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What's New in Workcenter Version 4.2

  • An all new caching engine for faster page loading and lower resource usage
  • Enhanced support for multi-server systems
  • All new site search engine, with indexing on the fly, faster searches, and even more customization
  • Updates to local and global navigation functions
  • Multiple minor fixes and improvements throughout the system
  • Support for the upgraded SnapShot, and NewsMaker modules
  • New support for dedicated OutBox email servers to send emails in a fraction of the time
  • Full integration support for the new WeBlog module
  • Improved support for social network APIs and widgets

 

Overall Version 4 Features

Enhanced Browser Support 

  • Build and maintain sites using Firefox for both Mac and PC
  • Build and maintain sites using Internet Explorer in Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000

Enhanced Editor

  • Enhanced, even more full-featured content editor
  • Advanced table functions, including adding, deleting rows, coloring cells and more
  • WYSIWYG style menus
  • Find/replace and spell checking
  • Right-click editing of tables, links and images
  • The ability to modify bullet types in lists and choose starting numbers
  • Click and drag resizing of the editor window (via a new resize handle)
  • So much more...

Interface Harmony

  • Enhanced, even more user-friendly interface, featuring compact, manually-resizable windows
  • New start screens for major system areas and Modules, featuring latest items used and search
  • New window "Stacks" to replace multiple, simultaneously open function windows
  • Search functions on every system page
  • WYSIWYG font styles in menus and in Style Manager lists
  • New system icons for clearer navigation of functions

Additional Features

  • Powerful search features, both in the system itself and on sites
  • Enhanced Copy/Move functions allow copying and moving items, such as pages, in lists that span multiple system pages 
  • Ability to upload several assets (files, images, etc.) at once
  • New time zone functions for choosing a personal time zone to control the launch of pages and articles according to your local time

Improved Development Support

  • Updated and improved online HelpCenter site 
  • Enhanced support for CSS, including CSS layouts and external style sheets
  • Incredibly lean code generation

Third-Party Software

  • Given the abundance of third-party software/widgets for Forums, Twitter, Facebook and wiki (including many open-source options),  Version 4 supports the easy integration of these functions into Workcenter-based sites/pages.
  • Version 4 also supports the integration of third-party login functions so that logging into a Workcenter-based site (via GateKeeper functions) also logs the user into the third-party software.

Modernized Infrastructure

  • Powerful caching engine and page publishing for faster page serving
  • Utilizes PHP5 and AJAX while achieving an even smaller resource footprint

And as always, endless opportunities for expansion and customization!