What’s new in Kentico CMS 5.0

Michal NeuwirthProduct ManagerKentico Software

New Design of Administration UI

Widgets

Allows to personalize specific parts of the page Every Web part can be set as the Widget There are separate groups of Widgets for

Group administrators of the group in the social networking site

Content editors Web site visitors

Drag & Drop widgets between widget zones Web parts zones & widgets zones could be mixed at

one page Support of personalized user homepages

Widgets administration

Widgets securityPermissions per each group

Adding new widget

Selecting web part that the widget will be based on

Add widget on site

Widget options etc.

Widgets for Content Authors (edit mode)

UI Personalization

Provides the ability to allow particular feature of CMSDesk, SiteManager and WYSIWYG Editor per given role

The administrator can enable different features for each role, e.g.: Web designers can access only web-design based features Authorized users can access only My Desk ….

UI Personalization

No administration tab

Media

Media files are no longer limited to 2GB size YouTube dialog can now insert video with HD

playback New Media Library UI design

Portal Engine

Editable web parts can now remember content even if their ID is changed

Web part properties now have category anchors for better navigation

New "Add web part" dialog

Controls

File uploader can now inherit the allowed extensions from settings like direct uploader

Menu controls have now column list settings in their properties, to reduce the amount of processed data

Flash web part now supports additional flash parameters

CMSDesk

Listing mode now supports more bulk operations (Copy, Move, Delete, Publish)

Content editing interface now fully supports time zones

Drag and drop in content tree (Move, Copy, Link, Reorder)

Searching in forums

Database and scalability

Review of the UI and modifications to allow extreme-sized projects to be well managed, includes New and better selectors for all modules New object filters and dynamic displaying of the filters for

large lists of items Better performance of the UI Tested for 100,000 pages & 1,000,000 registered users

SQL Server No more SQL Server 2000 support Support of Merge replications

Workflow

Workflow now cannot be deleted with some documents using it (to avoid inconsistencies) + list of documents using specific workflow

Side-by-side comparison of two document versions

APIs

Email API now supports ReplyTo field of an e-mail

Resource manager Support for API string (out-of-Kentico applications may work

with the API and display string even without resource strings available)

Ecommerce Extended API for better manipulation with orders

Membership

Global administrator can now impersonate himself as another user without knowing his credentials

Active Directory Import Tool

Powerful tool for importing users & groups from Active Directory into Kentico CMS

In few steps you select users, groups, fields etc. for the import + mapping these users into Kentico CMS groups

Staging

Complete synchronization now runs with asynchronous log

Staging tasks are now logged asynchronously, which decreases the response time of the editing UI

Support for bidirectional staging (whether the updates from staging client should log as staging task or not)

Staging now also supports staging of physical media files smaller than configured limit

Support for staging of custom tables data

Other improvements I.

General Worker thread asynchronous logs are now much more

efficient in communication with server Reviewed file structure of some modules FCKEditor updated latest version (2.6.5) CMSConnectionScope and CMSTransactionScope for better

handling of connections and transactions in your code

URL Rewriting New settings

Other improvements II. Installation

Installer can now handle UAC on Vista and Windows 7 Booking events

Management interface now fully supports time zones, which is also shown on sample site transformation

Newsletter Improved re-initialization after error

Scheduler New scheduled task for garbage collector to keep the process memory

low New scheduled task for newsletter sending process re-initialization

Web farms Configurable file size limit for the web farm synchronization of the Media

files Import / export

The list of import packages can now be easily refreshed

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