Release notes - FORGE Q3 '23

Overview

FORGE Q3 '23 continues the journey of hardening and modernization of the Deltatre headless CMS:

• In Page Builder

  • Menu management (Phase I)

  • Configure the visibility of folders, pages, and menus — (Tenanted mode)

  • View pages from external rendering engines

  • Configure properties of templates and layouts from external rendering engines

• In Front-end API

  • Support managing properties of templates and layouts from external rendering engines

• In Content Manager

  • New UX when listing and searching the editorial selections

On the technical side, front-end developers get improved Front-end API endpoints to retrieve the full set of data that describes pages.

What's new

Page Builder

Menu management (Phase I)

In the path of the feature parity with legacy Visual Site Manager, Page Builder supports:

• Creating a new menu and its nested list of items

• Linking items to corresponding pages

Documentation:

• The page

• The menu

Configure the visibility of folders, pages, and menus — (Tenanted mode)

In the path of enabling multi-tenancy scenarios, the Tenanted mode allows defining which folders and pages users visualize.

Documentation: Folders and pages

View pages based on external rendering engines

Producers view pages that are managed with external rendering engines.

This feature overcomes the previous limitation whereby published pages could only be seen from the back-office if they were based on FORGE's rendering engine.

Documentation: Preview and publish a page

Configure properties of templates and layouts from external rendering engines

Producers configure properties of templates and layouts of pages that are managed through external rendering engines.

This feature overcomes the previous limitation whereby only templates and layouts based on FORGE's rendering engine had configurable properties.

Documentation:

• Method: templates (contract from an external source)

• Method: layouts (contract from an external source

Front-end API

Support managing  properties of templates and layouts from external rendering engines

The /page endpoint supports properties for templates and layouts relying on external rendering engines.

This feature overcomes the previous limitation whereby the /page endpoint returned only properties of templates and layouts based on FORGE's rendering engine.

Documentation: Method: page (FE API)

What's changed

Content Manager

New UX when listing and searching the editorial selections

The revamp of the editorial selections' List View is part of that modernization journey; the revamped version brings:

• Refreshed filters for a more intuitive and flexible search across editorial selections

• Increased the speed of the search

Documentation: Searching entities

Minor changes

• Added documentation on how an Absolute URL redirection can be created on the D3 Rendering Engine.

• Enabling the possibility to show the Headlines at DAPI level when the story is used as relation or reference item.

• Enabling the possibility to show the Description at DAPI level when the documents and albums are used as relation or reference item.

• In the list view, added the System Default sorting.

• Endpoints page and menu return typed properties for modules, metadata, and variables.

• New endpoint /page/view to get the view URL of a page.

• Support typed properties in templates and layouts.

• Added tooltips for tags and extended fields when listed within a drop down and too long to display.

• Managed concurrent editing of aliases in the Page Builder.

• Endpoints page and linkrules have reviewed return statuses.

• The culture parameter is normalized to lowercase.