What

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Whats new in Kentico CMS 5.0 Michal
NeuwirthProduct ManagerKentico Software

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New Design of Administration UI
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Widgets

• Allows to personalize specific parts of the page
• Every Web part can be set as the Widget
• There are separate groups of Widgets for
• Group administrators of the group in the social
  networking site
• Content editors
• Web site visitors
• Drag Drop widgets between widget zones
• Web parts zones widgets zones could be mixed at
  one page
• Support of personalized user homepages

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Widgets administration
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Widgets security
Permissions per each group
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Adding new widget
Selecting web part that the widget will be based
on
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Add widget on site
Widget options etc.
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Widgets for Content Authors (edit mode)
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UI Personalization

• Provides the ability to allow particular feature
  of CMSDesk, SiteManager and WYSIWYG Editor per
  given role
• The administrator can enable different features
  for each role, e.g.
• Web designers can access only web-design based
  features
• Authorized users can access only My Desk
• .

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UI Personalization
No administration tab
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Media

• Media files are no longer limited to 2GB size
• YouTube dialog can now insert video with HD
  playback
• New Media Library UI design

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Portal Engine

• Editable web parts can now remember content even
  if their ID is changed
• Web part properties now have category anchors for
  better navigation
• New "Add web part" dialog

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Controls

• File uploader can now inherit the allowed
  extensions from settings like direct uploader
• Menu controls have now column list settings in
  their properties, to reduce the amount of
  processed data
• Flash web part now supports additional flash
  parameters

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CMSDesk

• Listing mode now supports more bulk operations
  (Copy, Move, Delete, Publish)
• Content editing interface now fully supports time
  zones
• Drag and drop in content tree (Move, Copy, Link,
  Reorder)

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Database and scalability

• Review of the UI and modifications to allow
  extreme-sized projects to be well managed,
  includes
• New and better selectors for all modules
• New object filters and dynamic displaying of the
  filters for large lists of items
• Better performance of the UI
• Tested for 100,000 pages 1,000,000 registered
  users
• SQL Server
• No more SQL Server 2000 support
• Support of Merge replications

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Workflow

• Workflow now cannot be deleted with some
  documents using it (to avoid inconsistencies)
  list of documents using specific workflow
• Side-by-side comparison of two document versions

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APIs

• Email
• API now supports ReplyTo field of an e-mail
• Resource manager
• Support for API string (out-of-Kentico
  applications may work with the API and display
  string even without resource strings available)
• Ecommerce
• Extended API for better manipulation with orders

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Membership

• Global administrator can now impersonate himself
  as another user without knowing his credentials

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Active Directory Import Tool

• Powerful tool for importing users groups from
  Active Directory into Kentico CMS
• In few steps you select users, groups, fields
  etc. for the import mapping these users into
  Kentico CMS groups

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Staging

• Complete synchronization now runs with
  asynchronous log
• Staging tasks are now logged asynchronously,
  which decreases the response time of the editing
  UI
• Support for bidirectional staging (whether the
  updates from staging client should log as staging
  task or not)
• Staging now also supports staging of physical
  media files smaller than configured limit
• Support for staging of custom tables data

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Other improvements I.

• General
• Worker thread asynchronous logs are now much more
  efficient in communication with server
• Reviewed file structure of some modules
• FCKEditor updated latest version (2.6.5)
• CMSConnectionScope and CMSTransactionScope for
  better handling of connections and transactions
  in your code
• URL Rewriting
• New settings

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Other improvements II.

• Installation
• Installer can now handle UAC on Vista and Windows
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• Booking events
• Management interface now fully supports time
  zones, which is also shown on sample site
  transformation
• Newsletter
• Improved re-initialization after error
• Scheduler
• New scheduled task for garbage collector to keep
  the process memory low
• New scheduled task for newsletter sending process
  re-initialization
• Web farms
• Configurable file size limit for the web farm
  synchronization of the Media files
• Import / export
• The list of import packages can now be easily
  refreshed

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How to reach us?

• http//www.facebook.com/KenticoCMS
• http//www.twibes.com/group/Kentico
• http//kentico.uservoice.com/
• Suggest new Kentico CMS features

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• http//www.kentico.com
• http//devnet.kentico.com/home.aspx