Sophora CMS Toromiro JCR Browser Tessio Content Platform Clients About subshell Deutsch What's New What is Sophora CMS Add-Ons Specs & Resources Free Trial Pricing In Action Docs What's new in Sophora CMS? Check out what’s new in the latest released version of Sophora! Version 1.53 offers four useful add-ons, as well as enhanced templates and index pages. 1.53 1.52 1.51 1.50 Release 1.53 07/2014 Add-on Tiles for Multi Media Stories The add-on “Tiles” extends subshell’s DeskClient with a view of the component as editable tiles. For example, editors can always have an overview of all the images and descriptions of a photo gallery and then can easily create an ongoing, flowing story. Another plus is that in the tiles view, components can comfortably be added and moved via drag & drop. Further information about Tiles. Facebook-Connector and Twitter-Connector Add-ons With the use of subshell’s new add-ons “Facebook-Connector” and “Twitter-Connector”, existing content in Sophora’s editor can easily be customized and published on Facebook and Twitter. Content can be published to various accounts at the same time. Both add-ons support several editorial workflows, such as a decoupled sharing of contents (that leaves the actual document unchanged) as well as a simultaneous publishing of content across all channels. Advanced Admin Dashboard Add-on The add-on Advanced Admin Dashboard helps to monitor Sophora installations by showing administrators a graphical overview of all servers and modules involved. The number of documents on each server can also be easily compared. The Advanced Admin Dashboard helps in preventing and finding errors. This is the first release of the Advanced Admin Dashboard add-on; the next releases will add more functions, among them tools for removing errors and notification features. More information about the Advanced Admin Dashboard. More Powerful DeskClient Scripts: Standard Actions and User Interactions DeskClient scripts can now also be triggered by standard actions, including “Save” and “Publish”. Additionally, DeskClient scripts can now use dialogs to interact with editors. For example, when saving documents with a limited publication timeframe, the following dialogue could be opened: “The offline date will be set automatically in the included documents ‘archive information100’ and ‘archive information102’. Would you like to carry out this procedure?” [Ok/No/Cancel]. With this feature, developers of client-side scripts now have even more possibilities to extend Sophora’s standard features with client-specific functions. Templates Optimized Editors can now make any existing document into a template for the creation of new documents by checking the box “Use as template”. When creating new documents, editors can then choose from all available templates. Templates are shaded in Sophora’s DeskClient in order to visually differentiate them from standard documents. When editing a template, a special feature is that all document validations are deactivated upon saving. Hence it is possible to leave mandatory fields blank so that they may be completed later. Optimized Links to Index Pages of Structure Nodes To find out if the linked document is the index page of a structure node, developers can now use the tags for generating a URL in Sophora’s delivery. An index document is one that is connected to a structure node. The index document is displayed as “index.html” when the corresponding URL path is shown, e.g. http://demo.sophoracms.com/trendcities/paris/index.html. A new icon in Sophora’s DeskClient helps editors see that they are actually working on the index page of a structure node. Additionally, administrators can now define who has the right to publish an index document in a given structure node. Sophora’s Editor displays URL We have created a special URL-field to display the standard URL of each document. Administrators can place the field anywhere in the document editor, for instance, prominently above the input fields. Sophora also displays the URL when an editor creates a new document. This way, editors get an idea what the new document’s URL will look like. This helps editors to create readable and search engine friendly URLs. Error Pages per Section In each structure node, administrators can now define which page should be displayed when a document could not be found in the website. For example, in the case of a 404 error in the section demo.sophoracms.com/trendcities/paris/, the document “404-error-paris-100” would be displayed, while a different document would be displayed in the section demo.sophoracms.com/trendcities/hamburg/. The configuration is inherited. In our example, /trendcities/paris/ and /trendcities/hamburg/ inherit the configuration from /trendcities/, unless no specific page is defined. New Field Type: Multiple Date Field The Sophora DeskClient now features a multiple date field. Editors can add recurring events as well as series of events, instead of just entering the beginning and end of an event or program. Release: 1.53 07/2014 | For more details (Update Notes and Covered Issues), please refer to the section Release Notes in the Sophora Documentation. Release 1.52 03/2014 Inheritance of Values from Structure Location Sophora 1.52 now enables documents to inherit specific values from their structure node location by default. In the document editor each field that can inherit its value from the document's structure node has an additional checkbox behind the label of the field. If the checkbox is not marked, the value is inherited and displayed in gray. Read more in Sophora's documentation. Inline Editing of Further Information on Paragraphs All paragraph types in Sophora’s copy text-editor can contain additional information. A paragraph of the type “blog quote” may include the additional fields “posting time”, “author” and “social media URL”. Now these additional fields can be edited directly in the copytext, not only in the Component Details. These fields can be configured in the administration area of the DeskClient. Technology: Removal of Sophora's Event Server We have tidied up and transferred the event server's functionality to the Sophora server. The event server was, until now, a separate program, which had to be specifically installed and launched. From now on, this extra step will not be necessary. Note: With the release of the new version 1.52 the event server will not be used any more. As a result, the function “Online From” is “deprecated”. The Sophora Server supports “Publish At”. New Chronicle Add-On With Chronicle, editors can easily compile timelines. For example, the events of the Second World War can be arranged on a time line. Within a chronicle tab, you can arrange articles, images, etc. (depending on the configuration) as single events. More information about Chronicle. New Add-On: Taxo With the new add-on Taxo, the contents in Sophora can be classified even more effectively, comfortably and consistently. Taxo adds a new input field type that allows administrators to associate an input field with a selected taxonomy document. Editors who insert terms into such a field get suggestions while typing, based on the list of terms from the taxonomy document. Thereby combined terms such as “United Nations”are designated and suggested collectively. Taxo is flexible; if an editor uses a term which is not contained in the term list, the list will be expanded by saving. Additionally, users have the possibility to exclude suggested terms by putting them on a blacklist. More information about Taxo. Release: 1.52 03/2014 | For more details (Update Notes and Covered Issues), please refer to the section Release Notes in the Sophora Documentation. Release 1.51 12/2013 Version 1.51 brings simplified access to Sophora with improved validation and the all-new EPG add-on. Fine-Grained Configuration of Paragraph Types Now it is possible to configure which paragraph types are available in each instance of the copytext field, e.g. all available paragraph types can be enabled in the copytext of an article while only a few may be made available in the copytext of quick news. Simplified Sophora Access Sophora now allows for more user specific preferences. Start Searches Each Sophora user can now declare one of the saved searches as the “start search”. This search will then be automatically started each time the user logs in. Additionally, an administrator can prepare start searches and bind them to user roles via the entry “Save in DeskClient Preferences” in the menu “Saved Searches”. New Preferences for the Search Function and Preview Now Sophora allows for the configuration of both the preferred search mode and type of preview (tab or separate window) to be used at start up. Optimized Restoration of the Last State of the DeskClient After a re-login, the last state of the Sophora DeskClient is restored to greater detail, e.g. the state of the search view (including search filters) is therefore accurately restored. Content Validation Validation in Real Time All validation scripts can now be run at any document change event, and not only when the document is saved. Also, the visual feedback of the validator was improved. Interrelated Select Values and More Starting from 1.5.1 Sophora allows for separate select values, whose values are interrelated, e.g. when “Europe” is the selected value in the field “Continent”, the values available in the dependent field “Countries” change dynamically to European countries. Another example is as follows: the combined number of lines in two separate fixed size fields is set so that they shall not exceed 40 lines. If 30 lines of text have been entered in the first fixed size field, the size of the second fixed size changes automatically so that only 10 lines can be entered. A technical note: in order to enable this function, we introduced the new script type “Form Changing Scripts”, which dynamically changes the configuration and values of form fields. Validation Errors in Referenced Documents Sophora now displays validation errors in referenced documents (child nodes), for example in dynamic tables, boxes, components and paragraphs. The error’s source fields are clearly marked and presented in a list in order to give a better overview and enable quick corrections. Maximum Number of Selections in Multiple Select Fields It is now possible to configure and validate the maximum number of multiple selections in select boxes. Broader Reach of Sophora’s Internal Search Function The internal search function based on Apache Solr can now find content in Sophora’s dynamic tables too, which are often in use for the management of sport results. The technical background is as follows: Sophora’s built-in search index can include index representations of components (child nodes) of documents. Search via Content-API We are improving Sophora’s new http/JSON API. The Content API is now capable of handling powerful search requests via Sophora’s embedded Apache Solr engine. Details in 1.51 Images, which had been placed in the copytext, can now be put in the lightbox via drag & drop. The font style and maximum row width of fixed size fields can now be configured. The server’s mode (“Master”, “Slave”, “Staging”) can be retrieved from each Sophora server via a HTTP request. The URL for the external preview supports placeholders now. The placeholders are replaced by values from the document’s properties, e.g. http://www.amazon.de/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?field-keywords=${sophora:id} The document change event “NONE” can be used to force the replication of a working version from the Sophora master server to a fail over server. In addition this event forces the re-indexing of the Solr index in the master server. New Add-on: EPG For convenient processing and enrichment of program data, we have designed the add-on EPG. With a show list and built-in plausibility check, the EPG add-on offers two useful tools for editors. The show list is a special view in Sophora’s editor that allows you to search or filter shows by program and/or day. The view then displays the list of shows at a glance. The show list also displays if a show is to be repeated, what the show’s document workflow status is, and whether the show is marked as a program tip or program change. The add-on includes a plausibility check and real-time presentation of inconsistencies; Sophora proactively detects the occurrence of overlaps and gaps and then marks them accordingly. Free broadcast slots are continually updated and recognizable at first glance for editors. Release: 1.51 12/2013 | For more details (Update Notes and Covered Issues), please refer to the section Release Notes in the Sophora Documentation. Release 1.50 - 10/2013 Version 1.50 brings fully revamped editor functions for copy text editing and content modeling. Copy Text Editor – On the Way to Version 2.0 The copytext editor is at the center of Sophora and is the most important tool for editors. Above all, the drag and drop feature is not to be missed. Of course, we are pleased with the positive feed-back – but we wouldn’t be a leading CMS developer if we didn’t continue to refine Sophora with an optimized editor. The result is an editor with more space for writing as the left column and double scrollbar have been eliminated. In addition, the use of images, boxes and paragraphs is even more uniform. In version 1.50 we completely technically revised the copy text functions and strengthened Sophora’s foundation for the next Sophora releases. Cut, Copy & Paste in Text Boxes In Sophora 1.50, boxes can be inserted directly via drag and drop into the text. Depending on the configuration, all types of information can be directly placed in the text, including teasers, slide shows, audios and videos. Editors can now place and move the boxes by copy (Ctrl-C) or cut (CTRL-X), and then insert or place in another paragraph or other document via paste (CTRL-V). Additional Information on Paragraphs All paragraphs in Sophora’s copy text editor can now contain additional information. The information fields can be determined per paragraph style. For example, an editor can define the paragraph style “Blog Quote" and fill the additional fields "posting time", "author" and "social media URL" with the corresponding content. Larger Tool Tips for Images Sometimes thumbnails are not enough to see the full picture. Therefore there is now an enlarged tool tip for images shown in search results and in text anywhere that images are displayed. HTML Tool Tips for a Quick Preview Via HTML tool tips, implementing a quick preview is now possible. For example, videos and audios can be played directly in the Sophora desk client. In the administration area of the Sophora desk client HTML, tool tips can be configured per document type. The tool tips are provided by the preview function using a special, fixed parameter. A Special Version of Sophora’s Editor: Editor Light It is now possible to provide different views of the document types for different roles. This function is made possible with the option to place the same field on several tabs in the administration section of Sophora’s editor. In addition, window layouts can be saved and can be assigned as the default window layout for different user roles. The first application for our clients: a highly simplified editor ("Sophora Light Client"), in which all the fields are visible on one tab and numerous windows are hidden. What is Relevant for Your Editors? Fine-Tuned Search Results What does "relevance" mean in Sophora’s search engine? Should actual content be weighted higher, or are the hits in the headline more important than those in a teaser text? Are live documents more relevant than working documents? Administrators can now prioritize the search parameters according to the needs of the editors. The sorting of the search results then will change, while the amount of results remains the same. A word about the technology: you configure the embedded Apache Solr search engine that allows, among other things, certain fields of relevance to be rated higher than others. You can either prefer a specific field, such as the title of the document, or a certain value in a field, for example, "Is Online = true" or a calculated field value, for example, the function "Last Changed". Searching for Images with an Improved Gallery Mode The image search has an improved gallery mode with larger thumbnails. Moreover, the images are arranged in a fixed grid, with a lighter display text. And for even easier use, if you are searching for images only, the results are automatically displayed in the gallery mode. New editor to Edit Document Types Also included in the scope of Sophora 1.50 is a new editor for placing the properties, child nodes and groups on individual tabs. This makes it much easier to configure document types. The new editor also enables a more flexible modeling of the editorial user interface. New Field Sets in the Editor User Interface The fields for entering content can now be grouped to sets in the configuration of document types in the administration area, either with or without a headline and with the option of expandable field sets. Another advantage of field sets is that they make data modeling more effective due to their reusability. In the DeskClient: Show Important Fields on All Document Tabs The content of the bar above all document tabs can now be customized. Via drag & drop an administrator specifies the desired fields of the bar in the new "Promote" tab while configuring the content model. Using the Same Fields in Multiple Tabs Since the Sophora 1.50 update, one and the same field can be placed in multiple tabs. Flexible Configuration of All Tabs of the Editorial Editor In Sophora the fields a document is composed of distributed on several tabs. Until now, specific tabs were predetermined by the system and could not be hidden. We have made this function more flexible by developing configurable tabs. Which tabs are to be displayed and how they should be named can now be configured per document type by administrators. For example, the default tab “Components” can be hidden in image documents. Disallow Paragraph Components Not every type of paragraph is suitable for extra components. Whether or not components (i.e. images) can be added to a paragraph can be set in the Administrator area of the Sophora DeskClient. Highlight Paragraph Styles in Color In order to more easily distinguish different paragraph styles in the text, paragraphs can now be highlighted with background colors. This function is configured in the administration area of the DeskClient with the help of a new color picker that can be used in other places, too. Permission for Cloning For cloning - creating a one-to-one copy of a document - there is now built-in permission. Therefore, cloning can be permitted or not as required per document type and as determined by specific user roles. Limiting the Number of Components This is a function many Sophora customers have been waiting for. Now you can define exactly how many components can be inserted in certain areas. This makes it possible to limit the number of teasers in a certain area of the homepage or to control the maximum number of images in a slide show. Multiple Select Values: Configuring the Maximum Number of Selections The maximum number of selections from fields for multiple select values - MultiValues, intelligent select values and MultipeCheckBox - can now be specified. Descriptive Texts for Selections In the administration area of Sophora’s DeskClient, a description can now be entered for each select value. This description is then displayed in parentheses after the value. New CND Editor with Syntax Highlighting and Validation Just for Administrators! The CND (Node Type Definition) is derived from the standard JCR (Content Repository for Java Technology API), and is the basis for the document type definition. The CND editor now features a row counter, syntax highlighting, auto-completion, syntax validation (errors in red, conflicts in yellow) and a context-sensitive help function. New Add-On Multi-Site Plus: Improved Multi-Site Capability, While Retaining the Advantages of a Common Content Model The globally valid content model can be locally overridden via the new add-on Multi-Site Plus. Per structure node certain fields (properties) and components can be hidden, displayed differently or supplemented. Multi-Site Plus allows for the creation of structure sections in the administration area of the DeskClient. A structure section can be associated with one or more structural paths (websites, or parts of websites). First, the structure section inherits all document type configurations of the global configuration. Then administrators can make changes by redefining certain properties. For more information, see add-ons Update on the New Bing Maps API and the New Map Views We have brought the add-on up-to-date with the latest technology. And all the views offered by the new Bing Maps API - for example, "bird's eye" - are now available in Sophora. For all customers who have licensed the add-on, the upgrade will be delivered free of charge under the current contract. The new Content API is On the Way With the new Content API developers can retrieve content from Sophora in JSON format via HTTP. Simple write and edit operations are also possible. With the help of the Content API Sophora will be open to all kinds of future applications and technologies. As a beginning, we programmed a first simple application. We created an HTML 5 application for mobile phones from which a user can access an address database stored in Sophora. For more information, see the documentation. "Drink-Your-Own-Champagne": Documentation with Sophora instead of Confluence With the release of Sophora1.50 we have transferred the documentation from a Confluence wiki into the subshell website. And we have also added a search function. You can review the results here. Release: 1.50 10/2013 | For technical details (Update Notes and Covered Issues), please refer to the section Release Notes in the Sophora Documentation. Sophora CMS: A New Take on Content Management Fast. Powerful. Flexible. Easy to use. Comfortable. We built our CMS Sophora with these key challenges in mind. 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