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Cascade Server Ideas

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    Height and width attributes of image type files in index blocks and data definitions

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    It would be nice to have the CMS display the height and width of file
    assets with particular extensions within system index blocks. This
    would allow users to easily size their images in XSL stylesheets.

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    Create event listener framework within Cascade for all pluggable events

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    Cascade would see benefit in having a generic EventListener interface
    that could be implemented and registered. When events are generated,
    the listener itself would determine what it would want to do based on
    the type of event. This would go a long way towards having a single way
    to provide trigger-like capabilities without having specific, separate,
    and numerous configuration frameworks for each of the different type of
    listener type plugin interfaces already available (e.g. workflow
    triggers, publish triggers, etc).

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    Ability to modify look, feel, and text of workflow-generated emails

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open
    It would be nice if Cascade could allow administrators to modify the emails that are generated by workflows.

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    Apply data definitions to blocks

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    It would be useful to be able to apply data definitions to blocks in
    addition to pages. This would help in scenarios where there is
    structured content which isn’t tied to any one page.

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    Allow publishing of non-xml pages

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open
    Cascade users would like the ability to publish non-xml pages.

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    A method to send administrative messages to active users

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    It would be nice if you could somehow send a message (a noticable
    message, not to the users’ inboxes) to the active users so that they
    can be notified that, for example, the system is going down for
    maintenance at a specified time. This would smooth out the process of
    doing all of these upgrades by helping to eliminate the need for admins
    to contact each user individually, or just kick them out of the system
    and risk lost work.

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    System option for removing empty folders on unpublish request

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    Currently, unpublish will remove assets from various destinations.
    However, if it removes the last file in a particular folder, it will
    not try to remove the folder. Either a system option or an accompanying
    option on the publish screen to remove empty folders on unpublish,
    would be in order.

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    Publish at Start Date Checkbox

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    I t would be nice to have a new wired field that when checked the asset will be published at the date and time.

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    Ability to require comments in workflows

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    It would be helpful if the Cascade had the ability to require comments
    within a workflow. Similarly, if comments are not required, it would be
    nice to bypass the page completely.

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    Interface to the dictionary

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    Cascade should have a simple interface to the spell-checking dictionary
    such that administrators can add words (or edit words if a user has
    accidentally added a mispelled word)

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    Customizable Tidy settings

    Idea by chris.armistead 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    It would be an excellent addition to Cascade Server if administrators
    were able to specify the settings for Tidy to use in Cascade. This
    could be implemented at the System Preferences level.

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    Obtain listing of all groups defined on HannonHill server via SOAP

    Idea by sreuland 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    Looking for a way to get a listing of all groups(EntityTypeString=‘GROUP’) that have been defined in HannonHill. I originally posted question in ‘How do I’(http://success.hannonhill.com/cascade-server-forum/how-do-i…/get-list-hannonhill-groups-via) and was told this functionality does not currently exist and to add as a request here.

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    Don't Allow Publish Dupes

    Idea by irifkin 1 day ago Favorite-off - Open

    Although I continue to tell my Web editors not to keep clicking publish and to view the queue, some of them repeatedly publish the same assets because they don’t see the change on their website. I suggest showing the user an error message that says something like: This asset was just published by you and is still in the publish queue.

    I’m not sure if it should allow them to publish it again or make them wait. Or maybe they’ll need to cancel the previous publish job.

    All I know is that I hate seeing a dozen publish jobs for the same folder, slowing down publishing for everyone.

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    Targets and CSS

    Idea by harlen 2 days ago Favorite-off - Open

    I am ending up with too many targets – and it’s becoming unwieldy.  Most of these are the same, but only differ in the CSS file that is attached.  Would it be possible to decouple the CSS from the target – maybe adding it to the template or configuration file – that seems to be where it belongs since it is a design element.

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    Publish Full/Absolute URLs

    Idea by irifkin 2 days ago Favorite-off - Open

    Cascade Server currently allows for root-relative URLs to be published out when “Maintain absolute links” is checked. It would be very helpful at times if a page could have fully qualified absolute URLs. Currently this is almost possible by applying an XSLT to the page at the template level but will not work if there are External Link assets that are generated in region(s) of the page.

    This may tie to feature requests regarding having Cascade gain a concept of a “site.”

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    Application should more intelligently determine if a tab is currently selected

    Idea by irifkin 2 days ago Favorite-off - Open

    This is in reference to an already existing feature request, although I think it’s more of a bug. In the 4.x we didn’t have a problem using the URL webedit.brandeis.edu for Cascade, but in 5.x (at least 5.5.2) the page highlights the Edit tab when viewing the page.

    People can still view and can still edit so it’s not the most critical bug, but it is fairly confusing for the UI and should be fixed.

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    Ability to link to folders

    Idea by earl.fogel 3 days ago Favorite-off - Open

    We should be able to tell Cascade the default directory index page for each site, so that published links to those pages go to “/” or “/site/” instead of “/index.html” or “/site/index.php”.


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    Site-wide Data Checks before Publishing

    Idea by earl.fogel 3 days ago Favorite-off - Open

    We’d like to run a final check before publishing for spelling, accessibility, broken links, and so on.

    Performing these checks every time you edit a page slows down site development, so our developers turn them off, but we’d like them to be able to run a final pre-publication check when they think the site is ready.

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    Support for Database Transport WSDL

    Idea by Megg@VC 3 days ago Favorite-off - Open

    We created a table of site names and id numbers for each of our 150+ sites for use when creating database transports. It would be great if we could set up a database transport for each from this table, but it appears that database transports are not included in the family of entity types Web Services can touch. All read calls get this: "Entity type com.hannonhill.cascade.model.dom.DatabaseTransport does not have corresponding Schema object type

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    Add a parameter to clean up the publish queue when cascade is restarted

    Idea by slota.benoit 9 days ago Favorite-off - Open

    The publish queue is now persistant when we restart Cascade 5.7.3
    But in some cases, it might be interresting to ‘reset’ the system upon a restart.

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