mojoPortal 2.3.9.5 Released!

What's New?

Highlights of this release include:

• This release adds support for Artisteer 4.1 (currently a release candidate) and there is a new update to our skin exporter plugin for Artisteer.
  
  There is also a new set of skins created with Artisteer 4.1 is included in the mojoPortal packages. All the .artx files are also available in the ArtisteerFiles.zip.
  
  
• Search Engine Improvements
  
  The internal Lucene.NET search engine has been revamped. In addition to the created and modified dates it can also store the author name and this can be optionally shown in the search results for features that populate it. These new fields make it possible to refine search results by date range. We also upgraded to the latest version of Lucene.NET (3.0.3). As a result of these changes, after upgrading it is recommended to rebuild the search index after upgrading so it gets populated with the new fields.
  
  
• Recent Content Feature
  
  Lots of people have asked if there is a way to show recently created or updated content. The challenge with this has always been that features are self contained and pages are just containers for feature instances so the don't have knowledge of the feature content so there was not an easy way to list new content except at the feature level. Once the improvements to the search index were completed we realized that one way to get recent content in a feature agnostic way is to retrieve it from the search index based on the created or modified date. This is exactly what the new Recent Content Feature does. You can set a maximum number of days old to include, which features to include and whether to use the created date or modified date. So this now works with all features that support search. The Recent Content feature can be placed on a page like any other feature and configured as you wish. There is also now a Recent Content RSS feed that can be enabled and then used with the Feed Manager.
  
  
• Blog Improvements
  
  Previously the map settings for the blog were at the feature instance level which meant that all maps in all posts had to use the same settings. These settings are now per post so you can get more creative with maps in your blog posts. There is also a new setting if you want to show a search input in the blog.
  
  
• Forum Improvements
  
  There is a new setting if you want to automatically close threads older than a certain number of days. Individual threads can now be left out of the google site map for the forums and/or marked with a NOINDEX meta tag if you don't feel that the thread has any content of value. There are also new settings to allow showing the CMS page side content on the forum detail pages which is useful for ad placement for example.
  
  
• New FlexMenu control
  
  There is a new menu control named FlexMenu included in this release. Unlike the ASP.NET Menu and Treeview controls it does not add any javascript so you can add your own if needed and not get any conflicts that those menus are prone to.
  
  
• Lots of other small improvements and bug fixes for things reported in the forums since the last release.

See the release announcement blog post for full details.

New and Updated Articles

Each month we continue to fill in some gaps in our documentation and update some documents that were out of date and no longer accurate. Below are links for some of the new and updated articles.

• FlexMenu
• The Trouble With ASP.NET Menu
• Important Skin Changes
• Search Results Display Settings
• Controlling Browser Sessions
• A Clever Trick for Customizing Labels and Buttons
• Understanding the Difference Between Deployment Files and Source Code
• Controlling jQuery and JQueryUI Versions

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Carole Bennett of Indigo Tea and Ian McIntosh are our current Arvixe Commiunity Liaisons. Both of them have been writing a lot of great blog posts with good tutorials and tips for mojoPortal on the Arvixe Blog and we are maintaining a list of them here.

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Warm Regards,

Joe Audette

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