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Welcome to Metadot Wiki!  

Anybody can edit and maintain a Metadot Site.

With Metadot you are in control of the content and look and feel of your site. You can change everything: the logo, the overall look, the content of this and every page. You can rename pages, delete them and add new ones. You can invite users and give them read and write permissions so you choose who can see what pages and who can edit them.

What's new in Metadot 7  

  • Release 7.2.6 · Mar 24, 2008

    New and improvements:

    1. Page navigation: added friendly path attribute in the page model, instead of generating it runtime. That significantly improves the page loading time when it has big navigation menus.

    2. Rake: added a rake task "migrate_from_version_6" to migrate users & groups from M6 to M7.

    3. Re-enable using cookies ("remember me" checkbox on login screen).

    Fixes:

    1. Various small fixes and improvements.

     

  • Release 7.2.3 · Jan 22, 2008

    New and improvements:

    1. Themes: added "page subscription" section in the themes from Theme Gallery.
    2. Site settings: added option "allow users sites".
    3. Search: added filtering in respect of permissions to show a gizmo.
    4. Search: removed total number of results (due to potential significant slow down in displaying the results).
    5. Replaced Rails 1.2.3 with Rails 1.2.6
    6. New liquid tags: global_nav_from_level_3, global_nav_2_from_level_3, global_nav_2_no_home_link, page.allow_subscription, page.last_updated
    7. Richtext editor: enable the attribute "style" for "img" tags.
    8. Richtext editor: enable the "map" tag.
    9. HTML/Javascript gizmo: added support of liquid tags.
    10. FormMaker: added support of multiple form receiver emails.
    11. Improvements in gizmo cache sweeping.

    Fixes:

    1. Hide gizmos on a page when 'show' is not a permitted operation.
    2. Fixed an issue with forgot password link (force adding "www." in the url links)
    3. Fixed a bug causing form maker to accept bogus emails.
    4. Fixed the mandarin layout causing cuts in the left column. Make left column 20px wider.
    5. Fixed a bug in the drop down javascript library causing a javascript crash for IE browsers.
    6. Various small fixes.

     

     

  • Release 7.2.0 · Nov 11, 2007

    New and improvements:

    1. Added subscriptions & notifications for gizmo content changes.
    2. Added site searching. Added search boxes in the themes from the theme gallery.
    3. Added "my site" functionality.
    4. Added few more liquid tags.
    5. Added plugin "spawn" for easily fork or thread long-running sections of code.
    6. Improved background tasks system.
    7. Updated CoffeMaker to version 1.0.6.
    8. Various small updates and fixes in the user interface.

    Fixes:

    1. Ensuring showing the message "image not available" when image gizmo or attachment is missing.
    2. Various small fixes.


  • Release 7.1.0 · Oct 15, 2007

    New and improvements:

    1. Clean the open source edition from the plugins related code, libraries and database tables.
    2. Improved plugin system.
    3. Added mail server settings administration for Metadot 7 open source and business packages.
    4. Various small updates in the user interface.

    Fixes:

    1. Various small fixes.

     

     

  • Release 7.0.7 · Jul 01, 2007

    New and improvements:


    1. Update CoffeMaker to version 1.0.5.
    2. Simplified settings in the database-sample.yml file.
    3. Added a message in the edit bar when the user doesn't have permissions to edit the page.
    4. Improved performance for applying and deleting a theme.
    5. Added indexes to some database tables.
    6. Improved performance of some gizmo revision methods.

    Fixes:

    1. Fixed the bug with failed file deletion under Windows.
    2. Fixed the bug with the javascript popup menus in NavigationMenu showing only one popup.
    3. Calendar controller: return an error message when the calendar id is invalid.
    4. Fixed the bug with duplicating the current theme with the same name.
    5. Fixed the bug when deletion of a saved theme was causing a reset of the custom layouts for the site pages.
    6. Various fixes in displayed texts.

     

     

  • Release 7.0.3 · Jun 01, 2007

    New and improvements:


    1. Added support of JavaScript popup menus for the skin's global navigation menus.
    2. Added the frozen version of the CoffeMaker gem - utility for creation of custom table presentations for database records.
    3. New look of the Image library (using CoffeMaker) - added paging, sorting and filtering abilities.
    4. New look of the User's list (using CoffeMaker) - added paging, sorting and filtering abilities.
    5. Added caching of theme assets (images, css files, etc.) - great improvement of site's loading speed.
    6. Added caching for images from the Image Library.
    7. Updated the methods for clearing the gizmo revisions (gizmo history) - now it works faster.
    8. Added hidden anti-spam field in the forms created with the Form Maker gizmo.


    Fixes:

    1. Fixed the JavaScript issue with the "'" symbol in the flying dialogs.
    2. Fixed an issue with the Newsitem content field (messing with the gizmo's description field).
    3. Fixed a bug in rss cache sweeping.