Squiz Matrix Newsletter #363
27 JanAustralians all, let us rejoice~ Yesterday was Australia Day and Aussies around this great nation of ours celebrated the day with a beer in hand, a few snags on the barbie and the warm company of family and mates.
We hope all you dinky-die Aussies out there had a great day! Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!!
Despite the celebrations, we've still been going gung-ho here in the office. The Easy Edit Suite saw a new minor release earlier this week. This build addresses a handful of bugs and introduces a number of minor enhancements.
This release is currently available for download on the Squiz Matrix site.
Existing users of EES Phase 3 will need to merely replace their EES folder on their installation. New users can refer to the EES Installation Guide for install and configuration steps for the Easy Edit Suite.
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In other news, Squiz CMS's revolutionary Viper editing interface has been the base inspiration for the New York Time's new Integrated Content Editor, or ICE.
Faced with the demand of a tailor made interface for its editors, the NYTimes.com Web CMS team developed ICE with a focus on the ability to track changes throughout the publication process.
For more information on ICE, including an overview of its development process, visit the NYTimes blog: Introducing ICE, Writing for the Web. They also have a handy little demo for you to try out for yourself.
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This week we have one new feature to report on, a new field on the WYSIWYG editor's Insert Link tool to allow you to link directly to the target URLs of Link and Redirect Page assets. Continue reading below for more information on all this week's developments.
WYSIWYG Insert Link Tool: Direct Links to Asset External Target URLs
Due for release in version 4.6.3 (February 6th 2012)
The WYSIWYG's Insert Link tool allows you to insert a hyperlink to an external site or an internal asset. Previously, however, this tool, when creating links to Link and Redirect Page assets, would create a link directly to that asset (e.g. "./?a=123").
This features introduces new functionality that allows you to link directly to the target URLs of Link and Redirect Page assets.
A new Asset Type field has been added to the Insert Link tool. This field allows you to specify whether the link is to a Link or Redirect Page asset or, if not, any other asset.
When a user selects ether the Link Asset or Redirect Page Asset options, only assets of those types will be able to be selected in the Select Asset field. Once an asset is selected, and a global keyword replacement will be automatically printed in the Link field, linking directly to the target URL of the asset, as follows:
- %globals_asset_attribute_link_url:123%
- %globals_asset_attribute_redirect_url:123%
This feature has been added to aid editors and simply the process of linking to external urls on Matrix assets.