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Asbru Web Content Management v7.2 released

• Website functionality
• Added support for "/file.xxx?xxxxx.xxx" links with file name instead of content item id.
• Improved handling of special character searches.
• Improved CAPTCHA handling of junk posts.
• Improved handling of unavailable shopping cart product items.
• Improved breadcrumbs extension with exclusion of content items excluded from search results.
• Improved menu extension with exclusion of content items excluded from search results and "selection" of whole menu hierarchy path.
  
  
• Website administration functionality
• Added "show all" tabs functionality for printable page with all content item attributes (Website Content + Media Library + Products & Orders / ..... / Show All)
• Added revision comparison functionality for different revisions of content items (Website Content + Products & Orders / Add New + View + Update + Delete / Compare)
• Added file selector pop-up window for publishing content items to static file names.
• Added scheduled publishing and expiration of image, file and link content items.
• Added dynamically updated "assign to" usernames list for workflow actions when adding and updating content items.
• Added (unsaved, email only) comments input field for workflow actions.
• Added support for internal use only custom meta information attributes (Website Content + Media Library + Products & Orders / ..... / Meta Information / Add New / Internal Use Only)
• Improved preview of content with preview of related content items, too.
• Added support for HTML and CSS code validation through https://validator.w3.org/ (Website Content + Products & Orders / Validate Markup) (Website Content + Products & Orders / Add New + Update / Validate)
• Added link validation functionality for external and internal links automatically when saving content items and manually (Website Content / Check Links) (Website Content + Products & Orders / Check Links)
• Added bulk movement of content items published to static file names to folders (Website Content + Products & Orders / Move To Folder) (Configuration / Content + Images + Files / Folders / Move From To)
• Added display of content package attribute for content items on personal workspace and on other administration pages.
  
  
• Special codes functionality
• Added support for special codes in summary, author, keywords, description, meta information, html header, html body attributes.
• Added @@@metainfo_xxxxx@@@ and @@@productinfo_xxxxx@@@ special codes.
• Added @@@list:.....:order=metainfo_xxxxx@@@ and @@@list:.....:order=productinfo_xxxxx@@@ list ordering by custom meta information and product information attributes.
• Added @@@list:.....:version in UK,JP:.....@@@ special codes.
• Added blank list filter values for groups, types, versions and relations etc. (for example @@@list:....:contentgroup=:.....@@@).
• Added @@@url@@@, @@@urlpathquery@@@, @@@urlpath@@@, @@@urlquery@@@, @@@url:.....@@@, @@@urlpathquery:.....@@@, @@@urlpath:.....@@@, @@@urlquery:.....@@@ special codes.
• Added @@@comments@@@ special codes for workflow action comments in user registration and content created, updated, deleted, published, posted notification emails.
• Added menu extension @@@extension:menu(.....:menulevels=2,2,3,2,5:.....)@@@ parameters for different sub-menu levels.
• Added menu extension support for "menu_id=ID" URL parameter to select a given menu content item.
  
  
• Configuration options
• Added Website Configuration page title prefix/suffix (Configuration / System / Website / Website Settings / Default Page Title Prefix + Suffix)
• Added Contentgroups/Contenttypes/Productgroups/Productypes page title prefix/suffix (Configuration / Content / Groups + Types / Content Presentation / Page Title Prefix + Suffix)
• Added support for hiding access restricted content/image/file/link/product group/type menu items on administration pages (Configuration / Features / Access Restrictions).
• Added blocking / password reset of user logins after a configurable number of failed logins (Configuration / System / Website / Security)
• Added login failure notification emails and redirects (Configuration / System / Website / Security)
• Added support for website administrator password expiration after configurable period of time (Configuration / System / Website / Security)
• Added change expired website administrator password pages.
• Added meta data report functionality (Configuration / Content / Meta Data).
• Added export of static content file versions of website content for export to external production or backup website or other media. (Configuration / Features / Publishing / Export Folder Path + Export All Now).
  
  
• Hosting Edition
• Added integrated domain name registration functionality through enom.com ("hosting:subdomain" and "hosting:domain") (Configuration / System / Website / E-Commerce / Product Delivery / Domain Name Registration).
  
  
• Programming APIs
• Added support for "/webadmin/api/validatecontent.xxx" content validation custom scripts.
• Added support for "/webadmin/api/validateuser.xxx" user registration validation custom scripts.
• Improved "/webadmin/productavailability/" and "/webadmin/productdelivery/" programming API.
  
  
• Technical
  
• Improved handling of special characters in content and special codes.
• Improved handling of numeric database columns.
• Improved support for IBM DB2 database servers.
• Improved support for Oracle database servers.
• Improved support for PostgreSQL database servers.
  
  
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v7.1.6 released

• Improved handling of image URLs.
• Improved handling of content deletion.
• Improved content preview access restrictions.
• Improved content and custom content database import.
• Improved database connection handling (.NET).
• Fixed database import problem (JSP).
• Fixed database initialization problem (Oracle).
• Fixed @@@include:database=.....@@@ special code loop problem (JSP).
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v7.1.5 released

• Added "script" content class for workflow actions.Added bulk administration functionality for "stylesheet" and "script" content items.
• Improved Personal Workspace listing of content items for the superadmin website administrator.
• Improved special codes loop detection.
• Improved handling of special characters in special codes.
• Improved handling of duplicate content classes and versions.
• Improved handling of renamed content groups, types and versions.
• Optimized handling of access restrictions and logins.
• Fixed @@@include:database=.....:if:.....@@@ special code problem.
• Fixed "unpublish" problem for content published to static filenames.
• Fixed custom content databases import/export access restriction problem.
• Fixed "product" content class problem for workflow actions.
• Fixed user database "template" display problem.
• Added error logging for failed external URL requests (JSP).
• Added error logging for failed LDAP authentication (JSP).
• Improved handling of failed database connections (JSP).
• Improved handling of shared memory caching limitations/problems (PHP).
• Fixed content type renaming problem (PHP).
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v7.1.4 released

• Added support for special codes in author, keywords, description and meta information attributes.
• Improved handling of non-existing pages.
• Improved renaming of user groups and user types.
• Improved handling of @@@list:...@@@ special codes.
• Fixed @@@webeditor:...@@@ handling of special characters.
• Fixed database import and handling of numerical custom content databases data (JSP).
• Improved support for different PHP distributions/configurations (PHP).
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.1.4.
• Improved base href and URL handling.
• Improved <script>, <% %>, <? ?>, <?php ?> tag handling.
• Improved onEnter custom output handling (Safari/Google).
• Various other improvements.
  

Asbru Web Content Management v7.1.3 released

• Improved @@@list:...@@@ special code loop detection.
• Improved archiving of checked out content.
• Improved directory handling. (JSP)
• Improved support for IBM Websphere Java application servers. (JSP)
• Fixed publish permissions and scheduling problem.
• Fixed publish to static filename problem.
• Fixed PostgreSQL database problem.
• Various other improvements.
  

Asbru Web Content Management v7.1.2 released

• Improved handling of links in copied and pasted content. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Fixed scheduled publishing date/time problem for "viewed" content items. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Fixed content dependencies bulk update problem. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed published date/time status problem for new content items. (JSP)
• Fixed usage statistics problem. (JSP)
• Fixed file upload problem. (JSP)
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.1.2:
• - Improved handling of copied and pasted A HREF and IMG SRC attributes.
• - Improved handling of dragged and dropped A HREF and IMG SRC attributes. (Safari)

Asbru Web Content Management v7.1.1 released

• Improved session fixation handling for Internet Service Providers with frequently changing IP-addresses.
• Added "session_address_lock" configuation setting to "/config.static.aspx|jsp|php" for "none", "base" and "full" session fixation restrictions.
• Improved display of content elements now including uncategorized content items.
• Fixed content preview problem. (PHP)
• Fixed sitemap extension problem. (PHP)
• Fixed breadcrumbs extension problem. (PHP)
• Improved handling of UTF-8 format static content files. (JSP)
• Fixed handling of backslash and $ characters in static content files. (JSP)
• Fixed problem publishing content to static filenames in multiple levels deep sub-folders. (PHP)
• Added missing "/script.original.js" file for publishing of script content items as static content files.
• Improved workflow email notifications to publishers of unpublished content items.
• Fixed workflow checkin/checkout and filename problems for workflow actions from index pages.
• Fixed workflow filename problem for workflow actions selected from view pages.
• Fixed checkout/checkin problem.
• Fixed automatic checkout on update problem. (JSP)
• Added superadmin website administrator username as assign to option.
• Fixed database import and upgrade of static content files problem.
• Fixed usage log problem. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed database upgrade problem. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed database configuration problem. (.NET)
• Fixed duplicate email To address problem. (PHP)
• Fixed function call problem with old versions of PHP. (PHP)
• Fixed global session variables PHP configuration problem. (PHP)

Asbru Web Content Management v7.1 released

• General
• Improved import of existing website pages created with Adobe Dreamweaver and other web page creation/design tools
  - for easy automatic upgrade from a static HTML web page file based website to an Asbru Web Content Management system and database driven website.
  
• Added Browse & Edit mode quick editing of content items as well as Add New and Admin links
  - for quick access to edit the main content and to add new content items as copies existing content items. (Browse & Edit)
• Added user agent (web browser) identification string filter attribute for "micro-websites"
  - for customised website versions for mobile phone and voice output text reader web browsers and for other web browser specific customisations. (Configuration / System / Micro-Websites)
  
• Added support for multiple, multi-level style sheets for both pages and templates with automatic inheritance
  - for easy and flexible organization and use of style sheets. (Website Content / Content / Templates / ... / Content Presentation)
• Added support for multiple, multi-level Javascript scripts for both pages and templates with automatic inheritance
  - for easy and flexible organization and use of Javascript scripts. (Website Content / Content / Templates / ... / Advanced Scripting)
• Added support for multi-level templates (template wrapped by another template)
  - for local templates for different website sections and categories of content. (Website Content / Content / Templates / ... / Content Presentation)
• Added support for general HTML BODY attributes automatically merged for multiple levels of pages and templates
  - for easy and flexible use of HTML BODY page layout and Javascript attributes. (Website Content / Content / ... / Advanced Scripting)
  
• Added Additional Content attributes for "image" and "file" content items
  - for cross-linking of related content items such as small  thumbnail, medium web page and large print copies of images. (Media Library / Images and Files / ... / Additional Content)
  
• Added access to administration of all content items of any class through the top Website Content and Media Library menu items
  - for easy access to related content items of different content classes. (Website Content / Content and Media Library / Library)
• Added "superadmin" website administrator access to administration of all content items of any class from both Website Content and Media Library
  - for easy access to related content items of different content classes. (Configuration / Content / All)
• Added "superadmin" website administrator permissions to delete content items regardless of content dependencies
  - for easy and quick access to delete multiple, tightly linked content items.
  
• Improved, delayed loading of database configuration tabs options
  - for faster database configuration and backup and export.
  
  
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.1.
  
• Improved support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.
  
• Improved support for Apple Safari 4.
  
  
• E-Commerce
  
• Added support for general, volume, fixed price, BOGOF and voucher discounts for products, orders and users
  - for general and special sales and special prices for registered customers etc. (Configuration / E-Commerce / Discounts)
  
• Added weight, volume, width, height and depth attributes for products, orders, discounts, shipping and tax
  - for weight, volume and size specific discounts, shipping and tax rates. (Products & Orders and Configuration / E-Commerce / Discounts and Shipping Rates and Tax Rates)
• Added total (maximum) shipping and tax attributes
  - for easy definition of $$$ per item up to a maximum of $$$ shipping and tax rates. (Configuration / E-Commerce / Shipping Rates and Tax Rates)
• Added and improved handling and display of discounts, shipping and tax for products / order items on shopping cart, checkout and order web pages
  - for improved display of information to website customers. (@@@discount.....@@@, @@@shipping.....tax.....@@@ special codes)
  
• Added organisation, website, discount, shipping and tax attributes for orders and order items
  - for additional saved order details. (Products & Orders / Orders)
  
  
• Content Databases
• Added Booking By Capacity and Booking By Type website functionality modules
  - for ready to use and modify booking system functionality for company resources such as cars, computers and meeting rooms as well as guest house/hotel rooms and restaurant tables etc. (Configuration / System / Database / Add-On Modules)
  
• Added content databases administration input validation for number and date/time attributes
  - for prevention of typing errors in entered data. (Content Databases)
  
  
• Development
• Added support for website visitor upload of images and files as part of posted HTML FORMs
  - for website visitor upload of images and files as attachments to contact forms, blogs, message boards, support ticket and user registration functionality etc.
• Added support for CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) with random characters, words or www.recaptcha.net challenges for HTML FORMs
  - for preventation of automated posting of "spam" e-commerce orders and content to contact forms, blogs, message boards and user registrations etc. (Configuration / System / Website / Email & Forms)
  
• Added "/rss.jsp|jsp|php" and "/atom.jsp|jsp|php" delivery scripts as alternatives for "/xml.jsp|jsp|php" with output of different HTTP Content-Type headers
  - for improved support for RSS and ATOM format content.
• Added separate Reference Guide documentation with special codes and form parameters supported by the web content management system
  - for quick access to the "programming" documentation for web developers.
• Added programming API support for "/webadmin/api/published" (and "/webadmin/api/published.bat" and "/webadmin/api/published.sh")  and "/webadmin/api/unpublished" (and "/webadmin/api/unpublished.bat" and "/webadmin/api/unpublished.sh") scripts
  - for archiving, backup and publishing of content items to external servers.
• Added programming API support for "/webadmin/api/image" (and "/webadmin/api/image.bat" and "/webadmin/api/image.sh")  and "/webadmin/api/file" (and "/webadmin/api/file.bat" and "/webadmin/api/file.sh") scripts
  - for automatic anti-virus checking and other processing of uploaded images and files.
• Added programming API support for "/webadmin/api/image1" (and "/webadmin/api/image1.bat" and "/webadmin/api/image1.sh"), "/webadmin/api/image2" (and "/webadmin/api/image2.bat" and "/webadmin/api/image2.sh") and "/webadmin/api/image3" (and "/webadmin/api/image3.bat" and "/webadmin/api/image3.sh"); and "/webadmin/api/file1" (and "/webadmin/api/file1.bat" and "/webadmin/api/file1.sh"), "/webadmin/api/file2" (and "/webadmin/api/file2.bat" and "/webadmin/api/file2.sh") and "/webadmin/api/file3" (and "/webadmin/api/file3.bat" and "/webadmin/api/file3.sh") scripts
  - for automatic resizing and conversion and other processing and creation of alternative content item copies of uploaded images and files.
• Added programming API support for "/webadmin/productavailability/" scripts
  - for checking external stock inventory systems and other external databases, services and systems for product availability. (Products & Orders / Products / ... / Product Delivery and special codes)
  
  
• Technical
• Added protection against session fixation attacks as alternative/supplement to general web server and application server protection against this
  - for improved website security.
• Improved handling of multi-value HTML FORM INPUT attributes (PHP).
  
  
• Various other improvements.
  

Asbru Web Content Management v7.0.25 released

• Added support for @@@content@@@ special codes in search results. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for "rssChannel" custom extension <author> attribute. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for import of existing UTF-8 encoded website content. (JSP)
• Changed "onLoad" attributes to "onload". (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved display of content item status. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of workflow actions. (.NET/JSP)
• Improved handling of invalid dates/times. (.NET/JSP)
  
• Improved handling of "searchable" content atttribute. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
• Improved handling of invalid content database data import URLs. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
• Improved handling of @@@...@@@ special codes in user posted content. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
• Improved handling of UTF-8 output from custom extensions. (JSP)
  
• Improved database export of UTF-8 encoded data. (JSP)
  
• Improved handling of database character set encoding. (MySQL) (PHP)
  
• Improved database import handling of stylesheet links. (PHP)
  
• Improved handling of database connection errors. (JSP)
  
• Fixed loading of both page and template scripts. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
• Fixed class/format/group/type/version configuration. (Microsoft SQL Server) (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
• Fixed checkbox problem for multi-image/file upload in Media Library. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
• Fixed blog trackback problem. (.NET/JSP)
  
• Fixed deletion of old usagelog data problem. (JSP)
  
• Fixed content database data creation problem. (JSP)
  
• Fixed content database data administration problem. (.NET)
  
• Fixed search problem for custom product information attributes. (JSP)
  
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.0.25. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
• Improved handling of UTF-8 encoded and international special characters in group/type names.
  
• Improved handling of drop-down select options with multiple web content editor input fields.
  
• Fixed handling of HTML FORM INPUT fields in edited content. (Microsoft Internet Explorer)

Asbru Web Content Management v7.0.24 released

• Database Configuration
• Added additional, commonly used Microsoft SQL Server database connection string formats. (.NET)
• Changed default MySQL database connection string to use the MySQL ODBC 5.1 Driver and UTF-8 character set. (.NET)
• Improved handling of database connection string changes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of unconfigured/unavailable database connection. (.NET/JSP)
• Improved handling of database connection configuration errors. (.NET/JSP)
• Improved handling of database column names. (JSP)
• Improved support for Oracle databases. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
  
  
• Website and Database Import
• Added "import_website_exclude" configuration parameter to "/config.static.xxx". (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added import of existing website files handling of DOCTYPE tags and charset attributes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added import of existing website files handling of UTF-8 and other international character set encoded content. (JSP)
• Improved import of existing website files handling of no identified default home page. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of "/stylesheet.xxx" links in database import packages. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed import of existing website files. (.NET)
  
  
• Website Administration
• Improved handling of non-alphanumeric characters in menu items on administration pages. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved preview of content items with custom extensions special codes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of various select options. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of page relation updates. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of "paid" attribute order updates. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved checking of content dependencies. (PHP)
• Improved listing of access restricted content items. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for publishing content to upper-case static filenames. (.NET/PHP)
• Fixed scheduled content publishing/expiration problem. (.NET)
• Fixed scheduled user activation/expiration problem. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed personal workspace workflow actions problem. (.NET)
• Fixed workflow administration problem with programmed unschedule input. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Fixed workflow email notifications problem. (.NET)
• Fixed file upload. (.NET) (Microsoft Internet Explorer)
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.0.24
• Improved web content editor loading/initialization detection.
  
  
• Special Codes
• Added support for "###xxxxx.br###", "###xxxxx.p###" and "###xxxxx.div###" special codes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of unknown/invalid "###xxxxx.xxx###" special code format parameters. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for "@@@now@@@" special codes for date/time display using the default format. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added display of content item filenames and page relations with "@@@list:....@@@" special codes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for upper/lower-case characters in "@@@list:.....@@@" special code parameters. (.NET)
• Fixed "@@@list:.....@@@" negative period offset problem. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Fixed support for non-numeric "@@@list:entry=xxxxx:.....@@@" special code parameters. (.NET)
• Fixed handling of checkbox and radio input field names from "@@@list:.....@@@" special codes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for "@@@organisation@@@" and "@@@notes@@@" special codes in "user registration" pages and emails. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for "@@@user_id@@@" special codes in "product delivery" pages and emails. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for "@@@personalpage@@@" and "@@@personaladmin@@@" special codes in "user registration" page. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for "@@@database_id@@@" special codes in custom content database posting confirmation and notification emails. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Added support for blanks in custom content database names. (.NET/JSP)
• Added support for display of custom user attributes in "product delivery" pages and emails. (.NET)
• Added support for display of content item filenames, additional content links and page relations in search results. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of potentially looping "@@@include:.....@@@" special codes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved support for "." characters in custom meta info and product info attributes. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of " characters in content package, group and type names. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved handling of multi-value form/URL parameters in confirmation and notification emails. (.NET/JSP)
• Improved handling of upper/lower-case characters in form/URL parameter names. (.NET)
  
  
• Website Functionality
• Improved display of entered username and email data on failed user password retrieval page. (.NET/JSP)
• Improved handling of micro-websites. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Fixed use of micro-website default template, style sheet and version problem. (JSP)
  
  
• Extensions and Modules
• Added support for "rssChannel" extension "author" tags. (.NET/JSP/PHP)
• Improved "calendar" extension handling of missing/invalid date/time attribute values. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed "calculate" extension problem. (.NET)
• Fixed "rssChannel" extension problem. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed "sitemap" extension problem. (.NET/JSP)
• Fixed "blog" module posting problem. (.NET/JSP)
  
  
• Various Technical
• Improved handling of expired user sessions. (JSP)
• Improved handling of unreadable files. (.NET)
• Improved deletion of content published to static filenames. (.NET/JSP/PHP)

Asbru Web Content Management v7.0.23 released

• Improved database import handling of pages published to static filenames.
• Fixed problem with email notifications for new, unpublished content items.
• Fixed problem with personal workspace listing of workflow content items.
• Fixed problem with international character sets and HTML header tags (MSIE).
• Fixed problem with unconfigured/unavailable database connections (PHP).
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.0.23.
• Improved handling of PRE tags and pre-formatted content.
• Improved handling of SCRIPT tags and JavaScript program code content.
• Added "webeditor.encodeCharCodes = false;" configuration option to disable encoding of special and unknown characters.
• Added "webeditor.encodeUnknownCharCodes = false;" configuration option to disable encoding of unknown characters.
• Improved handling of clipboard access errors (MSIE).
• Improved handling of URLs in dragged and dropped content (MSIE).
• Improved spell checking of international character set content (.NET).

Asbru Web Content Management v7.0 released

• Added QuickStart Configuration step to check the web server system settings.
  Adds functionality to check the server settings required/used by the web content management system. As default the initial server system check checks for required configuration files and folders and file create/write permissions. Additional and custom system check scripts can be added to check/report on any additional server settings that may be of interest to users in general and for specific local setups.
• Added "QuickStart Configuration - Step 0: Server" tab.
• Added "/webadmin/systemcheck/" folder for custom system check scripts.
  
  
• Added Import Existing Website functionality to import existing Dreamweaver and HTML file-based website into the web content management system.
  Adds functionality to automatically analyse your existing website files (HTML files, Dreamweaver templates, images and other files) and import them into the web content management system for easy migration from an existing "static" HTML file-based to an Asbru Web Content Management system managed website. Dreamweaver templates are identified and converted to templates in the web content management system, and defined "editable regions" are identified and converted to content classes/elements in the web content management system.
  
• Added "QuickStart Configuration - Step 4: Website Content - Import Your Existing Website" functionality to import existing Dreamweaver and HTML file-based websites.
  
• Added "Database Configuration - Import Media - Import Website" options.
• Added "Database Configuration - Advanced - Import Website" options.
  
  
• Added custom website configuration settings for easy changes to common settings and information used throughout the website.
  Adds functionality to define your own custom website settings and special codes to use these settings on your website pages and templates as well as in your website style sheets and scripts. Custom website settings can easily be managed and updated in one place in the web content management system for immediate website-wide effect. Website designers and web hosting service providers can define custom website settings for their example/starter website templates and website functionality packages, which users simply have to enter/modify during their initial website configuration. For example, the company name and details for "instant" websites where new users only need to fill out a few details during the QuickStart Configuration to create their own initial website; and for easy configuration and changes to website-wide settings such as colours etc.
• Added "QuickStart Configuration - Step 6: Website Settings" tab.
• Added "Website Configuration - Website Settings" tab.
• Added "" special codes for custom website configuration settings.
• Added support for use of these and any other special codes in script and style sheet content items.
  
  
• Added "content package" functionality for easy administration of related content items across multiple content groups, types and classes.
  Adds "content package" labels for content items for easy administration of all content items related to various website functionality across different classes, groups and types of content. For example, each website functionality import package could have its own content package label.
• Added "Content Categories Configuration - Enable / Disable Content Packages" options.
  
• Added "Website Content - Packages" menu item.
  
• Added "Website Content - Content Categories - Package" attribute.
• Added "Media Library - Packages" menu item.
• Added "Media Library - Content Categories - Package" attribute.
• Added "Products & Orders - Packages" menu item.
• Added "Products & Orders - Content Categories - Package" attribute.
• Added "Packages Configuration" administration page with access to view, update and delete content packages. (Use the "Content Categories - Package" attribute to add/define packages).
• Added "User Database - Administrator Preferences - Hide Content / Library / E-Commerce Packages" settings.
• Added "Usage Statistics Configuration - Log Scripts / Do Not Log Scripts" options.
• Added "Usage Statistics - Scripts" report.
  
  
• Added "script" content class for easy administration and reuse of JavaScript program libraries/functions on pages and templates in the web content management system.
  Adds functionality to create and manage "script" content items and to select a number of such "script" content items for use on the website pages and templates in the web content management system. Any number of standard JavaScripts can be added to the web content management system and can easily be selected to be used for the various pages. For example, JavaScripts for menus and tabs and for web form input extensions and validation etc.
• Added "Website Content - Scripts" menu item.
• Added "Website Content - Advanced Scripting - Scripts" attribute with support for multiple scripts per page/product/template.
  
  
• Added "content format" functionality for simple text content items and for exact control over HTML code details for special requirements.
  For some special requirements plain text content or exact control over the HTML code details may be needed. The Content Format attribute defines if the content item should be HTML code edited in WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) mode in an Asbru Web Content Editor input field, or if the content item should be edited in a simple HTML TEXTAREA input field.
  
• Added "Website Content - Primary Content - Content Format - HTML / Text" attribute (Takes effect next time content item is updated).
  
  
• Added support for multiple style sheets per page and template.
  Also adds support for selection of multiple style sheets for each content item and content group/type, so that modular style sheets can be used for easier creation and management of advanced style sheets. For example some pages may use additional style sheets for display of special content or for web form input styling.
• Added "Website Content - Content Presentation - Style Sheet" support for multiple style sheets per page/product/template.
  
  
• Added default templates and style sheets for content groups and types.
  Adds functionality to define default templates and style sheets for content groups and types, which will be used if no templates and style sheets are defined for the individual website pages. This way different templates and style sheets can easily be used for different sections of a website. (The template and style sheet precedence is: session/URL -> page -> content group -> content type -> micro-website -> website).
• Added "Content Groups / Types Configuration - Content Presentation - Template and Style Sheet" attributes.
• Added "Product Groups / Types Configuration - Content Presentation - Template and Style Sheet" attributes.
  
  
• Added default templates and style sheets for "micro-websites" (domain names, language preferences, referral addresses and keywords).
  Adds default template and style sheet attributes for each "micro-website" for easy use of different templates and style sheets for different micro-websites. For example to use different default templates and style sheets for different website domain names; for website visitors from different website addresses (such public/external users versus intranet users); for website visitors with different web browser language preferences; and for website visitor visiting via different external websites and referral keywords. (The template and style sheet precedence is: session/URL -> page -> content group -> content type -> micro-website -> website).
• Added "Micro-Website Configuration - Default Template and Style Sheet" attributes.
  
  
• Added support for individual user access restrictions for content items, groups and types in addition to the existing role-based user group/type access restrictions.
  Adds optional access restrictions for individual users, so that specific users can have permission to view and manage certain content items. In some situations it may be faster and easier and preferred to use individual user access restrictions without having to configure role-based user group/type access restrictions. Role-based user group/type access restrictions can of course still be used and are recommended for larger websites. All access restrictions must be met for a website user/administrator to have access permission - both individual user access restrictions and user group/type access restrictions on individual content items and on content groups/types and website-wide access restrictions.
  
• Added "Access Restrictions Configuration - Enable / Disable Individual User Access Restrictions" options.
• Added "Website Content - Access Restrictions - Users" attributes with support for multiple individual users per access restriction.
• Added "File Groups / Types Configuration - Access Restrictions - Users" attributes with support for multiple individual users per access restriction.
• Added "Link Groups / Types Configuration - Access Restrictions - Users" attributes with support for multiple individual users per access restriction.
• Added "Product Groups / Types Configuration - Access Restrictions - Users" attributes with support for multiple individual users per access restriction.
• Added "Content Databases Configuration - Access Restrictions - Users" attributes with support for multiple individual users per access restriction.
  
  
• Added selective database backup and export of specific types of website data.
  Adds functionality to only backup and export specific types of the web content management system data (content, images, files, orders, content databases, users, workflows, micro-websites and configuration settings). For example, to make more frequent backups of some types of data; for faster testing; and for easier creation of website functionality database import files.
  
• Added "Database Configuration - Backup & Export - Export Content, Images (files), Files (files), Orders, Content Databases, Users, Workflow, Micro-websites, Configuration settings, Other" options.
  
  
• Deprecated the "classic ASP" programming language version of the Asbru Web Content Management system.
  Users of the old ASP version of the Asbru Web Content Management system are strongly recommended to upgrade to the .NET programming language version of the Asbru Web Content Management system for significant performance improvements. Technically, simply install the new .NET programming language version of the Asbru Web Content Management system on your existing website on top of the old classic ASP programming language version, and configure it to use your existing web content management system database - and delete the old ".asp" scripts when the new .NET programming language version has been installed and configured to work correctly.
  
• Deprecated support for old ActivEdit and eWebEditPro web content editor and file upload components. The included, integrated Asbru Web Content Editor should be used instead.
  
• Deprecated the special Guestbook functionality. Users of the old, special Guestbook functionality should use the newer Community Add-On module Guestbook package instead.

Asbru Web Content Management v6.9.3 released

• Improved @@@list:...@@@ limit and access restrictions handling.
  
• Improved handling of Javascript injection (ASP+NET).
  
• Added experimental support for custom extension "forwarding" through output of "WCM:FORWARD:xxxxx" (JSP).
  
• Fixed content dependencies check problem (ASP+JSP+.NET)
  
• Fixed element/class workflow administration problem (PHP).
  
• Fixed workflow action permissions problem (PHP).
  
• Fixed workflow administration problem (Microsoft SQL Server).
  
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v6.9.2 released

• Improved handling of file/image upload.
• Fixed database import and upgrade problem.
• Fixed administrator limit problem (ASP - Small Business Edition/Suite).
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.0.21
• - Added "webeditor.encodeUnknownCharCodes = false;" configuration option to disable encoding of unknown/international characters as numeric HTML entities.
• - Improved compatibility with Microsoft Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows Server.
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v6.9.1 released

• Added workflow actions functionality to disable/re-enable individual access permissions for content items.
• Added workflow actions functionality to cancel and disable/re-enable scheduled publishing and expiration of content items.
  
• Added website configuration special pages for default pages to be displayed for non-existing, unpublished and expired pages.
• Fixed security vulnerability (ASP).

Asbru Web Content Management v6.9 released

• Added .NET programming language version.
  Please note that v6.9.x will be the last releases of the classic ASP programming language version. Starting with v7.0 the classic ASP programming language version will be deprecated and replaced by the .NET programming language version. So you need to upgrade your classic ASP programming language version to the .NET programming language version now or when v7.0 is released.
  Upgrading from classic ASP to .NET should be straightforward - simply install the .NET version and configure it to use your existing database. As always when upgrading, make sure to make a full backup of your website and database before upgrading.
  
• Added "calculate" custom extension for server-side evaluation of mathematical expressions.
• Added "calendar" custom extension support for calendar offsets, date ranges and listing of custom content database attributes.
• Added "redirect" custom extension for redirection to other web pages and web sites.
• Added display of current web server date/time with "@@@now:format=xxxxx@@@" special code.
• Added conditional custom database content posts with "if" and "redirect_invalid" form parameters.
• Added form validation functionality with "validate_xxxxx" and "redirect_invalid" form parameters.
• Added custom content database posts "email_confirmation" parameter.
• Added "###xxxxx.html###" and "###xxxxx.script###" and "###xxxxx.text###" parameter encoding special codes.
• Added support for redirections from custom extensions with "WCM:REDIRECT:xxxxx" output code.
• Added website security configuration options for administrators and/or users to use SSL encryption after logout.
• Added "breadcrumbs" custom extension "class=currentpage" HTML attribute for current page.
• Added throwing of Java exceptions for easier custom extension programming and testing (JSP).
• Improved @@@include:database=xxxxx:.....@@@ handling of select/radio/checkbox inputs.
  
• Improved content preview functionality.
  
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.0.20.
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v6.8.7 released

• Added workaround for IBM WebSphere JSP/XML parser error (JSP).

Asbru Web Content Management v6.8.6 released

• Improved handling of website structure and page relations.
• Improved handling of custom content database access restrictions.
• Improved handling of multi-lingual website administration (JSP).
  Important: Please note that if you have programmed your own JSP custom extensions/modules then you may need to change your "Text.display()" program statements to "mytext.display()" due to necessary structural program changes.
  
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v6.8.5 released

• Improved page parsing performance.
• Improved publishing of content to static file names.
• Improved handling of nested @@@list:.....@@@ special codes.
• Improved handling of usage statistics log data (JSP).
• Improved scheduled publishing of content items (JSP).
• Improved paged listing of content items (ASP).
  
• Various other improvements.

Asbru Web Content Management v6.8.4 released

• Improved support for PostgreSQL v8.3.
• Added Asbru Web Content Editor v7.0.18.
  
• Various other improvements.