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Hi Everybody! :)
I wanted to tell you about some of features coming soon, and give you a chance to request features you (or your clients) need for upcoming versions.
With CMS Builder we've taken the approach of releasing early and often so we can get features out to you faster and get your feedback faster as well. This is a development philosophy what lets us keep in touch with what the real needs of the community are.
We have a huge list of features planned for the future. Here's the top ones we're working on right now. All of these have been requested by multiple forum users:
Multi Section Search - The ability to search multiple sections at the same time. Much like a generic search engine. (Added in v1.13)
Comments - The ability to add comments to a page such as seen on popular blogs and websites.
Add record function - A generic function or method to allow adding records to the database from outside the program. This will start basic but could be used for user signup scripts, comments, etc.
Multiple Value Fields - The ability to store multiple values in one field (such as selecting multiple checkboxes or multiple items in a pulldown).
Note: These will be released in the order of completion and as always technical challenges and other issues can sometime delay or sidetrack development plans. So don't bank on it until it's done, but this is what we're working on.
Please post your feature requests below. We'll review this thread for popular requests when planning upcoming versions.
Thanks! :)
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
(This post was edited by Dave on Apr 17, 2008, 9:43 AM)
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DHester
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Apr 7, 2008, 5:10 PM
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Hi Dave,
I'd like to request the option to create and addition thumbnail when uploading images.
Example:
This would allow me to show the thumbnail in the article summary, the preview in the full article, and clicking the thumb/preview would display the larger image ( 440 pixels wide in this example ).
This may be to resource intensive. But it would sure be nice to have. I use thickbox and other image display tools to handle images. Having 3 sizes available would provide lots of flexibility to designers and requires no additional work from the end-user since it's all automatic 
Just a suggestion.
Keep up all the great work!
Darren Hester
www.designsbydarren.com
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aev
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Apr 8, 2008, 12:48 AM
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We would like to see these two first:
- Multi Section Search
- Multiple Value Fields
Thanks for making all these great features at an impressive pace!
AEV
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DHester
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Apr 8, 2008, 4:32 AM
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I agree with you aev, the multi-select/value feature would be extremely useful. Certainly more of a priority than adding the additional thumbnail option.
Darren Hester
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ChrisTitchenal
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Apr 9, 2008, 9:14 AM
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Hey Dave. from what you said is coming I like. I would add the ability to create a form would be on my list. Pretty much 100% of the sites I build have a form on them. Some are for just one event and when that is over it needs to be changed for the next one coming up, so it would really help if they could do all that.
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Apr 9, 2008, 9:54 AM
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Hi Chris, so what would the form do? It would let a web visitor add a record to a section? I'm not totally clear on what you mean? Can you give a little more detail?
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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ChrisTitchenal
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Apr 9, 2008, 10:11 AM
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For example we work with many charities They use forms like, sign up to RSVP for our golf tournament. Then the next month it will be for a silent auction, ect... The form just sends what they fill out to an email address. I guess that it could send to a new database field called RSVP and they could look in the CMS to see the list.
Thanks for asking Dave
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Apr 9, 2008, 10:24 AM
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So an email form manager that could optionally save to the database. Ok, I get it. Thanks for the suggestion, that's a good idea.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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Apr 10, 2008, 1:47 PM
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I think a Duplicate Section Editor command (with and without data) would be useful.
The contact form suggestion is also welcome.
How about a generic data collection form? It could either email the form content and/or write it to a database. Covers several bases that way.
I'd love the ability to insert either PHP or JavaScript in an escaped code mode so we could use the CMS to send control info into the site code.
This is more of an FCK editor item, but the color changes introduced to GIF images during upload are quite striking. Try uploading a white GIF and see what you get... it gets the dingies! Being able to view all the previously uploaded images in the system would be useful too.
And... of course... the multi-section search. That's a biggie but I know Dave and the good folks at Interactive Tools are on top of that one already.
J.
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Forum (just like this one)
RSS Feeds to News Section Component
Multiple Media formats (not just images) support for Flash, Silverlight, Audio, Video
Spreadsheet type Lists (with spreadsheet type interfaces so users can add,delete and update rows of data like an excel spread sheet) and visitors could do column sorts
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chrisl
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Apr 12, 2008, 2:22 PM
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Hi Dave,
A spellchecker ... we need a spell checker 
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Apr 16, 2008, 9:48 AM
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Oddball suggestion but... I'd like an exclude function in the List View to keep one or more records available online, but not visible in a ListView.
Situation: Due to project requirements, we want a List View but would like to exclude particular records which will be used as intros to the list.
Suggest exclusion based on a comma separated list of record numbers. In a perfect world, it would also be nice to exclude on a field condition.
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Apr 16, 2008, 9:53 AM
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When you say list view do you mean the Editor List (in the admin program) or the List Viewer (on the website)?
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Apr 16, 2008, 12:43 PM
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Sorry for not being clear Dave. I was imagining an exclude list for the on-page public List Viewer, rather than the back-end.
The one thing that I've done in the back-end to make my life easier is to add a link to the Section Editor List which appears next to the 'Admin' link in the menu, to the right of the drop-down list. Saves several clicks when I'm working in that area.
J.
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To exclude specific records from the list viewer on the website, would it be possible to use the build in special field "hidden" (link) and check that checkbox for the records you don't want displayed in the list?
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Apr 16, 2008, 8:23 PM
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If I understand that Hidden field function, it completely hides the article.
What I need is to still be able to show that article if, for example it's the lead article, but I don't want it to show up in the archive.
Example: Page loads... main text shows a welcome message (stored in TableA). Right column shows a List View of all TableA articles, but the welcome message is not needed here. It's exempted from the List View, but shown on the Page View. This lets us put all the content for that topic in one editor.
I could sniff for a specific record number and skip it in the foreach List View loop, but a flag in the back-end would be easier.
J.
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Hmmm... Ok, what about creating a checkbox field "welcomeOnly" and checking for that in the foreach loop and skipping it? Then you could have the best of both worlds. Would that work?
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Apr 17, 2008, 11:09 AM
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I think that's a good way to go, although cosmetically I would suggest another name than 'welcomeOnly'. I can envision users wanting to have several records in the table that would not be seen on the List View while still being available upon direct URL access from a hard coded link or a Page View's recordNum value.
Imagine a Welcome message to be sure, but also a disclaimer message, sales message, or a how to use this info message all as separate records in the Section Editor. Being able to flag these records as hidden from list view lets us put all our related bits into one Editor and make fewer Select statments on the page. At least, I really believe this is how many of my clients would want to think about it.
Mind you, I suppose if there were built-in group inheritance then this need could be accomplished another way. <just musing...>
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Maybe 'hideFromListView' as the column name? :)
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Apr 17, 2008, 6:23 PM
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Perfect.
Sorry to be pedantic... my client must be rubbing off on me.
J.
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Apr 18, 2008, 12:28 AM
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I know this is not the place to discuss this, but I just want to add a short comment on the discussion above because I think this is already possible in the current version: I use several checkboxes for this (for example "ShowinMenu", "ShowinArchive" etc.) and in the Listview I use the option "where ShowinMenu = 1" to select only those records I want to show in the menulist. The additional pages in the section that are not shown in the menulist can be accessed using the pagenum in a specific link.
Hopefully I understood the discussion correct and this is an option? So the developers can work on creating a new user role in version 1.14
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Apr 18, 2008, 10:54 AM
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Thanks jsv. I agree that it can be done manually. You're quite right. I was just flagging this a Wish List item.
No harm in asking for the moon. ;-)
J.
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Ditto to the "super user" access level request.
Brian
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