boccio
06-02-2009, 03:27 PM
I’m happy to announce that we just released Vivvo 4.1.5 patch (build 3714).
Apart from regular maintenance bug fixes and certain performance improvements based on feedback from our valuable community, there is one key reason why this release is very important for all of us at Spoonlabs.
We just introduced two exceptionally important components in the very core of the system, making a giant leap towards improving Vivvo’s vigor and flexibility.
Those two components are topics and schedules. Before I move on, I just need to emphasize that this minor release does not bring interface and templates for modules supported by this core improvements – this will happen in plug-ins we prepare for next two months and of course, in next v4.2 release. We introduced this functionality to Vivvo core (framework) and at this point you will be able to take advantage of that using series of plug-ins that will be released soon.
Developers will be able to take advantage of these core improvements for own plug-ins and improvements using developer documentation, and this will be discussed separately on our Developer forum.
Topics will dramatically improve control over published content, letting you group tags into topics and have individual templates (landing pages) for each topic. This will let you manipulate content more freely than just being able to have cross-category posting feature. This opens numerous possibilities and to name one of them I will refer to people-venue-event paradigm that is very popular in online magazines. Those three entities are basically topics you populate with tags. Let’s say I just published an article about Google Wave and I want to take advantage on this paradigm. Here’s what I do, I create those three topics (only for the first time, of course), and populate with tags:
People: Lars Rasmussen, Jens Rasmussen, Stephanie Hannon
Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco
Event: Google I/O
Of course, every article can be searched using any of desired parameters (tags or entire topics).
To shed more light on this concept, I will make another example. I have an article about iPhone, published under category “Technology”. The category in Vivvo is basically a template carrier and carries information about page structure and layout. Naturally, layout and page elements for “technology” can differ substantially from content published in “politics”. This iPhone article will be stored under topics “Apple” and “Smartphones”, and tagged “iPhone” in both. So you have basically same tag in different topics: Apple -> iPhone and Smartphone - > iPhone. Using this paradigm, you can serve related content in iPhone article from both other Apple products and other Smartphones, therefore cross-relating content. And finally, since I mentioned at the beginning that each topic can have own carrier template (similar to categories), you can compose page layout for “Smartphones” and “Apple” differently.
There will be more detailed screen cast on this complex concept next week, when we launch our new Resource Center, taking advantage on these features.
Second important component I mentioned is schedule.
Schedule introduces one very, very useful axes to published articles – time. Using schedule you will be able to define not only future publishing date for articles (you can do that even now), but also duration and recurrence. In other words, you can publish an article that will “start” on June 10th at 8pm, last for 85 minutes and repeat every 7 days.
Cool, huh :)
In other words, this will open door to plug-ins such as TV schedule/program, Radio schedule/program, Event calendar (together with topics), various sports fixtures and tables (football, basketball games, etc.) and much, much more. We already plan on releasing couple of plug-ins based on this concept.
And of course, the usual stuff…
The patch can be downloaded from the Client area (https://www.vivvo.net/orders/client_login.php), be sure to make a backup of your site/database when you update, and also be sure to correctly replace your files on your server. View changelog (http://www.vivvo.net/changelog.php) for detailed information on this patch.
Have fun with Vivvo :)
Apart from regular maintenance bug fixes and certain performance improvements based on feedback from our valuable community, there is one key reason why this release is very important for all of us at Spoonlabs.
We just introduced two exceptionally important components in the very core of the system, making a giant leap towards improving Vivvo’s vigor and flexibility.
Those two components are topics and schedules. Before I move on, I just need to emphasize that this minor release does not bring interface and templates for modules supported by this core improvements – this will happen in plug-ins we prepare for next two months and of course, in next v4.2 release. We introduced this functionality to Vivvo core (framework) and at this point you will be able to take advantage of that using series of plug-ins that will be released soon.
Developers will be able to take advantage of these core improvements for own plug-ins and improvements using developer documentation, and this will be discussed separately on our Developer forum.
Topics will dramatically improve control over published content, letting you group tags into topics and have individual templates (landing pages) for each topic. This will let you manipulate content more freely than just being able to have cross-category posting feature. This opens numerous possibilities and to name one of them I will refer to people-venue-event paradigm that is very popular in online magazines. Those three entities are basically topics you populate with tags. Let’s say I just published an article about Google Wave and I want to take advantage on this paradigm. Here’s what I do, I create those three topics (only for the first time, of course), and populate with tags:
People: Lars Rasmussen, Jens Rasmussen, Stephanie Hannon
Venue: Moscone Center, San Francisco
Event: Google I/O
Of course, every article can be searched using any of desired parameters (tags or entire topics).
To shed more light on this concept, I will make another example. I have an article about iPhone, published under category “Technology”. The category in Vivvo is basically a template carrier and carries information about page structure and layout. Naturally, layout and page elements for “technology” can differ substantially from content published in “politics”. This iPhone article will be stored under topics “Apple” and “Smartphones”, and tagged “iPhone” in both. So you have basically same tag in different topics: Apple -> iPhone and Smartphone - > iPhone. Using this paradigm, you can serve related content in iPhone article from both other Apple products and other Smartphones, therefore cross-relating content. And finally, since I mentioned at the beginning that each topic can have own carrier template (similar to categories), you can compose page layout for “Smartphones” and “Apple” differently.
There will be more detailed screen cast on this complex concept next week, when we launch our new Resource Center, taking advantage on these features.
Second important component I mentioned is schedule.
Schedule introduces one very, very useful axes to published articles – time. Using schedule you will be able to define not only future publishing date for articles (you can do that even now), but also duration and recurrence. In other words, you can publish an article that will “start” on June 10th at 8pm, last for 85 minutes and repeat every 7 days.
Cool, huh :)
In other words, this will open door to plug-ins such as TV schedule/program, Radio schedule/program, Event calendar (together with topics), various sports fixtures and tables (football, basketball games, etc.) and much, much more. We already plan on releasing couple of plug-ins based on this concept.
And of course, the usual stuff…
The patch can be downloaded from the Client area (https://www.vivvo.net/orders/client_login.php), be sure to make a backup of your site/database when you update, and also be sure to correctly replace your files on your server. View changelog (http://www.vivvo.net/changelog.php) for detailed information on this patch.
Have fun with Vivvo :)