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1 What's new in this release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1 Accessibility support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41.2 Account settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.3 Comparison table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 Content items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.5 Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.6 Feed activity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121.7 Forum topics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141.8 Group dashboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.9 Member lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.10 Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.11 OpenSocial gadgets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181.12 Profile pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191.13 Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191.14 Rich text editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201.15 SAP Jam mobile app. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221.16 Subgroups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271.17 Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281.18 Upload to folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301.19 Webhook push notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301.20 Widgets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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1 What's new in this release

The following new features have been added. Instructions on how to use each feature are available in the SAP Jam Collaboration documentation located on the User Assistance Content Platform.

NoteAll features in this SAP Jam Collaboration release will be available to customers working with the preview release starting on Thursday, November 3, 2016. The release will be available in production starting on Thursday, December 1, 2016. This document is subject to minor daily updates until Thursday, November 3, 2016. Further updates may occur after that date on an as-needed basis. The final and complete version will be published on or before Thursday, December 1, 2016. Please check the SAP Jam Help Portal/User Assistance Content Platform for your latest version of this document.

The work patterns/use cases listed below benefit especially from the enhancements listed alongside them in the following table:

Table 1: Work patterns and use cases

Work pattern / use case

Used by... This work pattern / use case enables...

Features to note as an example especially for this work pattern / use case

Account management

Sales customer account management through account activities, sales opportunities, and service requests.

Group dashboard downloadable report: A sales associate downloads the last three months of group member engagement for various opportunities in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. The data is then imported into a third party software tool for further metric analysis, as well as re-use in some presentation slides for a quarterly meeting.

Design registration collaboration

Sales channel partners and brand owners to review, discuss, and approve a design registration in high-tech or semi-conductor industries.

Recurring events: A Channel partner can set up a weekly status update meeting in the group calendar for the next ten weeks until a design registration module has been approved. After that, she can update the event to have the meetings occur on a bi-weekly basis until the status updates are no longer necessary for her team's project.

Help and support Human Resources

support for a Q&A community designed for members and experts to help each other on a particular topic of interest.

Auto suggest answer to question from previous post in forums: As an employee begins to type a question about a new benefits policy, a few forum topics about benefits policies that have already been asked and answered automatically appear. The employee reviews those answers first, and finds that he no longer needs to ask the question..

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Work pattern / use case

Used by... This work pattern / use case enables...

Features to note as an example especially for this work pattern / use case

Knowledge sharing Human Resources

support for a knowledge base-style community where experts can connect and share information on a particular topic of interest.

Request to join a subgroup: A public main group that caters to questions for employees who are new to the organization also contains a public sub group for employees working abroad. A manager who has just started working in one of the remote offices has clicked on the subgroup URL for the employees working abroad group to participate in discussions on relocation assistance programs. He is directed to a terms of use page for both groups; once he has accepted the terms of use for both, the manager access the main group and subgroups. He clicks Request to Join for the subgroup, and agrees to also become a member of the main group when prompted.

Social learning Human Resources

instructors and participants share, collaborate, and learn in a dedicated space.

Table formatting and spell check: A learning practitioner has posted a new FAQ within a wiki page. It includes a reference table that was easily customized with the new toolbar feature. All spelling within the wiki was validated with the help of a built-in internet browser spell check.

Opportunity deal room

Sales the sales team in gathering requirements, planning, and strategizing around a sales opportunity.

Content item comments: A project member who worked on a white paper has received feedback for two versions of his document. To help him sort through and address each comment, he chooses to view all comments for each page for each version rather than all comments for the entire document.

Social onboarding Human Resources

onboarding of new employees into an organization via recommendations, knowledge sharing, and networking.

Recurring events: New employees are invited to an occurrence of the weekly lunch and learn event for the first month of their employment. Fellow group members invite subject matter experts and a moderator to the entire series.

1.1 Accessibility support

As per Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the following enhancements have been made to SAP Jam to help satisfy critical requirements to achieve compliance with section 508. Government and public agencies that


What's new in this release

require adherence to the guidelines can now ensure that their employees with disabilities have a productive experience with SAP Jam.

Table 2: Accessibility support

Feature Description

Profile pages ● The following items have been addressed in this release for profile pages:○ Keyboard support for all page elements using Tab and enter, arrow, or escape keys.○ All page elements are correctly identified with labels.○ All table cells are identified in the order of value, title, row, and column.

1.2 Account settings

Account settings allow you to control features specific to your experience in SAP Jam. From the top menu bar, on the far right side is a gear icon where you can access Account Settings from a drop-down menu.

Table 3: Account settings

Feature Description

Profile data disclosure ● To view a list of your personal data that's stored in SAP Jam, you can go to Account Settings > Profile Data Disclosure.

Figure 1: Profile data disclosure● The disclosure details satisfy the compliance requirements for European security standards.● Personal data from SuccessFactors foundation or SCIM (e.g., email addresses, phone num

bers, location addresses) can also display on this page.


1.3 Comparison table

The comparison table decision making tool allows you to create a table with three columns and have your team members provide options for each , along with cell text for each row/column.

Table 4: Comparison table

Feature Description

Comparison table as a decision making tool

● From the Content Create Decision Making Tools menu, you can now select Comparison Table as a means of listing options for group members to consider.

Column headers ● When working with comparison tables, you can customize default column headers.● The table allows a maximum of three columns.

Figure 2: Comparison table with custom headings

1.4 Content items

Content items are blog posts, decision tools, links, planning tools, videos, wiki pages, images, documents (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel), polls, and any other file that you upload to SAP Jam. Generally, group members provide their feedback on the information that content items contain, and use this information to collaborate and make decisions.



Table 5: Content items

Feature Description

Comments on multiple page content items

● For content items that consist of multiple pages (e.g., Microsoft Word, PDF, etc.) you now have the option to view a list of comments specific to a single page, or all comments for all pages.

Figure 3: Example: Show all comments for document● Comments for a particular version only display when that version is selected. For example, if

you choose "Show all comments only", then all comments for that selected version will display. If you choose "Show Current Page Comments Only", then only the comments for that page for that selected version will display.

Copy content items ● When you copy a content item, it is copied to the same folder as the original content item by default, instead of the top level folder.


1.5 Events

Events are used to schedule activities, invite other group members to activities, and manage attendance. Group events can be displayed on a calendar (month/week/day) or as a list.

Table 6: Events

Feature Description

Agendas ● When you create a new event, you will see an option to attach an agenda.

NoteAgenda attachments are also available for existing events prior to this release. The inline agendas feature is still available for existing events, but not new ones.

Figure 4: Agenda attachments



Feature Description

Figure 5: Select agenda● When changes are made to the agenda, a feed item is created. All changes appear immediately in

real-time.● When creating or editing an agenda, the start date and time is no longer required. Agenda topics will

display with their durations.


Feature Description

Recurring events ● You can now indicate whether an event is recurring by selecting the frequency (i.e., recurs daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly) or choose not to repeat the event.

Figure 6: Recurrence options● For weekly frequencies, you can choose the interval (e.g., every week, every 2 weeks, etc.), day(s) of

the week, and when the recurrence ends (e.g., on a specified date, after a certain number of occurrences).

Figure 7: Weekly recurrence● You can edit a single occurrence or the entire event series.



Feature Description

Figure 8: Edit event● Single occurrences can be edited or deleted without impacting other recurrences in the series.● For monthly occurrences that use a month end date, end dates for all months are recognized (e.g.,

August 31st, February 28/29).● Up to 100 occurrences of a series is supported. The default is set to 10 occurrences.● The entire series can be exported in .ics format to your email calendar.● You can invite group members to the recurring series of the event, or single current occurrence of

the event in the Invite Members to Event dialog.

Figure 9: Invitations● Group members can choose to attend, tentatively attend, or decline one recurrence of the event or

the entire series.


Feature Description

Figure 10: Invitation answers

1.6 Feed activity

Feeds display a constant update of activity shared by you, your groups, and your colleagues. Users can access feeds via their homepage, group pages, or company pages.

Table 7: Feed activity

Feature Description

Like, comment, and share actions

● The like, comment, and share actions are now indicated with icons.

Figure 11: Feed icons

Number of comments and likes

● The number of comments and likes are now indicated below the feed item and above the new "Like, Comment, and Share" indicators. These values are updated in real time as users make comments and like/unlike feed items.



Feature Description

Edit, task, mute, bookmark, and mark as inappropriate actions

● When applicable for a feed item, any or all of the Edit, Task, Mute, Bookmark, Download Mark as Inappropriate, and Delete actions are now available under a menu on the far right side of the original post and its replies.

Figure 12: Actions menu

Images and previews ● Images and content previews that display within feed posts now display in a larger size to span more of the feed update width.

More link ● The More link that appears below feed items larger than six lines in length now appears on the far right corner of the post.

Figure 13: More link

Update notifications ● When you scroll through feed activity, a new floating notification bar appears so that you can click to view the latest feed updates without having to scroll to the top of the page.

Figure 14: New updates floating notification bar


1.7 Forum topics

Forums are used to group general discussions, questions and answers, and ideas to focus upon. With full collaboration permissions, group members can ask new questions, add ideas and start discussions in a forum topic.

Table 8: Question, Idea, and Discussion topics

Feature Description

Auto suggest previous posts

● As you enter a new post for a question, idea, or discussion, any possible matching existing entries will be suggested before you proceed. This helps to reduce redundancy on questions, ideas, and discussions. You can click on the matching entry for a full view of the question, idea, or discussion.

Figure 15: Example: Matching discussions● In the matching entries list, questions that have been marked as best answer will display with a

green checkmark icon.

Figure 16: Example: Matching questions with one marked as best answer



Feature Description

Mark best answer ● When the answer to a question is marked as best answer, the feed reply displays "Best Answer" beside the name of the user who submitted the answer.

Figure 17: Best answer

Image and video thumbnails

● Images and video thumbnails that appear in feed post activity for forum topics now display in a larger size to span more of the width of the feed.


1.8 Group dashboard

Group administrators can click Dashboard on the group left side menu to view a usage dashboard that displays details for various activities within a group, from the previous four weeks to the previous 12 months.

Table 9: Group dashboard downloadable report

Feature Description

Download dashboard data

● Group administrators can now click Download on the group dashboard to download a spreadsheet entitled "Group Dashboard.xsls" which contains multiple tabs of data for collaboration score, membership, most engaging items, and most engaged members data.

Figure 18: Download dashboard data● In the downloaded file, you can see up to 200 most engaging items and 200 most engaged

members.

1.9 Member lists

When working with groups especially in medium to large sized organizations, it may become difficult to recognize who should be invited to a group. Published member lists can offer a means to save time in inviting users one by one. They can be created by manually adding existing SAP Jam users, importing another member list, pasting a list of comma-separated email addresses or importing a CSV file with comma separated email addresses. For this release, member lists can be specified as public or private.

The auto groups feature (i.e., unique group types that can only be set up and configured by company administrators) has been deprecated and will be retired from the application by the general availability release date of Thursday, December 1, 2016. Auto groups will be converted to regular groups types that use member lists for automatic management of group membership.

The rules used to govern auto group membership will be converted into new dynamic member lists where those lists will be applied to the group. If static member lists were used to manage the auto group, then the new group type will continue to use those static member lists for membership management.



Administrators can no longer create or edit auto groups. However, with member lists that are generated from the auto group and then set as private lists, company administrators can have access to those lists.

Table 10: Member lists

Feature Description

Public and private member lists

● In the SAP Jam Admin console, under >Users Users & Member Lists Member Lists

tab , public and private member lists are differentiated with an icon that precedes the name of the member list.

Figure 19: Public and private indicators● Public member lists are available for anyone in the company to use, while private member lists

can only be accessed from the auto complete drop-down list by company administrators.● When a company administrator creates or edits a member list, they can choose to set it as a

"Private Member List".

Figure 20: Private Member List option


1.10 Notifications

Bell notifications provide SAP Jam users with an immediate and convenient list of alerts regarding content or activities that may require their attention.

Table 11: Notifications

Feature Description

Content items comments

● Bell and email notifications are sent to content contributors for the following activities:○ Reply is made on a mirrored copy of your content, provided you have access to the group

that it was mirrored to.○ Reply is made in response to your content update.○ Reply is made to any version of your content. If someone else besides yourself uploaded a

new version of your content, they will also receive the notification.○ A comment is made on a highlighted area of your content.

● Bell and email notifications are sent to you when someone replies to a comment you've made on a content item.

● Bell and email notifications are sent to wiki page content authors and editors of that wiki page when someone comments on it.

● Bell and email notifications are sent to blog post content authors and designated authors of that blog post when someone comments on it.

1.11 OpenSocial gadgets

OpenSocial gadgets provide a mechanism to extend the ability to interact with any software or service.

Table 12: Smartsheet

Feature Description

SmartSheet gadget ● A Smartsheet gadget is now available for users to view and make updates directly within SAP Jam.

● As with other content types in SAP Jam, users can enter like and comment on the Smartsheet gadget.



1.12 Profile pages

If you are not part of a group or wish to share content with your followers or other users of SAP Jam in your organization, you can post content items to your profile page.

Table 13: Profile pages

Feature Description

Content ● To reinforce the association of group content with group pages only, group content such as blog posts, wiki pages, documents, etc. is no longer shown on profile pages.

1.13 Reports

SAP Jam reports display adoption metrics including user contribution and consumption activity. On the SAP Jam Admin console > Reports tab, on the list of requested reports, click the Microsoft Excel (which provides better support for double-byte languages) or csv icon to download the report. You can then upload the csv file to an analytics software and work with the data there. Most reports are available to Group Administrators for group-specific data.

Table 14: Reports

Feature Description

Group Administrators report

● From the SAP Jam Admin console, company administrators can now access a report that lists all active and alumni group administrators for each group. The report includes the group type (e.g., public, private) group administrator name, administrator status (e.g., alumni, active), last modified date, and group URL.

Figure 21: Group administrators report


1.14 Rich text editor

When working with content in blog posts, wiki pages, text widgets, and event descriptions, you can use the rich text editor to format and organize text, tables, images, videos, and other attachments.

Table 15: Rich text editor

Feature Description

Bulleted and numbered lists

● When you copy and paste one bulleted or numbered list to another list, the lists will merge into one rather than forming a nested list.

Figure 22: Example: Merged numbered lists



Feature Description

Table formatting ● When working with tables:○ you can now click and drag to resize individual row and columns.○ a convenient new toolbar appears with the ability to view table properties, delete a table,

insert rows and columns before and after, and delete rows and columns.

Figure 23: Example: Table toolbar○ right-clicking anywhere inside the text editor accesses the internet browser's default right-

click context menu.

Spellcheck ● When entering text, SAP Jam uses your internet browser's built-in spell checker to perform spellchecks. If a spelling error is detected, the errors will be highlighted with a dotted red underline. You can right-click on the mispelled word to see a suggested spelling.

Figure 24: Example: Spellcheck


1.15 SAP Jam mobile app

When you have an enterprise-wide deployment of the SAP mobile app, you can collaborate with colleagues across your organization at any time, anywhere. The SAP Jam mobile experience has been enhanced with the following features for the SAP Jam mobile experience. Please refer to the SAP Jam mobile app User Guide for more information on working with the mobile app.

Table 16: SAP Jam mobile app for Android, iPhone and iPad devices

Feature Description

Attachments ● You can now attach documents, photos, and videos to feed post replies.



Feature Description

Calendars ● You can now synchronize tasks and events from SAP Jam into the calendar of your mobile device. Each event and task will contain a deep link that opens in the SAP Jam app.

Figure 25: Calendar synchronization


Feature Description

● Whenever events are updated, the calendar is updated in a timely manner.



Feature Description

Feed experience redesign

● The feed updates section has been enhanced with the following:○ Muting and unmuting of feed items.○ The display of images and video thumbnails is now optimized for mobile device feeds.

Figure 26: Feed activity○ To support mobile app best practices, the More menu is now available on the right side of

the feed item and includes Mute and Bookmark menu items.

Home page selection for multiple areas

● On mobile devices, you can now switch between area home pages when you belong to multiple administrative areas.

Minimum version requirement

● Due to the volume of enhancements for this November 2016 release, all SAP Jam mobile app users who are working with previous versions (e.g., August 2016 and previous) are required to upgrade to this current version.

● After upgrading to the current version, to facilitate more frequent updates which include resolved issues, the system will prompt users to upgrade whenever there is a new version of the SAP Jam mobile app available.


Feature Description

Private messages ● When you receive a private message via SAP Jam, a notification instantly displays on your mobile device to let you know that you have received a new message.

NoteOn Android devices, notification is dependent upon Google Cloud Messaging.

Questions ● The layout of Question forum topics has been redesigned to resemble the design in the web application.

Figure 27: Question forum topic

Search types (iOS) ● The search results for iOS now supports all of the same content types as the web application.



1.16 Subgroups

Subgroups can contain a subset of members from a main group. This allows them to have a distinct subgroup environment in which to collaborate.

Table 17: Join a Subgroup

Feature Description

Join a public subgroup of a public main group via URL

● When you click a URL to join a public subgroup, and you are also not already a member of the public main group, you will see a page that prompts you to read and accept the Group Terms of Use for the main group and its subgroup. When you select the "I understand the Terms Of Use" checkbox for both subgroup and main group and then click Accept, you are then able to view both groups. This takes you to the group overview page where you can click Join Group to become a member. If you only accept the terms of use for the parent group, you won't be able to access the subgroup.

● You must join the main group first before you can join the subgroup.

Join a private subgroup of a public main group

● To join a private subgroup, you must first accept the terms of use for the public main group before accessing the private subgroup and submitting a request to join.

Join a subgroup via Subgroups page

● If you go to the Subgroups page for a main group where you are not yet a member, find a public subgroup and then click Join Group, a message displays asking if you want to join both groups. Once you click OK, a message appears confirming that you are now a member of both groups.


1.17 Tasks

You can access your personal task lists from the Tasks action on the top of the page, and group tasks from the Tasks section of the overview pages. You can also add, edit, and delete tasks.

Table 18: Tasks

Feature Description

Assignee selector ● All or multiple assignees can be added to a group task via a group member selection dialog.

Figure 28: Click group selector icon



Feature Description

Figure 29: Select multiple assignees from dialog

Overdue task status ● Overdue tasks are now indicated with an exclamation mark icon.

Figure 30: Overdue tasks

Status filter ● On the group task page, the status filter label has been updated from "Showing" to "Group Status" to indicate the overall status for a listed task. For example, if "In Progress" is selected, then at least one task assignee has their task status set to "In Progress."


1.18 Upload to folder

With feeds, tasks, events, forum topics, wiki pages, and blog posts, you can upload attachments such as documents, videos and images.

Table 19: Folder selection

Feature Description

Group folder selection ● When you upload an attachment to a feed item, comment or reply, forum topic, task, event, wiki page, or blog post, you can now choose which group folder to upload to.

Figure 31: Upload to group folder

NoteWhen uploading and attachment for a company-wide post, the attachment will be saved to your profile; a folder selector dialog does not appear.

1.19 Webhook push notifications

Webhooks provide a means of tracking specific events that occur in SAP Jam and then sending the event notification metadata to third party applications that use them.

For more information on how to integrate with webhooks, please refer to the SAP Jam Collaboration Developer Guide.



http://help.sap.com/download/documentation/sapjam/developer/index.html

http://help.sap.com/download/documentation/sapjam/developer/index.html

Table 20: Webhook push notifications

Feature Description

Push notification subscriptions ● In the SAP Jam Admin console Integrations Push Notifications the following events

have been added to the Event List:○ Content Notification:

○ Document comment○ Document annotation

○ Group Notification:○ Group wall comment

○ Forum Notification:○ Discussion creation○ Question creation○ Question answered○ Question answered correctly○ Idea creation○ Vote for idea○ Idea status change


1.20 Widgets

Widgets are containers for a variety of content types such as video, feeds, and photos. When you add a widget, you are specifying that a section of the page, wiki, or blog contain some particular content. You can insert, remove, edit, and reposition widgets as needed.

Table 21: Widgets

Feature Description

Post box enhancement in feed widget

● The post box in a feed widget now supports additions of questions, ideas, discussions, and video, image, and document attachments.

Figure 32: Post box updates● To support narrow browser widths or mobile device viewing, a menu drop-down for adding im

ages, video or audio files, documents, questions, ideas, and discussions, as well as tags, and @mentions now displays at the bottom of the post box.

Figure 33: Drop down menu



Feature Description

Question, Idea, and Discussion post enhancements in feed widget

● For questions, ideas, and discussions, the post box editor has replaced the icons that appeared below the text box with a drop-down menu for the following actions: Attach existing file, upload new file, add a tag, and mention someone. The rich text editor toolbar has also been simplified to display bold, italics, and underline actions only.

Figure 34: Simplified toolbar and drop-down menu● The group feed updates post box, group overview feed widget post box, and feed widget builder

preview located in the SAP Jam Admin console under Integrations Widget Builders all reflect this post box enhancement.


2 Feature availability

All features in this SAP Jam Collaboration release will be available to customers working with the preview release starting on Thursday, November 3, 2016. The release will be available in production starting on Thursday, December 1, 2016.

All SAP Jam Collaboration documentation will be subject to ongoing updates for this release, with production-ready versions posted in early December, 2016. Please check the SAP Jam Help Portal or User Assistance Content Platform daily for your latest version of the product documentation.


Feature availability

3 Feature deprecation

The following section lists the features that have begun deprecation in this release, will be fully deprecated in the next release, or are retired as of this release. When a feature is deprecated, enhancements to it cease and customers are advised not to use the feature.

Table 22: Feature deprecation

Feature Description

Auto groups ● The auto groups feature has been deprecated and will be retired from the application by the general availability release date of Thursday, December 1, 2016.

● Auto groups will be migrated to the appropriate type of regular group. The rules used to govern their membership will be migrated into new dynamic member lists where those lists will be applied to the group. If static member lists were used to manage the Auto group, then the new group type will continue to use those static member lists for membership management.

● Administrators can no longer create or edit auto groups.

Company tab ● In the SAP Jam Admin console under Product Setup Features Deprecated Features , the Enable Company Section option is turned off by default for all new companies.

Dynamic widgets for HTML wiki editor

● Deprecation for dynamic widgets is in progress, since the previous release in August. The dynamic widgets on the HTML editor toolbar have been removed. No new dynamic widgets can be added. Wiki pages with existing dynamic widgets will continue to work.

Compare versions in wiki pages

● The ability to compare versions of a wiki page begins deprecation as of this release.

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4 SAP Jam Help Portal

The SAP Jam Help Portal will be updated with a new appearance and improved searchability. All the documentation that you previously accessed on the SAP Jam Help portal will still be available, tentatively targeted for a date to be determined in February 2017. This date is subject to change; we will promptly announce the scheduled deployment date beforehand on the SAP Jam Help Portal.

New SAP Jam help website preview: https://uacp2.hana.ondemand.com/viewer/p/SAP_JAM_COLLABORATION

Please continue to access the latest SAP Jam Collaboration documentation on the SAP Jam Help Portal.


SAP Jam Help Portal

https://uacp2.hana.ondemand.com/viewer/p/SAP_JAM_COLLABORATION

https://uacp2.hana.ondemand.com/viewer/p/SAP_JAM_COLLABORATION

http://help.sap.com/sapjam

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