What’s new in Silva 1.4

CSS W3C Compliant

All Silva CSS files now follow W3C recommendations.

Kupu Text Editor

• right hand sidebar with editing options refined with collapsible headings
  
• spell checking
  
• warning message if an author tries to leave Kupu without saving content.  The message asks if you wish to save before leaving the page.

Language Settings

Users can set their preferred language on the user settings page if the Placeless Translation Service has been installed.  This preference expires after 12 months.

Metadata Sets

Metadata sets can have a ‘category’ property.  This property can be used to define special purpose metadata sets.

Display in Table of Contents Option

In the Properties tab a box can be checked  to allow the content to be displayed or hidden in the Table of Contents.

User Interface Updates

• content workspace now has a sidebar displaying siblings of the item in the current folder.
  
• a publish now button has been added to almost all screens where a user may want to publish, including contents, preview, public preview, properties and its subscreens.
  
• users can close and publish (now) content in the contents screen.
  

WebDAV

Silva can now be accessed by a WebDAV Client.  An author can use their WebDAV connection to:

• browse the contents of the server
  
• retrieve contents
  
• creating new folders (MKDIR will create a Silva Folder, not a  publication, currently)
• move existing Silva objects
• copy existing Silva objects
• upload content of an unknown file type, the result will be a  Silva File object
• upload images, resulting in Silva Image types being added
• upload HTML, which should result in creation of a Silva Document
• uploading XML with a .slv extension, this should result in creation  of a Silva Document
• uploading HTML or Silva XML (.slv) to an existing Silva Document

However use the Silva interface directly to:

• lock content
• control versioning of content
• to set and retrieve metadata

Further information on using Zope and WebDAV with Dreamweaver and other editors is available from http://www.zope.org/Members/ike/dreamweaver/DAV