Post on 21-Jan-2015
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What’s new in Kentico CMS 5.0
Michal NeuwirthProduct ManagerKentico Software
New Design of Administration UI
Widgets
Allows to personalize specific parts of the page Every Web part can be set as the Widget There are separate groups of Widgets for
Group administrators of the group in the social networking site
Content editors Web site visitors
Drag & Drop widgets between widget zones Web parts zones & widgets zones could be mixed at
one page Support of personalized user homepages
Widgets administration
Widgets securityPermissions per each group
Adding new widget
Selecting web part that the widget will be based on
Add widget on site
Widget options etc.
Widgets for Content Authors (edit mode)
UI Personalization
Provides the ability to allow particular feature of CMSDesk, SiteManager and WYSIWYG Editor per given role
The administrator can enable different features for each role, e.g.: Web designers can access only web-design based features Authorized users can access only My Desk ….
UI Personalization
No administration tab
Media
Media files are no longer limited to 2GB size YouTube dialog can now insert video with HD
playback New Media Library UI design
Portal Engine
Editable web parts can now remember content even if their ID is changed
Web part properties now have category anchors for better navigation
New "Add web part" dialog
Controls
File uploader can now inherit the allowed extensions from settings like direct uploader
Menu controls have now column list settings in their properties, to reduce the amount of processed data
Flash web part now supports additional flash parameters
CMSDesk
Listing mode now supports more bulk operations (Copy, Move, Delete, Publish)
Content editing interface now fully supports time zones
Drag and drop in content tree (Move, Copy, Link, Reorder)
Searching in forums
Database and scalability
Review of the UI and modifications to allow extreme-sized projects to be well managed, includes New and better selectors for all modules New object filters and dynamic displaying of the filters for
large lists of items Better performance of the UI Tested for 100,000 pages & 1,000,000 registered users
SQL Server No more SQL Server 2000 support Support of Merge replications
Workflow
Workflow now cannot be deleted with some documents using it (to avoid inconsistencies) + list of documents using specific workflow
Side-by-side comparison of two document versions
APIs
Email API now supports ReplyTo field of an e-mail
Resource manager Support for API string (out-of-Kentico applications may work
with the API and display string even without resource strings available)
Ecommerce Extended API for better manipulation with orders
Membership
Global administrator can now impersonate himself as another user without knowing his credentials
Active Directory Import Tool
Powerful tool for importing users & groups from Active Directory into Kentico CMS
In few steps you select users, groups, fields etc. for the import + mapping these users into Kentico CMS groups
Staging
Complete synchronization now runs with asynchronous log
Staging tasks are now logged asynchronously, which decreases the response time of the editing UI
Support for bidirectional staging (whether the updates from staging client should log as staging task or not)
Staging now also supports staging of physical media files smaller than configured limit
Support for staging of custom tables data
Other improvements I.
General Worker thread asynchronous logs are now much more
efficient in communication with server Reviewed file structure of some modules FCKEditor updated latest version (2.6.5) CMSConnectionScope and CMSTransactionScope for better
handling of connections and transactions in your code
URL Rewriting New settings
Other improvements II. Installation
Installer can now handle UAC on Vista and Windows 7 Booking events
Management interface now fully supports time zones, which is also shown on sample site transformation
Newsletter Improved re-initialization after error
Scheduler New scheduled task for garbage collector to keep the process memory
low New scheduled task for newsletter sending process re-initialization
Web farms Configurable file size limit for the web farm synchronization of the Media
files Import / export
The list of import packages can now be easily refreshed
How to reach us?
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http://kentico.uservoice.com/ Suggest new Kentico CMS features
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