After successfully launching Scrivito in mid-February this year and collecting valuable feedback from testers and customers, we set ourselves to work: There is nothing that cannot be improved.
After successfully launching Scrivito in mid-February this year and collecting valuable feedback from testers and customers, we set ourselves to work: There is nothing that cannot be improved.
Wouldn't it be nice if the changes made by other editors were instantly reflected in your browser window? At Scrivito, we are working hard to make auto-updating a reality. This will be extremely helpful for editors working on the same page in the same working copy.
With this release we’ve gotten one step closer to this goal. If you are in a working copy in preview mode, Scrivito now looks for new changes every two seconds and makes them visible to you. In editing mode, page content is not yet updated automatically, but will be in a future release.
And now enjoy the show:
The number of steps that needs to be taken to start your first editing session has been reduced: Switching from the preview to the editing mode without a working copy being available yet now causes a working copy to be automatically created for you. Start editing right away!
Widget handles and frames are now fading out after a short period of time, making it easier to edit widget content in place.
The new Scrivito.finishLoading()
function notifies the application that the current page has been rendered completely (and is not waiting for content required to render it). This can be quite useful, e.g., to defer the loading or execution of expensive JavaScript code until a page has been fully displayed, or to notify a prerendering service that the page content is now ready to be captured.
It is now possible to open links in HTML fields in new tabs or windows by holding the modifier key (Cmd in OS X, Ctrl in Windows) when clicking, or clicking with the middle mouse button.
As an editor, it is now possible to clear attributes of the integer
and float
types.
Scrivito now copes better with unreliable network connectivity or slow response times: it doesn't throw an error anymore but retries the request instead.
The performance of the in-place editing UI has been improved by minimizing the amount of page components that require rerendering after changing content.
Editable reference fields now change the mouse pointer to a cursor when hovered.
After receiving feedback from power users, we’ve extended the date and time editing options. Manual date input Some editors need to provide many dates in their daily work. For these users, pointing and clicking again and again becomes tiresome after a while. With the new option to specify a date...
Sometimes, a section or subsection of a website becomes obsolete, for example, if a product is no longer sold, or part of the documentation isn’t needed anymore. In this situation, you can still delete the pages one by one, starting at the lowest hierarchy level of the section concerned, but you...
We made the editing interface more attractive and user-friendly by brushing up its icon set. The icons are now easier to distinguish and more consistent in style. Some details have been removed from them so that the buttons work better for more editors, especially those with lower resolution...
Adding users to a working copy has become easier. The “Collaborators” selection box now also includes editors whose email address matches the search term. In the German-language Scrivito UI, you can now enter floating numbers in the standard German format, in which a comma instead of a period is...
Server-side access to restricted content via Node.js You can now also access restricted Scrivito content on a server, e.g. for archiving your website content. For this, the apiKey option was added to Scrivito.configure . See also Using Scrivito with Node.js. Scrivito = require("scrivito")...
The behavior of the “Publish” buttons in Scrivito’s editing interface has been improved and aligned: All of these buttons now directly open the confirmation dialog which now also includes a button for opening the “Changes” list and getting an overview of the content that was altered. Thank you...
The active Content Browser tab is preserved The Content Browser sometimes prevented editors from quickly inspecting the properties of multiple objects one after the other. When the user selects another object of the same type, the active tab now remains open. Thank you for using Scrivito! Please...
A distinctive icon for new and changed images Editors mainly have to deal with two types of content objects: pages and images. To make it easier to spot such objects for reviewing them, a dedicated icon for images is now displayed in the “Changes” sidebar and dialog. Thank you for using Scrivito!...
Introducing layout components, optionally with editable content You can now implement page-type-specific layout components and optionally have them render attributes for editor-defined content. If such layouts are present for a page that is part of the page hierarchy, the layout components of the...
Added support for Ruby on Rails 7.0 The Scrivito for Rails SDK now supports Ruby on Rails 7.0. It requires Ruby 2.7 or later. Earlier Rails versions are no longer supported by Scrivito. Note that during the upgrade you will need to migrate from Rails 5.2 (with Scrivito 1.17.0 ) directly to Rails...