Below is a listing of all the major updates in the administration modules.
The administration module sports a completely re-designed responsive UI. Our goal was to think mobile first and build from there. So you will see tons of great additions for working on mobile devices, new editors, new fullscreen mdoes and much much more. Below is a nice image gallery of all the changes in the administration module. Please note that every single screen has changed.
ContentBox now sports native Markdown support for writing all content objects. You can even choose markdown on a per-user level as your preferred writing style.
We have included a new code editor that supports HTML and Markdown natively. This will allow developers or editors to write in native markup and have all the integrations into ContentBox. It also sports realtime previews and side-by-side editing in full screen. Your editing experience is about to get a whole lot better now.
We have introduced local storage auto saving capabilities for all editors in ContentBox. No matter the implementation, we will provide auto-save capabilities. This is a great way to know that silently your work is secure.
You can now use the <escape></escape> syntax in any content editor to escape ContentBox translations for settings, markdown, etc.
All live previews are now responsive. Meaning you can choose from the responsive previewer the type of device and get immediate feedback of the content result in real-time.
The content editors have completely been re-designed for mobile first paradigm. They sport new tabbed interfaces for history, comments, custom fields and editing. You also have much more real estate when editing and even full screen editing support.
The dashboard now supports a cleaner interface for visualizing the latest content edits, drafts, comments and news.
Improved UI to match the new admin UI with responsive updates. It also has a smoother uploading and drag and drop uploading capabilities.
We have added HTML5 fullscreen mode capabilities for the admin UI. This will allow you to go full screen to edit, create and manage in a gorgeous huge display.
RSS feed options and caching options can now be customized via settings.
All content objects now have the ability to set natively a featured image alongside the content.
The author details now sports two new panels to showcase their latest edits and latest drafts. It will make it much easier for authors or administrators to discover what they are working on.
The CBHelper sports some new methods:
getPrivateRequestCollection() - Get the ColdBox private request collection
isHomePage() - Verify if the current rendered page is the home page
prepareUIRequest() - Use in any ColdBox module to prepare rendering under the ContentBox theme
Here is a collection of all the new admin interception points:
onGlobalSearchRequest - When a global search is made
onGlobalSearchDisplay - When the global search is displayed
cbadmin_beforeLoginForm - Before the login form renders
cbadmin_afterLoginForm - After the login form renders
cbadmin_preThemeSettingsSave - Before saving theme settings
cbadmin_postThemeSettingsSave - After saving theme settings
cbadmin_onThemeSettings - When displaying theme settings in the admin UI
cbadmin_onThemeInfo - When displaying theme information on the admin UI
