Kentico CMS on UserVoice

Import Toolkit Output to Log [is now completed]

2012-02-24T06:56:03-05:00

Would be great to have a written file log for the import toolkit. That log should not only show the results of the import but amount of time taken. When migrating a site from another CMS, some imports, such as users, could take a LONG time. Would be good for launch day to be able to know how long that is. Testing with the import toolkit would help.

Import Toolkit Output to Log [updated]

2012-02-24T06:56:03-05:00

Stepan Kozak (admin) responded:

Already implemented in version 7

Create multiple crop sizes (eg: 320x240, 600x480, etc) for the same image stored inside a document type [updated]

2012-02-23T10:36:38-05:00

The idea is to upload an image as part of a document type (as a field and not an attachment) and without loosing the original image been able to crop the image using multiple predefined crop sizes that would be stored in the file system (or DB) as the original image but of course having the crop size included in the filename (eg: image1_640_480.jpg)

Jiveabillion said:

Then I side with you Ivan. It would be very nice to have this feature built in. I also used jCrop in my solution. That was the easy part. The difficult part was finding the right time in the file upload process of the original to create the additional file and then to also create a link to edit the thumbnail to the user's liking. I also had to figure out the whole temporary attachment thing. Once I figured it all out, it worked great, but it is still a pain to do and would be fantastic if it already existed as a CMS form control or something.

Make it so Documents and custom tables can have fields that are reference to a single/list of other documents/custom table rows [is now under review]

2012-02-22T12:15:40-05:00

I think it would be great, especially for use in transformations, for us to be able to configure fields on a Document Type or Custom Table that return single/multiple documents/table rows. These will be lazy loaded. One way that this could be implemented is to create a custom field type that is not created as a field in the database table, but is used for storing the information of how to load the data for the property. This field would have at least the following configuration options: 1. IsMultiple? - Yes/No to indicate whether or not this field is for a single item or a list of items 2. PropertyType - Document/Custom Table/Custom Query 3. Document/Custom Table - If 2 is Document or Custom Table then indicate which DocumentType or Custom Table to use 4. Query - The query used to retrieve the data for the field. This query can have macros that access properties of the current item. For example: Select ##ALL## from CUSTOM_MYTABLE WHERE CUSTOM_MYTABLE.MyForeignKey = {%ThisPrimaryKey%} With this field we would now know how to access the data when macros are being resolved. Here is an example: {% foreach (mytable in mytablefield) { print(mytable.mytableproperty); } %} OR {% mytablefield.ApplyTransformation("MyTable.Transformations.CustomTransformation") %} The addition of this feature would unlock an immense amount of functionality.

CDN Integration [updated]

2012-02-22T01:45:41-05:00

Have the ability to integrate a CDN as a media library option. Support popular CDNs like Amazon, Akamai, CloudFiles (Limelight) etc. Currently using a CDN is a very manual process (but even Kentico.com uses it!)

Dominik Pinter said:

Hi, we have just released support for Amazon S3 - see this post: http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Dominik-Pinter/February-2012/Amazon-S3-provider-for-the-CMS-IO-namespace.aspx. It also suppports Amazon's cloud front service (CDN for S3). You can also store you files on Windows Azure blob storage and use its CDN (more detail can be found in our Azure deployment guide). Does this solution is sufficient for you?

Create multiple crop sizes (eg: 320x240, 600x480, etc) for the same image stored inside a document type [updated]

2012-02-21T22:59:18-05:00

Ivan R. Robalino said:

Hi Jiveabillion

Thanks for your feedback

I talked to Martin about this a few weeks ago because he also misunderstood the suggestion

The whole idea is NOT doing resizing as i do all the time using the querystring parameters (width, height & maxsidesize) but an actual CROP where the user can select an area from the image itself and generate a new image that is totally different from the original not only in size but in its content.

I've added the crop feature (using jcrop plugin) to our own build of Kentico CMS since v3.1 and this enhancement has been a constant request from our customers

Regards

Ivan R.

Create multiple crop sizes (eg: 320x240, 600x480, etc) for the same image stored inside a document type [updated]

2012-02-21T17:33:30-05:00

Jiveabillion said:

I'm with Martin on this. The CMS will create thumbnails and cache them (or store them in the filesystem if you configure it to in site settings) on the fly when they are accessed using one of the many ways to generate an image url in a transformation. Sometimes you may need to add the querystring parameters of width,height, or maxsidesize manually in the transformation. To set it to create the thumbnails go to Settings > System > Files and change the settings to your liking.

That being said, you can also create a custom form control that will do exactly what you want, although I found it quite difficult to do this myself and it took me a few days of researching and trying different things to get it just right. The file and attachment management API could be better, namely the addition of an easier way to add a file without passing an HTTPPostedFile object and instead pass a byte array or something.

Either way, if you are not needing it to do anything special when it resizes the images (like cropping), then the CMS already does this on the fly with the querystring parameters.

CDN Integration [updated]

2012-02-21T11:54:42-05:00

Brian said:

I fully agree with this. Utilizing a CDN can have drastic performance increases, especially on media/image heavy sites.

Compare servers [updated]

2012-02-20T17:34:03-05:00

It would be good to be able to compare 2 CMS environments to highlight the differences between development and configuration differences stored in Kentico CMS. Specifically to compare: Page Templates, Layouts, Custom and System tables, Email templates etc.

petr said:

yes great idea.

Ability to share urls from CMSDesk [is now planned]

2012-02-20T01:27:14-05:00

Ability to send other cmsdesk users a url for a particular page in CMSDesk. Best example: Reports.

Ability to share urls from CMSDesk [updated]

2012-02-20T01:27:14-05:00

Ability to send other cmsdesk users a url for a particular page in CMSDesk. Best example: Reports.

Jaroslav Kordula (admin) responded:

In the current version of Kentico CMS, there is simple support for displaying particular section of the CMS Desk UI (for example ~/CMSDesk/default.aspx?mode=design&nodeid=XXX - this URL will display Design tab of document with ID equals to XXX). But this support is mainly only for the Content tab. We plan to extend the possibilities in one of the future versions to be able to get particular section of the UI by typing additional parameters to the URL.

Make it so Documents and custom tables can have fields that are reference to a single/list of other documents/custom table rows

2012-02-17T13:23:18-05:00

Jiveabillion suggested:
I think it would be great, especially for use in transformations, for us to be able to configure fields on a Document Type or Custom Table that return single/multiple documents/table rows. These will be lazy loaded. One way that this could be implemented is to create a custom field type that is not created as a field in the database table, but is used for storing the information of how to load the data for the property. This field would have at least the following configuration options: 1. IsMultiple? - Yes/No to indicate whether or not this field is for a single item or a list of items 2. PropertyType - Document/Custom Table/Custom Query 3. Document/Custom Table - If 2 is Document or Custom Table then indicate which DocumentType or Custom Table to use 4. Query - The query used to retrieve the data for the field. This query can have macros that access properties of the current item. For example: Select ##ALL## from CUSTOM_MYTABLE WHERE CUSTOM_MYTABLE.MyForeignKey = {%ThisPrimaryKey%} With this field we would now know how to access the data when macros are being resolved. Here is an example: {% foreach (mytable in mytablefield) { print(mytable.mytableproperty); } %} OR {% mytablefield.ApplyTransformation("MyTable.Transformations.CustomTransformation") %} The addition of this feature would unlock an immense amount of functionality.

Ability to have square thumbnail for User Avatars

2012-02-17T12:51:15-05:00

Jiveabillion suggested:
Users can currently upload their own Avatar, but the only constraints that we can put on them is their width/height or maxsidesize. This is fine for when their Avatar is being displayed in their profile, but really bad when displaying it in a list or activity feed. On Facebook, they auto-generate a cropped square thumbnail from your full Profile photo. By default, they shrink it and crop it square from the center, cutting off the parts of the longest side that don't fit. They also let you edit the thumbnail by moving the original photo around so you can position the part you want to be in the square. You can also choose to make it just fit in the square and it will fill any parts of the square left empty with white. After several days of tinkering with a custom control based upon the direct uploader, I was able to make this work in Document types by adding a field for the thumbnail and hiding it in the form while using my custom form control on the main photo field to auto-generate the thumbnail and save it in the thumbnail field (a process that is way too difficult for developers and should be simplified in a future release). This actually works great, but when I went to do it with the Avatars, I couldn't think of a way to make it work well. This should be in Kentico.

Enable Forum Post Edit and Delete

2012-02-17T12:38:09-05:00

Jiveabillion suggested:
Users should be able to edit and delete their own forum posts. They should be able to delete them if they have not yet been replied to and edit them at any point. Perhaps even add a setting that allows us to control how much time the post can be editable for so that the poster has N number of minutes to edit their post before they can't edit it anymore.

Article editing [is now declined]

2012-02-10T03:15:45-05:00

When i editing article and change tab to example Properties all unsaved work is lost. There should be some warning window.

Article editing [updated]

2012-02-10T03:15:38-05:00

When i editing article and change tab to example Properties all unsaved work is lost. There should be some warning window.

Martin Hejtmanek (CTO) said:

Hi Petr,

There is a setting for this in SiteManager -> Settings -> Content -> Content Management -> Prompt to save changes on exit

Ability to share urls from CMSDesk

2012-02-09T14:19:40-05:00

Chanan Braunstein suggested:
Ability to send other cmsdesk users a url for a particular page in CMSDesk. Best example: Reports.

Cart Subtotals [is now planned]

2012-02-09T04:22:15-05:00

It would be nice if you could add SubTotals to the ShoppingCartInfo an ShoppingCartItemInfo object that calculated prices without tax or shipping. For instance: A cart item subtotal that was the (UnitPrice * UnitsQuantity) - UnitTotalDiscount A cart subtotal that sums the item subtotals Neither of these would have tax or shipping added to them.

Cart Subtotals [updated]

2012-02-09T04:22:15-05:00

Petr Vozak (admin) responded:

in some of the future versions

Cart Subtotals [updated]

2012-02-09T04:21:33-05:00

Petr Vozak said:

Sinve version 6, there is UnitPriceAfterDiscount property in ShoppingCartItemInfo. Your subtotal for the given shopping cart item is than equal to (UnitPriceAfterDiscount * CartItemUnits). As for the cart subtotal without tax, there is no property for that now. We will add properties for both cases in some of the future versions.

Cart Subtotals

2012-02-08T10:58:06-05:00

Jim Garwacki suggested:
It would be nice if you could add SubTotals to the ShoppingCartInfo an ShoppingCartItemInfo object that calculated prices without tax or shipping. For instance: A cart item subtotal that was the (UnitPrice * UnitsQuantity) - UnitTotalDiscount A cart subtotal that sums the item subtotals Neither of these would have tax or shipping added to them.

Check the collation of the SQL Server during installation. [updated]

2012-02-08T02:57:59-05:00

Today I wanted to install a trial version of Kentico on an existing SQL Server installation. During the setup I got the error message ERROR: An error occurred: [DataConnection.ExecuteQuery]: Query: CREATE FUNCTION [Func_OM_Account_GetChildren] ( @currentAccountId int, @includeParent int ) RETURNS @result TABLE ( AccountID int ) AS BEGIN -- Recursively find all children of current account WITH Recursion(AccountID) AS ( SELECT AccountID FROM OM_Account a WHERE a.AccountMergedWithAccountID = @currentAccountID UNION ALL SELECT a.AccountID FROM OM_Account a INNER JOIN Recursion r ON a.AccountMergedWithAccountID = r.AccountID ) INSERT INTO @result SELECT AccountID FROM Recursion -- Include parent account ID in result IF @includeParent = 1 INSERT INTO @result VALUES (@currentAccountId) RETURN END : caused exception: Must declare the scalar variable "@currentAccountID". Incorrect syntax near ')'. So, I took a look at the SQL and noticed that that Kentico CMS requires that you use case-insensitive (CI) collation.

Zdenek Strach said:

Hi André,
thank you for your message. This seems to be a bug in the installation script. I am sorry for inconvenience.

Please, can you send us more details about your SQL server configuration so we can reproduce the issue? We will try to fix it to the next hotfix package.

Best regards

Zdenek Strach

Create Additional Shopping cart layouts [is now planned]

2012-02-08T02:54:41-05:00

It would be helpful if the ecommerce module had 1 or 2 additional shopping cart webparts. Modern websites use a variety of techniques for moving the user through the checkout process, sometimes using ajax/single page designs. Having this variety would also help with customizations since more examples would exist. Also, it would force Kentico to centralize/standardize additional logic in the webparts that is difficult to modfiy and merge into a single page

Create Additional Shopping cart layouts [updated]

2012-02-08T02:54:41-05:00

Petr Vozak (admin) responded:

in some of the future versions

Create Additional Shopping cart layouts [updated]

2012-02-08T02:53:38-05:00

Petr Vozak said:

Hi Brad. We are aware of this. We will definitely focus on shopping cart wizard easier customization in some of the future versions.

SmartSearch File Search Results [updated]

2012-02-08T01:53:14-05:00

When showing file search results include the content of the file that is matched

Jakub Oczko said:

Hi Mark,

File search results are based on Full-Text search of the SQL server. This type of search doesn't have possibility to get content of the file. If you want to display file content you have to use custom function to read the file binary and display required content. We are planning implement interface to connect custom file reader (due to wide variety of file types) in some of future releases.

Jakub

SmartSearch File Search Results

2012-02-07T18:57:22-05:00

Mark suggested:
When showing file search results include the content of the file that is matched

Adding summarization and visualization to improve content management and understanding [updated]

2012-02-07T11:13:07-05:00

Example of visualizing flat text pages into live key topics jumping off the page to instantly get the key ideas as Visual Summaries, Tree Views and Keyword Clouds. Here is an example - http://www.wikisummarizer.com/Pages/Default.aspx?Keyword=Wikipedia

Anonymous said:

Hi Martin,
There is great deal of information on web pages and not enough time to read it. Why not to give the users the ability to see the key topics with the most relevant summaries? This is an efficient and friendly way to helpusers to focus on the information of interest and easily skip over not relevant information for the user. Adding a summarize button/function as an option certainly increases usability and usefulness of the solution. If you are interested to further explore the possibile approaches let's talk. Best,
Henry

Adding summarization and visualization to improve content management and understanding [is now under review]

2012-02-07T07:13:02-05:00

Adding summarization and visualization to improve content management and understanding [updated]

2012-02-07T07:12:45-05:00

Martin Hejtmanek (CTO) said:

Hi,

I am not sure what this would excactly need from us. Some sort of new components or modules? Could you be somehow more specific how other solutions provide this or scenario with particular data that you need to cover?

Scope on doctype [is now planned]

2012-02-07T06:15:17-05:00

Allow only specific doctype where I want to, without using parent (container)/child doctype!

Scope on doctype [updated]

2012-02-07T06:15:17-05:00

Allow only specific doctype where I want to, without using parent (container)/child doctype!

Martin Hejtmanek (CTO) (admin) responded:

Planned in future versions

Scope on doctype [updated]

2012-02-07T06:14:56-05:00

Allow only specific doctype where I want to, without using parent (container)/child doctype!

Martin Hejtmanek (CTO) said:

Hi Vincent,

We have a solution for this in our plans (child doc types per page template and per parent document (section), however it is currently not on the prirority list so it won't make it to v7, but we should be able to ship that with the next version after v7.

Check the collation of the SQL Server during installation.

2012-02-07T06:11:43-05:00

André Möller suggested:
Today I wanted to install a trial version of Kentico on an existing SQL Server installation. During the setup I got the error message ERROR: An error occurred: [DataConnection.ExecuteQuery]: Query: CREATE FUNCTION [Func_OM_Account_GetChildren] ( @currentAccountId int, @includeParent int ) RETURNS @result TABLE ( AccountID int ) AS BEGIN -- Recursively find all children of current account WITH Recursion(AccountID) AS ( SELECT AccountID FROM OM_Account a WHERE a.AccountMergedWithAccountID = @currentAccountID UNION ALL SELECT a.AccountID FROM OM_Account a INNER JOIN Recursion r ON a.AccountMergedWithAccountID = r.AccountID ) INSERT INTO @result SELECT AccountID FROM Recursion -- Include parent account ID in result IF @includeParent = 1 INSERT INTO @result VALUES (@currentAccountId) RETURN END : caused exception: Must declare the scalar variable "@currentAccountID". Incorrect syntax near ')'. So, I took a look at the SQL and noticed that that Kentico CMS requires that you use case-insensitive (CI) collation.

Create multiple crop sizes (eg: 320x240, 600x480, etc) for the same image stored inside a document type [updated]

2012-02-07T02:22:03-05:00

Martin Hejtmanek (CTO) said:

Hi Ivan,

Could you please explain the reason for this? Isn't the ability of the file handler to resize images + caching providing the same result?

Create multiple crop sizes (eg: 320x240, 600x480, etc) for the same image stored inside a document type

2012-02-06T22:36:21-05:00

Ivan R. Robalino suggested:
The idea is to upload an image as part of a document type (as a field and not an attachment) and without loosing the original image been able to crop the image using multiple predefined crop sizes that would be stored in the file system (or DB) as the original image but of course having the crop size included in the filename (eg: image1_640_480.jpg)

Scope on doctype

2012-02-06T14:18:56-05:00

Vincent Bedard suggested:
Allow only specific doctype where I want to, without using parent (container)/child doctype!

Template with custom design separated from core formatting layout

2012-02-03T15:46:32-05:00

Brad Vrudney suggested:
Built in webparts,page layouts and page templates have css classes built into their structure. The built in themes have css layouts to properly layout these webparts. It would be helpful if a website template provided separation between css form/function and asthetics (color, fonts) so that new sites could be built with existing themes, rather than starting from scratch and breaking existing webparts.

Create Additional Shopping cart layouts

2012-02-03T15:38:32-05:00

Brad Vrudney suggested:
It would be helpful if the ecommerce module had 1 or 2 additional shopping cart webparts. Modern websites use a variety of techniques for moving the user through the checkout process, sometimes using ajax/single page designs. Having this variety would also help with customizations since more examples would exist. Also, it would force Kentico to centralize/standardize additional logic in the webparts that is difficult to modfiy and merge into a single page

Use a macro for email address in CMSSiteManager Settings.

2012-02-03T15:36:02-05:00

Brad Vrudney suggested:
Currently, when configuring a new or additional site, I have to change everything from admin@local to a custom email address. It would be nice if {emailaddress.admin} and {emailaddress.noreply} for example were the defaults, and they could be managed from a single location. Then use these macros as the default values for new sites.

Adding summarization and visualization to improve content management and understanding [updated]

2012-02-03T11:25:28-05:00

Anonymous said:

About the summarization you could look at Wiki Summarizer: A Google Wonder Wheel Substitute - http://teacherleaders.typepad.com/the_tempered_radical/2011/07/wiki-summarizer-as-a-google-wonder-wheel-substitute.html

Adding summarization and visualization to improve content management and understanding

2012-02-03T09:51:14-05:00

Anonymous suggested:
Example of visualizing flat text pages into live key topics jumping off the page to instantly get the key ideas as Visual Summaries, Tree Views and Keyword Clouds. Here is an example - http://www.wikisummarizer.com/Pages/Default.aspx?Keyword=Wikipedia

Cloning [updated]

2012-01-30T12:41:47-05:00

Cloning options would be immensely helpful. For example, I am making a handful of alternative forms for a table, and they are largely the same. But for each form, I have to go through each field and set the same properties. It would be nice to have a clone button that copies everything and lets me make just the few changes I need.

Jiveabillion said:

The cloning of Alternative forms on Custom Tables didn't make it to Kentico CMS 6.0. Can this be added with a hotfix?

Flash Books

2012-01-29T19:59:24-05:00

Hilary Small suggested:
We have a number of clients who publish magazines. It would be great if Kentico had a flash book module such as the third party solution that we presently use called issuu.com.

Would love to have Pinterest added to social networking features. [is now started]

2012-01-25T04:23:11-05:00

Would love to have Pinterest added to social networking features. [updated]

2012-01-25T04:23:11-05:00

Dominik Pinter (admin) responded:

Will be part of version 7

KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line [updated]

2012-01-23T03:06:42-05:00

run KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line with the iprofile file like param and log the progress output into a file

Tomas Osicka said:

Thank you for your quick answer. We are actually developing a large web portal where we will deal with complex data migration from few data sources and we will need to run the migration batch repeatedly. We choose Kentico 6 for the project. Running KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line with *.iprofile file should significantly decrease development and deployment time. Due above mentioned is supporting of the needed functionality in Kentico 7 too late for us.

KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line [updated]

2012-01-20T02:19:27-05:00

run KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line with the iprofile file like param and log the progress output into a file

Martin Hejtmanek (CTO) said:

Totally makes sense. We will make sure this is possible in version 7

KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line [is now planned]

2012-01-20T02:19:03-05:00

run KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line with the iprofile file like param and log the progress output into a file

KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line [updated]

2012-01-20T02:19:03-05:00

run KenticoImportToolkit6 from command line with the iprofile file like param and log the progress output into a file

Martin Hejtmanek (CTO) (admin) responded:

Will be possible in version 7