Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
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By Dave - August 31, 2010 - edited: June 1, 2011
We've had a lot of people asking for us to pre-announce upcoming features. Here's what we're working on for the next few versions:
Shared Asset Library - A way to "share" uploads between records so you don't need to upload the same file over and over again when multiple records require it.
And we have the following plugins in development:
Comments Plugin - Works with website membership to allow logged in users to comment on any page, records, item, etc.
Ratings Plugin - Works with website membership to allow users to select a rating (0 - 5 stars) and display that rating on any type of page, record, or item.
Also, sometime we'll be doing maintenance releases between planned releases where we release bug fixes, minor changes, and features that were added through consulting or custom programming.
We don't have any release dates yet, but feel free to post any questions.
Thanks for all your feedback and support! :)
interactivetools.com
Re: [Dave] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
As usual, you guys seem to have your finger directly on the pulse of your customers! I have wished for every one of your upcoming features at some point in time and the "Relative Upload Paths" and "Shared Assets Library" are probably the most wished for items.
I can see the "Instant Websites" being a huge hit since it will provide real world examples to help jump start the learning process for those new to CMSB.
Kudos to you and the Itools team!
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Re: [Dave] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
Re: [Dave] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
By Djulia - September 3, 2010
It would be interesting to improve ergonomics of the interface of administration of the sections.
1) the possibility of using fields (input) [font "Times New Roman"]datepicker, color[font "Times New Roman"]picker ...
2) for long sections, the possibility of using a accordion function.
3) ...
Thanks ! :)
Djulia
Re: [Dave] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
By zip222 - September 3, 2010
Re: [Dave] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
By zip222 - September 7, 2010
The page you see after logging into the CMS always feels a little barren and something that would be great to be able to include there are some "shortcuts" to common actions:
Add a News Item
Add a Job Listing
Add an Event
Etc...
Re: [zip222] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
By Chris - September 7, 2010
Thanks for the great feedback! :D
@Djulia: Datepickers and colourpickers would be great; the way our code base is moving it will be much easier to add these features in the future. I'm curious: what do you mean by an "accordian function" for long sections?
@zip222: I've wanted a combo Single/Multi editor for a while now. You can almost do this with a Related Records field, but there's currently no way to get a Create button in there. Also, there is no search or pagination functionality.
Regarding shortcuts to common actions, I'm not sure CMS Builder will be able to guess which actions are common, but you can write a simple plugin to change the content of the home page. I've attached one to this post as an example — you can change the HTML in the plugin to whatever you'd like to modify the home page content.
Chris
Re: [chris] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
By zip222 - September 7, 2010
Re: [Dave] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
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Re: [Maurice] Notice: CMSB Upcoming Features and Development Plan
By Chris - September 10, 2010
These are features you can expect to see in the next few versions. Version 2.06 is a maintenance release, but I've been working on Page Previews for a few days now. Stay tuned! :)
Chris