Dragging and dropping widgets in the Scrivito UI has become much smoother. Compared to the previous version:
Editors no longer need to manually update their working copies after a different working copy has been published intermediately. In fact, there is no “Update” menu item in the working copy menu anymore for working copies that have been created in place.
If required for some reason, the SDK still lets you create working copies that are not automatically updated.
Scrivito now uses an image placeholder that looks like famous image placeholders do, so you'll recognize it better. Also, unlike its predecessor, it scales and isn't visible in preview mode or on live pages.
The changelog reflects minor improvements and bugfixes that were made in addition to the changes listed above.
description_for_editor method of the object class concerned. Previously, the class names were displayed as they were.scrivito_path and scrivito_url helpers from an isolated engine has been fixed.
Interface Builder improvements Using attributes of the current page context Attributes of the current page and its ancestors are now available to editors as placeholders and as a data source (datalocator). Note that only attributes of the string type that are also included as attributes in the...
Interface Builder improvements Filtering data by enum, boolean, date, and number attributes The Interface Builder’s data editor now also lets you filter data by attributes of the enum , boolean , date , and number types. This makes it much more convenient and intuitive to select and present data...
Bugfix Release An issue with Scrivito.useDataLocator has been fixed. It prevented filters with reference data attributes from being evaluated properly. We apologize for any inconvenience this issue may have caused! Thanks again for using Scrivito!
Maintenance release This is a maintenance release with minor improvements. As always, we will keep you posted if there is anything interesting to report. Stay tuned! Thanks again for using Scrivito!
Interface Builder improvements LinkTag supports data items The LinkTag component now supports data items as navigation targets. Passing a DataItem to the to prop causes the link to point to the details page of the item concerned. Accessing current data of a specific class The useDataScope and...
Interface builder improvements Data attributes For the application to utilize the attributes selected by content editors, the Scrivito SDK now includes a (beta) API for representing data attributes, DataItemAttribute . A data item attribute can be accessed from a data item via...
Defining custom attributes via the Interface Builder’s data editor The data editor now lets you add custom attributes to data classes. If, for example, you have a “Current user” data class that requires an attribute not specified in the editing configuration of this class, e.g., “email”, you can...
Bugfixes Data integration issue > DataItem#get > no longer requires a loading context, i.e., > Scrivito.load > or > Scrivito.connect > . We apologize for any inconvenience the above issue may have caused! Thank you for using Scrivito!
Interface Builder improvements DataScope#limit() API method The new DataScope#limit() method determines the maximum number of data items a DataScope may contain. It returns either a number indicating this limit, or undefined if no limit is set. Introducing Scrivito.currentLanguage()...
> > As you may have noticed, we have been continuously refining and expanding the Interface Builder. Now the time has come for a correspondingly enhanced data editor. > > The new data editor comes with an intuitive interface that provides a visual representation of a data locator as well as...