Enhance your sTeam System

There are some additional packages available providing special functions or designs. After installing these packages you are able to use the additional functionality directly. There is no reboot needed installing additional packages
Please follow the Installation instructions to install new packages

New Version 0.3 of homework package
The new homework version comes with the following improvements:
  • fixed bug causes wrong display of more than 20 documents

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New Version 3.3 of Package pyramiddiscussion

pyramiddiscussion changelog:

  • highlight positions of the current user
  • allow to hide authors of positions
  • allow admins to hide participants to document that they have left the discussion
  • display firstname and surname in group view
  • finished implementation of deadlines
  • added some administrator options
  • allow administrators to add/remove administrators
  • allow administrators to shift positions in grouping phase
  • cutted down the discussion process into phases
  • optimized access management

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Webinterface Version 2.2.17 released
The new webinterface version comes with the following improvements:
  • don't let the browser cache error pages
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New Version 1.4 of server_base package
The new server_base version comes with the following improvements:
  • Display correct mailboxsize and unread message count using folders in mailbox

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Webinterface Version 2.2.14 released
The new webinterface version comes with the following improvements:
  • increased robustness of the installation process
Fixes made in step web-2_2_12 which are included in web-2_2_14:
  • backported fix displaying errors in details view of pike scripts from web-2_3
  • bugfix: always using USER_SELECTION in uppercase to increase robustness (probably fixed bug which may cause data loss)
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Webinterface Version 2.2.11 released
The new webinterface version comes with the following improvements:
  • backported fix displaying errors in details view of pike scripts from web-2_3
  • bugfix: always using USER_SELECTION in uppercase to increase robustness (probably fixed bug which may cause data loss)
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New Version 2.1 of Package pyramiddiscussion

pyramiddiscussion changelog:

  • improved robustness

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Webinterface Version 2.2.10 released
The new webinterface version comes with the following improvements:
  • reworked layout of server config page
  • allow to show/hide the different informations and options on the server config page (like on the details page)
  • added option to set loglevels at runtime
  • re-structured server config page
  • added housekeeping functions (check integrity of users, repair userdata and clean securitycache) (only available if module "housekeeping" is present, requires the development version of the server steam-2_5 at the moment)

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New Version 0.2 of Package whiteboardsupport

homework changelog:

  • display matriculation number in pointlist
  • changed pointlist to be generated using XSL instead of Pike

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New Version 1.3 of Package whiteboardsupport

whiteboardsupport 1.3 changelog:

  • performance optimization

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wiki 2.6 released

wiki 2.6 changelog:

  • fixed a problem where saving a wiki resulted in an error message if the wiki document name contained non-standard characters (e.g. german umlauts)

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Webinterface Version 2.2.9 released
The new webinterface version comes with the following improvements:
  • dont use scripts.old at installation any longer
  • removed usage of status "pending" adding users to a group or if a user requests membership (handling status "pending" needs a much more complex interface, might be useful in other contextes like koala od sifa but there was and is no support of satus "pending" in the webinterface)
  • creating html backtrace now if an error occurs during "lost password" workflow
  • sending HTML message for "lost password"
  • internationalized "lost password" email
  • just use one inputfield requiring username or e-mail adress
  • performing correct redirect creating an object if paging was used
  • display count of users and subgroups seperately on if group was displayed
  • Move user to his workroom if he tries to pick up a room where he is in (recursively checked) to avoid error message

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New Version 1.3 of server_base package
The new server_base version comes with the following improvements:
  • fixed last modified date of container and rooms
  • task related bugfix

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New Version 1.6 of uni-pb-style
The new uni-pb-style version comes with the following improvements:
  • fixed bug causes image files not to be displayed if only images are in the published container
  • fixed bug causes objects beginning with "." or "_" not to be hidden

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Webinterface Version 2.2.8 released
The new Webinterface version comes with the following improvements:
  • enable option to delete group password
  • improved handling of group password
  • improved messages to the user if he is joining a group
  • Fixed a bug in rightsmanagement naming group administrators

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Webinterface Version 2.2.7 released (Bugfix)
The new Webinterface Version 2.2.7 fixes an issue which causes an error message on the group view having the newest XSL Parser installed on the sTeam servers host system

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Webinterface Version 2.2.6 released (Bugfix)
The new Webinterface Version fixes a bug handling user defined usericons.

If you are using Webinterface version 2.2.x already it is recommended to update to 2.2.6. prior versions arent affected by this bug and an update is not necessary.

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Roadmap of webinterface development version web-2_3
The development of the webinterface continues. The development of version web-2_3 has been started.

Roadmap:
  • improve view of the user's inbox (e.g. providing different folders including sendmail)
  • provide configurable knowledge rooms within the webinterface. for more information please have a look at the bachelor thesis of moritz boedicker (as PDF, in german)
Webinterface Version 2.2.5 released
A new stable version of the webinterface (web-2_2_5) has been released.
Except of bugfixes this will be the latest stable 2_2 version of the webinterface.

For more Information visit the webinterface download page
Webtests for Webinterface 2.2 released
In the context of Quality Assurance we have added Selenium Webtests (look at OpenQA Website) for version 2.2 of the openSteam Web Interface, that has just been released. You can test the correct functionality of a new Webinterface installation with these.

The webtests and information on how to use them is avialable via CVS as part of the web-2_2 module and under the Webinterface/Webtests section of this site.
Webinterface version 2.2.4 released
A new stable version of the webinterface (web-2_2_4) has been released. The main focus of this version was to fix some bugs.

For more Information visit the webinterface download page
New Package searchsupport released
Searchsupport provides some convenient functions to search for content in open steam. These functions may be calles by clients implemented in Java or from PHP Frameworks using open sTeam to store their data in.
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Roadmap for Webinterface 2.3

The sTeam development team started working on web 2.3. The development focus will be on integrating configurable rooms and support for licenses


  • integrate configurable rooms (see diploma thesis (PDF))
  • license support for documents
  • implement automatic tests for the webinterface for quality management
Webinterface Version 2.2 (web-2_2) out now
Our new Webinterface version 2.2 is out now. After changing the installation Process completely we are proud to present an all-new web-2_20.spm which may be installed using your browser instead of using command line tools requiring you to be root on the host machine.
The main changes are:
  • options to create, move and delete objects are only reachable if user has the appropriate rights - it is directly clear what is allowed and what not
  • improved the functional scalability (especially of the details page)
  • User defined CSS Style will be used in all pages of the interface now
  • Removed a lot of stuff and created some sub- packages providing specific additional functionality
Download webinterface version 2.2, Installation Instructions and more...

most wanted feature comes to life
the integration of the calendar tool started these days and we are looking forward to integrate the calendar as fast as possible to provide a "stable" release of the calendar tool at the beginning of october
read more...
SteamWare Website using cache mechanism
this site is powered by steamweb website generator using a steam server as middleware.

from now on this website uses the advanced cache mechanisms of the steamweb code which provides this side with a speedup of approx. 3-5 times faster as without caching mechanism.
some more packages added
homework, pyramiddiscussion, wikieditor, fck (wysiwyg editor), routeplan added. some of them are in testing state right now (version number below 1.0) but there are screenshots, manuals and some more information provided under packages.
More Packages added
More and more packages are available:
steamquota - Quota Support
chatapplet - Chat Applet Support
wiki - An all new view to the WiKi Documents within sTeam