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8.17 RELEASE NOTES march 4 th 2009. Previous release. Release 29 th January Latest release 8 betas 46 tickets. Version 9. Support for single click editing commencement of interface styling
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Previous release • Release 29th January Latest release • 8 betas • 46 tickets
Version 9 • Support for single click editing • commencement of interface styling This will be the start of the interfaces that Robert will begin testing on and that Malcolm will document the help on.
Divving of content (2) – where it’s divved Site settings – General site settings (on by default on new sites) Forms – in form configuration Breadcrumbs <BREADCRUMB> <DELIMITER> # </DELIMITER> <NAVDEPTH>4</NAVDEPTH> <CLASSNAME>BCT</CLASSNAME> <LAYOUT>table-less</LAYOUT> </BREADCRUMB> HTML – available from Andrew (class list?)
Anti leeching • What is it? - An anti leech system prevent other sites from using content on your site by referring to it via an absolute address. Sitekit can now check the referrer of a request and perform a lookup of the domain table. If this fails a ‘you don’t have rights message is displayed’ • Why? – its prevents folk stealing bandwidth and we saw it as a request in a tender • What does it act on? - Files, images and flash movies (via getFlash) • Where’s it set? – In general site settings (its off by default for new sites)
Changes to type 5 navigation The type 5 navigation can now have the option of displaying individual ID’s for each element <NAVIGATION> <NAVLAYOUTSTYLE>5</NAVLAYOUTSTYLE> <MENUITEMIDS>1</MENUITEMIDS> </NAVIGATION> The flag can have two options 1 or 0 it’s 0 by default. KB article http://www.sitekit.net/kb2-navigation-xml-configuration.htm Home page now has a selected class (previous omission) It allows you to apply different style to each <LI> nav element. E.g.
Persistent caching of data island elements Data islands currently have a cache option using ‘’ however if a mistake was made in the input of either element you’re stuck with it until the cache expires. <xmlconsumer> <xmlsourceurl="http://www.url.net/source.xml" cacheInMin="1000" </xmlsource> <xslsource url="http://clients.gael.net/source.xsl" cacheInMin="36000"</xslsource> </xmlconsumer> • The cache can now be cleared by setting the period to “-1” for a cycle Relevant docs • http://www.sitekit.net/Sitekit-SDK/1_Sitekit-website-API-v21.pdf