Category: Tendenci software updates

Well we’re at it again, mid October and we have some more updates for you.

1. Job provides guidance – Small update, but it’s the details that matter. Just a little bit of instruction, we understand that not everyone lives on the internet (just us) and a little bit of guidance never hurt anyone.

2. Rename (sub)categories in catalogs – Simply click on the category or subcategory, make your changes and click rename. This will update all catalogs with their updated (sub)category name.

3. Exporting Reports – We’ve recently started providing an export for your reports. Looking at a report is very useful, but that same report is much more useful if you can export the data and manage it – using spreadsheet focused software (e.g. excel, etc …)

4. International Jobs and Resumes – Tendenci has come a long way and we’re starting to stretch our legs a little further than we imagined. We’ve been working hard to make our features more useful to our national and international friends. One of the more recent contributions to this ideal is no longer requiring the U.S. Citizen field in either Jobs or Resumes.

5. Partial Administrator – With some of our latest permission updates, a user can now have permission to be an administrator in only certain sections of your Tendenci powered website.  In other words, permissions are now more robust and administrators can better control their users capabilities. Pretty neat huh?

It’s the month of October and we have some spooky — ok exciting — updates to talk about.

1. Clone your forms and surveys – Now when you put in all the time to create either a form or a survey, you can duplicate your work simply by clicking a copy/clone page in the more options link.  Now you don’t have to start from scratch and you can simply edit the pieces you wish to change on your new form or survey.

 

2. Cleaner Console – Your console page has hidden the ‘other modules’ inside of a drop-down menu.  We’re neat-freaks just like you and don’t enjoy clutter.

 

3. Delete CMS Pages – You can now permanently delete a CMS page.  Simply click on the delete link found in the more options tab and click delete cms page.  This will take you to a page that will let you decide between moving an item to the trash or completely deleting it.

 

4. New SEM Page + Google Analytics Tool – First and foremost, we have one page dedicated to helping you maintain your web sites search engine optimization tools.  One of the newest tools we’ve added is the ability to update your own Google Analytics code.  You can find this link to Manage your SEM on your console page.

 

5. One less step when building a web site – When you first create
  your web site, you are no longer required to fill out the
  authentication code.  Now the easy/fast creation of a web site just got
  one step faster.

6. New Password Procedures – As mentioned last week.  We’re a little more strict (read: secure) with your password.  You can no longer retrieve your password, only reset it.  This update was done with everyone’s security in mind, resetting your password is also a piece of cake.  Click on forgot password, follow the link sent to your email, and reset — then boogy down.

As always we appreciate your comments and look forward to creative genius.

When updating your membership, you might notice that the passwords look a little longer than usual.  I’m here to tell you, no need to worry.  What your seeing is just a reflex of some of our more recent updates.  Obviously we will get to correcting this deceptive field from looking so scary/confusing.

Till then, I’m just here to say it’s cool and all of your functionality will work well, as always.

Example

Note: This only applies to people using the latest version of the firefox web browser which in this case is Firefox 3.

Our current wysiwyg (Text Editor), which is a 3rd party product created by Cutesoft, has an issue with text disappearing when you highlight it and then click the Insert Hyperlink button from the menu. We are aware of the issue and are currently in communication with Cutesoft support. You can view the support thread here. In the meantime, if you have both Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) installed, you can use IE7 to add/edit content.

We are pleased to announce that the new Tendenci Navigation Editor has been released.  Rearranging your navigation has never been easier with our new drag and drop interface, and it even incorporates some new features.

What you can expect from the new Editor:

• Drag and Drop Interface for easy move, delete.
• Click any link to edit the link details.
• Easily make your links open in a new window
• CSS class field for those more HTML inclined
• Options to both save progress and publish.  Save your work as you go without worrying about your live site.
• Automatic page building!

How does automatic page building work?

When you publish your navigation, the editor will look for links to pages within your site that might not exist yet.  If you use our Clean URL system (ie. link to a page like /promotions/ instead of /en/cms/?123 to generate a URL of www.yourdomain.com/promotions/), then the navigation editor will automatically create these pages for you if they don’t already exist.

The Navigation Editor will produce a list of the pages created and give you options to both Edit and Delete them.

These pages are NOT syndicated, because they will have no content until you put some content in, but don’t forget to syndicate them once they are ready!

A peak at the new interface:

But I liked the old one

Never fear! The original navigation editor will still be available to you, linked from the top of the new editor.  While we make these edits in an attempt to make your life easier, we realize some people have a system that works perfectly well for them, so if the old editor really tickles your fancy, we understand.

A note to Internet Explorer 6 users

We are currently working on support for the new editor in deprecated browsers.  For the time being, the new editor is available only for IE 7+.  You can continue using the Tendenci Nav Editor classic until we can get all the bugs sorted out.

Do you want more control over the template you see on your Tendenci site? Want
to implement your own custom HTML code? The Tendenci template editor now puts
the power in hands. Very similar to the style editor in both functionality and
interface, the template editor allows you to tweak the layout of your
website.

You may notice that the template and style editor both do not
sit in the template of your website like most Tendenci modules do. We have moved
these tools out of the template for 2 reasons:

1. You have more space to
see your code, which should make it easier to edit.
2. We all make mistakes,
so if you accidently publish a Template that causes some serious problems on
your site, you can quickly return to the Template Editor and revert to a
previous version!

You may be asking yourself, how to I know what areas
are needed on the template? The template editor does some automatic checks when
you click the save/publish buttons that will let you know of possible problems
in the template.

You can find the templates editor in the Tendenci &
Other Tools section of the console. Don’t forget, if you have any questions
please contact our wonderful support team!

Tendenci web site CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) is now editable by site administrators. The new style sheet editor lets you edit, save, and publish your styles. It also remembers your previously saved styles (revisions) and allows you to restore them if you wish to revert to older styles. Here are some help files that can get you started:

1. How do I use the style sheet editor?
2. How do I save or publish a style sheet?
3. How do I open/restore a revision style sheet?