2. Sources of requirements…
• Strategic
– Strategic goals
– Market review
• Customers
– Current clients
– Joint development with selected clients
• New Sales
– From specific tenders & new sales
• Internal
– Professional Services
– Client Support
– R&D
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3. Main Functional Themes & Measures for V7
Four functional areas:
1. Revised User Interface & Editor
2. Content Creation Enhancements
3. Developer & Partner Productivity
4. Enhanced Community via Extranet
Four key measures:
– Ease Of Use, Value, Productivity, Community
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4. What we put in 7.0.04
• Released following 3 beta cycles
• Released: June 14
• Many new features
– New User Interface
– Direct edit
– New TinyMCE based editor
– Webdav support
– Enhanced media library & tools
– External sources
– Shipped Sample data
– Accessibility checker
– SEO checker
– New reports
– Clustered server support
– New documentation
– Many other enhancements
– Web Services
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5. Ongoing Releases since 7.0.004
• 7.0.005 Added • 7.0.007/7.008 added
– Publish section now – Personalisation & access control
– External link checking – Improved SEO
– Section metadata template
– Improved External Link checking
– Section details navigation object
– Archive Sections
– Ability to output section/content
link URLs – Sample Internationalisation pack
– Access keys for tab selection (Welsh)
– Related content grandchildren – External link checker in UI
– A-Z navigation sitemap – Publish filename in link
– Lock template formatters / styles – Sample data updates (new
– Spell checker (section names) examples)
• 7.0.006 added
– Don’t republish media
– Keywords Nav Object
– Secondary language channel
– Multi select Lists
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6. To do short term, 7.0.9
• Ongoing revision releases & bug fixes
• Proposed Features
– Filenames for full text
– Serena Collage CMS converter (enhancements)
– Widgets & Dashboard (easier to add new widgets)
– Publication performance report
– Improved accessibility report
– Nav stats & media stats (& warnings)
– Bundles phase 1
– HTML to bundles convertor
– Immediate publish on eforms submission
– Unlock locked assets by admin
– SOAP web services
• Timescales
• December / January
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7. To do short term, 7.10
• Ongoing revision releases & bug fixes
• Proposed Features
– Bundles phase 2
– Multi-threaded publishing
• One thread per language being published.
• File IO performed in a separate thread to remove potential
bottleneck.
– Per Template Formatter output caching
• Save generated output on a per-formatter basis for
subsequent publishes.
– Further dashboard/widget support
– Caching of Content objects to save on Database access /
processing during publish.
• Timescales
• Q1 2011
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8. Longer term development activities (6-9 months)
• Improved Search within CMS
• Analytics Integration
• Server Parsed Scripting language in formatters / styles / etc.
• Cluster performance tuning & reporting
• Default archive dates
• Multiple formatters
• Shibboleth security & CAS support
• Eforms Redevelopment
• Workflow enhancements
• Polls & blogging improvements
• Cloud tuning
• Improved Mobile support
• UI based mechanism to manage versions of templates / styles
• Subject to alteration based on client needs
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9. Ongoing development themes
• Personalisation
– Author & server content for target groups
• Security
– Sign on etc. & integration with personalisation
• Usability
– User Interface & User experience
• Performance
– Publication performance (fine grained & overall publish)
– Clustering, cloud performance etc.
• Analytics & reporting
– SEO, Accessibility, A/B testing, etc.
• Developer productivity
– Eforms
– Web Services / SOAP
• Integration
– 3rd party & developer support
– Content Import / Export framework
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10. Potential Discussion: Reorganised Nav Objects
• Combine numerous Nav objects into one
“Content Aggregator”
– Top content
– Related content
– etc.
• Provide options for display of results
– Paginated
– XML output
– etc.
• Discuss....
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11. Potential Discussion: Active / Inactive / Draft
• How can I have “work in progress”
• Possibly allow authors to save content in
draft state
– Currently pending goes into workflow once
submitted
– How many drafts are stored?
– Can other authors see my drafts?
– Flag content ready for approval (message?)
• Include comments on what’s changed in
content
– Manual entry by authors for reviews etc.
• Discuss....
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12. Potential Discussion: Reworked eForms
• Proposing to redevelop current eForms /
xForms
– Add eforms anywhere
• Develop in conjunction with clients?
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13. Potential Discussion: Finer grained user roles
• Mentioned by some clients....
– Tailor roles based on implementation
• Develop in conjunction with clients?
• Discuss...
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14. Potential Discussion: Workflow
• Requires revisiting
• Main issues
– Format of messages
– Integrated translation workflow
– Flexibility of control
• Develop in conjunction with clients?
• Discuss...
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15. Potential Discussion: Security
• Ongoing activity
• Complete Shibboleth work
• CAS Support
• Others?
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16. What would you like to see?
• These are our ideas & suggestions
• What would you like to see?
• Over to you....
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17. Next steps
• Feedback from working groups
• Updated roadmap to be published on
Extranet
• Suggestions to be incorporated into
product planning sessions
• Any further suggestions can be raised
via Extranet or with Client Support
• Ongoing feedback sessions with clients
– TERMINALFOUR staff always available to
discuss specific requirements
– Health Check sessions available
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