Release notes
Continuous improvement
Our release policy is to release a new version as soon as we have new functionality ready for production use. We don't 'save up' lots of changes and new features for a 'big' release. This way you get to use the latest software as soon as we have fully tested it, and it saves you from having to catch up with lots of changes at one time.
The release notes below highlight recent functional changes to the system. Other changes that don't affect the way you use the system (such as efficiency gains) are not normally noted, to keep the list as clear as possible. Updates are always backwards compatible with existing sites.
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| 16 April 2004 Navigation - 'Hidden' style Added a styling option in the Layout Manager to suppress an item from being displayed in the site navigation. Permissions & redirection are unaffected.
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| | 14 April 2004 Forum component - display sort order option Added a setting to control the order of display of postings in a thread. (Behavior Editor / Settings / Options / Thread View / Order Postings)
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| | 5 April 2004 Fly-out navigation interaction with Flash and listboxes Fixed a problem which caused fly-out navigation links to be hidden behind Flash objects, and which caused dropdown lists boxes to be hidden when fly-out navigation was active.
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| | 5 April 2004 New Edit control Moved 'Edit' links to new menu, making it easier to see user-facing page whilst logged in with permission to edit.
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| | 30 March 2004 Pages and Sections - New Embed tag for Abstract Text Added an embed tag to enable the Abstract text for a page - normally shown in the parent section or in searches - to be displayed within the page itself.
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| | 29 March 2004 Forms - Text datatype default text Added the ability to define default text for fields of type Text
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| | 24 March 2004 Style editor - color hex values Modified system to add # character before hex values used for colors, to provide enhanced compatibility with legacy browsers and PDAs
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| | 24 March 2004 Reseller impersonation for distributors If a distributor needs to log on to a site belonging to a client of one of their resellers, they can use their own logon, with an asterisk at the start. They will appear to be logged on as their child reseller.
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| | 23 March 2004 Form component - modification to read-only view Changed read-only view to use inline text rather than disabled text-boxes, to provide enhanced compatibility with legacy browsers and PDAs
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| | 23 March 2004 Javascript changes Modified visitor-facing code so it no-longer needs to use Javascript, to provide enhanced compatibility with legacy browsers and PDAs
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| | 16 March 2004 User login and registration - access codes Added the ability to define access code to allow users to step up from membership of one usergroup to gain membership of another usergroup, by quoting the access code. Access codes are set in the User Group Manager. Previously the only access code available worked between the Visitor and the Registered Visitor usergroups.
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| | 16 March 2004 Password reset - user-friendly password Added option to generate user-friendly passwords, based on an English word and numbers - being more memorable than the random-character passwords.
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| | 10 March 2004 Templates - position of paging control Added settings to allow paging controls to be positioned above, below, or above and below the displayed records.
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| | 9 March 2004 User Management component - new look Separated User Manager from User Group Manager, and added new graphical User Group manipulation tool
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| | 20 February 2004 New Form datatype - File The file datatype accepts the upload of a document
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| | 20 February 2004 Templates - enhanced Link parameter Fields selected in templates can now link to URLs defined in another field within the template, so, for example, if there are two fields: "URL", and "Description", the Description field can use the address given in the URL field, and the user sees the text in the Description field as a clickable link
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| | 19 February 2004 Calendar component Added the Calendar component. The calendar component provides a visual month-by-month calendar, showing event data taken from a Template.
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| | 5 February 2004 Templates - random sort order Added the ability to sort records randomly. (If the page is set to show only one record, the effect is to show a different record each time the page is viewed / refreshed)
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| | 27 January 2004 User Manager component - speed improvements Improved the speed of responding to search queries.
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| | 26 January 2004 Dropdown view component Added the drop down view component. This component provides a dropdown listbox that can be embedded in a page, and takes it data from a Template
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