Entries for 'Daniel Mettler'

Content Management has some unique challenges which are very different from working with data. One of these is how a module knows which content to show. 2sxc has various features, here I'll provide you a deeper understanding to help you create advanced solutions.

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The User Experience for designers, developers and data-modelers has just been improved by factor 3 in 2sxc 8.1. Now both the template-code and the current content-type are just a click away, and highly optimized. You want to loop through all the items of a list? The code-snippet is already waiting for you - prefilled with the correct variable names. 

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Dynamic Content-Types are extremely flexible. In advanced scenarios you want to share ONE type definition across multiple portals or apps - for example when many sub-portals have a similar setup. 2sxc has supported this since version 5 and in 8.1 there is finally a web-UI to do this. 

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2sxc is all about solving common content and web tasks quickly and efficiencly. Because of this we're enhancing the in-page toolbar with advanced features (only visible for users with elevated permissions). Let's discover...

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The newest version of ADAM (Automatic Digital Assets Manager) lets you group files (often images) into folder (like albums) and also lets you add custom metadata like author, title, description and much more. Adding assets to a content-item just got 10x more powerful.

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Announcing 2sxc 8.1 which has best-in-industry WYSIWYG experience (incl. drag-drop image and document-upload), a template editor with Sherlock-Snippets, ADAM 1.2 with file and folder metadata and more. 

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So after extensive evaluation (parts 1, 2 and 3) and integration and design (part 4 & 5) I really want to add value. It's time to integrated ADAM - the Automatic Digital Asset Manager.

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So after extensive evaluation (parts 1, 2 and 3) and basic integration and design (part 4) it was time for some advanced issues. In this case, DNN integration.

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After evaluating over 50 editors and deciding to give TinyMCE a try, it's time to integrate it into 2sxc as a replacement for Telerik. Turned out to be easier than I thought…

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The built-in telerik editor is going away (thank God!) and the CK Editor is supposed to be the new one, but honestly it looks terrible - and IMHO it's not good enough. Time to look around and smell the roses…

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