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webCOMAND 4webCOMAND 4 Roadmap
The following key features will be added in webCOMAND 4.x releases.
Refine webCOMAND UI & Core Apps (4.0)
- App-Focused Header
- Top-left icon becomes active app menu (left icon in header).
- Active app title appears after app menu/icon when there is room.
- Move Apps menu to right sidebar as full-height cPath View with search and view option.
- Content App - Merge Bases and Content Manager into Content App, as detailed in mock-up.
- The Content App icon will be the webCOMAND Logo to maintain the current look when in the Content App (typically the default app).
- The Content App menu will slide in/out the left panel (especially useful on Mobile).
- Remove left "gutter" menu. Instead, Bases becomes the initial view in the Content App with navigation back to it in left panel title bar. The API is just a separate app. Other planned plugins will also be implemented as separate apps in the future.
- Add option to add a Base from Template (from Market).
- Add option to add a Content Type from Template (from Market).
- Refine Content Type Editor (CTE) with floating Add Field button and "bake stage" shaded look to clearly differentiate from Form View.
- Add shortcuts to CTE modes to optional right toolbar in Form View, including: Edit Field, Edit Type, Edit cTemplates and new Edit Model mode that makes it easy to add/edit a content type's PHP model.
- Add optional right toolbar to collection views, and include CTE shortcuts when collection is for a single content type.
- Improve Repositories App
- Add options to initialize, replicate and manage multiple repository and backups from the user interface and CLI.
- Add feature to review revisions and their corresponding changes.
Market (4.1)
Preliminary Market App to make it possible to:
- Find - Browse and search all webCOMAND packages in a simple "store" view.
- Manage - Download, install, update and remove packages from package page.
- Auto-Update - Ability to subscribe to a package channel (e.g. "none", "stable", "release candidates", "nightly builds") for automatic updates.
- Purchase - Ability to purchase one-time and subscription packages, with credit card.
Method UIs (4.2)
Add Method UIs, which are essentially buttons in the UI that provide access to content type method calls. When a method takes parameters, a form view will display where the parameters can be specified using the standard form widgets that match the parameter field types.
File / Content Interchange (4.3)
Add features to make it easier to import and export Files/Content in to and out of a repository.
- File Types - Add File Types Content Type, which define how to import/export files to a specific Content Type, with support for multiple (a single default and optional Content Types).
- Drag-and-drop In - Update Tree, List, Grid and Form views to accept drag-and-drop files, to automatically import into the target folder or field. If a File is dragged to a Content Type within Tree View, it will import to that Content Type, even if it is not the default for the file type.
- Drag-and-drop Out - Update Tree, List and Grid views to support dragging objects/folders out to the desktop, which will trigger the download of an export (zip of files for a folder). Will fallback to cJSON export if no Data Format is defined.
- File System Monitor - Add daemon process to monitor the file system for updates and automatically update mapped repository content.
Content & File Sync (4.4)
Improve performance, reliability and options of import, export and sync (Pull Settings) functionality.
- Content Sync - Add content sync web service and web hook to make it easy to monitor and be notified of changes to a repository, collection or query results (including a batch of queries), as well as receive and apply those changes to another repository or data store.
- File Sync - Add file sync web service and web hook to make it easy to monitor and be notified of changes to a file system or folder (recursively), as well as receive and apply those changes to another system. "Dropbox for webCOMAND".
- Repositories App - Add features to define on-going sync operations to replicate and sync live/fail-over systems.
- Content App - Add features to define one-time and on-going sync of content collections within a repository. Master, slave and bi-direction sync options, as well as general rules for how to automatically resolve conflicts, and email conflict notifications that may require manual attention or intervention.
- Files App - Add features to define one-time and on-going sync of files and folders.
Improve Views (4.5)
- Version Control - Improve user experience for version control, including:
- Optional content-level locking (instead of just per field locking).
- Restore previously deleted content (aka "undelete").
- Allow authorized users to approve, save and cancel content and fields updated and still locked by other users.
- Collaboration - Improve collaboration features with contextual notes/messages in RTE and object sidebar, and add simple messaging features to main webCOMAND Profile sidebar.
- Performance - Improve performance of the various collection views (List, Grid, Tree, Gallery, Map and Calendar), including search. Load all views quickly, even for collections of millions of items, with efficient server-side clustering in Map and Calendar views.
- Dynamic UI - Improve daemon, web socket server and all views to dynamically update to reflect repository changes more efficiently and thoroughly.
Page View (4.6)
Add new View for SitesWebPage+ (or anything with a List Field of SiteComponent+), which "renders" Sections of the Web Page into WYSIWYG editable sections in the view. Click a section to display the corresponding Section object in Form View in the right sidebar. The rendered section comes from the component's EditHTML content type cTemplate, which can add a custom menu and editing features, such as inline Rich Text Editor for Rich Text, drag-and-drop files for Rich Text and Image, Image and Attachment components. More inline editors will be added in the future.