Written by: Peter Donker Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:10:33 GMT
I’ve kept rather quiet lately as I’ve been working hard on this new version of Document Exchange. But just now I feel this is now at a stage where it can begin being released in the wild. DMX 6 builds on the strong features of DMX 5 and adds a bunch more. While at the same time effort has been devoted to try and slim down where possible.
I’ve kept rather quiet lately as I’ve been working hard on this new version of Document Exchange. But just now I feel this is now at a stage where it can begin being released in the wild. DMX 6 builds on the strong features of DMX 5 and adds a bunch more. While at the same time effort has been devoted to try and slim down where possible. I feel any major upgrade is not just about adding new features but also examining what is there and if things can be trimmed. If you disregard the latter your product just bloats with features and risks sinking one day due to its own weight. You have to spend time on finding little tweaks that either reduce the amount of code or make the application run faster. In terms of new functionality I will highlight a few here.
In DMX 6 any item can have a thumbnail. For image file types these are automatically generated. For others you may upload one. It is quite possible that in the future we include other thumbnail processors to include more file types.
You can now send emails to others with documents from within the system. These can be sent as attachment or as a link with a unique key. You can send to users and/or roles.
You no longer need to give someone administrator’s privileges on the portal to allow them to manage all aspects of DMX. You can grant one or more roles the permission to manage all content related aspects of DMX. Only technical aspects remain the domain of Admins and Hosts.
A new upload control based on Silverlight is included. This allows you to select any number of files in one swoop.
New Feature: Files can have thumbnails New Feature: Ability to specify people with Document Admin rights which gives them almost all admin capabilities New Feature: Subscription manager allows admin to examine and control subscriptions to items and hence notifications New Feature: Language files can now be downloaded directly from Bring2mind without the need to go to the site. New Feature: New upload control using Silverlight allows multiple file selection New Feature: Integrated mail application allows users to mail documents to others with many options New Feature: New default view UI now only shows 2 panels. The old 3 panel UI is optional. New Feature: The details of a file can be seen by selecting "properties" from the context menu New Feature: Doc Admins can recover hard deleted files from the "Graveyard" Enhancement: Revised view template management allows template sharing across the portal Enhancement: Revised view template syntax to allow for more powerful and complex templates (incl. Javascript) Enhancement: Search engine revision should make it less prone to errors Enhancement: Revision of the way content localization is implemented in the database Enhancement: Improvements to IPortable should make it less prone to errors when used in portal templates Enhancement: Lucene search engine update to 2.9. Supports highlighting as well. Change: Code namespace reorganization Change: Dependency to DNN 5.2.3
As mentioned before code efficiency has also been improved and a number of changes were made to the data model to enhance performance. This means that existing extensions will not work in all likelihood.
And all the help files have been edited and updated for this version …
You can find the beta version here:
http://www.bring2mind.net/Downloads.aspx?EntryId=4338
A couple of things to note:
Let us know if you find anything.
NB. DMX 6 is FREE for all existing customers with a valid subscription period. If you buy DMX 5 now, DMX 6 is free.
3 comment(s) so far...
Re: DMX 6 goes beta Great news Peter well done on all the hard work! Can't wait to try out the new features.
Re: DMX 6 goes beta
Great news Peter well done on all the hard work! Can't wait to try out the new features.
Re: DMX 6 goes beta +1, any ETA for the final? Days or weeks?
+1, any ETA for the final? Days or weeks?
Re: DMX 6 goes beta Weeks. Due to my attendance to DotNetNuke World in Orlando I'm currently trying to get an estimate of what the impact will be of release before the conference or after. I haven't received a lot of feedback yet about DMX 6 which I guess is a good sign.
Weeks. Due to my attendance to DotNetNuke World in Orlando I'm currently trying to get an estimate of what the impact will be of release before the conference or after. I haven't received a lot of feedback yet about DMX 6 which I guess is a good sign.
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