Release Notes

Monday

Sep012008

UploadZen now also works without client-side browser plug-ins and utilizes HTML5 file-selection features if available
By popular request, the Site Settings / UploadZen Studio section of links is now only visible to administrative users.
Updated jQuery version to 1.8.3

Added: on-the-fly, pre-upload client-side image resizing / picture shrinking
Added: configurable maximum file size
Added: chunking for large files exceeding your server-side file upload size / request length limits

Added: new Web Uploader mode based on Flash or Silverlight plugin.
Deprecated: previous ClickOnce-based Windows Uploader mode is still included but no longer a focus of future development.

Added: you can now define multiple Upload Actions (with individual settings) that can be offered concurrently.

Added the 'UploadZen Upload Page' Farm Feature. This redirects all requests from the SharePoint Upload page to the UploadZen Upload page, which is an exact clone of the SharePoint Upload page in design and functionality, except the 'Upload Multiple Files...' link launches the UploadZen window.

File extensions blocked by the SharePoint web application are now by default hidden in the local file navigation area and not included in bulk folder uploads
SharePoint login passwords are now encrypted when stored on the client side
Bulk folder uploads are now split up into multiple smaller file transfers rather than transferring one large ZIP-compressed data package if they exceed a user-customizable maximum MB size

Added colored highlighting for local files and folders marked for upload
Added auto-refresh for local file browsing area
Added file filters with useful presets matching Document Library base templates
Added local file navigation area buttons "Back", "Up" and "Show/Hide Folders"
Added additional client options for overwriting existing files, replacing unwanted characters, and which files and folders to include or exclude in the local file browsing area and folder bulk uploads.
Added picture file live preview icons

Added client-side user name / password storage for users who cannot log in to SharePoint automatically
Added the Upload Multiple Files menu item to Picture Libraries, Web Part Galleries and Site / List Template Galleries.
Bug fix: changing the target library did not work in root web sites

Added full support for forms-based authentication
Now circumventing the "The file or folder name contains invalid characters. Please use a different name." condition.

Fixed: "Length cannot be less than zero" error message during Uploader Windows application loading.

Now allowing switching to another target Document Library and folder from the UploadZen window
Added support for extracting all contents of uploaded ZIP archive files on the SharePoint server side into the appropriate target Document Library folder structures
Added support for uploading entire directory structures easily with ZIP-compressed transfer to be restored recursively into the appropriate target Document Library folder structures
Added support for uploading a selection of local files as a dynamically generated ZIP archive file

The client Uploader Windows ClickOnce application no longer requires ADODB to be installed on client computers.

Added automatic prompts for user name / password if SharePoint authentication with Windows-cached credentials fails
Added new product configuration options to be set farm-wide or on the site collection level:
- to hide or show the 'Settings' tab in the UploadZen window
- to show or hide the 'Upload Multiple Documents' out-of-the-box menu item when UploadZen is available
- to never show the 'Upload Multiple Files' menu item
- to only hide the 'Upload Multiple Files' menu item when disabled (i.e. when UploadZen is not supported by the client)