Hippo

For our upcoming release, we're working on the document type editor (or template editor as some prefer it). Here's a sneak preview.

The two major changes to the document type editor are:

• Compound document types: reusable snippets that you can design using the document type editor, and then add to other document types. When the compound is changed, all document types that use the compound will reflect these changes as well. This allows you to develop very complex document types, with all kinds of hierarchical structures in your content.


• Layouts: both document types and compound document types now support a number of layout possibilities. Layouts like horizontal or vertical orientation, multiple columns with different sizes, etc, are now configurable for every template. This is a very powerful tool when used together with compound types!

Frank explains in only 1 minute and 36 seconds how you can now use compound documents, as well as the layout mechanism. Watch in full screen for best results!

This is a preview of functionality that is being developed for our next big release. You can take a look at the latest code if you want to play around with it.

Available from pre-release tag 2.07.00: http://svn.onehippo.org/repos/hippo/hippo-ecm/tags/Tag-HREPTWO-v2_07_00/.

Enjoy!

Arje