Northwestern's production installation of Serena Collage has been upgraded to version 5.1.3. This version has made significant advances in deploy performance. There are a few additions in this release and numerous bugfixes:
Collage 5.1.3 includes the following deployment enhancements:
To improve deployment performance, you can now configure the number of site structures that should be stored in memory. You can configure this in the cache.properties file, with the option called Sitestructurecache.maximum.items.
Collage 5.1.3 includes a number of deployment performance improvements. These changes should help full and changed asset deploys in most situations.
If your deployment server and Collage server are on different systems, you can now see the status of deployment activities as they run from both the deployment server and the Collage server.
Collage 5.1.3 includes the following comonents enhancements:
With the Navbar (Navigation Bar) component, you can now include the attribute highlight="true" to highlight the parent node.
When you are working with multiple site structures, you can treat all of the site structures as if they where merged together into one large site structure. You can do this by adding the new attribute MergeSiteStructure="true" to the Navbar component.
The Navbar component now supports the findfile attribute. With this attribute, Collage searches the project tree to find the specified site structure. For example, if the attribute is set to findfile="website.site" and the current asset is located in /WebSite/myDepartment/section/, the Navbar component searches for the file called website.site in the /WebSite/myDepartment/section/ folder. If it is not found, the Navbar component looks for the file in /WebSite/myDepartment. If it is still not found, the component looks for the file in /Website.