Submission by Zoltan Varady
The new release of APC ActionApps 2.4 you can download from
SourceForge.
Main new features (compared to v2.2):
(for a general list of features see http://apc.org/actionapps/english/general/about.html
- new 'site' module for management of complex website (see demo on
http://apc-aa.sf.net/slices/) - patched PHPLib is part of AA, so the instalation of AA is much easier.
- new AA Alerts introduced, allowing to send new items to users by
e-mail (daily, weekly, monthly - digest) - improved Item Manager design and inputform (fields are validated by
javascript before it is send to the server) - improved speed of public sites - mainly with page scroller (cached
item ids in slice.php3) - new Live checkbox - checbox changing database directly from Item
Manager (good for highlighted field, for example) - new input type "two boxes"
- new possibility for selectbox with presets - newly written constant
can be added automaticaly into 'preset' constants group - added mathematical functions for aliases (thanks to Stano and Jakub)
- constants could be sorted by click on column name on constants admin
page - more customization of window for related item selection (Backward
link, optional buttons and design based on Item Manager interface).
Related item view also do not display expired items and accepts view
conditions. - new utility to import constants to database directly from an array
(misc/file2slice/array2constants.php3) - new possibility to use 'login' as default or inserted value for field
- new Cron admin pages - for batch & sheduled task management
- new AA Finder admin page - finds views and slices
- new possibility to change all user/group permissions on one page (in
user management) - new possibility to sort and mainly group items in 'priority' order
(usable for all fields defined by 'constants' - like categories) - fully functional File Manager with Copy Template feature
- new possibility to send emails from discussion (discusion2mail view)
- new possibility to log user searches (queries) (see searchlog
parameter to slice.php3) - added Slice Wizard for easy creation of similar slices
- new "" inline function for file inclusion
- multipart/form-data form is used only for slices, where file upload is
set (based on Marek's suggestion from 17-th Nov) - ... and much more
