Ektron CMS200 Readme

Version 2.03

The following are the changes from version 2.02 to version 2.03:

Enhancements:

Add content from collections add item menu:
You are now able to add content from the collections add item menu. This allows you to add a content block from the collection area and easily associate it as an item of the collection.
Use quicklinks for collections:
You can now use the associated quicklink of the content block for collection items or use the template assignment for the entire collection.
Navigate from collection item to it's content block:
The collection item list now navigates you to the content properties view for the item.

Issues Corrected:

Error using search in preview mode:
ODBC type error may have been seen when attempting to use search in preview mode. This has been corrected.
Various database utility issues have been resolved:
The database utilities now allow you to manually enter your datasource names into text boxes. Other minor issues have been corrected as well as some interface enhancements have been added.
List of content approvals doesn't show current approver in red for user groups:
When viewing the properties for a content block, approvers that are individual users are highlighted in red. User groups were failing to be highlighted in red. This has been corrected.
GoLive fails when using it with a newly created content block:
When creating a new content block and assigning a GoLive date to it, it would fail to ever show up. This has been corrected.

The following are the changes from version 2.01 to version 2.02:

Enhancements:

Ektron eWebEditPro 3.0.0.7 Editor Added:
This release of eWebEditPro includes enhanced Microsoft Word XP support for the eWebEditPro "Edit in Word" feature.

Issues Corrected:

"File already open" or "File already in use" Error:
This issue may be seen at random and related to resource management on the server system. It may not be apparent until high traffic use on the server system running the CMS200 COM objects. Though this may only affect a limited amount of users, it is considered a critical update from Ektron for the CMS200 2.0 product.
Viewing Private Content In A Collection Generates Error "Subscript out of range [SBR R1] " :
If you have Private Content and NOT logged in, failure may occur when viewing the navigation collection. This has been corrected for this release. Please note: Private content was never exposed to public users.

Browser Crash When Calling Dynamic Stylesheet:
This has been changed to call the stylesheet prior to loading eWebEditPro -correcting this problem.

The following are the changes from version 2.00 to version 2.01:

Issues Corrected:

Upgrade Utility:
The database update (dbupgrade.exe) utility was not adding the data required to fully use the collections features. Failure would occur when trying to add a new Collection (only for "updated" databases). The utility was corrected to add the needed data to a CMS200 1.5/1.6/1.7 database. This only affects users upgrading from 1.x to 2.0 databases.

Note: If you experienced this issue with 2.00, you may download the .sql scripts and update these tables manually. Click Here to download sql update scripts for Access, MSSQL, and MySQL.

Ektron CMS200 version 2.0 includes the following features:

Workarea Folder Layout:
The folder layout in the workarea has been enhanced to increase the performance of the library folder structure. Changes have been made to the library UI. The four library options Add Files, Images, Hyperlinks, Quicklinks have been moved to the right frame toolbar once the category folder is selected.

Date Stamp Library Additions/Modifications:
CMS200 now stores and displays the date of the library item at the time it was uploaded.

Library Overwrite Permission:
CMS200 now allows the administrator to grant overwrite permissions to an individual user or user group. This will allow a user to optionally overwrite a file that may already exist on the server.

Content Expiration Date:
One now has the ability to set an optional expiration date on a content block.

Allow Only One Selection from CMS200 Editor Toolbar:
CMS200 will now prevent a user from selecting a second CMS200 toolbar button in the "Add" or "Edit" content page when a selection has already been made.

Preview Site:
A user will now be able to view Web site pages that are either published or in the process to be published when logged into the CMS200 application.

New Teaser Function:
A new feature has been added that displays the content of a single level folder. That is, one can now display a number of content blocks in a single level folder. This gives the user the ability to view content blocks along with their Title, Date and Time it was created, and a brief description about that content. The teaser function also gives the user the ability to set the content order.

Site Navigation:
A new folder titled "Collections" has been created in the workarea. This feature can be used to display a list of links that were created as a collection. That is one can now group multiple content blocks together to form a collection.

Reports:
A new "Reports" folder has been added in the workarea that displays the different stages of the content block.

eWebEditPro version 3.0:
CMS200 now uses version 3.0 of Ektron's WYSIWYG editor that has many advanced features.

General Information

Acrobat Reader Required
Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the CMS200 manuals. You can acquire and install a copy of Acrobat Reader from www.adobe.com.
NTFS Considerations
If your file system is NTFS and you are running ASP, you will need to ensure that IIS has write permissions to the upload directories in your CMS200 site. These include uploadedfiles, uploadedimages and databases (only if you are using MS Access).
MSSQL User Required
If you are using a MS SQL Server database, you will need to ensure that a user from IIS can access the database. By default, the account is usually SystemName\IUSR_SystemName. Depending on your configuration, you will need to either setup an account that has read and write privileges to the CMS200 database or set the user in IIS to a user that already has permissions in the database.