 ACS Activities Channels
You can now assign a channel to an ACS Activity if you have Access ACS. Upon log in (using the same login as to Access ACS) the user can see the channel and its information only if they are part of that Activity in the ACS Database. This will automatically be available if you own Access ACS. When you create a channel, you can choose this option in the Restrictions dropdown.
This will give you a pop-up screen which allows you to select the Activity Elements. Select “Submit” when you have made all of your selections. Select “Save” for your Channel Information. You can now place content on this channel like any other channel.
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Article settings in User Profile
You can now set default settings for the Article Settings. This will be set per individual login. This, for example will allow you to decide if you want by default for all of your content to automatically be included in the site search. You can override these at any time when creating an article by going to the Settings tab. To set these options, select User Profile from the dropdown menu. Select the “Settings”tab. This screen now has the Article Settings listed as well as other default options you can set.
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Statistics
We will now provide basic statistical information on visits to your site based on your Channels. A “View Statistics” option is listed in the Channel Manager. This will open up a pop up that has a listing of the total hits as well as some averages.
There is an option at the top to export the information into a spreadsheet if you would like to save this information or provide it as a report. To reset any of the counters back to 0, select the row and then the Reset button at the top.
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Batch Upload
 You can now upload more than one item in to the Media Manager at a time by using the “Batch Upload Media” function. You will need to create a .zip file of all of the media you would like to upload. This does not have to be just one type of file but could be a variety of any of the file types that are accepted by the Media Manager. (If you have files in the .zip that are not accepted by the Media Manager it will not add those, but it will upload the acceptable file formats.)
Select the “Batch Upload Media” option inside of the Media Manager. This will give you a pop up screen where you can browse on your machine to the .zip file. You can place all of the media in the .zip file in a default category as well as provide keywords for them. If you wish to create image classes for all of the images within the .zip file, select the “Image Classes” option.
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Calendar Manager Update
Events can now be set up to span multiple days and the Start Time and End Time are now listed as dropdown menus so you can more easily set up events.
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Calendar Display Update
There is now a second option on how to display your Calendar View. Calendar Views can now be a “List View” or “Grid View”. The previous available view is titled “List View”.
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Syndicated Calendars
There is now the ability to share a calendar so that it can be shared across a Network. A site on a Network could then have a Calendar View that includes calendars from multiple sites. (Example use is for a Convention, Diocese, or Association to display several shared calendars.) To share a calendar across your Network, select the Network Syndication field in the Settings tab when creating or editing your calendar.
When adding a Calendar View on your site, all of the available Network Calendars (if there are any) will be listed along with your site’s calendars.
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RSS Include Flag
In the Article Settings, you can now set if you want a piece of content to be included in the RSS Feed for your channel. If you uncheck this field, the article will no be included in the feed.
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Content Security
In the Article Settings, you can now set if you want a piece of content to be marked as private. If this field is checked, the article can only be viewed when logged in to one of the Extend Group Channels. The article could not be accessed directly by content alias or the ID.
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Photo Gallery
 There is now an integrated Photo Gallery using some existing functionality in Media Manager and Categories.
Categories will be how albums are defined. You will first need to define at least one Category that you would like to place your photos in. This category will become an album, and images in this category will be displayed. Other media files can still exist in this category, but they will just not be displayed in the photo gallery. Sub-categories will become sub-albums.
For example, you can create a “Youth”, “Missions”, and “Children’s Ministry” Categories. Photos will need to be uploaded in to the Media Manager in to the categories. Make sure to select to “Create Image Classes” of your photos. The different sized images created for the image classes will be used to create the thumbnails and views of your photos. |
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To add a Photo Gallery on any channel, select the “New…”. This will give you all of the content options. Select the Photo Gallery icon. Note: The icon for photo gallery will not be visible unless a category has been added to media manager. Give your Photo Gallery a title. Select the “Categories” tab to select the Category you would like to include in the album. Photo Galleries will not show in the Site Manager. To view your Photo Gallery, you will need to go to the Preview or Live view of your site. If a photo is selected, the larger view of the photo is displayed by itself. The photos can be scrolled through by using the “next>>” option. There is the option to view the photos as a Slide show.
You can add another photo gallery on the same page by adding another piece of content that has a Photo Gallery in it. You can also display the same photo gallery in multiple places on your site. (For example, you might want the “Youth” photo gallery on the Photo Gallery channel as well as the Youth channel.)
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Private Channel Tracking
We will now track the Private Channels in Extend. These are now termed “Group Channels”. If you do not have Access ACS, these are channels set to “Staff” or “Member” access. If you have Access ACS, these are “Staff”, “Member”, “All Access ACS Users”, “ACS Group”, or “ACS Activity” channels. The channel manager will list how many of your available Group Channels you are using. Additional Group Channels (as well as other features) may be purchased through the Account Information screen. Each additional Group Channel also adds an additional available Extend Administrator in your User Manager which allows you to manage that Group Channel.
The included Group Channels for each plan are as follows:
siteExtend Basic – 0 Group Channels
siteExtend Plus – 5 Group Channels
siteExtend Pro – 20 Group Channels
siteExtend Group – 2 Group Channels
siteExtend Multi-Group - 20 Group Channels
siteExtend Entre renamed to siteExtend Basic
No features or pricing have been modified.
The History and Version tabs for Articles combined.
This is viewed when selecting “Preview Article” in Content Manager.
Field size for Full Abstract increased
This field will now allow up to 2,000 characters.
Update to the HTML Editor
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