StageOne User's Program

This page contains late-breaking info of interest to SODA partners and StageOne users.

New Features

The following new features have just been released in 4.01

• Improved multiple language (character set) controls in StageOne Broadcast when sending multipart/alternative format emails
• Back-office automation modules for recording sales transactions and customer data
• Enhanced visitor registration and management system
• Enhanced Web Site Navigation system with integrated extranet security
• Site Boilerplate and Meta-Tags (search keyword and description) module
• Pay-per-click keyword visitor tracking
• Collateral link visitor tracking
• StageOne Broadcast mail-merge support
• New 3-stage workflow alerting and page status visual cues
• Folders within folders for the Collateral/Documents module
• Simplified web site template development language (API)
• StageOne support for third-party and customer-supplied application include files (CFML, ASP/.NET, PHP)

New Feature Requests

Contact us to request new features or to report issues with the current release.

Upcoming Features

• Detailed visitor reporting based on how they came to the web site
• Improved mailing list demographic segmentation interface
• Updated help system
• Subscriber and registrant email preferences and email alert system
• Newsletter subscription and publishing system

Open and Recent Issues

All known issues we experienced with the move to ColdFusion MX have been resolved, including the issue with font encoding of certain Western European languages on MX 6.0, which has been resolved with MX 6.1's enhanced javamail support. Details of this issue are given below:

In previous versions of ColdFusion, email was handled using the windows-1252 character set, and if there were special characters, we could specify encoding.

CFMX is a Java application server, and uses JavaMail. This requires us to use UTF-8 format for any emails with non-ASCII characters. We can do this with a cfparam tag, but multipart/alternative emails (those that go out in both html and plain text format) do not have a charset option in the specification. So we are very limited in trying to use CFMX 6.0 with multipart/alternative emails. The good news is, CFMX 6.1 has a charset parameter in the cfmail tag itself, which enables us to specify the correct attributes. So StageOne users who need both special character and multipart support with their stand-alone systems should either stay with CF 5.0, or upgrade to 6.1 (not 6.0). Hosted system users on www.si9.com (hosted by Intermedia) have already been upgraded to 6.1.

 
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