Jamrn Q115

2015-03-06
SAP Jam - What's New and Release

Restrictions February 2015
Content
What's New in This Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1
Auto saves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2
Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
1.3
Content permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4
Content ratings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.5
Drafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.6
Forum topic reply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.7
Group administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.8
Group templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.9
Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
1.10
Overview page view count. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
1.11
Photo album browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
1.12
Content versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.13
Image versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.14
Profile wall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.15
Reports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.16
SAP Cloud for Customer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.17
Security options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.18
Subgroups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.19
Updates to API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
1.20
Updates to SAP Mobile app. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
1.21
User experience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.22
Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Feature availability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Feature deprecation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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SAP Jam - What's New and Release Restrictions February 2015

Content
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
User Guide.
Note
This document is subject to minor daily updates until February 13, 2015. Please check the SAP Help Portal page
daily 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 especially for this work pattern / use

case
Account manage
ment
Sales
customer account manage

ment through account activi
ties, sales opportunities, and
service requests.
The new Content permissions feature allows an ac

count manager to securely share a sensitive document or
wiki in a group. A sales collateral, a pricing sheet, or a re
quest-for-quote, for example, can be set to read-only,
limited, or full permission, depending on the collaboration
needs of the account team.
Design registration
collaboration
Sales
channel partners and brand

owners to review, discuss, and
approve a design registration
in high-tech or semi-conduc
tor industries.
The new Design Registration Collaboration Template

provides a consistent, compliant, and repeatable struc
ture for brand owners and partners to collaborate on de
sign registrations. For example, as part every design reg
istration submitted by a customer, three key tasks need
to be completed as specified in the template: approval,
customer signature, and status win/loss update
Help and support
HR
support for a Q&A community

designed for members and ex
perts to help each other on a
particular topic of interest.
The new forum topic reply feature allows community

members and experts to quickly reply to questions in
SAP Jam via e-mail. This feature enhances the help and
support use case by providing an additional channel of
forum collaboration.
Knowledge sharing
HR
support for a knowledge basestyle community where ex

perts can connect and share
information on a particular
topic of interest.
The new forum topic reply feature helps experts re

spond, discuss, and answer critical questions in a knowl
edge sharing group directly via e-mail. The feature en
hances the knowledge sharing use case by providing an
additional channel of forum collaboration.
Mentoring and
coaching
HR
mentors and mentees to share

and connect, and optionally
have a means for private con
versations.
The new Content permissions feature allows mentors

and mentees to share documents and wikis with various
permission levels, depending on their collaboration
needs. It allows multiple participants to work in the same
group, and yet keep certain sensitive content private
from one another.

Work pattern / use

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

enables...
Features to note especially for this work pattern / use

case
Opportunity deal
room
Sales
the sales team in gathering re Content permissions

quirements, planning, and
strategizing around a sales op
portunity.
Social learning
HR
support for continuous and

collaborative learning; support
for social learning prior, dur
ing, and after a specific train
ing event.
The new Content permissions feature allows learners

and instructors to securely share documents, homework
items, course curriculum, etc. in a new Training Room
Template. To help improve learning, everyone can rate
course materials, homework submissions, brainstormed
ideas, using the content ratings feature.
Social onboarding
HR
onboarding of new employees

into an organization via rec
ommendations, knowledge
sharing, and networking.
New employees can take advantage of the content rat

ings feature to rate onboarding materials such as com
pany forms, policies, procedures, FAQs, and help im
prove the onboarding experience for future new hires. HR
administrators can securely share company onboarding
policies in a group using the content permissions fea
ture.
Design Registration Work Pattern

The Design registration work pattern helps high-technology companies, specifically semi-conductor and
component manufacturers, collaborate with channel partners by automating the design registration lifecycle to
maximize channel revenue and increase design wins. Channel partners can easily add design registrations and
brand owners can now accelerate design wins, by easily collaborating with their partners and automating the
design win process. Additionally, brand owners can monitor their pipeline, analyze risks, and consequently get
accurate forecasts which allow them to understand how their business is doing.


Enhancement
Groups / Templates
Feeds
Manage design registration data in SAP Jam
Description
Create SAP Jam groups from a design registration for

focused collaboration.
Leverage the Design Registration Collaboration

Template for structured and consistent collaboration.
Feature one or more design registrations to a group.
Invite channel managers and channel partners to

participate.
Post comments and replies to a design registration.
Follow a design registration.
Stay informed on any comments, updates, and recordlevel changes.
View up-to-date, live, detail design registration

information in SAP Jam.
Browse, filter, sort, search for design registration data in

SAP Jam.
Customer pre-requisites for using the design registration work pattern:

SAP Jam Enterprise edition
SAP Cloud for Sales, with B2B Industry Add-on

1.1
Auto saves
When you work with a draft or published version of a content item, the content is periodically auto saved.
Note
All work patterns and uses cases listed in the "What's New in this Release" topic at the start of this Release
Notes document benefit from the Auto save feature.
Table 2: Auto saves
Enhancement
Auto save for wikis, blogs,
group overview pages, and
forum topics
Description
As you edit wikis, blogs, group overview pages, questions, ideas, and discussions, your
changes are automatically saved every ten seconds. In the event you accidentally close the
browser or navigate to another URL, the next time you return to the edit session, you will
be prompted to recover any auto-saved changes.

1.2
Calendar
Calendars list the events you have accepted and those you have been invited to, past and present. The calendar
view that appears for tasks and events has been enhanced to supported international date and time zones.
Table 3: Calendar
Enhancement
Support for global
time zones
Description
You can configure personal and group calendars to suit your preference. For example, they can
click the new Settings icon from the Calendar view to set:
the preferred time zone
the first day of the week

Enhancement
Start and end times
in minutes
Description
You can now create tasks and events that start and end on the minute by typing specific times in
the start and end fields.

Enhancement
Per event start and
end time zone
1.3
Description
When you create events, you can specify a different time zone for the start and end date.
In addition to their own time zone display, event invitees will see that you posted the event in a
specific time zone, for example, "This event was created 10:00AM-11:00AM PST (GMT-08:00) Pa
cific Time (US &Canada) ".
When you schedule an event that occurs during the daylight saving period, the time zone will ad
just to the offset time accordingly.
Content permissions
When you upload or create content such as a document, or wiki you can control access for all users by setting
permissions on that specific content item.For example, if you have a document that you must upload, but it's still
in progress, you can set its permission to read only. Once you've completed your work on the document, you can
keep the same permission, or allow others more access by changing its permission to limited or full.
Note
The following work patterns and use cases are enhanced with the content permissions feature: Social learning,
social onboarding, account management, opportunity deal room.
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Table 4: Content permissions

Enhancement
Set permissions on creation of
wikis or documents
Description
When you upload a document, you can set its permissions to read-only, limited, or full be
fore it's available for everyone to see.
When you upload multiple documents simultaneously, you can select one permission to
apply to all the documents.

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Enhancement
Description
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When you create a new wiki, you can set its pemission to hidden, limited, or full before
you publish or save it.

Enhancement
Description

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Enhancement
Upload new version with same
permission
1.4
Description
Under the Content section, you can now upload new versions of a document via the More
menu of the content item.
Content ratings
Content ratings help you and your co-workers to determine which content is most valuable and useful.
Note
social onboarding, and mentoring and coaching.
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Table 5: Content ratings

Enhancement
Assign star rating to content
Content types available for

rating
Rating removal upon new

version and moving
Description
You can click Rate this to rate content with one to five stars, where:
5 stars = Excellent
4 stars = Good
3 stars = Fair
2 stars = Poor
1 star = Not recommended
No stars indicates no rating provided yet.
When you rate content, your rating is posted anonymously.
You can change your rating on content at any time.
The following uploaded or attached content can be rated:
documents
images
links
videos
wikis
blogs
When you rate content, it applies to that content regardless of the version. For example,
when a new version replaces the previous content, the rating remains.
When content is moved to another group, the rating is cleared.
Enable/disable setting
Company and group administrators can enable or disable this feature.
Ratings metadata
When group data is exported in an archive file, it will also include the ratings metadata.
Content list views and

search results
You can sort and filter content based on content ratings in the Content section and for
search results.

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1.5
Drafts
When you work with a draft version of a content item, the content itself is in progress and not ready for publishing
to the entire group. This section lists the improvements made to the draft feature.
Note
All work patterns and use cases listed in the "What's New in this Release" topic at the start of this Release
Notes document benefit from the Drafts feature.
Table 6: Drafts
Enhancement
Description
Profile wikis and blogs
Draft versions of profile wikis and blogs are now stored and listed in their respective Drafts
section above published content.
Titles
When you save a draft of an overview page, wiki, blog, question, idea, or discussion, the title
is also saved. You can then change the title for every subsequent version, including the pub
lished version.
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Enhancement
Description
Attachments
To prevent premature publishing of content while you, the author, are still working on the
draft:
When you are working on a draft wiki, blog, question, idea, or discussion, and you upload
files or photos using the External URL or External Image features in the editor, those
files and photos will not display in the Content section.
When you are working on a draft overview page, and upload a photo using the photo
widget, the photo will not display in the Content section.
Note
Drafts with attachments are included in your company storage quota. When an attachment is
uploaded via external URL, a draft is automatically created as soon as the attachment uploads.
1.6
Forum topic reply
If you're keeping up with SAP Jam while on the go via email notifications, when you see a question, you will be able
to respond to it directly.
Note
The following work patterns and use cases are enhanced with the forum topic reply feature: Help and support,
knowledge sharing, social onboarding, social learning, mentoring and coaching.
Table 7: Forum topic reply
Enhancement
Reply to a question by
email
1.7
Description
When you respond to a question from your email notification, your reply is posted as an answer
within SAP Jam.
Group administration
As a group administrator, you can now download group member lists containing more useful meta data. On the
Groups page, you can also choose to display only the groups for which you are the administrator.
Note
Notes document benefit from the group administration feature.

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Table 8: Group administration

Enhancement
Group member listing
export
Filter
1.8
Description
When exporting a group member list to a CSV file, you can now include the following columns:
member status (e.g., admin, pending)
membership join date
email notification setting
following
On the groups listing page, if you are a group administrator and want to find only the groups you
manage, you can now click Groups I administer.
Group templates
Group templates for social learning and mentoring have been enhanced with updates and a new template. There
is also a new group template to support integration with SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C) for design registration
workflows.
Note
mentoring and coaching, and design registration collaboration.
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Table 9: Group templates

Template
Training room *new
Education center
Description
Before, during, and post-training event, learners and instructors can work together:
Before training: Instructors can share pre-work material, training agenda, and important
announcements.Learners can connect with instructors and peers, and complete assign
ments prior to starting class to be prepared.
During training: Instructors can share additional material and address questions outside
of the class. Learners can ask questions while leveraging group knowledge and expertise.
After training: Instructors and course administrators can monitor questions, and ask for
feedback and ideas.Learners can use this network to obtain answers to questions when
they apply it to their work, outside of training.
This template is an update to the existing template, intended for continuous and collaborative
learning.
Experts can create content and share documents or expertise with all employees.
Employees can use search, activity feeds, tags, most-viewed, most-liked, and featured
content to find the experts or content they need.
Mentoring and coaching
This template is an update to the existing template, where mentors and mentees can connect
as group and have private conversations.
Design registration col

laboration
A group for channel partners and brand owners to review, discuss, and approve a design reg
istration. This new template for SAP Cloud for Customer (Cloud for Sales) transactions in
cludes the following attributes:
Pro/con table to help analyze the design registration
External business record, people, related groups, photos, and text widgets
Placeholders for wikis and documents

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1.9
Notifications
A notifications tile appears to the right of your activity feed to inform you of important updates. Notifications are
organized by category and lists the number of unread notices beside each category.
Note
The Notifications tile is not supported in the Microsoft Internet Explorer v8 browser.
Notes document benefit from the Notifications feature.
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Table 10: Notifications

Enhancement
Notification Summary tile
Description
A Notification Summary tile has been added to the home page to provide a summary of your
outstanding notifications. The summary displays the number of outstanding items by cate
gory:
Social updates (e.g., mentions, replies, and likes)
Invitations (e.g., group and event invitations)
Requests (e.g., examples are requests to join a group, requests to approve content)
Tasks (e.g., examples are tasks assigned, tasks reminders)
Informational updates (e.g., examples are you being featured in a group, group access
granted)
If a category does not have any notifications, it will not display in the tile.
When you click the number beside each category, a list of notifications for that category dis
plays in detail.
If you click View All Notifications, all notifications display in detail.

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Enhancement
Dismiss all notifications
Notifications filter
Description
From the detail notifications list, you can
Dismiss all notifications
Dismiss all notifications by category
On the detail notification list, you can filter by a category to help you find and manage your
notifications effectively.
1.10 Overview page view count

You can now track the number of page views for your overview pages to help you determine the traffic or
popularity of your group pages.
Note
Notes document benefit from the page count feature.
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Table 11: Overview page view count

Enhancement
Group overview page
1.11
Description
As a group administrator, you can see the number of page views and download a report in Micro
soft Excel which lists the members who viewed each overview page, when they last viewed the
page, and their basic contact information. This metric is also available via the standard SAP Jam
reports.
Photo album browser
Group members and other SAP Jam users can now browse other images contained within the current folder for
the single item image that they click on.
Note
Notes document benefit from the photo album feature.

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Table 12: Photo album browser

Enhancement
Next and previous ac
tions
1.12
Description
When you select a single image item to view for a group or via a co-worker's profile wall, the im
age opens with next and previous browsing action capability. For an image belonging to a group,
you will be able to see full screen mode for that photo along with other images in the current
content folder. For an image viewed via profile wall, you will be able to see full screen mode for
that photo along with other images in the root folder.
You can also use the left and right arrows of your keyboard to browse through the images.
Content versions
For content types such as documents, spreadsheets, pdfs, and text files, you can now replace them with new or
other versions of those documents.
Note
Notes document benefit from the content version feature.
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Table 13: Content versions

Enhancement
Version control
1.13
Description
In the Content section, you can upload new versions of your content.
You can also click Upload New Version on the Content item page.
You can perform the following actions via the Version drop-down menu:
Revert to a previous version of the content.
View the version history.
Delete the version.
See feed update items when new versions are uploaded. When you click on the version link
within the feed item, the light box opens with the specific version for that content.
Comment with annotation and tag people on a specific version. When you update to a new ver
sion, the previous version's comments and tags are not carried forward and applied to the new
version.
Image versions
As with other content types, you can now replace existing images with new or other versions of that image.
Note
Notes document benefit from the photos/images feature.

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Table 14: Image versions

Enhancement
Version control
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Description
Under the Content section, you can now upload new versions of an image or photo.
You can also click Upload New Version on the Content item page.
You can perform the following actions:
Revert to a previous version of a photo or image.
Delete a version.
View the version history.
See feed update items when new versions are uploaded. When you click on the version link
within the feed item, the light box opens with the specific version for that image.
Comment with annotation and tag people on a specific version. When you update to a new ver
sion, the previous version's comments and tags are not carried forward and applied to the new
version.

Enhancement
Description
Note
Profile and group avatars do not require version control.
When you upload a new version, the URL of the image remains the same.
1.14 Profile wall

Profile wall feed items now include shared group feed items.
Note
Notes document benefit from the profile wall feature.
Table 15: Profile wall
Enhancement
Feed items
1.15
Description
When you go to another person's profile feed, if you belong to the same group(s), you will see
those group feed items on their wall.
Reports
SAP Jam reports display information on many aspects of SAP Jam usage, including group-specific data, adoption
metrics such as user information, user contribution and page view activity, and disk usage statistics. Group
administrators can easily click 'x' beside a report name to delete reports under the Admin console.The following
section lists the reports that have been updated for this release.
Note
Notes document benefit from the reports feature.
Table 16: Reports
Report Name
Content Ranking re
port
Description
This new report (available for groups only, accessible only by group administrators) lists all con
tent items, their folder location, the type of content, number of times viewed and number of
likes. It does not show the ranking for an entire company's content.
The content rating average is also included.

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Report Name
Description
Activity Summary re
port
This report now includes statistics for group Overview pages, number of events/tasks created,
content rating, and links located under the Content section.
Group Activity report
This report now refers to the number of visitors (i.e., members) who have visited the group in the
last 30 days, rather than the total number of visits.
Data enhancements
To support customer expectations, some of the data presented in the reports now includes
changes such as how content views are counted, and how active users and content are consid
ered in time-bound reports. For detailed information on reports data, please consult the SAP
Jam User Guide.
Download options
In addition to the existing CSV download option, reports can be downloaded in Microsoft Excel
which provides better support for double-byte languages (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Korean).
Updated with link ac

tivity data
The following group reports have been updated to capture the contribution and viewing activity
of links in SAP Jam. In these reports, the Documents and Links columns now capture usage data
separately for documents and links under the Content section. Since the Links section is depre
cated, data from that section is no longer captured in SAP Jam reports.
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Page View Report
Group Activity Report
User Activity Report
User Page View Report

Report Name
Show metadata option
Description
To simplify the import of SAP Jam reports into data visualization tools (e..g, SAP Lumira) an
option is available to administrators for hiding metadata (e.g., title, date ranges) from appearing
in output reports.
1.16 SAP Cloud for Customer

A number of enhancements have been made to support the existing integration between SAP Cloud for Customer
and SAP Jam. End users and administrators now benefit from the following functional updates and performance
enhancements.
Feature
Role Impacted
Application
Single logout - when a user logs out of Cloud for Customer, they
will also automatically log out of any active SAP Jam sessions
End user
SAP Cloud for Customer
Feature multiple objects into SAP Jam groups
End user

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Feature
Role Impacted
Application
General performance enhancements for viewing/managing feeds,

groups, and business records
End user
SAP Cloud for Customer and

SAP Jam
Ability to brand SAP Jam by changing the default label to any

desired text appropriate for the organization
Administrator
Increased workflow performance by importing and caching

ODATA annotation resources in SAP Jam
Administrator
SAP Jam
Ability to choose between SuccessFactors Foundation or SAP Jam Administrator

as the SAML assertion bearer
SAP Jam
For further details on the enhancements for SAP Cloud for Customer, please consult the Whats New February
2015 guides and SAP Cloud for Customer User/Administrator Guides user guides, available on http://
help.sap.com/cloud4customer.
1.17
Security options
A new menu has been has been added to the SAP Jam Admin page called SAML Local Identity Provider. This
new feature provides administrators a self-serve option for configuring the identity provider for integrations where
SAP Jam calls the OData API of the integrating application. These applications are configured in the External
Applications menu of the Admin page.
Previous to this new option, administrators were required to use the SuccessFactors Foundation (formerly BizX
Platform) as the local identity provider for the integration. SAP Jam can now act as the SAML local identity
provider for integrations. This new page allows the administrator to configure the private key and certificate for
the SAP Jam identity provider. This is now the recommended configuration over using SuccessFactors foundation
as the former requires direct interaction with support and is not self-serve.
1.18 Subgroups
The steps for joining a subgroup have been streamlined via the subgroup invitation.
Table 17: Subgroups
Enhancement
Invitations
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Description
When you accept an invitation to join a subgroup, you are granted access to both main group and sub
group. In joining the main group, you are also accepting their Terms of Use.

1.19 Updates to API

The following updates apply to the SAP Jam API.
Table 18: Updates to API
Enhancement
Description
Rate limits
Rate limits have been adjusted to deal with especially computationally costly requests like uploading
documents; for more details please refer to the SAP Jam API documentation.
Integrations
Performance enhancements have been included to support integrations (e.g., SAP Cloud for Cus
tomer).
Most called
APIs
Performance enhancements have been made to the most-called APIs.
OpenSocial
gadgets
The following enhancements have been made to support OpenSocial gadgets:
New developer documentation
Support for making secure connections to remote web services
SAP Jam Overview pages
1.20 Updates to SAP Mobile app

The following table lists the user experience updates to the SAP Mobile app.
Table 19: User experience updates to SAP Mobile app
Enhancement
Description
Feed filter
menu
When browsing feed activity, you can tap the All drop-down list and choose a filter to refine your feed
display. By default, unless you select a filter you will see all feed activity.
Pin icons
Pin icons are used in the SAP Jam mobile app to distinguish between frequent and seldom user feed
filters. On the feed filter drop down menu, different pin icons denote the following:
Question, idea,
and discussion
post options
Pin icon with lock: The filter is a system default and cannot be unpinned, deleted, or modified.
Pin icon without lock: The filter can be deleted or modified.
Filters that are seldom used display at or near the bottom of the list. The pin icon displays in a faded
color to indicate that it is not pinned.
You can unpin a filter by tapping on the pin icon. This will change the icon color from blue to the faded
shade, and move the filter to the bottom of the menu.
To post a question, idea, or discussion, you can tap on question, idea, or discussion from the Post menu,
enter your text, and then immediately submit it to a forum.

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User experience
Your experience in navigating around SAP Jam has been improved via the items listed in this section.
Note
Notes document benefit from the user experience features mentioned here.
Table 20: User experience
Enhancement
Description
Getting started with SAP

Jam
When getting started with SAP Jam, you are presented with recommendations for joining
groups and connecting with people.The information for using mobile devices has been re
moved so your company can provide custom information if necessary.
Save changes prompt on

navigation
While working on an overview page, wiki page, blog, or forum post for questions, ideas, or
discussions, if you attempt to leave the page without saving your changes, SAP Jam now
displays a "Do you wish to save changes?" message. This message will still appear even if
your work has just been auto-saved but you navigate away without explicitly saving or can
celling their changes.
Menu item parity
The More actions drop-down menu for the content list view and a single item view now con
tain more of the same actions:
Move item to: added to the single item More menu.
Upload new version: content list view for documents and photos
Message on feed item dele

tion
When you delete a feed item that contains a content item as part of the original post, that
content item is not deleted from the Content section. On clicking delete, a message now dis
plays to inform you that the content item is not deleted when you delete a feed item.
Settings menu
On the menu options under the cog icon on the menu toolbar above the banner, account has
been renamed to Account Settings for clarity.
1.22 Video
When posting videos to profile walls or group feeds, the video preview image has been enhanced.
Note
All work patterns listed in the "What's New in this Release" topic at the start of this Release Notes document
benefit from the video feature.
Table 21: Video
Enhancement
Video preview
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Description
The video preview image now appears larger in feed activities.

Feature availability
All features in this SAP Jam release will be available to customers on March 6, 2015.

Feature availability
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Feature deprecation
The following section lists the features that have begun deprecation or will be deprecated in the next release.
Table 22:
Feature
Wiki editor for
Overview pages
Photo repository
and placement
Links
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Description
If a group admininstrator chooses to delete an html-based wiki from the overview navigation tabs,
the wiki cannot be added again to the overview navigation tabs.
You can no longer create new html-based overview pages with the wiki editor or link to an existing
wiki so that it appears as part of the overview navigation tabs.
When you upload photos to a public group or personal profile, they are no longer placed in the com
pany photo gallery. In the Admin console under Deprecated Features, the "Enable Public Photo
Propagation" option would need to be selected in order to display new photos at the company level.
Photos that are uploaded to a public group no longer appear on your profile wall.
The Links section is no longer accessible for groups, profiles, and companies that do not have any
URLs entered.
The Links section is still accessible and set to read-only for groups, profiles, and companies that
contain URLs which were entered prior to this release.

Feature deprecation
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What's New in This Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Forum topic reply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Overview page view count. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Photo album browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

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Updates to API. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Updates to SAP Mobile app. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

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