1. Page Editing Experience
This release introduces a new page editing experience to the Brandworkz CMS. We are providing admins more flexibility on the CMS page design and quicker ways to manage content.
We are introducing this in an agile way to deliver value to you. There is also some migration of content involved in the new widgets. We will do this for you, but it needs to be coordinated in terms of timing, so please get in touch with our client services team, and they will work with you on a plan for this.
The key features are as follows:
1.1 Visual Editing
Instantly visualise page changes as they are being made using a side panel with comprehensive editing controls.
1.2 In-line Rich Text Editing
The carousel widget brings an updated, responsive carousel slider to your page. You can have one slide as a hero or add additional slides to create a presentation loop. This is an excellent widget to use on the homepage to highlight key areas to direct your uses too.
1.3 Design Options
Additional options on the new widgets provide a high degree of flexibility in the visual look and feel. Design controls include intuitive colour pickers and sliders to control elements such as sizes, padding, border radius and dropdowns to control the placement of elements.
1.4 Advanced JSON-Based Editing
Every new widget contains a standard JSON structure, allowing power users to quickly modify or duplicate widget configuration by copying and pasting JSON in the syntax highlighted ‘Code’ tab.
2. New Widgets
2.1 Rich Text Widget
The new rich text widget includes all the page editing improvements described above whilst still containing all the powerful editing features in the recently updated editor. Switch to this widget for the ability to edit directly on the page.
2.2 Code Preview Widget
Present interactive examples of your web UI/UX brand guidelines with the live code preview widget. Code previews are easily set up by entering the HTML, CSS and/or JS for the UI element you are documenting. If you want this to be made available, ASE will contact the Support port, and we will work with you to make this live.
*IMPORTANT NOTE: The new widgets do not currently have multi-lingual capability. This will be available in 8.4.1.
3. Additional Features
3.1 Show Metadata for assets in Albums
As a metadata admin or sysadmin, you can now set metadata fields to be shown in albums. The metadata indicates your saved albums as well as albums you share with registered and non-registered users.
This is disabled by default and can be enabled on a per-field basis, so if there are specific metadata fields you don’t want to show to non-registered users, you can do so.
An admin can enable it on a metadata field by going to the metadata section, finding that field, and simply ticking Yes under “Album/Share options”.
3.2 Find Assets with Missing Tags
As a sysadmin, you now have instant insight into which of your assets are missing mandatory tagging or have no tagging so you can take appropriate. Go to the search results page and scroll to the bottom of your facets to see the new filter.
3.3 Duplicate Template Artwork
Ability to duplicate a previously created Digital & Print template artwork. Users of Digital & Print templates will notice a new icon on the Digital & Print template listings page, Duplicate. Handy for when you need to make several artworks with only small differences.
3.4 Aspera Improvements
Stability and speed improvements to large upload batches via Aspera.
3.5 Image Auto-Rotation
Auto-rotation of images based on camera rotation data.
3.6 Browser support
Please note that this release sees the end of support for Internet Explorer 9 and 10. If any of your user bases are on these older browser versions, you should upgrade them asap as they have not been supported by Microsoft for quite a while and have many security flaws.
4. Coming Soon
- Multi-lingual capability in the above new widgets
- Improved WordPress CMS connector (including full faceted search)
- Drupal CMS connector
- New Sitecore CMS connector
- MS Office connector
- Customisable reporting dashboards