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Happy July! Today we’re happy to announce datAvenger 4.3, the latest version of our full-featured content management system datAvenger. In this latest release we’ve focused our efforts on text page editing (known as Standard Content to dA users). We wanted to incorporate some of the feedback we’d received from our clients and make editing as straight-forward as possible.

Although there are are dozens of enhancements and fixes throughout the entire datAvenger application, I just wanted to run through some of the biggest changes.

Auto-drafts

Has this situation ever happened to you? You’ve got a lot to do on a Standard Content page. You sit down, finish all your work, and hit the Save button. All of a sudden, you’re redirected back to the login page… and your changes didn’t save! datAvenger’s login security features occasionally made large edits difficult to do.

Starting in datAvenger 4.3, a copy of your Standard Content changes are saved automatically every two minutes. Though you still need to press the Save button to confirm your changes to a page, datAvenger saves auto-drafts within the version listing of every Standard Content page. To access these drafts, click on the icon of the file cabinet in a Standard Content page’s article list.

While you’re in the version list, you now can click on the Preview icon next to any version to bring up a full preview of that version’s content.

If you have a lot to do on a page, we still highly recommend that you use the Save and Continue Editing button in Standard Content to save your work every few minutes. In any case, datAvenger’s Standard Content auto-drafts are your backup!

Spell checking

That’s right - Standard Content page editors now have a spell check built right in. When you’re done with a page, click on the new ABC checkmark in the toolbar to make sure everything is spelled correctly. Don’t forget to save your changes!

A new, but familiar, toolbar

You may notice that the toolbar in the Standard Content editor looks a bit different. Don’t worry… all of your buttons are still there. We’ve reorganized the toolbar so that most formatting functions are on the top row and more advanced functions are on the bottom.

From the top

We’ve tightened up the editor in a lot of ways for this version. That makes it a lot easier for us to work with the editor code for the future, but it’s also great for you. If you ever had a sticky popup window that wouldn’t close or a style that took a few tries to apply, you’ll notice that these quirks have disappeared in this version.

We upgrade datAvenger installations regularly (for free) to keep sites up-to-date the latest features and bug fixes, and we’ll start updating existing dA sites very soon. We’ve been testing this latest version for months and are excited to get it out the door.

These latest editor updates will make it even easier for us to give you the best editor possible in the future. As always, if you have any questions or issues, give us a call at (207) 262-5040 or e-mail support@datavenger.com!

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