and activity statuses for better visibility.

• CRM-19770 Favorite (starred) activities (9629)

  You can now mark favorite activities with stars.

• CRM-19723 Icons for activity types (9707, 9553, 9528, and 9706

  A user can now choose icons for activity types.

• CRM-19816 Improve activity search filters (9609) (Preliminary work)

  The Activity.get API is improved for filtering by related contact, case, and tag.

• CRM-19447 Improve Activity Subject/Details text search to be similiar to Notes Subject/Body (9536)

  Activity search now has a single "Activity Text" field for finding text in the activity subject, details, or both.

• CRM-19883 Activity Priority Field is Not Included in Advanced Search or Activity Reports (9687)

  The priority field is now available in search and activity reports.

• CRM-19810 Api3 - Add joins on optionValue table (9593)

  Foreign keys to option values can now be used for joins in the API despite the fact that they aren't true foreign keys.

• CRM-19839 Declare class used on developer tab of CiviCRM reports (9646)

  When viewing the Developer tab on a report, you can now see the report class in use.

• CRM-19812 Display related contact names in activity.get api (9599)

  Activity assignees and targets are now available as return options in the Activity.get API.

CiviCase

• CRM-19806 CiviCase using two formlinks when it only needs one (9586)

  CiviCase now behaves like the rest of CiviCRM when creating action links in a listing of cases.

• CRM-19778 Allowed statuses per case-type (9705)

  Case types can be configured to restrict the available case statuses.

CiviContribute

• CRM-8526 Support [contribution.custom_nn] tokens in templates (9661)

  You can now insert tokens for contribution custom fields.

• CRM-16189 Improve support for Accrual Method bookkeeping (8870) (Completes previous work)

  A "Record Payment" button is now available on contributions.

CiviEvent

• Add select2 class to loc_event_id (9603)

  The field for re-using the location of another event now uses a select2 widget.

CiviMail

• CRM-19690 Allow alternative email templating systems (9689, 9566, 9619, 9565, 9564, 9563, and 9562)

  Extensions can now specify mailing template types with template options. These types can be associated with different template editors, such as Mosaico. The way tokens are presented and evaluated in CiviMail is also streamlined. This also passes mail delivery to the FlexMailer extension when it is enabled.

Drupal Integration Modules

• CRM-17917 Add support for Drupal 8 (388) (Continues previous work)

  Several small improvements were made, making it easier to install CiviCRM on Drupal 8 using Buildkit.

Bugs resolved

Core CiviCRM

• CRM-19874 Allow overriding sort in the getlist API without clobbering pager (9675)

  The default pager parameters are no longer ignored when other options are set in a getlist API.

• CRM-19783 Accessibility Error - CiviCRM Subscription Page (9606)

• Remove unused var, comments & clean up & refactor caching function (9721)

• CRM-19906 Allow Drupal user names with "@" (9708)

• CRM-19003 Profile listing doesn't produce expected results when range-searching custom date field (9699)

• CRM-19801 changing the same relationship type of a relationship from A to B or vice versa does not work (9579)

• CRM-19842 Can't delete a dedupe rule (9698)

• typo fix in New Tag Form. (9700)

• CRM_Extension_Browser - Allow different cache files for different feeds (9693)

• CRM-17663 Dashlet code improvements (9672) (Completes previous work)

  An upgrade step now fixes dashlets named NULL.

• Fire hook_civicrm_emailProcessor('activity') if Activity,create successful (9651)

• Civi\API\ExternalBatch - Verify that $_ENV is working (9595)

• CRM-19847 batch merge redirects users to snippet URL (9653)

• (NFC) Civi/*, CRM_Utils_SQL_Select - Fix various warnings (9657)

• CRM-19824 Event listeners are missing if container cache is disabled (9617)

• CRM-19826 Extensions in "vendor" folder have errant slash (9618)

• CRM-19706 Smart Group criteria (Activity Status) are not being retained when using 'Edit Smart Group criteria' (9620)

• CRM-19624 Exclude / Include by privacy radio buttons gets reset on Smartgroup re-editing (9597)

• CRM-19805 Comparing instead of Assigning (9591)

  This fixes three typos in the codebase where == was used instead of =.

• CRM-19244 Custom fields with option group not importing (8906)

• OptionValue Api cleanup - remove unnecessary lookup (9569)

• CRM-18472 Notice fixes (9558) (Completes previous work)

  Avoids a PHP notice on deleting soft credits.

• Upgrade cleanup - use addColumn utility instead of sql (9548)

• API Explorer: Minor usability improvements (9539)

• CRM-19832 hook_civicrm_searchTasks get invoked twice for some entities (9637)

• CRM-19875 Search builder: Fatal error when searching custom field of type "country" (9695)

• CRM-19811 Slow queries due to use of LOWER() in mysql searches, fix contribution search, current employer. Comment elsewhere (9596)

• CRM-19884 DB Error on Activity Details Report (9681)

• CRM-19509 Add character set and collation to create table statements in reports (9411)

• CRM-19807 MySQL error when adding contacts on a report to a group (9594)

• CRM-18591 group_type parameter ignored when using API to create group (9578) (Completes previous work)

  This improves the handling of checkboxes on the group edit form.

Accounting

• CRM-19800 Incorrect Amount recorded in civicrm_financial_trxn table (9577)

  This fixes problems when money amounts were entered with a thousands delimiter.

• CRM-19585 Sales tax issue (9598, 9576, 9590, and 9574) (Preliminary work)

  A variety of problems have been partially fixed.

• CRM-19804 Pre() and Post() hook for Financial Account (9584)

CiviCase

• CRM-19890 Case Manager listed in cases tab is not up to date (9691)

• CRM-19754 CiviCase role relationships reversed (9560)

• CRM-19897 Cannot edit multiple case activities via profile, because deprecated "access CiviCase" permission is referenced (9703)

• Docs fix: update for changed URL of Case Management > Setup page. (9701)

CiviContribute

• CRM-19172 on behalf form + user account creation attempts to create user for org (9669)

• CRM-19863 'item_name' unnecessarily truncated when passed to PayPal (9677)

• CRM-19725 Honoree should never be same as donor (9503)

• CRM-19761 contribution thank you letter generator: unable to export to docx (9575 and 9568)

• CRM-19799 LineItems incorrect at both Contribution Level and Financial Accounts Level (9580)

• CRM-19802 Contribution page : missing translation (9581)

• CRM-19777 Edit contribution : wrong decimal separator on total_amount (9556)

• CRM-19795 Contribution page confirmation screen undefined index pay_later_receipt (9632)

• CRM-19794 Wrong fields displayed when setting a price set for a contribution page (9697)

CiviEvent

• CRM-19860 Event participant batch update: respect "options per line" setting for radio buttons (9667)

• CRM-19907 Syntax error generated on CiviEvent Dashboard when show_events is null (9709)

• CRM-19789 Cannot create smart group from 'Find participants' (9567)

• CRM-19782 "View" link on printed Participant Listing Report renders display name unreadable (9546)

• CRM-19803 View Payment popup of a participant does not show refunds (9634 and 9592)

• CRM-19288 VAT not included for additional participant fee when registering for events (9545)

CiviMail

• CRM-19413 CiviMail: Test mail notice errors: undefined index (9550)

CiviMember

• CRM-19895 membership renewal page style collapsed if email disabled (9713)

• CRM-19936 Membership line items are duplicated when a membership is created or renewed with priceset containing multiple memberships (9748) (Preliminary work)

• CRM-19817 Notice error fails membership export (9610)

  Membership export with data from related contacts was causing PHP notices or complete failure, depending upon the CMS.

• Fix startdate for testMembershipJoinDateFixed (9608)

Drupal Integration

• CRM-19740 Regression in phone number Drupal views integration (415)

  A problem has been fixed where the same phone number would show up for each of a contact's location/phone types in Views.

• CiviCRM Menu -- Add PathProcessor to allow parameters to routes to include slashes (420)

• CRM-19086 CiviCRM Core Installation fails on Drupal 8.1.x and CRM-18297 Drupal 8 Crash on Admin Config page (419)

Joomla Integration

• CRM-19877 on Joomla api.Setting.create fails with "option,task not valid settings" (9678)

Miscellany

• Comment fixes plus fix inconsistent unused return bool (9722)

• [nfc] Updated test generated examples (9720)

• [nfc] Comment fixes, remove one unused var, declare visibility (9717)

• [NFC] add comments & extract function in contribution search (9716)

• Comment Fixes (9659)

• Comments (9658)

• Add comment blocks (9656)

• allow descendant classes to access the cache array (9605)

• (NFC) CRM_*_Tokens - Reduce redundant docs (9573)

• tools/scripts/phpunit-ls - Fix PhpStorm lookup of PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase (9535)

• CRM-19768 CRM_Utils_Token::replace*Tokens() usage is inconsistent (9541) (Preliminary work)

• Convert drupal to Backdrop and change variable_get/set to state_get/set (21)

• fix header (9607)

• fix headers (421)

• fix headers (109)

• fix headers (42)

Credits

This release was developed by the following code authors:

AGH Strategies - Alice Frumin, Andrew Hunt; ATD Fourth World - Véronique Gratioulet; Agileware - Agileware Team; Aidan Saunders; AppChecker; Australian reens - Seamus Lee; CiviCRM - Coleman Watts, Jitendra Purohit, Tim Otten, Monish Deb, Yashodha Chaku; CiviCoop - Jaap Jansma; CiviDesk - Nicolas Ganivet; Community Builders - Dejan Lukic; CompuCorp - Omar Abu Hussein; Coop SymbioTIC - Mathieu Lutfy; Erich Schulz; Freeform Solutions - Herb van den Dool; Fuzion - Chris Burgess, Eileen McNaughton; Ginkgo Street Labs - Frank Gómez; JMA Consulting - Edsel Lopez, Jon Goldberg, Pradeep Nayak; John Kingsnorth; Joinery - Allen Shaw; Klaas Eikelboom; Klangsoft - David Reedy Jr; Lighthouse Design and Consulting - Brian Shaughnessy; Marc Brazeau; Progressive Technology Project - Jamie McClelland; Skvare - Mark Hanna; Wikimedia Foundation - Eileen McNaughton

Most authors also reviewed code for this release; in addition, the following reviewers contributed their comments:

AGH Strategies - Tommy Bobo; Christian Wach; Circle Interactive - Dave Jenkins; CiviCRM - Donald Lobo, Rohan Katkar; Community IT Academy - William Mortada; CompuCorp - Madura Krishnamoorthy, Mike Kondrashin; Denver DataMan - Steve Kessler; Digitalcourage - Detlev Sieber; Fedor Khodkov; Forest CRM Consulting - Tamar Meir; Fuzion - Peter Davis; Ginkgo Street Labs - Frank Gómez; Glick Software - David Glick; iXiam - Vangelis Pantazis; JMA Consulting - Joe Murray; Kacper Warda; Ken West; Korlon - Stuart Gaston; Naomi Rosenberg; Noah Miller; Oxfam Germany - Thomas Schüttler; Richard van Oosterhout; Robert Lang; Semper IT - Karin Gerritsen; Tadpole Collective - Kevin Cristiano; University of Hawaii at Manoa - Center on Disability Studies - William Rems; Vakees K; Valéry Gouleau