Ektron Product Release Notes

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Version 7.6.6
Version 7.6.6
Important
If you're upgrading from 7.6.1 SP4 or earlier and are using eSync, you
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New Features
PageBuilder
A new design pattern greatly simplifies building a Widget. All XML
Serialization is removed. The widgets have been converted to this
new pattern.
You now can provide help for a widget. If you do, a help icon appears
in the widget toolbar. See "Including Help for a Widget" in the Page-
Builder Quick Start Guide.
Widgets can now be set to open in a modal dialog, which provides
more room for completing its properties dialog. See "Opening a Widget’s
Edit Properties Screen in a Modal Dialog" in the PageBuilder Quickest
Guide.
Global and local widget properties are now available. They reduce
your development effort by eliminating settings data classes. While
you can still use these classes and manage your own serialization, for
the vast majority of types, the built-in engine performs all the work
necessary. See "Applying Global and Local Properties to Widgets" in
the PageBuilder Quickest Guide.
Global properties apply to every instance of a widget. Local properties
can apply to one instance of a widget. If both local and global values
are assigned to a property, the local overrides the global. For an
example of a global property, consider the Brightcove Video widget,
which requires a player ID. You could insert that in the widget’s
codebehind file. Whenever a user drops a Brightcove Video widget
onto a page, the player ID is already assigned.
You can assign a default Taxonomy to a wireframe. As a developer,
you can assign a default taxonomy category to a wireframe. If you do,
and the user creating a page using that wireframe makes no changes,
the default category is assigned to the page. However, the user can
change the taxonomy when the Add New Page screen appears. See
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