Contenido 4.8 news

In the Contenido version 4.8, the backend was completely worked over. Besides visual modifications, several other changes and innovations were done to the system. We would like to give you an overview below:

With 4.8, new functions were integrated in Contenido (these can be deselected in the installer). These include:

  • Linkchecker (for checking internal and external links)
  • Workflow
  • Backend search through all articles (searches can be defined and saved)
  • Content allocation

Besides these, there are more changes and innovations.

Upgrade of the “my contenido” area:

  • Shows which users are currently using the system
  • System administrators are shown here
  • Optional integration of a RSS-Feed with all Contenido news
  • Optional update notification about new versions

The item “group membership” is added to the user and group rights display.

The functionality to set up a new category is revised:

  • Set up category with help of a layer
  • Primary definition von aliases is possible
  • Category can be set online/offline
  • Category can be protected/not protected
  • Definition of the category as a tree or as sub-category of an existing category

Versioning of all areas under item “style” (besides templates), analogue to the area “modules”

Statistic is expandable to give an overview of categories

Content / article - detect transfers by means of the article symbol

Content / File maintenance - automatic data preview with mouse-over

Confirmation and indication popup is now shown as a layer

System and mandate variables can now be edited not only per value, but furthermore also per type and name. In addition, the system variables are divided into two parts: mandate variables can be created irrespective of the language.

User filter in the dialogue to add users to front end groups with new interface and simplified functionality.

Integration of new content type “date”

New classes:

  • /contenido/classes/Debug/ (objects for debugging)
  • /contenido/classes/Contenido_Category/ (objects to handle categories, readonly, also without save method
  • /contenido/classes/Contenido_FrontendNavigation/ (objects to display front end navigation and breadcrumb navigation based on Contenido_Category objects)
  • /contenido/classes/UrlBuilder/ (objects to build any formed out URLs)

In the login page, users can have their password sent to them

In the language synchronisation, it is now possible to copy all sub-categories besides individual categories.