
The client-side caching has been revamped in Enonic CMS 4.4. In previous versions, a client was instructed to cache an element for a specific period only, and changes to the element was detected after this timer had expired. Now, bandwith-consuming data like images and files are cached locally "forever", but changes to the data will...
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Visualizing data often requires server-side programming, perhaps generating images of graphs, pie charts or bar charts. Depending on the type of visualization, this can make it expensive and time consuming. The Google Visualization API is a JavaScript API that quite eazily allows you to visualize data in various ways, without any...
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In this article I will briefly describe the user preferences feature that is implemented in Vertical Site 4.3. I will illustrate how to use this in datasources, userservices and the Java API.
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The search functionality in Enonic CMS was completely rewritten for version 4.3. As a result, the options for creating specialized searches improved, and most types of searches enjoyed a performance boost, while backward compatibility was maintained, one hundred percent.
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Although HTML, CSS and Javascript are technologies that are easy to get started with, they do not provide high-level components as is common with GUI frameworks for desktop applications. Luckily there has been a lot of progress in user interface frameworks for rich Internet applications the last few years. In this article we will show...
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Dynamic languages have been gaining a lot of popularity over the last few years, and Ruby seems to be one of the languages attracting many Java developers. In this article, we'll show how to access Vertical Site remotely in Ruby, using the SOAP interface for Vertical Site, and the soap4r library. All examples here are shown running in...
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Having forms on your site is one efficient way to gather/ask for input from your visitors. The form can be of any types such as leads, a questionaire, feedback on your products/services or maybe a simple quiz. When you know what data you need, it is just the matter of creating a new menu item and from there you can visually build the...
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A response filter is a code that filters any textural output from a redered page. The filter can do anything with the text, like replace some tokens. In this example I will illustrate the replacement of a token with some data. Binary responses will not be filtered by this plugin.
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In this article I will describe how to create a function library plugin. This plugin type extends the data source functionality by providing user-defined functions. Each class can implement multiple functions and are attached an installation-unique plugin key.
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Sometimes you need to expand the concept of metadata, and the Dublin Core standard is an easy match for Vertical Site.
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