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Article Manager v2.02 available now!

 

 


Theo
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Oct 27, 2006, 8:03 AM

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     Article Manager v2.02 available now!  

We're released a number of fixes and improvements to Article Manager 2 in the latest revision, version 2.02.

Article Manager 2 adds some amazing new features to the program, including:
  • Support for mySQL (easily update from flatfile)
  • New user interface
  • Enhanced uploading, including image thumbnailing and resizing
  • Advanced Field Editor
  • Unlimited custom fields for Articles, Categories, and User Accounts
  • Etc.
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What's New In Article Manager 2
Documentation

Online demo - Order it now - Download the upgrade - How to upgrade (both from v1.41 and v.2.00)

Version 2.02 resolves a number of issues and includes new features:

NEW FEATURES
- Publish Rules: added "Copy Rule" button to make it easier to add new rules based on existing ones
- Publish Rules: global article lists can now be limited to specified categories only
- Publish Rules: global category menus can now be limited to specified categories only
- Publishing: Added "Cancel Publishing" link to defer publishing when making lots of edits
- Publishing: Improved file collision error messages when adding/editing Articles and Categories.
- Templates: Added new templateIf operator "isMultipleOf" and "isNotMultipleOf" to make multi column layouts easier
- Templates: Added new features "Convert SSIs to PHP includes" and "Convert PHP includes to SSIs"
- Templates: Added new placeholder modifier :fileAttribute() to access specific image attributes (backward compatability with v1.41)
- Templates: Added new article list placeholder $articleList.currentResultNumber$
- Search: Made new placeholders $keyword$ and $keywordSearchFields$ available from search.cgi (and added to searchResults.html template)
- Support: added support for running optional customPatches.pl file (allows support staff to more easily work around mis-configured or non-standard servers and make custom changes to software)
- Upload Options: Made default image alignment available to be modified with customPatches.pl
- WYSIWYG Editor: added "Paste From Word" button to default WYSIWYG toolbar

MISC.
- Publishing: Changed timeout counter to 60 seconds from 30 and added 30 second option to "Max Process Time" in Admin Menu
- General: Improved directory detection code, resolves "filepath './config.ini' must be an absolute path" error
- Search: Specifying keywordSearchFields with underscores now works. fixes: "couldn't find field 'art\_field1'" error
- Templates: Removed double slash ("//") from css, javascript, image, etc links (caused 404 on some servers)
- Templates: re-organized admin menu template files for easier editing (split some up into multiple files and renamed or moved others)
- Many general improvements and fixes to Admin, Search, and Upgrade programs



Theo Wiersma
Project Manager

(This post was edited by Damon on Nov 4, 2006, 9:50 AM)