Episerver CMS
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CMS 11
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- Part of another project notification
When you have a project (for example 'Project 1') enabled and open a page that has another draft belonging to another project ('Project 2'), you will get a notification: Hopefully, this notification prevents you from creating multiple drafts in different projects by mistake. - Projects in the notification are clickable
Projects in the notification are clickable: By clicking a project name, you switch project and the project overview opens. Thanks to this, you can quickly access projects related to the current content. - Version gadget displays project name
When the content version belongs to a project, the name of the project is displayed in the Versions gadget: Especially when working with multiple projects, the Versions gadget is very useful to get a good overview of the different versions and which projects they belong to.
The user interface has been rebranded.
Administrators can require editors to add a comment when sending content for review. See Collaboration in the Episerver User Guide.
Notifications in the user interface are now automatically marked as read when the notification window is closed. This improves the notification feature as the notification counter in the bell icon is reset after you open and close the notification window and will only display new notifications after that. Previously, the counter was cleared when you closed the window but the number was displayed again when the page was reloaded, unless you manually marked them as read.
The following improvements have been added to the date/time picker:
- A clear button for nullable datetimes
- Time zone information (Firefox and Chrome only)
- GMT offset for currently selected date
See also Ryan Bare's blog post for more information.
The following improvements have been made to trash (also called the recycle bin):
- You can see information about deleted content (content ID, content type name, and original location) by hovering over the item.
- You can permanently delete individual items from trash.
See Linh Nguyen's blog post and also Deleting and restoring content in the Episerver User Guide.
The image property now comes with a thumbnail that makes it easier for you to see which image is actually used. You can also drag and drop images from the assets pane or from your computer straight into the image property.
See Bartosz Sekuła's blog post and also Adding and editing images in the Episerver User Guide.
To make content collaboration and communication easier, you can now add and view comments on content items, even if they are not associated with a project. The commenting functionality is accessed via a new commenting pane in the user interface. Toggle the pane with a toolbar button.
See also Ben McKernan's blog post and Adding comments in the Episerver Platform User Guide.
In the Select Image dialog box, you can now upload an image (by the context menu or by drag and drop) and then insert it on your page without having to leave the dialog. In this dialog box, you can also move images between folders, copy, and rename images, etc.
See Grzegorz Wiecheć' blog post for more information and also Adding and editing images in the Episerver User Guide.
A new checkbox has been added to the content approval sequences allowing administrators to prevent users from approving their own changes.
See Alex Wang's blog post and Managing content approval sequences in the Episerver User Guide for more information.
Episerver World will occasionally publish RSS notifications on new Episerver features or other useful information. You will get a notification in the user interface (in the bell icon) whenever a new post has been published. Clicking on the notification will take you to an article on World.
