General Release Notes

Polopoly 9.16 introduces two major features. The interactive preview mode has been enhanced to include WYSIWYG style on-page editing of teasers for page local tuning of content. In addition to that, the integration with Atex Content H11 has been enhances to support a much more sophisticated workflow.

Interactive on-page editing of teasers

One of the major features in 9.16 is the extension of on-page editing in Greenfield Times to include interactive editing of teasers directly in the browser. This enables page local tuning of the text and appearance of stories to fit the page context. The changes are stored on the teaser object, leaving the underlying article intact. On-page editing includes both texts and images. All text can be edited, title size and spacing can be controlled using sliders in the new interactive menu. Images zoom pan and crop vertically. In order to preserve the layout, image widths always follow the current layout. There is also an API that enables developers to add on.page editing to their own custom elements.

Support for H11

Following the principle of one logical repository, the integration with Atex Content H11 has been brought to the next level. New features include single sign-on support, real time editorial inbox in Polopoly to track repository changes, preview from H11 and online decoration from H11 using popup Polopoly templates.

… and a lot more.

Apart from these major features, 9.16 includes many enhancements and optimizations, among which the following can be mentioned:

Element profiling
Continuing the effort to provide developers with Site Engine trouble shooting and debugging tools, 9.16 includes support for element level profiling of pages. The Metrics tool breaks down page performance into execution time per element on a statistical basis. Combined with a simple stress test using JMeter for example, the element metrics tool gives the developer a graphical overview that makes finding performance bottlenecks a matter of reading a simple bar graph.

The statistical profiling of elements complements the existing RenderStats, Troubleshooter and Status pages and the combined toolset

allows for very detailed inspection and diagnostics of a Polopoly installation.
The new Metrics tool can be found under http://<domain>/polopolydevelopment.

Optimized loading of LDAP groups

Ldap group performance has been optimized by introducing reload of ldap groups only when a group has changed and the possibility to configure if groups in group should be supported. Turning of groups of group support makes loading of groups a lot faster (100 times faster is not uncommon). The following ldap properties has been added:

• ldapNestedGroupsSupported (default false)
• ldapTimestampSupported (default true)
• ldapCreateTimestampAttribute
• ldapModifyTimestampAttribute

See the section called “Ldap group enhancement” for issues when upgrading.

Other selected improvements

• Possibility to start front servers in disconnected mode
• Bundled JBoss upgraded to upgraded to version 4.0.5
• Quick cropping of teasers
• Possibility to reindex Solr from the command line

and more…

see the Change list for details

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