Escenic Community Engine 3 roadmap

Escenic Community Engine 3 features improved integration with Escenic Content Engine 5, user applications, a third party REST API for integration and extension, a powerful interface for moderating the community, support for community moderators, pretty URLs, re-Captcha support as well as support for single sign-on using Facebook or OpenID.

There has already been numerous enhancements included in the 2.X releases of Escenic Community Engine built for the Escenic Content Engine 4.3 series. Version 3 of Escenic Community Engine will contain some important new features, including:

  • Very tight integration with Escenic Content Engine 5
  • Third-party API for extending Escenic Community Engine
  • Widgetized template development
  • Single sign-on support (SSO) for Facebook and OpenID using Google and Yahoo as providers.
  • An administration dashboard to moderate your community.
  • Support for giving privileged community users access to moderate parts of the community web site
  • Pretty article URLs out of the box
  • Improved stop word administration
  • Improved captcha module, supporting the industry standard reCaptcha implementation.

Integration with Escenic Content Engine 5

Version 3 of Escenic Community Engine brings the integration with Escenic Content Engine to a whole new level. All content, whether editorial or user generated (UGC), may be seamlessly integrated and combined - including text (stories, blogs, comments, discussions, etc), images, video, sound and custom content types. All types of content may be managed directly in the community or in Escenic Content Studio.

Third Party API

The API is implemented as RESTful web services, similar to the web services provided by Escenic Content Engine. REST is not Java-specific, and this allows for development of new features, additional modules, custom solutions, etc using your preferred language including:

  • C#
  • C
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Ruby

Widgetized Template Development

Makes it easy to implement and reuse components. Furthermore, it makes it breeze to configure appearance and features depending on the context.

Single Sign On Support

There is a growing demand for inter-connecting accounts across different communities. The most common solutions are Facebook Connect, and OpenID and these are thus the ones we have implemented. Other SSO solutions may be considered according to input from the Escenic Product Advisory Board and regular customer demand.

Community Engine now has rich Single Sign On support, enabling users to instantly take part in your community without going through yet a new registration process.

Currently, the Single Sign On support includes users from:

  • Facebook
  • Yahoo - OpenID
  • Google - OpenID

Administration Dashboard

The Escenic Community Engine now ships with a new, user friendly Dashboard for managing your community. The Dashboard allows the editorial staff to efficiently moderate large amounts of user generated content (images, articles, comments). Furthermore, the Dashboard lets you ban/unban users, edit user generated content and it provides administration of tags and stop words.

Release overview

Please note that this information may be updated an any time. For further information please see the Product Roadmap.

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