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More reports from looking at the Luminis III to IV migration.

It turns out that Message Board Topic descriptions are no longer gathered or displayed in Luminis IV. This change in functionality is not documented anywhere, as far as I can tell.

I didn't realize this until it was pointed out to me by the response centre after my query to them as to why the Topic descriptions weren't appearing. I guess they figure they don't collect descriptions anymore, why display them. Well here's a reason: migrated data!

I've asked for an RPE to be submitted to return the Topic description. As well I made a mod to
CP_ROOT/jsp/messageboard/messageList.jsp to include the topic desciption (Add [br/][c:out value="${topic.topicDescription}" escapeXml="false"/] at the appropriate place).

It turns out that the topic description data is migrated from III to IV, and exists in the java bean that drives this jsp file.

To go the next step, I re-enabled the collection of a description when creating a topic.
The logic and capturing to the database is all there, I just removed the comments from: CP_ROOT/jsp/messageboard/postTopic.jsp