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Updates (with visuals)
  1. Print page iconPrint Page feature in some Content Components.
    You can find the option for this in the Content Manager.
    Once its "on", you will see the following icon at the bottom of the article.


  2. Default image in the StoreDefault product icon in the store.
    Details in the litle things is what makes a website great.



  3. Last, we have added lightbox functionality to product images. For now, this only shows up when clicking on the image in the product page, not the products grid.

    Lightbox on products!


Posted: July 19, 2010 at 04:05 PM
By: Mantis System
(0) Comment/s | Categories: Improvements
Latest Updates

Mantis 8.9 was released recently, with a ton of under the hood updates. Among them:

  • Using HTML5 doctype (only on the backend)
  • Prototype library upgraded to latest stable version
  • Scriptaculous library also upgraded to latest stable version
  • Lightbox, tablekit, and other minor libraries updated

But we also did updates to the system that are visible, but they were small enough that went undocumented. So here are some of them.

  • Theme colour change. This was small, but I think it now lets you focus more on the parts that matter while still feeling roomy. 
  • New menus on the backend. THey're not javascript; they're plain old html lists with our base css menu. I think they're a bit snapier because of it.
  • The VideoList component now has the option to truncate the length of the text the text that appears next to it. Setting it to zero will not work, the default is 70 characters.
  • The Video Display component on the other hand, has its own Video List. This is an internal version, not the same as the above VideoList. I've added the option to specify the size of the thumbnail for the images. It defaults to 80px wide & high. You can also specify the size of the main video.
  • The Site Updates Modules & Components have been renamed to Site Aggregators. Reason behind this is the upcoming ability to sort by Most Popular.
  • Added comments to News and Videos. This is by default turned off though.
  • New sitewide Comment Moderator module, you can manage the comments for blogs, videos and news in here.
  • Made the ShortURL manager accessible to all staff users. This module lets you 'shorten' your url to something nice. 
  • Allowed some modules to stretch full screen without breaking the design, this most often happened on the modules with "Report" tabs.
  • Changed the name of "Media Asset Manager" to "File Browser". This is simple: File Browser is just more intiutive for new users. 
  • Changed the name of the "Swearwords" manager to "Profanity Filter". This manager can be used to add words that can be "censored" in your comments. (Censored words will appear like this: for "bad" => "b*d".
  • There's also the odd, probably invisible "background loading". This is so that after every change you make, you don't have to wait for the screen to "reload" your new changes. Instead, they'll just stick and you can keep working. This will be most obvious in the Page manager, as it now functions a bit faster. 

We hope you like them.

As always, if you have any feedback, go to the Dashboard, and click on "Request Support" tab.

Posted: May 27, 2010 at 11:34 AM
By: Mantis System
(0) Comment/s | Categories: Improvements New Features
Most Popular

We've created a new feature for Mantis that allows you to have certain components list sorted by most hits in x time frame.

It works like this: 

Every time a user views a news article for example, the system it will store the date that item was viewed. We then process all that data and "rank" that article in comparison to all the other articles in a certain time period.

This date specific rank allows us to give you the option to sort your articles by most popular (or hit) in the last month, the last 6 months, and the last year.

Of course, we have only been capturing this data for about a month, so for the time being sorting by most popular in the last 6 months or year will give you the same results as sorting by most popular in one month.

This feature was implemented in these components:

  • Blog List
  • News List
  • News Mini
  • Video List
  • Video List Mini

 

Posted: March 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM
By: Yasmary Mora
(0) Comment/s | Categories: New Features

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