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Sitecore Dreamcore 2010 Conference: Part Three – Unified Page Editor April 30th, 2010

David Mead

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The second session I attended at Sitecore’s North America Dreamcore 2010 was for the Unified Page Editor on the Developer Track, presented by Kerry Bellerose, VP of Product Management.

To recap some highlights:

  • Sitecore has heard feedback regarding their Page Editor (which provides content editing and page layout design while visually looking at a page).  The new Unified Page Editor attempts to solve some usability issues with the current Page Editor by combining the Edit and Design modes.
  • In the new Unified Page Editor, the Sitecore “Ribbon” stays at the top of your browser even when scrolling far down the page that you’re editing.
  • The Ribbon can further be minimized to take up a very small amount of vertical space across the top of your browser, exposing only save and close buttons.
  • It provides transition animations to highlight what piece of content you’re editing.  This improves its usability.
  • To solve the challenge of: How does the Unified Page Editor know what exactly the user wants to edit when there are pieces of content nested inside one another, or pieces of the page (sublayouts) that are nested within larger pieces of the page, or pieces of the page that are within larger editable areas of the page (placeholders)?  Sitecore’s Unified Page Editor answer is an “up-arrow” button to allow you to “move” from the targeted piece of content being edited up to its “parent” content or container, and so on — thus exposing the “hierarchy” of what the user selects for editing.  Neat!
  • The new page editor uses “progressive disclosure” – meaning as an editor who is using this tool, you don’t see everything all at once
  • No date yet on when it will be done (development is still in progress)

Finally, there were various questions that were handled by Kerry, many of which were feature “wish list” requests, such as showing a page’s workflow status within the Unified Page Editor experience.

And of course, Sitecore allows you to customize what command buttons are shown in the interface, thus allowing for custom development.

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