Release Notes
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| Release Notes for Content Studio 4.x can be found here |
Content Studio 5 Update 2
| Content Studio 5.2 requires XP 7.14.1 or higher. |
Project graph
By selecting "Projects" in the Content Studio’s "Settings" module it’s now possible to see visualised graph of existing content projects and their relations.
Project Wizard improvements
Preset parent project
If an existing project was selected in the Project tree when "New" button is clicked, the Project Wizard will create a layer of the selected project and set up synhronisation of data in the layer with its parent project.
Removed type selection
Before this release users had to explicitly select whether they are about to create a project or a layer. This requirement has been removed. If a parent project is selected on the first step of the Wizard, a layer will be created and set up to inherit data from the selected project. Otherwise, a regular project will be created.
Parent project apps
A layer will always inherit applications from its parent project, even though it was not obvious from the UI before this release. "Applications" step of the "Project Wizard" has been changed to automatically display applications inherited from the parent project (if any), with no option to remove them. Other applications can be added to the layer in addition to the inherited ones.
Settings form of an existing layer has also been fixed accordingly.
In the screenshot below, the top two applications were inherited from the parent project, while the bottom one was added manually.
Reference check in the Unpublish Wizard
The Unpublish Wizard will now check if any of the content items to be unpublished are referenced by other published content items. If there are inbound references, the user will be warned and asked to confirm the unpublish operation.
Decorative images
New "Accessibility" section in the Insert/Edit Image dialog of Rich Text editor allows to set decorative images as such. Decorative images are used for styling purposes only and meant to be skipped by screen readers, as opposed to images with meaningful alt text.
Default Online From time
Default Online From time in the Publishing Wizard can now be configured in Content Studio’s config file. If no config is set, the default time will be set to 12:00.
Page Components view
Styling of regions inside the Page Components view has been changed to make regions take less space and attention away from the main page components. Region names are now capitalized.
Other improvements
Performance
Preview and Page Editor panels will no longer be refreshed whenever content is published or unpublished.
Soft-hyphen in the Rich Text Editor
Soft-hyphen character ­ added to Rich Text Editor’s "Special chars" dialog.
Email sender
Before this release, email notifications for issues created in Content Studio used current user’s email address in the sender field. A new config property was implemented in XP 7.14.1 which can be used to configure default email sender for emails sent by XP. If properly configured, the sender field in the email notifications sent for issues in Content Studio will be set to the configured email address.
eXtra Data
Layout and behaviour of optional X-Data sections in the Content Form have been changed. + icon is now right-aligned and transforms to x icon whenever the X-Data is active.
Content Studio 5 Update 1
| Content Studio 5.1 requires XP 7.13.0 or higher. |
Improved move operation
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Move Content dialog: New "Project root" node on top of the content tree to make it more obvious how to move content to the root. Previously one had to click "Move" button with no target content selected.
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Move Content dialog: "Move" button is disabled until new parent node is selected.
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It’s now possible to move content from inside the Content Editor
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Notification about successful move includes the new parent’s path which can be clicked to locate and expand the new parent inside the Content Navigator.
Improved auto-exclusion of optional dependencies
The new mode for auto-exclusion of optional dependencies in the Publishing Wizard, originally introduced in Content Studio 5.0, has been improved to not hide the auto-excluded dependencies but keep them visible (while still excluded) in the list.
| This mode can be turned on in Content Studio’s config file |
Export of search results
Search results produced by Content Navigator’s Search Panel can now be exported into a CSV file using the download icon next to the Search Panel’s free-text search field. The file will contain the following fields: Id, Path, Creator, Modifier, Created, Modified, Owner, Content Type, Display Name, Language, Published From, Published Until, First Published.
New Find/Replace dialog in Rich Text Editor
The old Find/Replace dialog in the Rich Text Editor that used to cover the text it was searching inside has been replaced with the new inline dialog that allows editor to use the search/replace functions without blocking the source text.
Locked path for published content
Previously, editor had to click the "lock" icon next to the locked path input inside the Content Editor, in order to rename a published content. That icon is now removed and the path itself has to be clicked to open the Rename content dialog.
Other improvements
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Improved responsiveness in the Content Navigator
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Improved synchronisation between the Content Form’s Page Components tree and components inside the Page Editor
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When a published item has been first moved, then modified its status will be shown as
Moved, Modified(previously justMoved) -
"Show changes" link for comparison of publishing modifications is replaced with an icon
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New icon for switching the project context
Content Studio 5
| Content Studio 5.0 requires XP 7.13.0 or higher. |
Default Content Project is hidden by default
Default Content Project is no longer available in Content Studio without tweaking the config file.
If you need the Default project (for example, you already have content in it and want to continue working with it after upgrading to Content Studio 5), enable it via Content Studio’s config file.
Page Components View
Page Components View, which used to be a floating modal window inside Page Editor, is now made a part of the Content Editor form. It will be automatically undocked whenever the Content Form is collapsed.
Publishing Wizard improvements
It’s now possible to auto-exclude optional dependencies of selected content from publishing batch via Content Studio’s config file.
Call links in the Insert Link dialog
A new URL type option Tel in the Rich Editor’s "Insert Link" dialog enables adding call links.
Other improvements
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Preview panel won’t be auto-expanded for a site until there’s at least one controller from apps assigned to the site.
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Content Selector displays status of selected content items.
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Widgets inside Content Studio have been localised to other languages than English