Pre-requisites

This release of iShare requires the following to be installed:

• Windows 2008 Server or 2008 R2
• Internet Information Services (IIS) V7.0 or 7.5
• Microsoft .NET Framework V3.5 Service Pack 1 (installed and enabled)

Installers

• iShare Installer
  • Now checks for the presence of IIS 7.0 or later instead of IIS 5.0.
  • Improvements to the automatic setting of permissions.
• Astun 3rd Party Installer
  • Fixed an issue where Python 2.5 wasn't being installed for "All users", leading some modules to not be installed.

iShare

• You can now correctly search with an ampersand "&" in the search string.
• An Info click no longer skips layers whose name are a subset of a previous layer name e.g. "Car Parks" and "Parks".
• CSW requests no longer fail due to an internal error.

Studio

• Workflow Stored Procedure Tasks:
  • Studio no longer crashes when you add a Workflow Stored Procedure Task which does not have any parameters.
  • Studio Workflow is now better at working out which function is meant when more than one version exists with different numbers of parameters.
  • Fixed issue where a Workflow Stored Procedure Task could lose some text.
  • The Advanced tab has been removed.
• Map Editor:
  • GEOMTRANSFORM is now recognised as a valid element.
  • Having a SELECT statement followed by a return or tab in OGC Layers no longer causes an error.
  • The Council and Democracy snippet has been corrected to add a tab before the LAYER statement.
• The correct message will be displayed if Studio can't connect to the default database.
• Studio no longer errors when you add a new Map Source, move it up the list and then set it as the Default Map Source.
• Resolved an issue which caused Studio to show as having two default Map Sources in certain circumstances.

iShare Maps

• OpenLayers should now not get confused and scramble the Base Map any more.
• Fixed several validation errors highlighted by W3C Validator.

iShare Solo

• You may now rename the Panels e.g. change "Find Nearest" to be "Locate Nearest Features" for instance. Please refer to one of the following pages, depending upon your version of iShare for details:
  • How to create your iShare Solo Map - from v5.4.0
  • iShare Solo Map Example code -prior to v5.4.0

My House / My Nearest

• Using the ##postcode## parameter should now pick up the correct part of the address. The postcode matching has been updated to be in line with Royal Mail documentation and also now assumes that the postcode will be the last part of the address. 
• The text "No records found nearby" returned in My House / My Nearest may now be configured using the common.NoRecordsFoundNearby setting in a custom language file.
• Prevented My House display fields where the field value is only whitespace.

iShare GIS

• Print to PDF: 
  • Clearing the Search Results no longer causes iShare GIS to hang while trying to Print to PDF.
  • Wrapped any username passed to the PDF generator in quotes in case it contains spaces.
  • Fixed issue with ADFS users having groups appended to credentials in Annotations.
• Using cursor keys in the Find Features popup no longer pans the map.

Web Services

• Removed the output of the AppConfig requests from the web server and filtered the response from the web service server.
• Map Sources with a single OGC layer will no longer render a pink error screen when that layer is activated.

Publisher

• The LIKE and ILIKE filters are no longer blocked by Publisher.