Zenario 11.2

Zenario 11.2 launches soon with great new features, see below for details.

General administration

Documents with automatic language detection and summarisation

Hierarchical documents have been greatly upgraded, with three new features (requires Zenia to be installed):

• Documents are now scanned to identify the language they contain
• When uploaded, a Summary of the document will be created automatically
• The Summary can be translated automatically into any of about 25 additional supported languages.

Picking Documents and Content Items while Editing

The WYSIWYG has been improved when clicking the "Insert/edit link" button. It's now easy to:

• Browse the menu and select a content item
• Browse HTML pages, News items, Document content items, and other content items in flat views
• Browse hierarchical documents in folder view.

Previewing and Reviewing Pages, and Style Editing

The Review interface on the front end, and the Style Editor, now show a more faithful view of the page in both desktop and mobile view, and have the ability to run JS so that rendering is more faithful to the final appearance.

Admin Toolbar and Menu Management

We have simplified the admin toolbar, by removing the Menu tab altogether.

Furthermore, we have simplified the administrator permissions around editing the menu. It's now possible for an administrator to only have the "Create and edit draft content items (_PRIV_EDIT_DRAFT)" permission and be able to create a content item, give it text for the menu, and to be able to edit the menu text.

A separate permission "Manage menu nodes (_PRIV_MANAGE_MENU)" gives an administrator more wide-ranging control over the entire menu, to change text, restructure it, and change other menu node properties.

Search and Suggest

The on-site Advanced Search now gets results from pages containing banners (nested or not), and not just WYSIWYG and meta data areas. 

The same applies to "Suggest" buttons in metadata boxes, so that when pressing Suggest (e.g. on a Summary or browser Description) it generates a summary based on Banner elements of a web page.

Scheduled Review, Scheduled Removal

There are now scheduled review and removal feature (in Pro Features module).

These features allow an administrator to set a date, or number of days, in the future. At this time, with the review feature, Zenario will send a reminder email to the administrator to review the page. With the remove feature, it will unlist the page at that time, and confirm by email. 

This is a helpful feature for pages that have relevance for just a period of time (e.g. seasonal content), or which need reviewing or deleting after some time.

Zenario Administrators and New Releases

Zenario now keeps track of the latest version of Zenario that an administrator has seen. When Zenario has been upgraded, it now shows a link to the information page for that latest update.

Image Management

The Special Images panel now has a "where it's used" column.

Installer

The Zenario installer now offers to create a number of starter pages when creating a new site, such as "About us".

Forms

Open/closed status

Forms now more clearly show whether they are open, open for a certain period of time, or closed.

Statistics and Analytics

There are now statistics available for form responses, and for user and contacts.

Wherever a form field is a radio selector or a select dropdown menu, these are gathered into statistics and can be viewed as a bar graph.

Form submissions and the Extranet Registration module now support sending Events to Matomo Analytics. By creating a Goal in Matomo, and selecting the option that it's recorded when the site sends an Event, you can record form submissions and user registrations.

Modules and Settings

When viewing Organizer->Modules and selecting a module that has site settings or system settings, it's possible to select the module in the Organizer panel and see a "cogwheel" icon that links to settings for that module.

Site Administration

Site and System Settings

Zenario now has two areas of settings (these are in Organizer->Configuration):

• Site settings — settings for regular administrators
• System settings — more technical settings for people responsible for the Zenario installation.

This makes a better distinction between settings for the organisation owning the site, and makes technical settings like passwords and file locations out of reach of regular administrators.

There is also a new administrator permission to make a distinction between site settings and system settings.

In addition, certain domain-related settings no longer appear in Base/Community Features, and instead are now in Pro Features.

The option to hide the "generator" tag from web page source is now in Pro Features.

Improved Cache Control

There is now better control over the Cache, which is now found in System Settings. There are separate controls for page and plugin caching:

• Page caching is always recommended to be enabled, and brings great speed advantages
• Plugin caching is recommended only for sites with private member areas, or where a lot of pages are built from heavy database queries.

We have separated these settings because on many sites we found that the rate of reading from plugin cache directories was quite low, and so the effort of writing to the cache was likely not to be repaid by reduced reads.