Foundation Dev Blog: Pages

• Source: Foundation

* Page objects that are offline can now be viewed in Admin mode.

* Added "Full Name" as an editable and private field on the my settings page.

* Added support for the Microdata format that Google and other aggregate sites support for displaying user submitted reviews about locations with credit and links back to sites. We'll be monitoring this over the upcoming weeks to confirm Google is properly picking up the review data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdata_%28HTML5%29
http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/

* New AltWeeklies.com auto poster - If you would like to have all or some of your stories auto post to AltWeeklies.com, you can now configure Foundation to do so. The key goal is to allow for full participation in AltWeeklies.com without having to do any additional work to upload the stories. Please see the AltWeeklies.com Auto Poster blog post for details on how to set this up.

* AltWeeklies.com Related Stories revamp - You can now exclude publications from the AltWeeklies.com suggested links. Please see the AltWeeklies.com Related Stories Component revamp post for additional information.

Newsletter Upgrades
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• Foundation
• Newsletter Class

Features of the upgraded newsletter system include:

* Support for multiple newsletters. Each newsletter is configured in a separate Newsletter object which means you can have more than just the single daily and weekly newsletter.

* Adjustable scheduling. You can set each newsletter to run on a single day of the week (weekly), or on several days of the week. You can also adjust the time at which each newsletter will run.

* Admin-only newsletters. These are newsletters that you can preview in the Newsletter Tester, or manually subscribe yourself to via the Object Editor, but that aren't publicly available. This allows you to test out new layouts without disturbing the regular deliveries, for example.

Blog Upgrades
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• The Coast
• Top Topics

* New "Top Topics" component for Blog related pages. Displays the most-used "Topics" from the past 90 days linking to the results for each.

http://www.thecoast.ca/blogs/LovetheWayWeBitch/

* Blog admins can now quickly view the full text of blog comments by hovering the mouse over the link in the comment list view. The complete comment will appear in a tooltip box.

* Blog admins can also now filter comments by IP address. When viewing a particular comment in the blog interface, simply click the linked IP address to get a list of all comments from that address.

* Fixed a glitch that was intermittently preventing the Video archive and Image archive from being updated on new blog posts. A patch has also been run to bring everything current that was affected by this.

Comment Archive Upgrades
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* Added two sort options to the comments archives. You can now sort by review rating as well as posted date. The posted date remains the default sort option.

* Added the ability to browse by review rating when viewing Location and Event reviews.

Miscellaneous Upgrades
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* Friendly homepage URL tweak which uses the domain only. For example:

http://www.domain.com/
rather than
http://www.domain.com/city/Home

* Added a Status field to the Page class with the values of Live and Offline so you can easily take a Page object offline without deleting it. All new page objects will default to the Status of Live. All existing Page objects have been patched to support this new field. You can also now easily browse by Live and Offline Page objects within the Object Editor.

* Added Location and Event URLs to the top of their respective objects within the Object Editor so you have easy access to the website Location and Event pages.

* Magnum images are now archived in the Image Archives.

• Foundation
• Article Tools

* Added an option to display the Social Bookmark Share links at the top of article tools, location tools, and event tools. More specifically, you can have the Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. icons as clear badges in the tools rather than being hidden behind the share panel.

To enable this feature, add the following variable to the tools related component.

 <evVarDefine.displayShareLinks> true </evVarDefine> 

This will move the social bookmarks to the top of the tools and display their icons.

To tweak the copy, order, and what displays in the share links section, you can modify the Social Bookmark class.

Please contact support@desert.net if you have any questions or would like assistance in setting this up.

A special thanks to Joshua Curry at Charleston City Paper for this this design suggestion as seen here:

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/eric-churchs-trend-bucking-approach-worked/Content?oid=1774024

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Also note, the Foundation Development Blog will now send out new posts in a newsletter to help with announcing new releases and other postings. You may be reading this in the newsletter now.

- Event print export now support narrow by options of special placement, features, guides, and "web only" events.

- Improved URL hints in the category object (how to link to the category or latest story in a category).

- We added another dozen or so social bookmark sites (all flagged as offline). To activate them, change their status to live. Here's a list of the what was added: Blogmarks, Furl, BlinkList, Ma.gnolia, Yahoo! MyWeb, Wists, Mister Wong, Technorati, Feed Me Links, Netvouz, ThisNext, Google Bookmarks, MySpace, RawSugar.

- The compound story component has been split out into numerous components to allow for easier customization. The new components include: Story Breadcrumb, Magnum Image, Story Header, Embedded Sidebar, Story Layout, Story Layout Jr, Audio Player, Image Flipbook, Info Box, Video Player, Section Link, and Story Tags.

- The compound location component has been split out into numerous components to allow for easier customizations. The new components include: Magnum Image, Location Meta Data, Embedded Sidebar, Location Description, Location Description Jr., Video Player, Audio Player, Image Flipbook, and Location Tags.

- The compound event component has been split out into numerous components to allow for easier customizations. The new components include: Past Event Flag, Magnum Image, Event Meta Data, Embedded Sidebar, Event Description, Event Tickets, Event Location, Event Description Jr., Video Player, Audio Player, Image Flipbook, and Event Tags.

- The compound film component has been split out into numerous components to allow for easier customizations. The new components include: Magnum Image, Film Meta Data, Embedded Sidebar, Film Review, Film Credits, Video Player, Audio Player, and Image Flipbook.

- Creation of an embedded sidebar to allow for additional component placing within a floating sidebar. This will allow for the modification of what components appear in the tools area such as audio players, info box, image flip book, and more.

- Video player support is now available for Locations

- Video player support is now available for Events

- Video player support is now available for Films

- Video player support is now available for Pages

- Note: Content (aka story) already had Video player support

- Audio player support is now available for Locations

- Audio player support is now available for Events

- Audio player support is now available for Films

- Audio player support is now available for Pages

- Note: Content (aka story) already had Audio player support

- Magnum image support is now available for Events

- Magnum image support is now available for Films

- Magnum image support is now available for Pages

- Note: Content (aka story) and Location already had Magnum image support

- Page objects now support image flip books.

- Page objects now support in-line images.

- Story and Page objects now have helpful image-related validations to confirm that the in-line image placement syntax is correct.

- Added the ability to make a Page object require a login for restricted pages.

- Added the ability to clone a Component. To do this, edit an existing component and click on the clone this component link.

- Added a PDF class

- Added Location.Menu for uploading PDFs of menus

- Added Location.Coupon for uploading PDFs of coupons

- Added support for coupons and menus in the restaurant details component.

- Added clean and fast parent object binding for Audio, Video, and PDFs. The goal being to set up the data for future media archive browsing templates.