News

New features:

• New page can be now created an published in one step. The insertion form now includes both, the language dependent texts and language independent options.
• Page order number is now generated automatically on page creation to append the page to the end of the current menu hierarchy level. The menu visibility in now controlled separately by a "Hidden" checkbox (as opposed to the previous practice of not entering the order number to denote a hidden page).
• The "parent" field for selection of the page position in menu hierarchy now displays the items sorted and indented according to their hierarchy.
• Attachments can be moved between pages (button "Move", select the target page and confirm).
• The usage of extension modules and their relation with menu items and pages was completely reworked. Extension modules can now be embedded into page text and also management of their contents (i.e. adding/editing/removing messages of a News module) is now done directly within the corresponding page. This reduces the "Content" section of WMI to a simple listing of all pages, since everything is now managed through them.
• Email notifications are sent automatically after user registration and account approval and password reminder is now possible
• Multiple simultaneous logins to one account are now possible.
• Major improvements in users and access rights management.
• Secure authentication through user certificates is now supported.
• Management of panels was moved from "Content" section to "Setup" in Wiking Management Interface.
• Active color theme selection is now done directly in section "Look & Feel/Color themes" in WMI, not in Configuration (using the "Activate" button on one of the available themes.
• There may be two configuration files applied for each site. The global configuration is read first (i.e. /etc/wiking/config.py) and site specific configuration file may be set through apache configuration, overriding the global configuration values.
• The default option value is displayed in help texts for all options in the "Setup/Configuration" section of WMI. Thus you exactly know which value will be used when the option is left blank.
• New configuration options added.
• Experimental support for improved accessibility using the ARIA standard and JavaScript driven keyboard navigation and automatic focus. The keyboard navigation allows quick access to page contents hierarchy (menus, panels, language selection...). Focus is automatically moved to the main contents of the page or form fields when appropriate (i.e. in login dialog).
• More specific labels for user actions, such as "New attachment" instead of generic "New Record" are more intuitive and improve the usability.
• Action buttons are now represented using real buttons in HTML, not links. This improves navigation for assistive technology users, since they can move directly to actions from anywhere within the form.

The new version of the Wiking CMS brings the following new features:

• built-in authentication,
• user registration and management,
• assignment of user roles and privileges,
• page attachments (external files, such as images, videos or documents can be used within page content...),
• extended documentation.

Sun Microsystems invited Brailcom to present Wiking at the World Usability Day held on Nov 14 in Prague.

Management of panels is now much easier in the WMI. Give it a try.

The first beta version of Wiking CMS was setup and made public at http://wiking.brailcom.org.