The Product Solutions team has been busy working on some new advancements to Activedition, aimed at making the Users life easier. These include the introduction of bookmark anchor tags and draft site portals.
Bookmark anchors are hyperlinks used in web pages to link to another part of the page. They can be particularly useful in long documents to allow users to move around the page without the need for scrolling or to link to particular subject areas. Activedition now has a feature which makes creating bookmarks easy.
Users can insert bookmarks into a page using the current WYSIWYG editor in Activedition. A new option in the toolbar gives the user a pop-up box which allows them to select an ID for the bookmark. The bookmark is then added to the page, represented by a small anchor icon. The user can check the ID of each bookmark on the page by hovering over its icon. Another option in the toolbar allows the user to show or hide the location of all bookmarks on the page.
When a new bookmark is created, a link is automatically created for it and stored in the link library in Activedition. These links can be placed as per other Activedition links. Once placed, each link will take the user to the exact location of its corresponding bookmark. These links can be placed on the same page as its bookmark to allow quick navigation or on any other page in the site to link to specific subject areas.
A new feature in Activedition will allow the draft version of a website to be viewed via the delivery application. This would allow clients to have a current live website but also be able to preview or demo another version of the site which may include new content, new features or even a whole new re-branding of the site. This would be available without the need to log in to the Activedition management application. The user must still be a registered user within the site. They provide login details which will then open the site in draft mode.
Possible Scenario; A client has a website: www.livesite.com The client is developing an all new improved version of the current site to fit in with the re-branding and change of focus of the company. The company’s head of IT is summoned to a meeting with the board who want to see this amazing new website and give their approval. There is internet access but no Activedition or development tools etc. Head of IT can still show off the site as he has either set up a link from the existing site or even better, has set up www.newsite.com which allows the site to be viewed in draft mode.
