Transcript

00:09 hey guys so in this video I just wanted
00:10 to quickly uh ship an video about all
00:14 the various updates that are coming into
00:17 total CMS beta 7 okay um I'm not going
00:20 to dive into some of all the the code
00:22 there are some new macros check those
00:23 out in the release notes uh but here
00:26 we're just going to look at some of the
00:27 new stuff available in the dashboard
00:30 so first you notice that the homepage is
00:33 kind of redone it has a little bit more
00:34 content now we have the video for beta
60:38 this particular video will actually be
00:40 also on this page um when I ship this
00:44 okay um and you'll notice that a lot of
00:46 the pages now have a little bit more
00:47 content um just to give us a little bit
00:50 more um you know stuff some of the icons
00:53 have been updated as
00:55 well um and now in the utilities
00:58 actually some of these utilities these
01:00 actually work um so first off we have
01:03 the project setup and what this is
01:06 useful for is let's say if you're
01:08 launching a new project and um if you do
01:11 have a new project um this collections
01:13 view will actually be empty by default
01:16 and so what this project setup will do
01:19 is when you click on default setup you
01:21 can click on that and what it will do is
01:23 it will actually create all of the
01:25 default collections for you
01:27 automatically um it doesn't create any
01:29 objects in there but at least creates
01:30 all of the collections for you um so
01:33 that's a nice little automation uh next
01:35 is we have the cash cleaner this is if
01:38 um in production if you on after you
01:41 publish and everything is online um some
01:44 of the content some of the twig uh the
01:46 content that's generated by total CMS
01:48 does get cashed for performance so if
01:50 you ever see that you're not seeing the
01:52 data that you would think um there
01:54 probably going to be in some rare cases
01:56 um especially because if you publish uh
01:59 do a republish all the Clash will the
02:01 cach will always be cleared when you do
02:03 a republish all but this button allows
02:05 you to uh just click on that and it will
02:08 quickly clear all of the server cache uh
02:10 for total
02:12 CMS next is if we skip all the way down
02:14 to server Checker um this is a nice
02:17 little um info about your server has
02:19 some things about uh the operating
02:21 system and the your some of your
02:24 configuration about your web server it
02:25 does some checks to make sure that you
02:27 know permissions and the required
02:29 software install
02:30 some optional software and then some
02:32 configuration values within total CS so
02:34 this a great little information and um
02:38 if any of these are have errors uh you
02:41 might have some issues with parts of the
02:43 CMS um and it will actually display the
02:45 error here as
02:47 well next up is the log analyzer and
02:51 this is a really cool utility for
02:53 analyzing your CMS logs okay so here
02:56 we'll notice that uh you'll have a list
02:59 of all your your logs uh you can click
03:01 on that and it will show you all of the
03:03 errors so this particular error in this
03:05 log has happened six times um and then
03:08 this is the actual raw log file um and
03:11 yeah you might have more depending on it
03:13 creates a log per day um it does store
03:17 up to 30 log files um before it starts
03:21 deleting those so yeah uh and every time
03:24 you just click on the log it
03:26 automatically shows up here and all this
03:28 data will get refreshed so you can see
03:30 exactly what's going on in the CMS uh
03:32 next thing is if we go into the
03:34 collections view you can actually add a
03:36 new collection now there was broken in
03:39 beta 6 um beta 6 had the ability to
03:41 create custom Collections and custom
03:43 schemas but I broke the new collection
03:45 form so um yeah that kind of killed the
03:49 the glory on that feature update but now
03:51 it's available so uh we can now add new
03:53 collections as well as um new schemas
03:56 right so you can go ahead and add your
03:57 own custom schemas as well as your
04:00 custom
04:01 collections excellent um if you go into
04:05 a uh collection now you'll notice that
04:08 there is a new utility called rebuild
04:11 index and what this does is if you click
04:14 on it what it does is it will actually
04:16 completely delete the in the existing
04:18 index for a Blog and create a completely
04:21 fresh one why would you want to do this
04:23 well um if you are adding new fields to
04:26 a collection or a schema or you are
04:29 Maybe be um editing it so that uh a new
04:32 field is a part of the index or you
04:34 remove fields from the index um this
04:37 feature just gives us the ability to
04:38 manually regenerate that um without
04:41 having to actually go in and modify any
04:43 objects or anything like that so it's
04:44 just a quick little utility um to
04:46 rebuild this
04:48 index lastly inside of the um
04:52 schemas uh this is kind of a nicity if
04:55 we go into a custom schema
04:57 here and if you know uh for each field
05:00 we can define something called a factory
05:02 and before we had to actually kind of
05:04 know what to type in here right um it is
05:07 documented um but now I have this nice
05:10 little um you know tool tip that gives
05:12 us a little bit of help so I want to do
05:15 like um you know image I can see all the
05:18 various options for images right and
05:20 then I can go here and then I can modify
05:22 the parameters in here right so really
05:25 cool little um little utility here um
05:27 that's been added to the factory and
05:30 again this is for um when you're
05:32 creating or editing your schemas um it
05:34 just makes it a lot nicer to um kind of
05:38 have an idea of what you can do here
05:40 versus having to always look at the
05:43 documentation now um while we're in this
05:45 interface I want to talk about a
05:47 breaking change that occurred um if we
05:50 look at the uh the new out of thebox uh
05:54 schema for blog um it has been modified
05:57 you'll notice that there are several
05:58 fields that have been removed extra
06:00 content extra content 2 um archive and
06:06 labels another uh thing that has
06:09 happened is the gallery has been removed
06:11 from the index okay now the reason for
06:14 this is that um those fields came from
06:16 Total cms1 and I just felt like they
06:19 were too much they I added them because
06:22 we wanted to abuse blog in total cms1 um
06:25 but now that we have the ability to have
06:27 custom collections um we need to pair
06:29 the blog schema down a little bit now I
06:32 don't want to break backwards
06:34 compatibility so um we do have the
06:37 ability to actually um change this okay
06:41 now you can to change it there is a a
06:44 new schema called blog Le Legacy that
06:46 you cannot see here but it does exist
06:49 and if let's see if we go to my blog
06:52 collection here okay um one thing you'll
06:55 notice is the gallery field does not
06:58 exist here um also so I think archived
07:00 doesn't exist right and those are a part
07:04 of the index in in the old version and
07:07 if I go ahead and edit my this blog
07:09 collection you'll see that it is set to
07:11 this schema of blog now if you have an
07:14 existing
07:15 blog and um those and you utilizing
07:20 those fields here's the fix okay so
07:23 you're going to edit the collection like
07:24 I've done here and what you're going to
07:26 do is you're going to delete this
07:27 collection don't be scared
07:30 um this isn't going to delete all of
07:32 your data it's just going to delete the
07:33 collection metadata okay so what we're
07:36 going to do is we're going to say okay
07:37 we're going to delete this so my blog
07:40 collection is gone right but don't worry
07:42 uh what we can do now is we're going to
07:44 click um new
07:46 collection and then what I'm going to do
07:49 is I'm going to um give it a name so I'm
07:51 going to give it blog make sure that the
07:53 ID is the same exact ID that it was
07:57 before um then in the select schema what
08:00 we're going to do is we're going to
08:01 select blog
08:04 Legacy uh and then type in your
08:06 description hopefully you also make sure
08:08 you save the URL um that you had in
08:11 there before and uh in this particular
08:14 project I didn't actually have a URL set
08:16 but if you have one make sure you copy
08:18 so you can paste that in here and then
08:20 let's click
08:22 save excellent we have our blog uh
08:26 collection again and it is set to the
08:28 Legacy scha now let's go back into that
08:31 blog what you notice is now we now have
08:34 access to the gallery and all the older
08:36 fields that were removed
08:40 previously okay so here we are in stacks
08:43 and this beta 7 has two huge updates um
08:48 for the stacks uh
08:50 ecosystem and the first one is um by
08:54 popular demand a feature that um I know
08:57 a lot of you have been waiting for is
08:59 actually filtering and sorting inside of
09:03 a loop okay so for example here um I
09:07 have an example in
09:09 here uh you'll notice that I've modified
09:12 the demo project to
09:14 contain um some more Fields so we have a
09:18 start if something is featured we also I
09:20 also added tags into here okay um and if
09:24 you notice these actually are sorted by
09:26 featured and date okay um and there's
09:29 also some filtering going on as well now
09:31 when you open up your
09:34 existing um Stacks projects you will
09:36 notice an issue with the loop
09:39 Stacks um by default the filter and the
09:41 sort will be turned off and you will not
09:44 see your content here okay um so what
09:48 you need to do is you will need to turn
09:50 on the filter stack and um instead of
09:54 this Loop filter being here you'll
09:55 actually see your old content what
09:57 you're going to do is you're going to
09:58 take that old content and drag it into
10:00 the Drop Zone that's down here now I
10:02 should have recorded this uh before this
10:04 happened okay but um yeah essentially
10:06 you're going to see your block grid
10:08 content or whatever you have up in here
10:10 you're just going to take that and drag
10:12 it into the Drop Zone area that's down
10:14 here okay and at that point if you want
10:16 to add new filters you just go ahead and
10:18 click on the plus button and you can add
10:19 as many filters as you want okay now
10:22 let's uh review these new uh filter and
10:25 sorting settings so inside blog or or
10:28 The Loop blog um let's turn on both
10:30 filter and sorting and as you saw you
10:32 can add as many of these as you like
10:35 okay and um let's have a look now this
10:37 is very similar to the feeds sorting and
10:40 filtering um it takes it to another
10:43 level a little bit though so for each
10:46 filter you can have as again as many
10:48 filters as you want and let's say here I
10:51 have uh property tags um and then we
10:54 have contains we have all kinds of stuff
10:56 in here okay um that we can then do um
11:00 Logic on right so for example let's say
11:03 I wanted to do um featured okay and I'm
11:07 going to do
11:08 featured is
11:10 true okay and let's turn off that so if
11:13 I do featured is true and let's preview
11:16 this page what it will do is it's only
11:18 going to show us the featured posts it's
11:21 all the posts With The Star by the way I
11:23 added a star in here so that's a a nice
11:26 little thing where uh we can do a static
11:28 filter
11:29 okay now um before I added this one um
11:33 let's look at what I had in there
11:35 before and what this does is this gives
11:38 us another option if you notice we have
11:40 filter by URL in turn turned on and you
11:43 also give it a filter by URL
11:45 key um so what this allows us to do it
11:47 allows us to um filter B based on a URL
11:52 now if I were to have have something in
11:55 the value that would be a default filter
11:57 without anything passed to the URL L if
12:00 you leave the value blank this means
12:02 that only filtering via the URL is
12:05 supported for this filter so by default
12:07 it's not going to have any filters it'll
12:09 display everything um but then it allows
12:12 me to add a tag um key to the URL so
12:16 that I can then filter let's have a look
12:18 at
12:19 that so here we are let's look at um we
12:23 can do something uh called here let's do
12:26 this one so I'm going to copy that tag
12:29 and basically what I'm going to do here
12:30 is I'm just going to do question mark
12:32 tag equals and I use Tag because that's
12:35 the uh what I set inside the URL key you
12:38 can put it whatever you like in
12:40 there um and I'm just going to paste
12:42 that in now if I hit enter what this
12:45 does is it it's now filtered there's
12:47 only one stack that has that right but
12:50 um actually let's change it up a little
12:51 bit um let's go ahead and do anything
12:54 that has
12:56 ET okay now um if you look um you'll
13:01 notice that this tag has ET this has ET
13:04 but this one also has ET but it's at the
13:06 end right so uh if we were to look at
13:09 the stacks
13:13 again what you'll see is that the
13:15 condition here is
13:17 contains so uh because this tag contains
13:22 ET then um it is displayed so if we
13:26 wanted it to be an exact match we could
13:28 then say condition is equal
13:32 to now let's preview
13:35 this let's refresh this
13:38 now and now um if we look I still have
13:41 the tag equals ET but this time because
13:44 I change my logic to be equal to instead
13:47 of just contains it only shows me the
13:50 posts that exactly have the ET
13:55 tag now other things here um we have an
13:57 invert filter logic so that um whatever
13:59 logic you build here you can actually
14:01 invert that logic um just by checking
14:04 this
14:05 box so essentially this particular logic
14:07 would now say uh any tag that is not
14:10 equal to whatever I pass view the URL
14:12 right so it's an inversion of this
14:16 logic um and we have used variables
14:18 similar to what we have um in a lot of
14:21 the other Stacks uh within total CMS um
14:24 if you use variables here essentially um
14:28 the tag or the property or the value
14:31 field um whatever you type in here will
14:33 be actually referencing a variable
14:35 instead of the static text okay kind of
14:38 an advanced feature but definitely very
14:40 powerful um if it's something you need
14:43 um where this could be powerful is let's
14:46 say that um we're on a blog post page we
14:50 wanted to create a uh a filter that
14:53 showed or a loop that showed related
14:56 blog posts right and so what you could
14:59 do
15:01 that is we can say
15:04 um let's say we have uh I want to filter
15:07 by author right and I want to show um
15:11 anything that is if I go value then I
15:14 can do let's pretend I'm on a post page
15:16 this is not but I could just do
15:19 post. author here right and then what
15:22 this is going to do it's going to filter
15:24 everything here because post. author is
15:27 referencing the blog post that's on the
15:29 page I set the value to reference a
15:31 variable so we are going to filter
15:34 everything in this list for authors that
15:36 are equal to the author of the blog post
15:39 we're on pretty cool very powerful stuff
15:43 here okay let's look at the sort and
15:45 sort is pretty simple right we have the
15:48 ability you can Define what field you
15:50 want to sort by um you can then set it
15:53 to be reverse sort natural sort natural
15:56 sort is useful if you have numbers
15:58 traditional 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 um if
16:02 you don't use natural sort um you're
16:04 you'll notice that the sort order is
16:06 going to be 1 10 11 12 and then 2 3 4 5
16:10 right so um numbers aren't sorted as you
16:13 would imagine them to um by default um
16:17 so we have a natural sort now if you
16:19 don't need that particular feature don't
16:22 turn on natural sort it is I mean
16:25 minutely more resource intensive um it's
16:28 probably nothing noticeable but it is
16:30 okay so um it's not quite as fast as
16:32 default sort so if you really don't need
16:34 that feature don't turn that on and then
16:36 obviously we have Shuffle now you'll
16:37 notice if you turn on shuffle it removes
16:39 all the settings because we don't need
16:41 to sort by anything it just shuffles the
16:43 properties okay and uh similarly to the
16:46 other ones you can actually use a
16:47 variable here as well um so you can just
16:50 turn on this and then whatever you put
16:52 in here in the property field will be a
16:55 variable as you see in this example um I
16:58 have multiple sorts so first we're
16:59 sorting by date then we are sorting by
17:02 featured now in in this um example here
17:07 you'll notice that I'm featured and then
17:09 I have it set to reverse because by
17:10 default featured actually when you sort
17:12 by featured it puts it at the bottom so
17:14 we want to reverse that so the feature
17:16 goes towards the top and that's just the
17:19 way that how the Sorting function works
17:21 with the data um stored as
17:25 featured also check out the rest of this
17:27 um this Loop post here you'll notice
17:29 that I added some things like this
17:31 conditional so that if if it's featured
17:33 add a little SVG Star and then down here
17:35 I add another little Loop where I Loop
17:37 through all the tags and I add in a
17:39 little label right so kind of an
17:41 interesting implementation
17:43 here oh another thing that we added to
17:45 Loops is uh when nothing is found okay
17:49 so um let's go ahead
17:52 and let's look at this and let's filter
17:54 by um tag equals Joe
17:59 and what we'll notice is since no blog
18:01 posts have tag equal Joe um we then get
18:05 displayed the no blog posts were found
18:07 message now uh that message you can add
18:09 in whatever Stacks you want in there um
18:12 I just have a simple header uh to keep
18:14 it simple but yeah you can add whatever
18:16 you want and then that content will only
18:19 be displayed when um the filtering or
18:21 sorting of the loop actually returns
18:25 zero
18:27 results um lastly uh we have the ability
18:30 to limit okay so um if I want to limit
18:33 by a certain number um we can do that
18:35 right so I want to limit it by three and
18:38 you can also do pages okay and what that
18:40 says is um because let's say I have um
18:44 100 blog posts and I want to limit it by
18:47 10 okay the initial page is going to be
18:49 show 1 through 10 and if I do page two
18:53 that's going to show numbers 11 through
18:56 20 so on and so forth what's cool is you
18:59 can actually pass that data via the URL
19:01 as well let's show you an
19:06 example so we're going to set this back
19:08 to the default of limit by three and uh
19:11 page one let's preview that in the
19:14 browser okay so here we have that inside
19:16 the browser and you'll notice as as we
19:18 set it configured we only display three
19:21 posts right and um if I go ahead and add
19:25 remember we added the the page URL key
19:28 to be a p so I'm going to do p equals
19:31 and I'm going to put the number two here
19:33 so this is going to give me page
19:35 two and we'll notice is that actually
19:37 loads three more posts and this is
19:40 technically post numbers four five and
19:41 six right um so if we were to divvy up
19:44 all of our posts into Pages where
19:46 there's three per page again this is
19:48 page number two so this gives us the
19:51 beginnings of a pagination um obviously
19:54 we're going to build upon this in the
19:55 future um but here's a start where um we
19:59 can actually kind of manually create
20:00 some pagination in our
20:04 Pages now if you don't want the
20:05 pagination feature at all you just
20:07 simply need to turn that off and then
20:09 all this will do is limit right so this
20:11 is going to limit um you know to display
20:14 only a certain number of
20:16 posts okay the last feature that I want
20:18 to show off inside Stacks is um a game
20:22 changer um now in beta 6 if you attended
20:25 that uh that hangout and or watched the
20:27 three-hour long video
20:29 um I I recommend doing that totally
20:31 worth it you're going to learn a lot
20:34 okay um but if we go ahead and let's go
20:36 into
20:37 preview if you remember um
20:41 before um a you can now add um the
20:44 dashboard to a menu super easy it's just
20:46 a macro check out the release notes for
20:48 that um and we're going to go to the uh
20:50 the embedded dashboard here okay oops uh
20:53 we're going to go to actually the
20:55 dashboard link okay and if you remember
20:58 um what I said before is the dashboard
21:03 doesn't work well in preview well that's
21:05 no longer the case now um so you can
21:08 actually go ahead and you have full
21:10 functionality with the dashboard all
21:13 inside of stacks super cool um
21:17 everything works so all the docs work um
21:21 all the collections you can add a new
21:23 collection so you can really manage your
21:25 data here okay so um this is important
21:28 because
21:29 inside of preview it's like its own
21:31 Standalone instance of total CMS it
21:33 doesn't reflect what's on the server um
21:36 so you can go ahead and let's click on
21:38 blog well notice that I do have blog
21:39 posts right um these particular ones
21:42 were created with the factory right so
21:45 if I go ahead and click on that and go
21:46 into well what happened to edit mode
21:49 here oh oops I shouldn't have done
21:52 that let's go back to the link uh go
21:55 into collections go into my blog
22:00 interesting preview kind of was a little
22:02 funky there um it does work let's go in
22:05 the browser so if you probably open it
22:06 in the browser uh go on the link works a
22:09 little bit better in the browser I I
22:11 admit I didn't really play with it much
22:12 in preview directly but if you preview
22:15 in the browser you can see that is
22:16 definitely running inside preview um and
22:20 now we can actually go ahead and play
22:22 around with things so we can go to a
22:24 Blog I can go I can go into the factory
22:27 I can generate object or maybe go into
22:29 the feed I have no objects in the feed
22:31 right so let's go into the
22:33 factory and um let's generate um a few
22:38 objects three is not much let's go ahead
22:40 and create another three okay and if we
22:43 go back to our
22:44 feed we'll see that boom I now have
22:47 created six objects which is cool and um
22:52 if I go back into preview and go to my
22:55 feed my feeds page and preview this
22:59 right we'll notice that in my feeds page
23:01 I actually have data now um prior it was
23:04 empty and that's because I was able to
23:06 go into the dashboard and preview and
23:08 generate these objects with dummy data
23:10 that I can then muck with my layouts and
23:13 play around with things so that um yeah
23:16 we can actually you know build and
23:18 design things with actual data which is
23:21 nice um and having all the data local
23:24 inside of stacks makes preview super
23:27 fast so that's why this is such a
23:32 GameChanger well everybody that is um
23:35 everything we have for beta 7 I hope you
23:37 enjoy it I can't wait to see your
23:39 feedback and what you're building with
23:40 total CMS 3 bye