For more flexibility and to facilitate collaboration even better, Scrivito now allows editors and website visitors to log in via identity providers supporting OpenID Connect, e.g. Google.
You can set up the providers you wish to use in the CMS’s site settings on the Scrivito dashboard. In the case where these configuration options are not provided in your dashboard, our support team will be happy to activate them for you.
With visitor authentication, editors can specify for each page (via its properties) whether it should be publicly visible or restricted to logged-in visitors. Additionally, there’s an API available that enables you to implement the corresponding visitor log-in functionality in your Scrivito app. For editor authentication, no implementation is required.
To get you started, we’ve added some documentation about visitor and editor authentication to our Admin’s Guide.
Some kinds of content like blogposts or event pages typically include a date which often also serves to display a chronological overview of them to the visitor of your website.
Scrivito lets you set date values on properties views, but now you can also offer editors to specify dates much more conveniently in place. See Scrivito.ContentTag for how to make date attributes editable directly on the pages.
The content on a website often needs to meet some requirements. Many of them can be covered by style guides or loose agreements regarding layout, image content, etc. Others call for a supportive technical instrument to ensure that they are met.
Scrivito now lets you define validations to help editors comply with authoring guidelines and policies. A working copy can only be published if all of its content is valid, i.e. no validation errors occur.
Validation can be set up for CMS objects, e.g. pages, as a whole or for individual attributes of objects and widgets. If a validation fails, Scrivito’s editing interface notifies the editor by highlighting the affected piece of content on the page or in properties dialogs. Additionally, when working on a specific page, the validation errors found on this page are listed on the sidebar. Pages with validation errors can be found via the changes list, so opening them to fix the errors is easiest.
For an overview, typical use cases and example code, see Overview of Scrivito’s Content Validation. The API documentation on Scrivito.provideEditingConfig provides further details.
Starting at version 1.6.0, Scrivito.BackgroundImageTag components already load background images progressively. Now, Scrivito.ImageTag components also load images progressively if they haven’t been transformed. This lets the visitor initially see at least a low-resolution version of the image – instead of no image at all.
Once loading and decoding the high-resolution image has finished, it replaces the smaller low-resolution version. With speedy connections, the visitor will hardly notice a difference.
When searching, users expect to find the most relevant hits at the top of the search results list. The relevance of a hit can be adjusted with Scrivito by means of boosting.
Scrivito supports attribute-based and now also value-based boosting. Attribute-based boosting allows you to adjust the relevance of hits depending on the attributes in which the search term was found (e.g. the title). Using our new value-based boosting, you can now further fine tune the ranking based on a subquery. For instance, when searching for pages tagged with “laptop”, you could boost the rank of pages whose type (object class) is Product. Another example would be to lower the rank of PDF files after a full-text search so that regular pages show up first on the results page.
For details, see the API documentation on the boost subquery.
Scrivito’s search API lets you sort search results using the order method. This method now supports up to four additional sort criteria next to the primary criterion. For example, you can now sort the hits by their object class (Page or Blogpost, etc.) as the first criterion, and, within each object class, by their title as the second criterion.
There’s a new API method, Scrivito.isEditorLoggedIn. It lets you check whether your Scrivito application is running in the UI in order to make it behave differently if this is the case. You could, for example prevent Google Analytics from detecting page hits if the page has not been opened by a visitor but by an editor.
We’ve been asked several times to provide a means to determine the direct parent of a widget - here it is: Widget#container(). This instance method returns the widget or CMS object containing the widget in question.
Chief editors are able to see all working copies to which they aren’t assigned as an owner on the sidebar in the “Other working copies” section. Previously, after selecting such a working copy, chief editors could start editing right away. This has been changed to prevent accidental edits, meaning that chief editors now first need to become an owner of a working copy before they can edit its content. They can, of course, assign themselves via the working copy settings.
If a single-page application (SPA) delivering both Scrivito-based and non-Scrivito-based content navigates from a non-Scrivito page back to a Scrivito page, the NotFoundErrorPage is not displayed anymore, not even for a short time.
Selecting all changes in a working copy Selectively publishing changed content has become more efficient in situations where an editor needs to move all or almost all pieces of content to a different working copy. For example, if you need to publish just a couple of pages and move the majority of...
Selectable date display format Editors can now choose whether dates such as the publishing date of working copies in the “History” sidebar are displayed as absolute or relative values, e.g., as “Feb 23, 2023, 11:15 AM” or “Three days ago”, respectively. For this, a corresponding item was added to...
SDK uses edit.scrivito.com exclusively Scrivito’s always up-to-date editing interface, edit.scrivito.com, is now always used for editing. It lets editors benefit from improvements from the moment they are made available. If your app already uses edit.scrivito.com, you can skip this point, of...
After receiving feedback from power users, we’ve extended the date and time editing options. Manual date input Some editors need to provide many dates in their daily work. For these users, pointing and clicking again and again becomes tiresome after a while. With the new option to specify a date...
Sometimes, a section or subsection of a website becomes obsolete, for example, if a product is no longer sold, or part of the documentation isn’t needed anymore. In this situation, you can still delete the pages one by one, starting at the lowest hierarchy level of the section concerned, but you...
We made the editing interface more attractive and user-friendly by brushing up its icon set. The icons are now easier to distinguish and more consistent in style. Some details have been removed from them so that the buttons work better for more editors, especially those with lower resolution...
Adding users to a working copy has become easier. The “Collaborators” selection box now also includes editors whose email address matches the search term. In the German-language Scrivito UI, you can now enter floating numbers in the standard German format, in which a comma instead of a period is...
Server-side access to restricted content via Node.js You can now also access restricted Scrivito content on a server, e.g. for archiving your website content. For this, the apiKey option was added to Scrivito.configure . See also Using Scrivito with Node.js. Scrivito = require("scrivito")...
The behavior of the “Publish” buttons in Scrivito’s editing interface has been improved and aligned: All of these buttons now directly open the confirmation dialog which now also includes a button for opening the “Changes” list and getting an overview of the content that was altered. Thank you...
The active Content Browser tab is preserved The Content Browser sometimes prevented editors from quickly inspecting the properties of multiple objects one after the other. When the user selects another object of the same type, the active tab now remains open. Thank you for using Scrivito! Please...