Escenic Content Engine 5.0-8
This release focuses on improvements to Escenic Content Studio based on feedback from the first customer to go live on Escenic Content Engine 5.
Highlights in this release
- Image gallery editor: Effectively edit entire image galleries in Escenic Content Studio
- Full Arabic and Bengali support in (including the Arabic spell-checking in Escenic Content Studio released in Escenic Content Engine 5.0-7)
- The Relax NG schemas are shipped as part of the Escenic Content Engine distribution, allowing for easy validation of XML both manually and in IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse .
- Logging in is a lot faster, and Escenic Content Studio generally exerts a lot less pressure on the server
- Field-level locks act more predictably and are more resilient to concurrent edits
- The list editor shows more information on each list item
- It's now possible to specify the "local" home section when content is shared between multiple publications
- The size of the Solr search index has been reduced
Please see the release notes for the complete list of new features, fixes and improvements in this release.
Image gallery editor
This screenshot shows how editng of an image gallery works in Escenic Content Studio:
The gallery consists of ten images, which have been dragged directly from the user's desktop into Escenic Content Studio, and then automatically been imported into Escenic Content Engine. All metadata present in EXIF and IPTC fields are imported, and if the image files contain titles, captions, etc these will be filled into the image gallery editor automatically. The standard spell-checing in Escenic Content Studio works for titles, captions and all other fields.
The thumbnail image to the right is the image that will be used when presenting a teaser for the image gallery on front and section pages.
Escenic Content Studio's built-in tagging has been used to tag this image gallery with "hiking", "dolomites", "italy" and "mountains" (tags are displayed at the top left).
Related content finder
Escenic Content Studio features an automatic "related content" search, using the standard Apache Solr search engine and requires no configuration. The search panel displays all content in the repository that is similar to the active content. The attached screenshot shows two panels at the bottom, where:
- The left panel displays content that contain similar content to the open story
- The right panel displays similarly related content on news.google.com
In this example (which is being implemented, and thus not quite finished), the search hits are marked in blue in the lower left-hand panel. The Google search lists the related stories as hits, just as in Escenic Content Studio' built-in RSS reader. The configuration popup dialog, where the related boxes are configured, is also included in the screenshot.
Similar searches for related content may be performed on Google, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.
When a suitable related content item is found, the content editor may drag into the article to create a story relation.
Each user may specify zero or more boxes, which may be shown or hidden at any time. The settings are stored on the Escenic Content Engine server, making them available regardless of which coomputer the user logs in on (just like all other Escenic Conent Engine preferences).
Escenic Content Engine 5.0-8 was released September 21 2009.
