TemplaVoila 1.4.2 released

Posted: March 16th, 2010 | Author: | Tags: , , | 5 Comments »

Yesterday the 2nd team release of TemplaVoila was uploaded into the TER. It’s basically a maintenance release which fixes more than 100 bugs. But since we haven’t been that straight distinguishing between bug and usability feature, you’ll see a couple of new things within this release.

The high level release notes are:

  • page module is now customizable with CSS and JavaScript
  • handling of static data structures are improved and fully working now
  • wizards are improved, new page wizard is more explaining
  • visual cleanups
  • new hooks for eTypes (elements added by mapping interface)
  • new classes for preview in page module, easy to override by extensions
  • added missing localisations
  • enhanced drag-and-drop in page module
  • over 100 Bugs are fixed
  • updated manual

During the installation your TYPO3 Extension Manager will ask to perform a couple of database upgrades. These upgrades aren’t really critical because they just enlarge some database fields, which will make sure that your data really fit’s in.

Just to point one thing out – especially the page module has been improved to be more flexible in certain parts.

These lines of TSConfig can be used to add CSS or JavaScript into the page module and enable easy customizations:

mod.web_txtemplavoilaM1.stylesheet = ../fileadmin/css/tvpagemodule.css

mod.web_txtemplavoilaM1.javascript {
  file1 = ../fileadmin/templates/js/jquery.js
  file2 = ../fileadmin/templates/css/backend.js
}

Further customizations is provided using the “mod.web_txtemplavoilaM1.blindIcons” configuration or with individual content preview classes (configured though “$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXTCONF']['templavoila']['mod1']['renderPreviewContent']” – see ext_localconf.php).

We haven’t discussed what the direction for the next versions really looks like. From my perspective better TYPO3 integration, some kind of code cleanup and also the integration of some features which arise with TYPO3 4.4 will be somehow on our schedule. But since TemplaVoila isn’t a one man show anymore, this isn’t just my decision and in addition I’d like to encourage everyone to send feedback, bugfixes or new features just to give us an impression what you like or dislike in the current version.

Last but not least, I’d like to thank everyone who was somehow involved in the release, especially Steffen Kamper who shared lot of inspiration and who has spent many hours to debug and fix some really tricky issues.

5 Comments on “TemplaVoila 1.4.2 released”

  1. 1 Chris Müller said at 12:58 pm on March 16th, 2010:

    Hi,
    the PageTSConfig mod.web_txtemplavoilaM1.stylesheet.file1 = ../fileadmin/css/tvpagemodule.css doesn’t work. What works is mod.web_txtemplavoilaM1.stylesheet = ../fileadmin/css/tvpagemodule.css. But then the “normal” templavoila stylesheet is overwritten. Also mod.web_txtemplavoilaM1.stylesheet is documented in the open office file. But it would be nice to have that implemented ;-)
    Chris.

  2. 2 tolleiv said at 7:44 pm on March 16th, 2010:

    You’re right – I changed it … not sure why we decided to do it that way – I’m sure there was a good reason. But due to shorter publishing cycles you might see this soon in one of the next versions. :)

  3. 3 ZAREMA said at 1:49 pm on March 19th, 2010:

    Avtoru Spasibo bolsoe.

  4. 4 Jonas said at 6:05 pm on March 22nd, 2010:

    Thank you for your great work on TemplaVoila! Thank you for pushing TemplaVoila, also pushing through some old ‘stopping walls’…

    We support you!

  5. 5 Norman said at 9:32 pm on March 22nd, 2010:

    drag + drop = awesome :)