Cascade CMS 8.3

• Editor Configurations for the WYSIWYG
• Icon Set Changes
• Task Creation

Editor Configurations for the WYSIWYG

Editor Configurations introduce powerful features for configuring how users edit their content. You can control which buttons are available to the user, allow/disallow inline styles, and set what sort of HTML structure is allowed in the editor.

This feature addressed a number of different ideas we've heard from users and was one of the most popular ideas on our customer idea exchange (and on the old idea exchange) with over 200 votes! Ideas include:

• Idea: Editor Configurations
• Idea: Better options for specifying CSS file
• Idea: Data Definition, Group Option and/or Setting to Remove Inline Styling WYSIWYG Option
• Idea: Data Definition, Group Option and/or Setting to Remove Insert/Embed Video WYSIWYG Option
• Idea: Remove Underline option from WYSIWIG

Changes on upgrade

WYSIWYG feature restrictions, CSS Classes and CSS Files at the System Preference and Site level have been migrated to Editor Configurations. Settings at Group level will be eliminated in favor of Editor Configurations.

Note: As a result, some users will have access to more WYSIWYG features than they had before and fewer CSS classes to choose from. By default, users will see the same set of buttons in the WYSIWYG toolbar as if they had no group restrictions in previous versions of Cascade CMS.

A new Show all features button has been added to the WYSIWYG toolbar, allowing users with the ability to bypass WYSIWYG editor restrictions to see all the buttons and menu items.

WYSIWYG options defined at the Data Definition WYSIWYG field level have been marked as deprecated in order to retain previous functionality and will eventually be replaced by editor configurations.

Read more about Editor Configurations and, in particular, what changes they introduced as part of the upgrade.

Icon Set Changes

We've made a adjustments to the icon set used within Cascade to use more intuitive icons for various types of assets and common actions. Changes include the following:

• Asset Types
  • Asset Factory
  • Content Type
  • Destination
  • Data Definition
  • Metadata Set
  • Site
• Actions
  • Publish
  • Unpublish
• Other
  • Data Definition Builder

Below is a before/after screenshot illustrating these adjustments:

Task Creation

We've added a few additional areas to create tasks from. You can now create tasks from your "My Content" area.

You can also create them from the "tasks" modal for Pages.

Improvements

• Use user's full name instead of username when generating user profile
• Improve icon set with more intuitive icons for various asset types and common actions
• Improve user's experience when uploading an asset in file chooser
• Upgrade bundled Tomcat to 8.0.41
• New system preference has been added which controls the display style for asset links.  This preference will override the existing user preference "Show asset's Title or Display Name if available" if a user has not saved that preference.

Issues fixed

• Fixed "Unsupported radio choice" issue when fixing errors on datacheck screens
• Fixed issue where internal links with anchors aren't pre-populated in insert/edit link chooser
• Fixed issue when viewing a Symlink with a expiration folder
• Fixed Advanced Search and Replace screen (Administration -> Search and Replace)

WYSIWYG Editor Configuration Notes

On upgrade, we attempt to map relevant site preferences to Editor Configurations so the user experience is as familiar as possible. Editor Configurations are a bit different than the previous group preferences, because they are context based rather than solely permission based. For more information on the migration and structure of Editor Configurations visit the WYSIWYG Editor Configuration Upgrade Guide.

First Time Installation?

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

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 environment 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:

2014-01-01 11:53:25,405 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Clearing orphaned assets...
2014-01-01 11:53:25,405 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Clearing orphaned Data Definition nodes...
2014-01-01 11:54:09,508 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Deleted 7 orhpaned Data Definition nodes
2014-01-01 11:54:09,508 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Repeating the operation until there are no more orhaned nodes to delete
2014-01-01 11:54:57,350 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Deleted 14 more orhpaned Data Definition nodes
2014-01-01 12:02:30,529 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Repeating the operation until there are no more orhaned nodes to delete
2014-01-01 12:02:58,724 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Deleted 0 more orhpaned Data Definition nodes
2014-01-01 12:02:58,725 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Finished clearing 224 orphaned Data Definition node record(s)
2014-01-01 12:02:58,725 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Fixing Structured Data with missing owner entity property
2014-01-01 12:03:29,712 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Found 211 broken Structured Data nodes
2014-01-01 12:03:32,451 INFO  [OptimizeDatabaseServiceImpl] Fixed a total of 9 assets with broken Structured Data nodes