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I'll let you know when the next beta is ready. And if you'd like to help with the next beta just email me at dave@interactivetools.com.

Thanks!
]]> Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:54:04 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199358#post2199358 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199311#post2199311 That one's an optional field. So if you create it then it will work. So to try it out create a checkbox field with a "field name" of 'showExpandedMenu' (the field label can be whatever you like).

Got it! Works great!

Thanks.
Deborah
]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:31:11 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199311#post2199311 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199302#post2199302
That one's an optional field. So if you create it then it will work. So to try it out create a checkbox field with a "field name" of 'showExpandedMenu' (the field label can be whatever you like).

Thanks for all your help!
]]> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:19:16 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199302#post2199302 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199299#post2199299
I tested many of the features of 1.34, all of which worked for me.

I was not able to find this item:

Special Fields: Creating 'showExpandedMenu' field in user accounts allows you to specify menu setting on a per user basis.

Looked for it here:
Admin > Section Editors > User Accounts

Am I looking in the wrong place?

Deborah
]]> Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:22:16 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199299#post2199299 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199241#post2199241
For anyone running WAMP on their local machine, to make the Spellchecker work, you just have to enable the PHP extension: php_openssl

To do this:
1. click on the WAMP icon in your task bar
2. select PHP then PHP extensions
3. you should see a large list of extensions. Click php_openssl to enable it.

WAMP will reboot and the Spellchecker works!

I'm off to misspell some words now. [;)]
]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:42:08 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199241#post2199241 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199236#post2199236
Beta2 worked fine ! Thanks :)) [cool]

The db backup and restore worked flawlessly. I especially like the tie into wysiwyg_custom.php so the editor settings are not lost during an upgrade. I think the database backup and restore feature is worth gold for many users - who want to have frequent backups without the hassle of phpMyAdmin.

Cheers
Avrom
]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:00:16 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199236#post2199236 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199233#post2199233
We've just released Beta 2. If you're on the beta tester email list you should receive the link shortly (let me know if you don't).

Here's what's changed:
- WYSIWYG: Added Spellchecker button to wysiwyg editor (experimental)
- Viewers: Added pseudo-field *:text for checkboxes that displays checked or unchecked text. Example: $record['hidden:text']
- Special Fields: Creating 'showExpandedMenu' field in user accounts allows you to specify menu setting on a per user basis
- Section Editors: Added new option "Required Plugins" to Advanced tab of "Section Editors"
- Added extra error checking on upgrade for user added wysiwyg_custom.php files with old wysiwyg paths
- Backup filenames now start with current hostname and end with .php to prevent downloading and provide additional security
- Backup files now ignore 'table prefix' when backing up and restore using the table prefix of the current CMS
- Section Editors Table List: Fixed left padding so menu names that wrap are indented as expected
- Admin Menu: The maximum number of connections MySQL allows is now displayed under: General Settings > Server Info
- Default Data Support: Files named data/schema/sectionName.defaultSqlData.php are imported when new sections are created.
- Plugin System: Added actions for: admin_prelogin
- Section Editors: Fixed IE8 issue where Advanced Search/Simple Search links weren't working properly.
- Misc Changes

And more details on some of those items:

>WYSIWYG: Added Spellchecker button to wysiwyg editor (experimental)

This will add a spellcheck button to the wysiwyg. If you've setup a /lib/wysiwyg_custom.php file you'll need to update it to include the new code from /lib/wysiwyg.php. Note: Spellchecking requires some extra modules. Let me know if you get any errors.

>Viewers: Added pseudo-field *:text for checkboxes that displays checked or unchecked text. Example: $record['hidden:text']

This is useful if you want to display the checked/unchecked text for a checkbox instead of 0 or 1. Use $record['yourField'] for if and comparison tests and $record['yourField:text'] when you want to display the text value.

>Backup filenames now start with current hostname and end with .sql.php to prevent downloading and provide additional security
>Backup files now ignore 'table prefix' when backing up and restore using the table prefix of the current CMS

These changes are to make it easier to tell which backup files are from where and to move between CMSB installs that use different table prefixes. Old .sql files can still be restored.

>Admin Menu: The maximum number of connections MySQL allows is now displayed under: General Settings > Server Info

This is the total number of simultaneous connections your MySQL server will accept. This will give you an idea of the max capacity of your website.

>Default Data Support: Files named data/schema/sectionName.defaultSqlData.php are imported when new sections are created.

This is so we can bundle data with schema and template files. To create one of these files just name it after your section and copy the sql for that section from a backup file to a .defaultSqlData.php file. When the section gets created for the first time (after install or uploading a new schema file) the sql will be imported as well.

>- Misc Changes

There was a number of other bugs or issues that were fixed but not individually listed.

Please post any bugs, comments, or feedback. Thanks!
]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:44:37 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199233#post2199233 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199231#post2199231
>3. Why move img tinymce and css folders ?

- To "hide" files and folders users don't often have to access (such as /images/ and /css/)

- To "show" or make it easier to find files and folders they might be looking for: Such as having wywisyg.php and wysiwyg.css beside each other so they're easy to find. /plugins/ in the root since that's going to be a more important feature moving forward, style.css in the root since that's a common standard, etc.

- To separate 3rd party licensed content and make it more obvious what it was. Sometimes people ask about the "3RD PARTY SERVICES" clause in our license and it makes it easier to explain and differentiate. Pretty much all web software these days uses other licensed content (from wysiwygs to javascript libraries, to the OS, Web Server, and even PHP itself) but sometimes explaining that takes some time.

I know it can be a little bit annoying to move things around. You can count on us to not do it too often and do it in batches when we do.

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions about that.
]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:46:35 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199231#post2199231 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199229#post2199229
I have bugs and a comment ^^ ;))

1. Backup feature doesnot work, error regarding fwrite().

2. Wyswig field doesnot display in editor, just shows blank area, but the data is okay.

3. Why move img tinymce and css folders ?

I'll email you my server details so you can check the bugs out.

Cheers
Avrom
]]> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:12:07 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199229#post2199229 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199199#post2199199
Deborah
]]> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:03:13 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199199#post2199199 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199154#post2199154 Still grinding this one out. So far, the backup seems to work fine. Just running through the other features (some from v1.33). Sorry I wasn't as quick as the others to respond. More to come.
]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:45:46 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199154#post2199154 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199132#post2199132

It would be possible to hide a section in User Accounts (in the list Section Access) for the editor ?
Only admin would have access to the sections hidden.

Perhaps with an option in : Admin > Section Editors > Section Name > Advanced (Admin Only)

Thanks for the feedback.

Djulia
]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:18:53 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199132#post2199132 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199131#post2199131
All my testing has gone very well. I am very impressed with the backup feature. Definitely simplifies life!

One very minor issue I noticed: When in the Section Editors menu (Admin -> Section Editors), if the "Menu Name" col is long (one of mine is "Merchandise Order Information"), then the name wraps, but the second line starts 2 characters to the left of the first. Makes it look like an indented menu!

Thanx for a great product!
]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:14:28 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199131#post2199131 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199118#post2199118 Hi Dave,

Your update functions perfectly for us. :)

Just a suggestion.

It would be possible to add the function in menu Advanced Commands… (in the section) ?

It would be then possible of saving only one table. That would give the possibility of saving before intervening on the table.

Your opinion ?

Thanks, Djulia
]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:57:21 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199118#post2199118 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199117#post2199117 ]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:35:38 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199117#post2199117 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199116#post2199116
Good idea. What if we had it so if you had a checkbox field called alwaysShowExpandedMenu in the user accounts menu then then that field would override the global setting?
]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:33:02 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199116#post2199116 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199115#post2199115
Some websites have lots of sections and having it always expanded defeats the purpose of being able to collapse them. But that same exact site might have many users - some of which only have access to one or two sections.

It would be nice to be able to control this at the user level if possible. That way, the main admins can have theirs collapsed by default and the non-admins can have their few menu items expanded by default.

Not a big deal at all, but just a nice feature if we had it.

Thanks!!

Kenny
]]> Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:14:47 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199115#post2199115 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199108#post2199108
Here's what I did as a test to see how it would work in a live environment of transferring a website from one domain name to another domain name (same server though)

Step 1 - Perform a database back up via the original website CMS Builder under General Settings

Step 2 - FTP CMS Builder from the original website to the destination website

Step 3 - Restore the database back up via the CMS Builder under General Settings and update any settings and directories



Notes:

Make sure any custom upload paths are updated for all upload fields

You can optionally install a fresh copy of CMS Builder to the destination website and FTP just the data, plugins, & uploads folder from your original website to your destination website (except the settings.dat.php in the data folder)


It's a pretty quick and painless operation to do this.

Thanks!

Kenny
]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:04:41 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199108#post2199108 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2199073#post2199073
Here's some notes on the new features:

Backup & Restore - You can now backup & restore your MySQL database under: Admin > General Settings > Database Settings. Backing up creates an .sql file in /data/backups/ and Restoring allows you to select a file from that directory to restore. Backup your MySQL with another tool before testing this feature (or test it on a dev environment).

Note that to backup an entire site you'd want to first create a MySQL backup with the software, then download all the files (including CMS Builder (with the backup file) and your uploads and viewer files).

Filepath changes - We've moved some things around. The only manual change you will have to make is to copy any custom plugins from /lib/plugins/ to /plugins/ (and the program will remind you to do this if you forget). We've added a step 4 to the "how to upgrade.txt" that lists some files you can remove if desired:

4) Remove these files & folders if they exist:

/[cmsAdmin]/css/ui.css (removed in v1.34 - moved to /[cmsAdmin]/style.css)
/[cmsAdmin]/css/ui_ie6.css (removed in v1.34 - moved to /[cmsAdmin]/style_ie6.css)
/[cmsAdmin]/css/wysiwyg.css (removed in v1.34 - moved to /[cmsAdmin]/lib/wysiwyg.css)
/[cmsAdmin]/images/ (removed in v1.34 - moved to /[cmsAdmin]/lib/images/)
/[cmsAdmin]/tinymce3/ (removed in v1.34 - moved to /[cmsAdmin]/3rdParty/tiny_mce/)
/[cmsAdmin]/lib/plugins/ (removed in v1.34 - moved to /[cmsAdmin]/plugins/ *MOVE PLUGINS BEFORE REMOVING*)

/[cmsAdmin]/lib/menus/accounts/ (removed in v1.24 - no longer needed, merged with /lib/menus/default/)

/[cmsAdmin]/tinyMCE/ (removed in v1.06 - moved to /[cmsAdmin]/tinymce3/)


New Menu Option - We added an option "Always Show Expanded Menu" under: Admin > General Settings > Advanced Settings. If you don't have very many menu options and you want them to always show then you may prefer this.

Let me know any bugs, comments, feedback, etc.

Thanks!
]]> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:39:49 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2199073#post2199073 https://interactivetools.com/forum/forum-posts.php?postNum=2198976#post2198976
We're working on Backup & Restore features for v1.34 to make it easier to backup your database data and/or migrate it between sites.

If you're not already on the beta tester email list and you'd like to help beta test (you must own at least 1 CMSB license) please email me at dave@interactivetools.com and I'll add you to the list.

We'll have a beta ready for this soon. And if you have any questions, suggestions, etc feel free to post!

Thanks!
]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:45:57 -0700 forum-posts.php?postNum=2198976#post2198976