User interface functionality introduced in SDL Tridion 2013 SP1
A list of new functionality and features introduced in the Content Manager Explorer and Experience Manager interfaces in SDL Tridion 2013 SP1.
- New look-and-feel
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SDL Tridion 2013 SP1 comes with a new visual design theme, which includes new icons and a new color scheme.
- Slide-out navigation
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The slide-out navigation pane replaces the navigation previously found in the Dashboard (now defunct) and also includes a new Sites screen which provides an overview of your SDL Tridion-based Web sites.
The slide-out navigation pane displays the navigation options for your SDL Application: it slides into view when you click the icon in the top left-hand corner of the user interface, and slides back in (becomes hidden) after you have selected a menu option.
If you have multiple SDL Applications for managing various aspects of your customer experience, the slide-out navigation groups your SDL Applications together so that you can switch seamlessly from one to another (see Application Host below).
- Application Host
- The slide-out navigation pane is implemented using the Application Host. The Application Host is a Web page that creates iframes and loads SDL applications into these iframes. You can add application references to the Application Host running in the SDL Tridion Web site to create a single URL from which users can access all their SDL applications.
- Adding, removing and reordering values in multivalue embedded fields in Experience Manager
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Before SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, end users could edit the subfields of a multivalue embedded field, but they could not modify the values in the multivalue field: that is, they could not add a new embedded field to the list, remove an existing embedded field from the list, or move embedded fields around in the list. As of SDL Tridion 2013 SP1, such modifications are possible and enabled out of the box in new templates. However, to enable these modifications in your existing templates, you must change your calls to the
RenderComponentField()method in those templates and then republish them. - Web page in Experience Manager automatically refreshes after a change in a Form View dialog
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The editable Web page now responds to changes made in the dialog in which the user edits content in Form View.
- Fully selectable breadcrumb in Experience Manager
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It is now possible to select, for example, the Page, a Component and a Field in the breadcrumb trail.
- Context Expression Extension
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If SDL Tridion is integrated with SDL CMA, Target Groups with a Context Expression tab can appear in Content Manager Explorer. Users can publish such Target Groups.
- Safeguard
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A Safeguard compatibility update for the ActiveStandards QuickCheck September 2013 release was implemented.