What's new in SuperContainer 2.9
May 18, 2015
- FileMaker 14 compatibility release
- Plugin updates to usage with PSOS and server scheduled scripts
- Plugin updates to install plugin and auto-update
New in SuperContainer 2.899 (Dec 17, 2014)
- Updated certificate used to sign SuperContainer applet
- CoreImageResizer is now executed as a separate process to ensure better stability and memory management
- Colons are now stripped from file names if SuperContainer is deployed on Windows to ensure legal file names
New in SuperContainer 2.897 (Dec 17, 2014)
- Fixed companion plugin to work with SingleFile and RawData URLs
- Compatibility fix for "Automatically encode URL" web viewer setting, new in FileMaker Pro 13
New in SuperContainer 2.896 (Jan 18, 2014)
- Compatible with Java 7 update 51
- Fixed issue with retrieving and decoding downloaded file name, with the companion plugin
- Fixed issue with detecting the machine hostname when using standalone mode
New in SuperContainer 2.892 (Jan 18, 2014)
- Fixed a bug in the supercontainer.php upload function
New in SuperContainer 2.89 (Jun 22, 2013)
- Removed Java applet from both Mac and Windows, now 100% HTML 5
- Optional companion plugin now 64 bit for deployment in Custom Web Publishing in FMS 12
- New error reporting features in companion plug-in
- Compatible with Java 7 Update 25
New in SuperContainer 2.871 (Apr 17, 2013)
- Fixed a build issue in the Windows version of the plugin
- Adjusted cookie handling in the plugin, looks like cookies headers are modified sometimes
New in SuperContainer 2.87 (Apr 9, 2013)
- Fixed file name encoding issues in the HTML UI
- Fixed a bug in SuperContainer applet that caused the upload directory to contain if folder names contain spaces
- Fixed an issue when uploading files with spaces in the name, this is only an issue when deploying on Windows with IIS7
- Allow upload from iPhone / iPad / iPod, if they are running iOS 6 or later
- Better handling of international characters in filenames and URLs
- Can now generate thumbnails for more types of TIFF files when deployed with Tomcat
- Logging improvements when unable to generate thumbnails
- Fixed thumbnail generation issue when deploying in FSM12 Web Publishing
- Greatly improved speed of SCSetBaseURL function call execution
- Fixed a memory leak in the SuperContainer companion plugin that caused sessions to steadily grow on the server
- Documentation fixes
New in SuperContainer 2.864 (Jul 11, 2012)
- Updated certificate used to sign SuperContainer applet
- Fixed issue with passing URL encoded parameters
- Fixed documentation on the necessary reloading of Web Viewers after SCDelete, SCMove, and SCSetContainer()
- Fixed localization issue in the SCGetInfo() and SCGetContainer() functions
- Minor adjustment to Windows version of SuperContainer HTML view to remove "Drag a file to upload" label, IE does not support HTML5 drag and drop
New in SuperContainer 2.862 (Apr 23, 2012)
- Fixed installation issue with FMS12
- Fixed upload size limitation when using SuperContainer Companion plug-in
New in SuperContainer 2.861 (Apr 10, 2012)
- Fixed issue introduced in 2.86, that would default the registration to "Demo mode"
- Fixed issue introduced in 2.86 that prevented from uploading when SuperContainer was deployed with FMS WPE 11 on Windows
- FileMaker 12 compatibility release
- Added optional filename parameter for SCCopy and SCMove
- Plugin functions now support full SuperContainer URLs instead of only the partial folder path
- Plugin correctly unzips directories/bundles which were auto-zipped on upload
- Fixed SCScanDirectory returning empty list when path does not exist
New in SuperContainer 2.86 (Apr 5, 2012)
- FileMaker 12 compatibility release
- Added optional filename parameter for SCCopy and SCMove
- Added support for self signed ssl certificates
- Plugin functions now support full SuperContainer URLs instead of only the partial folder path
- Plugin correctly unzips directories/bundles which were auto-zipped on upload
- Fixed SCScanDirectory returning empty list when path does not exist
- Fixed noupload style preventing uploads
New in SuperContainer 2.851 (Dec 23, 2011)
- Fixed, file modification date was not set correctly on the downloaded file when using SuperContainer Companion plugin or the SuperContainer applet.
- Fixed Java 1.5 compatibility issue introduced in 2.85
- Added SCCopy plugin function
New in SuperContainer 2.85 (Dec 20, 2011)
- Added HTML5 drag and drop for single files on OS X.
- Fixed unnecessary log in prompts when authentication URL parameters are set.
New in SuperContainer 2.832 (Nov 29, 2011)
- Fixed issue with semicolon in file names crash.
New in SuperContainer 2.831 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Fixed deployment problem with 2.83
New in SuperContainer 2.83 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Fixed issue in SuperContainer companion plugin that prevented SCSetBaseURL from correctly authenticating, when using username/password security setting in SuperContainer server.
- Drag-and-drop is now disabled in Snow Leopard and Lion due to a bug in FileMaker/Safari that causes FileMaker to crash when a Java applet is loaded in a web viewer.
New in SuperContainer 2.82 (Sep 3, 2011)
- Switch to noapplet mode for Safari 5.1, because Safari 5.1 does not support drag & drop for Applets
- Added support for thumbnails of Nikon RAW image formats when running in standalone mode on OS X
- Now if log file can't be written, the server does not close but displays an information dialog stating the problem after stopping the server.
New in SuperContainer 2.81 (Jul 21, 2011)
- Last minute fix to an issue where Java applets would not load in a web viewer with the SuperContainer companion plugin installed.
New in SuperContainer 2.8 (Jul 15, 2011)
- Now displays file information if the info style is selected (by appending '?style=info' to the SuperContainer URL)
- Using the 'no applet' mode now correctly respects the 'noupload' style (by appending '?style=noapplet+noupload' to the SuperContainer URL)
- Browser window title now displays correct document title
- style=title and style=info now display reliably for both applet and html modes
- OS X 10.7 (Lion) compatibility notes: SuperContainer prior to version 2.8 used a Java applet to display in the web viewer. However, applets do not work correctly in Lion.
- Therefore, SuperContainer 2.8 uses an HTML upload process in place of a Java applet, which is compatible with Lion. See the 'Applet vs. NoApplet' section of the documentation
- for more information on what this change means.
New in SuperContainer 2.792 (Feb 2, 2011)
- Fixed an issue with SCGetContainer introduced in 2.791, SCGetContainer would fail if it's the first function called.
New in SuperContainer 2.791 (Jan 25, 2011)
- Fixed issues with Auto-Update on Mac and Windows.
- Plugins prior to this version will need to be removed from the Auto-Update directory, we've put together an applet to take care of this http://www.360works.com/remove-plugins/.
- Perviously, FileMaker needed to be restarted after Auto-Update on Mac, and on Windows the update had to be performed manually in some cases; this update takes care of both issues.
New in SuperContainer 2.79 (Jan 19, 2011)
- Issue was resolved that was only allowing one plug-in at a time to load on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
- Logging is now consolidated to a single log file for all 360Works plug-ins. This should make it easier to report issues to 360Works, and will also significantly reduce the amount of disk space used when running multiple 360Works plug-ins on FileMaker Server.
- Now compatible with any Tomcat-managed security settings, allowing any sort of authentication such as NTLM, Active Directory, LDAP, etc.
- Fixed a bug where everything except for the file icon disappeared when reloading
New in SuperContainer 2.78 (Jan 7, 2011)
- Fixed text disappearing in the applet view when reloading in Safari
- Fixed zip creation on Windows
- Removed duplicate "paste" popup menu item
- Added custom authetication compatibility to the applet
- Improved server-sdie error reporting for SCMove action
- Fixed error reporting when supplying empty height and width params in "noapplet" mode.
New in SuperContainer 2.77 (Nov 4, 2010)
- Renders .tga images on the mac
- Added "paste" popup menu
- Fixed potential hang caused by quickly closing FileMaker window while SuperContainer applet is in the middle of loading
- Fixed error caused by calling SCSetContainer when using the plugin within IWP
- Fixed zip creation bug on Windows, when uploading a folder
- Fixed error caused by putting a width or height parameter without an actual value
New in SuperContainer 2.76 (Aug 31, 2010)
- Faster performance when rapidly calling plugin functions, such as scrolling through a list or portal and calling SCGetInfo for each record.
New in SuperContainer 2.75 (Aug 13, 2010)
- Seamless support for iPhone and iPad in FileMaker Go:
- Automatically switches from Java applet mode to HTML mode.
- Removes 'upload' and 'delete' buttons (since you cannot upload new files in Safari mobile)
- Auto-detects window size in HTML mode, so that generated thumbnails are sized to fit iPhone / iPad web viewer display size.
- Added support for HTTP byte-range streaming, which is needed for streaming QuickTime movies to iPhone / iPad.
New in SuperContainer 2.748 (Jul 14, 2010)
- Updated licensing architecture.
New in SuperContainer 2.747 (Jul 12, 2010)
- Fixed a bug with grainy previews of EPS and PDF files when zoomed to very small sizes (
New in SuperContainer 2.746 (May 21, 2010)
- Handles Japanese characters better in uploaded filenames
- Fixed bug where the 'checkForFile' flag in the SCDownload function was being ignored. This works correctly now, and will prompt the user
- before overwriting an existing file on their local computer.
- Fixed resolution, width, and zoom parameters so that they now work correctly for both bitmap and PDF files.
- Vector PDFs can be zoomed to any size with any resolution and retain high quality.
- Now sets the DPI metadata in thumbnails with a requested resolution parameter
- Fixed alignment issues on windows, and when printing
- Noapplet style now defaults to center-aligned (like the applet)
New in SuperContainer 2.745 (May 21, 2010)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the user of Tomcat's built-in authentication schemes, ie. LDAP authentication.
New in SuperContainer 2.744 (Apr 9, 2010)
- Fixed an issue with re-entrant calls to the plugin.
- Fixed an issue with the first page prievew for PDF documents.
New in SuperContainer 2.743 (Apr 1, 2010)
- Standalone version now automatically quits in 15 seconds if the user does not make a selection in the quit dialog.
- This will fix issues with SuperContainer in standalone mode preventing automated server restarts.
- Fixed an issue with RawData URLs loading the preview instead of the original file, if a preview was generated
- Fixed "style=nolink" behavior
- SCGetContainer function is now more memory efficient
- Fixed "style=center" behavior in Preview mode
New in SuperContainer 2.742 (Mar 10, 2010)
- Fixed intermittent problem where plugins may not load in Windows XP in FileMaker 11
New in SuperContainer 2.741 (Mar 2, 2010)
- Fixed debugging code left in the 2.74 build that always prompted the user for a password.
New in SuperContainer 2.74 (Feb 26, 2010)
- Fixed problems that could occur when using the SuperContainer companion plugin with the password protection feature.
New in SuperContainer 2.73 (Feb 13, 2010)
- Fixed bug introduced in 2.7 where SCChooseFile could return corrupt results. This only happens on Windows XP, and only when using SCChooseFile on the same layout as an unstored calculation which references the SuperContainer companion plugin.
New in SuperContainer 2.72 (Feb 9, 2010)
- Fixed potential crash when running in standalone mode when generating thumbnails
- Fixed the path SCChooseFile returns on Windows, now returns path with a leading slash
New in SuperContainer 2.56 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Updated code signing certificate.
New in SuperContainer 2.55 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Fixed bug in SCGetContainer on OS X which could sometimes cause FileMaker to hang.
- Plugin progress dialogs are centered correctly on screen.
New in SuperContainer 2.54 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Added embeddedable username and password parameters, for example: http://myhost/SuperContainer/Files/test?username=x&password=y
New in SuperContainer 2.53 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Fix for header date parsing in some Locales.
New in SuperContainer 2.52 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Compatibility fix for most recent java update (1.6.0_13, 1.5.0_19, 1.4.2_21) on Mac OS X.
New in SuperContainer 2.5 (Jul 16, 2009)
- Significant speed improvements when using applet.
- Support for specifying page number for PDF rendering (when running in CoreImage mode).
- Added "delete" keyboard shortcut on client, click an item to focus and hit the delete key to delete (with dialog).
- Paste support in applet, for uploading a file from your clipboard to SuperContainer (just click into supercontainer and paste a file).
- Added "showProgress" parameter for companion plugin, to hide the progress bar during upload.
- French localization for SuperContainer server (thanks, Marc Lamouret, TurboPige.com).
- Plugin works better with .app bundles on OS X (scanning and uploading of applications are supported).
New in SuperContainer 2.272 (Jun 16, 2009)
- Fixed SCGetContainer and SCDownload to create a non-confilicting download folder in the temp directory.