What's New in cmScribe?

6.5.x

• cmScribe administration features now supported in IE7+, Chrome and Safari
• Import/Export of cinnApps elements (Record Types, Displays, Editors, Filters, etc)
• Improved UI for the cinnApps Record Types page and cinnApps External Databases editing pages
• Better support for providing separate styles to IE and users with JavaScript disabled. No CSS hacks needed!
• Performance improvements in cinnApps applications
• Added Header Source HTML panel
• Upgrade to the latest version of reCAPTCHA
• cinnApps bug fixes (as always)

6.4.x

• Multi-domain support
• JW Player upgraded to version 5.7 - now supports HTML5 audio and video formats
• Standalone Payment Module - Create a completely custom e-commerce site and shopping cart with cinnApps and accept payments through a number of providers.
• Quick-access menu in cinnApps Source builder
• cinnApps bug fixes and performance improvements
• Added new Sources: (Collection) -> Shuffle , (Collection) -> Random Item

6.3.x

• cinnApps Actions - Trigger complex actions, or a series of actions, with a single button click.
• Ability to load Sources without the input types being known
• New Sources:
  • get a page URL with arbitrary parameters added or removed
  • generate a random string
  • create an embedded record
• New Action: add a User to a Group
• Improvements to Content Filters
• Fixed an issue where the reCAPTCHA form wasn't displaying properly in a Content Prototype that includes only the Add Comment element.
• Various bug fixes

6.2.x

• Facebook Like button - Site visitors now have the ability to "like" your website on Facebook, which allows users to easily share your content with their friends on Facebook. This is great way to market your company to a wide variety of users.
• Admin Site Map - View/manage all pages in your site from one place. This provides an alternate navigation point, making it easy to track your pages, content and site features.
• Support for more social features - Twitter widgets, "Tweet This" button, Disqus comments, "Add/Share This" buttons. Snippets of HTML that you can easily embed in your site as a way to gain more followers and promote your business.
• Import/Export of Styles, Scripts and Content Prototypes - For easy backup/restore, copy/paste or to move things between separate cmScribe sites! This is just the beginning of import/export. It is a huge time saver, allowing you to reuse content layouts and formatting on multiple sites.
• Import/export of Custom Content - Another big timesaver, this feature allows you to easily move content within your site or even between two sites. We use a simple format that allows you to easily import content from other content management systems into cmScribe.
• Form submissions can be sent to multiple email addresses - Our form builder allows you to build complex forms with little or no technical knowledge. You can now have form submissions sent to multiple email addresses.
• Content Prototype management User Interface (UI) improvements - Easily organize your content prototypes into categories. Keep similar prototypes grouped together to make managing your site much more intuitive.
• [[Permalink]] in Expert mode now provides a stable URL. You can now use the URL in your content prototypes as a unique identifier for each piece of content. Even if you change the friendly URL, this one will never change.
• [[Permalink]] in Expert mode can now provide an encoded URL. You can now get an encoded permalink URL which is useful for things like the Tweet button and other social features.
• Fixed some rendering issues in Webkit browsers (still not supported, but we're working on it)
• Panel config Save button changed to "OK" button (because nothing is actually saved at that point)
• Constant Contact panel configuration fixes
• Major rework of URL/filename handling code due to changes in .NET 4.0 - One added benefit is more control over restricted characters through the web.config file.
• Media Library Import fixes - Improved performance.
• Custom pagination on Content Prototypes - Create your own custom pagination format for content that spans multiple pages. Your custom pagination format can be reused throughout your site saving you the time and frustration of having to customize in multiple places.
• RSS Feed Link panel - A link to the RSS field for a Content panel can now be placed anywhere on your site. It was previously part of the Content panel which limited your display options.
• RSS feed display - Pull in any content that has an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed.
• Better markup on comments - Comments are now marked up with semantic HTML. Semantic markup is a good thing because it helps browsers and search engines in understanding the meaning of your content.
• UI Improvements to Content Prototype builder - Comments can now be placed anywhere in a Prototype; Better UI for mirroring content. This links to a repository of terms, including dated news items.

6.1

• Custom Content Prototypes - Build your own custom content structure to fit your needs; Full control over behavior and HTML/Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• External Styles and Scripts - You can now link to hosted versions of CSS/JS files on external URLs. This allows your site to take advantage of files served by Content Delivery Networks (CDN) which can help improve page load times.
• "Dashboard" Admin View - Detailed listing of all available Admin sections.
• Multiple file upload in Media Library - Upload multiple images, videos or other documents in one step.
• Admin Media Library - Access the Media Library at any time from the Admin menu or Dashboard. This enables you to quickly get to images and upload new images.
• CKEditor - This is the newest version of FCKEditor and is now the cmScribe default
• Custom URLs - Change any URL for any page on your site anytime without breaking links
• Per-page CSS classes - Add classes at the page level (on the body tag, navigation item or both).

6.0

• Completely redesigned UI - All new, easier to learn and use intuitive UI.
• Standards-based semantic markup - All HTML output conforms to current web standards.
• Section 508 / WCAG 2.0 compliant - All HTML output conforms to accessibility guidelines. In accordance with this legislation, all images must have descriptions for disabled/blind users.
• Scripts - Full control over your site's Javascript through the cmScribe UI
• Audio/Video Panel - Easily embed Flash video (FLV) and audio files (mp3)
• reCAPTCHA - Protects your forms and comments from spam and helps digitize books by break up scanned text and distributing it to websites to be used as captchas. Read more about the reCAPTCHA project »

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