News & Updates

Announcements of new features, bug fixes, security alerts, and other updates.

Version 3.7.2 released

posted on 7:01 PM, January 26, 2011

Version 3.7.2 of ExSite was placed into the downloads area today. New features in this release:

  • updated admin stylesheets
  • more configurable webtop categories
  • variable-size control panels
  • audit logs (track all database changes)
  • Event Calendar improvements (recurring events, activities, event venues)
  • Web Forms improvements (summary reports with charts, copying forms)
  • Address Book improvements (generate and save custom contact lists, edit contacts)
  • TinyMCE is now the default web editor
  • new plug-ins:
    • Backup - download a complete backup of your site
    • Subscribe - invite people to sign up for a subscription list
    • URLshortener - create abbreviated URLs with special security features

Alternate HTML editor

posted on 3:52 PM, September 16, 2010
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Version 3.7.1 includes the alternate HTML editor, TinyMCE, which has been extended significantly for use with ExSite. New ExSite-only features in TinyMCE include:
  • Inline element selector
  • Font and CSS style selectors configurable from your ExSite config files
  • ExSite hyperlink tools
  • ExSite image/document tools
  • ExSite plug-in tools
  • embed tool
  • three modes: standard, advanced (all functions enabled), and basic (suitable for non-admin users)
TinyMCE is an experimental feature in this release, and is not enabled by default. To enable it on your website, take the following steps:
  1. ensure that the new CGI program dlg.cgi is present in your CGI-BIN directory
  2. add the configuration setting form.editor = tinymce to your exsite.conf file
Otherwise the standard ExSite HTML editor will be used.

Version 3.7.1 released

posted on 5:37 PM, September 15, 2010
Version 3.7.1 of ExSite was placed into the downloads area today. Included in this release:

New plug-ins

  • Order Fulfillmment: track your e-commerce orders, items awaiting shipping, and back-orders
  • New Membership Management framework can track multiple distinct groups/associations in one system
  • Membership Directory: manage complicated directories of members in numerous categories
  • Address Book and Contact List management, including vcards

Content Management

  • HTML editor now optionally supports TinyMCE
  • Archivable pages and libraries:  these pages and libraries can still be published and viewed, but once you no longer need to manage them, they can be hidden from your admin screens to reduce clutter.
  • Internationalized the webtop and My Website for translation of admin screens into other languages.
  • My Website now allows you to define default settings for new pages, to reduce the amount of reconfiguration you must do after creating a new page.

Security & IT

  • URL shortening for easier emailing or printing of long, complicated URLs
  • improved one-click login and captcha security
  • more debugging features
  • can offload bulk e-mail to alternate servers for better spam control
More detailed release notes on these features are forthcoming.

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