What's new in MySource Matrix
12 Oct 2009 11:30am
The new MySource Matrix 3.24.1 release has introduced some very exciting new features, with some of them listed below. You can download the new release here or, if you are interested in reading a full changelog, you can do that here.
Base Contexts per URL
Site URLs can be configured with a "Base Context" which defines the initial context used for assets created underneath. This is configured from the URLs screen of Site assets.
Context Previews
Content can now be viewed on the "Preview" screen of an asset under a specific context by selecting the context from a drop-down list. This performs similarly to existing lists which allow previews to be displayed under different designs.
An HTTP GET variable SQ_CONTEXT_NAME can be used similarly to SQ_DESIGN_NAME to show content temporarily in a different context away from the "Preview" screen.
Additional "Contextable" Asset Types
Elements of assets such as Calendar Events, Site Map and those that list assets via Listing Engine (Search Page, Asset Listing etc.) now have either "contextable" elements or are aware of asset types which may provide alternate contexts.
The most likely implementation of context aware assets would be to provide language varients for some content (eg; bodycopy) and attribute elements. These modifications ensure that context-specific data is loaded from cache, where appropriate, or sourced via the Context System.
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