8. Available now, on-demand!
Register for this webinar today!
http://bit.ly/ektron-dxh-for-developers
• http://bit.ly/ektron-dxh-developer-webinar
9. New Content Editor
New v8.6 Editor
• Completely new editing engine
• Fast editing experience, loads quickly
• Runaway spacing resolved
• Handles copy + paste from Word very well
• Supports HTML5
12. What’s Available in Ektron
8.6? Microsoft Search Server 2010 Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint 2010
Highly relevant keyword queries
Enterprise scale
Searchable metadata & Smart Form fields
Robust CMS query APIs
Integration of external content sources
Did you mean?
Automatic query suggestions
Deep query refinement
Similarity search (“Find similar”)
Relevancy tuning with rank profiles
Supported in Ektron version 8.6
13. What’s Available in Ektron
8.5 Environment
8.6?
Ektron Ektron
Search Search
CMS Server Server
SharePoint
CMS
Service Service
Query Service
8.6 Environment
Ektron
Search
CMS Server
SharePoint
CMS
Service
Query Service
IIS Suggestion Service
Query Statistics
Service
14. What’s Available in Ektron
8.6?
• Single administrative interface
• Streamlined communication
• Minimized points of failure
• Query service isolation
• Query services no longer restricted by SharePoint performance constraints.
• Ease and flexibility of deployment
• IIS site vs. SharePoint solution
• Indexing enhancements
• Schema changes to ensure index field uniqueness
• Streamlined property creation, crawl process
• Fewer restrictions on Search Server configuration
16. Changes to Aliasing
Architectural changes
• Before: aliasing engine was based on materialized
views, which were precomputed as the underlying
data was modified
• Now: Two primary tables: mapping table and rules
table
Most immediate impact
• eSync performance – only moving rules (10-50% of
previous cost was moving aliases)
• Search – primary URL (quicklink) is indexed
18. Server Controls
• Ektron Templated
Server Controls
• Ektron UI
Controls
• Ektron Server
Controls
19.
20. Framework API Addition
• Dozen or so tweaks & updates
• Framework API additions
var aliasData =
AliasManager.GetTarget(url, 1033);
var contentData =
contentManger.getItem(aliasData.TargetId);
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