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webCOMAND 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.

Method UIs (4.1)

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.

Improve Views (4.2)

  • 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 (4.3)

Add new object 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.

Chart View (4.4)

Add new collection view to visualize objects in aggregate with various charts (e.g. bar, line and pie).

Market (4.5)

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.

File / Content Interchange (4.6)

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 (4.7)

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.

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