Release 5 of Document Exchange is here. In response to requests for a user interface that is simpler and easier to configure we have developed the templated UI. You can configure the module to use either the default Ajax UI, which comes as close to the Windows Explorer as can be in a web application, or to use the new TemplateView UI. This new UI uses DNN’s token replace to fill HTML templates with the contents of your repository. This is not only highly configurable, it is also lightning fast.
Because of our philosophy to ‘share the content across the portal’ you can now use the powerful Ajax UI for a select group of users that interact often and prefer this interface, while showing the template UI to occasional viewers that are more interested in browsing through content and downloading. The extra benefit is that you’ll be able to make it look however you want now. There are no restrictions to how you shape your HTML. The available tokens for the content are documented in an included file on the help menu.
You can even make it display a category browser. This means you can have users navigate through the content using the category tree instead of the folder tree. And you can of course do all of these things in a single portal. Every document exchange instance looks into the same document tree, so you can create several points of entry, each serving a particular purpose.
Other new features
Export
A script has been added that exports all of DMX’s content to regular folders and files on your server’s hard disk.
Unzip upon upload
Zip up content, upload, and have it expand to folders and files.
IPortable implementation
Due to the ‘portal wide content’ approach of DMX, the IPortable implementation was never going to be simple (IPortable assumes the content of a module is unique across the portal). There now is an implementation which will recreate folders, files, categories, etc. and tries to use existing users and roles to set up permissions. This should be the best attempt yet to allow this type of module to be included in a portal template and have it include content, too.
Etc
- A new upload component
- A web.config editor for superuser accounts that sets important parameters
- Root category (just as root folder) set for a DMX instance
Upgrading
Existing users of Document Exchange 4 with a license within the limits of the service date can upgrade for free. You can download the module from the Bring2mind website or through your reseller channel. The upgrade is seamless and requires the host to upload the module on the module definitions page as any other DNN module.