From 2e5a988f4654ba3dc793679c5f4cb2c41b372042 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: GuySartorelli <36352093+GuySartorelli@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 22:12:57 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] DOC Add blurbs about several new features to 4.11 changelog --- docs/en/04_Changelogs/4.11.0.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/en/04_Changelogs/4.11.0.md b/docs/en/04_Changelogs/4.11.0.md index 6946d1175..dd4638b41 100644 --- a/docs/en/04_Changelogs/4.11.0.md +++ b/docs/en/04_Changelogs/4.11.0.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ - [Regression test and Security audit](#audit) - [Dropping support for PHP 7.3](#phpeol) - [Features and enhancements](#features-and-enhancements) + - [Preview any DataObject in any admin section](#cms-preview) + - [Other features](#other-features) - [Bugfixes](#bugfixes) - [Internal API changes](#internal-api-changes) @@ -21,6 +23,19 @@ In accordance with our [PHP support policy](/Getting_Started/Server_Requirements ## Features and enhancements {#features-and-enhancements} +### Preview any DataObject in any admin section {#cms-preview} + +The CMS preview panel has historically been available for `Versioned` `DataObject`s in the Pages admin section. This has now been expanded to allow any `DataObject` (regardless of whether it uses the`Versioned` extension) to be previewed in any section of the CMS. + +This can be used to allow content authors to see the content they are creating in the context it will be presented to users. Example use cases include previewing `DataObject`s which belong to a page (e.g. the [dnadesign/silverstripe-elemental module](https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-elemental) allows previewing elemental blocks which are not inline-editable), and previewing `DataObject`s in a custom admin section, such as templates for emails or system-generated PDF documents. + +The [Preview Documentation](https://docs.silverstripe.org/en/4/developer_guides/customising_the_admin_interface/preview/) has been updated with code examples which show how to enable CMS preview on `DataObject`s in a couple of different scenarios. + +### Other new features {#other-features} + +- A new [AbstractGridFieldComponent](https://api.silverstripe.org/4/SilverStripe/Forms/GridField/AbstractGridFieldComponent.html) class has been added to make it easier to globally add fundamental functionality to `GridFieldComponent`s. All classes packaged with the Silverstripe framework which implement the `GridFieldComponent` interface are subclasses of the new abstract class, making them all `Injectable`. Maintainers of third-party packages which include classes that implement `GridFieldComponent` are encouraged to subclass the `AbstractGridFieldComponent` abstract class. +- New options have been added to the [dnadesign/silverstripe-elemental module](https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-elemental) to control what content is indexed for searching elemental blocks. see [the documentation](https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-elemental/blob/4/docs/en/searching-blocks.md) for details. + ## Bugfixes {#bugfixes}