Cascade CMS 8.2

• Dashboard
• Publish at Start Date
• Auto-populating Image Descriptions and TinyMCE 4 update
• Gallery View
• User Profile Pictures
• Draft and Publish reminders

Dashboard

We've completely redesigned the dashboard to give it a fresh, new look. And we've made widgets site specific so you can compose widgets that gather information from multiple sites.

The look and feel of the individual widgets have been re-worked to make the information clear and concise. Here's the new Tasks widget for example that shows you your upcoming tasks and gives you quick access to create ones:

We've also added user profile pictures that appear -- among other places -- on the Dashboard to warmly greet you on log-in.

Publish at Start Date

The Start Date field has new meaning in Cascade CMS 8.2! Assets with a future Start Date:

will be automatically published at that start date if the Publish at Start Date option in the Configure pane is enabled.

Auto-populating Image Descriptions and TinyMCE 4 update

When inserting an image into content, the Image Description (or "alt" attribute more specifically) is being automatically populated with the file's Title or Display Name.

We've also updated the core editor that ships with Cascade CMS to TinyMCE 4.5.1. This release includes a number of fixes/improvements including the ability to toggle the insert link dialog with cmd/ctrl+K hot key and a fix that again allows you to highlight/select and hyperlink text.

Gallery View

Users can now browse folder contents in a gallery view. This view uses thumbnails for images to allow users to easily distinguish and identify them when selecting them via the file chooser:

 or when selecting one or more assets to take actions with:

User Profile Pictures

Users can now add pictures to their profiles. Pictures are an easy way to help users identify other users when glancing at a conversation thread, for example.

Draft and Publish reminders

When saving Drafts, users are now given more prominent reminders that they're looking at Draft content.  Likewise, it is now more obvious that an asset is currently in workflow.

Additionally, a select number of notifications will now contain helpful links to next steps after completing certain actions in the system.

Improvements

• Help text is now more readable
• Context menu can now be accessed on chooser buttons using right click

Bug Fixes

• Error when viewing a data definition block with hidden groups
• Notifications screen does not show all notifications on first load
• Links to 'read' notifications links do not work as expected
• User can attempt to start a new workflow on an asset already in a workflow
• Deleting the last comment in a comment thread makes it impossible to reply to the comment thread
• Publishing all relationships on an asset causes future publishes using the bulk publish tool (on the Folder view screen, for example) to publish all relationships on the previous asset instead of the currently selected assets
• "Settings" link in mobile "hamburger" menu does nothing
• Assets can be unintentionally copied twice by quickly clicking the Copy button on the Copy modal
• In certain scenarios, data definition block renderings get cached with invalid data if they contain index block renderings
• Renaming or moving an asset through workflow does not work
• Publishing assets in bulk (like from the Folder view screen) can actually unpublish the assets if assets have been unpublished using the bulk unpublish tool recently
• Comments on tasks are no longer displayed when viewing a task

First Time Installation?

Be sure to import our default database schema prior to installing Cascade CMS for the first time. Then follow our standard installation instructions.

Upgrade Steps

1. Shut down your currently running Cascade CMS instance.
2. Before you upgrade, we strongly recommend that you back-up your production database. as well as set up a test instance and perform a trial run of the upgrade. All customers are entitled to a test license for this purpose.
3. Read the release notes and upgrade guides for all releases between your version and the latest version.
4. Cascade CMS 8 requires a full installation.
5. Certain versions require that specific steps be taken during the upgrade process. Be sure to read over any and all items that apply to the version to which you are upgrading:

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2014-01-01 12:02:58,725 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Fixing Structured Data with missing owner entity property
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