OpenCms News

OpenCms 8 content manager user manual now available!

Alkacon Software GmbH — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:32:45 GMT

The OpenCms 8 content manager user manual - which is now available for download - provides a quick non-technical overview of OpenCms 8.

This complete and easy to understand reference will help the content manager to build websites with OpenCms 8 within minutes. Learn all about advanced direct edit and the sitemap editor.

Explaining every feature and functionality of the OpenCms 8 user interface this user manual provides essential know-how for the content manager.

Learn more about

Working with advanced direct edit
Features of the sitemap editor
Controls of the context menus
All features and functionalities of the OpenCms 8 user interface

With OpenCms 8 the work of a content manager has been made easy and intuitive. Everything you need to create beautiful web pages is within reach on the page itself.

Learn more about the great new features of OpenCms 8 and download the latest OpenCms 8 User Manual right now.

Alkacon Software as industrial partner in EU funded project about semantic web technologies

Alkacon Software GmbH — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:45:17 GMT

OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional content management system that helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain websites fast and efficiently.

Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) is an EU funded project bringing semantic technologies (capabilities) to content management systems. Alkacon Software is an industrial partner in the IKS project.

IKS now provides the Vienna IKS Editables (VIE), a JavaScript based software component to semantically enhance and edit web pages inline through annotations. IKS also provides Apache Stanbol, a reusable set of software components that are meant to be accessed over RESTful interfaces to provide semantic services for content management. Both the VIE and Stanbol components have been developed as part of the IKS project over the last 2 years and are now close a release version.

By adopting the IKS software stack, Alkacon plans to achieve the following goals for OpenCms:

Allow the generation of semantically annotated content for search engine optimization (SEO).
Enhance the advanced direct edit mode of OpenCms with inline-editing capabilities using VIE.
Support for semantic content enrichment, using VIE as frontend and Stanbol as backend.

A GWT wrapper around the VIE JavaScript library

For client side programming, the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is used in OpenCms to provide content managers with a modern and easy to use web 2.0 user interface. In order to minimize development time, code maintaining costs and also to increase code transparency, Alkacon will stay with GWT and Java technology. Therefore Alkacon wants to avoid writing native JavaScript code that is part of the OpenCms core system.

To integrate the VIE capabilities into OpenCms, Alkacon is developing a GWT wrapper around the VIE JavaScript library. This is a common approach to provide access to feature-rich native JavaScript widget libraries in GWT, for example used for projects like "Ext GWT", "Smart GWT" and others.

Implementation design for the VIE wrapper

Alkacon aims to develop a VIE-GWT wrapper that is independent from OpenCms and enables a Java / GWT developer to make full use of the VIE capabilities without knowledge about the JavaScript internals of VIE.

In general there are a number of possible approaches when creating a wrapper for an existing JavaScript API using the GWT: JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI), JavaScriptObject overlays, JavaScript InterOp library, GWT Linker extensions, GWT Generators and maybe more. A first prototype of the wrapper implementation is already available on GitHub – using the JavaScript Native Interface approach.

In the upcoming month Alkacon will even evaluate a number of alternative approaches.

New OCEE versions for OpenCms available

Alkacon Software GmbH — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:37:26 GMT

Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website.

The latest OCEE release version 3.0.3 is a compatibility update for the new OpenCms version 8.0.3.

Please note: OCEE 3.0.3 is not compatible with OpenCms 8.0.0 - 8.0.2.

Please see the OCEE release notes for a full description about the new features and changes in this version.

Notice for users of OpenCms 7: The current release of OCEE for OpenCms 7.x is version 2.1.5. OCEE 2.1.5 is compatible with all 7.x versions of OpenCms.

Main features in OCEE

Support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: You can configure a "development" server that first pushes all generated content to a "staging" server e.g. for approval, and then afterwards to the "delivery" server. This is freely configurable, and there is no limit on the number of stages.
Centralized configuration of servers with the OCEE Cluster: You can now edit the scheduled jobs, search index configuration and module parameters for all individual servers in the cluster from a common GUI in the workplace server.
Support for OpenCms OUs in the LDAP Connector: It is now possible to connect each OpenCms OU with an individual path in the LDAP Server.
Improved performance with the OCEE Accelerator: A much improved cache policy in the Accelerator now selectively flushes only certain cached items after publishing instead of just flushing everything.

About Alkacon OCEE

The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions (also called OCEE) are a commercial extension for OpenCms. Alkacon OCEE adds features to OpenCms that are often required for running OpenCms in a medium or large Enterprise, where data consistency, security and failover are highly important.

The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are available as a licensed software product from Alkacon Software GmbH, the company responsible for most of the development of the open source core OpenCms system. Please click here for the full license terms.

OCEE is installed on a standard OpenCms system. OCEE is a binary only distribution. This means that the source code for the OCEE modules is not available. To use any of the Alkacon OCEE packages, you need to enter a license key that will be provided by Alkacon software after your purchase of an Alkacon OCEE license.

OpenCms 8.0.3 release notes

Alkacon Software GmbH — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:35:10 GMT

This is the release of OpenCms 8.0.3. With OpenCms 8.0.3, many important and useful additional features and improvements have been added to the core system and a number of issues that persisted in the 8.0.2 release have been fixed.

Features of OpenCms 8.0

The "Advanced Direct Edit" (ADE) mode allows to create page content by drag & drop.
The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop.
The "Content Subscription Engine" allows to inform users when subscribed documents have changed.
Extended support for creation of content for mobile devices with the <cms:mobile> tag.

Main new features in OpenCms 8.0.3

With the introduction of "Function Pages", JSP based dynamic pages can be added with simple drag and drop in the sitemap editor.
The sitemap editor's improved "Create Page" dialog offers a wider choice of types distinguishing "Container Pages", "Type Pages" and "Function Pages".
It is now also possible to select the page model when using the sitemap editor's context menu option "Create Sub-Page".
The available container page models can be accessed for editing directly from the "Create Page" dialog in the sitemap editor.
The sitemap editor executes the "Show Page" action if the page icon in the sitemap is clicked.
JSP function elements can now have multiple formatters to be used in different containers.
The element option bar displays a "Resource is currently locked" icon if an element is currently edited by another user.
The content galleries have been improved with a text search field to directly search for "Galleries" and "Categories".

Other new features and improvements in OpenCms 8.0.3

Improved Image Gallery now features a "broken image" image if this could not be rendered for any reason.
Improved Module Sitemap Configuration now offers localized help bubbles.
Improved Add Wizard now hides Resource Types if permissions are not sufficient.
Improved search dialog in Galleries initiating the search by pressing "Enter" in addition to the "Search Results" button.
Improved Image Gallery now allows selecting an image directly with double-click.
Improved Gallery where uploaded elements are directly visible.
Improved "Dynamic Functions" allow usage of function JSPs even if container does not have a width set.
Added support for XML content "model folders" from XSD.
Improved search in galleries with option to limit search to current (sub)site.
Improved Link selector in image gallery.
Improved upload process that translates filenames to avoid specials chars but preserves title property.
Added fall-back mechanism for non-existing formatters in container pages trying to find the appropriate formatter reading the configuration XSD.
Improved updater handles org.opencms.ade.config module to prevent conflicts.
Improved handling of not yet released/expired resources in ADE.
Improved cms:headincludes with attribute to close the tag supporting DOCTYPE HTML 4.01 strict.
Added default icon for resource types if one of the optional "small" or "big" icon is not set in the resource type configuration.
Moved all ADE module configuration to the common "ADE config" module.
Added support for the latest PostgreSQL "stable release" version.
Standardized ordering for core resource types, e.g group containers and dynamic functions.
Improved module-resource entries in manifest of org.opencms.workplace.tool.database prevents folders used by other modules of being deleted.
Improved Clipboard now uses localized version of Title and other properties.
Improved Description Mappings now provided for all Resource Types in Demo content.
Improved handling of XSD complex types with new content handlers that are created when unmarshalling content definitions and assigned to the new content definition objects.

Fixed issues in OpenCms 8.0.3

Fixed issue #1883 that category widget did not work correctly when the category title contains apostrophes.
Fixed issue #1981 that static export after publish did not work correctly for template resources with parameters.
Fixed issue #1991 that link relations are not displayed correctly in the workplace when first opened in explorer mode.
Fixed issue #2002 that the category widget logs errors when editing elements created through a collector list.
Fixed issue #2013 that the Toolbar Direct Edit Provider does not preserve request parameters.
Fixed issue with Tomcat 7 tag pooling.
Fixed Image Gallery now enables setting the alt / Title text in the settings tab in the XML page editor.
Fixed issue that if you create a new folder in the shared folder, the folder list in the explorer view (left frame) duplicates all entries.
Fixed issue in ADE Editor displaying scrollbars or not depending on the style of the web page, which might lead to flickering.
Fixed issue that dragging a new Dynamic Function Element onto the container page threw an exception.
Fixed issue in XML Editor submitting the form on "Enter" in a non-multi line field instead of advancing cursor to next field.
Fixed issue that user last login information was not updated anymore when working with OCEE cache.
Fixed issue in the movedResource method when moving a folder containing a sub-tree marked as deleted.
Fixed issue with timeout in Send-to-user function in a multi-user scenario.
Fixed issue that links to other sites were saved wrong in the editor.
Fixed issue that title property of uploaded image was set to source path when using IE7.
Fixed issue in creation of Sub-Sitemap as "common" user in the workplace throwing exception.
Fixed issue that missing "en" locale in sitemap configuration makes resource types vanish.
Fixed issue that GWT Upload did not work with Firefox 7 and Mac OS.
Fixed issue in property dialog in ADE that deleting once set values was not possible.
Fixed issue that Sitemap operations (insert new page, moving existing pages) generated negative NavPos property values.
Fixed issue that restricting search results in ADE does not work when reopening ADE galleries.
Fixed encoding issue in image galleries that images with special characters in the title are shown with broken characters in ISO-8859-1 environments.
Fixed issue in image gallery when reopening the gallery after selecting an image, that first 20 images are not shown.
Fixed issue that scrollbars in Explorer view did not work in Chrome.
Fixed issue that documents of the latest MS Office editions ending with .docx, .xlsx were not displayed in the galleries at all.
Fixed issue that headinclude of CSS does not produce valid XHTML.
Fixed issue that headincludes of elements in element groups were not considered.
Fixed issue within the link substitution if the "en" locale is missing in a module's .config file.
Fixed issue that CmsVfsDriver.readResourcesWithProperty behaved differently for shared and individual properties.
Fixed issue that the updater did not add the correct XML in opencms-search.xml when adding the new field-mapping of the "gallery_fields".
Fixed issue with the FCKEditor Image Gallery loading different images than selected when using IE7.
Fixed issue that repeated resizing of images added white bars at top and bottom of the image.
Fixed issue with the updater inserting an invalid node in the configuration when updating an OpenCms 7.0.5 installation with no node in the opencms-workplace.xml.
Fixed issue in the gallery search, where it occasionally happened that new resources were not added to the search index.
Fixed issue that when readDefaultFile method returned NULL the Sitemap Editor did not work.
Fixed caching issue, that new element settings in a modified XSD were not visible after OpenCms restart.

Backward compatibility

We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.0.3 release.

OpenCms 8.0.3 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7.0 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 8.0.3.

Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE: OpenCms version 8.0.3 requires Alkacon OCEE version 3.0.3 or later. In case you want to update your OpenCms installation to 8.0.3, please make sure you update Alkacon OCEE to 3.0.3 or later first!

Compatibility with Java versions, Servlet containers and Databases

OpenCms 8.0.3 has been written and tested using Java 5 / 6. We have tested only with ORACLEs version of the JDK. However, OpenCms has no dependencies to sun.* packages so it should in theory run with all compliant JVMs.

We have tested this release on the Tomcat servlet engine. OpenCms works "out of the box" with Tomcat 6.0, which we recommend. Others have reported deploying OpenCms successfully on other servlet containers like JBoss, BEA, Websphere, Glassfish and Resin Professional. We appreciate any feedback regarding other servlet containers.

On the database side, we have tested with MySQL 5.x, Oracle 9.x and Oracle 10.x, as well as PostgreSQL 8.2.x and 7.4.x, MS SQL Server 2000 / 2003, DB2 9.1 and HSQLDB 1.8.0. The automatic update wizard for OpenCms 8 supports MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL.

Regarding version numbers and build tags

In case you want to check out OpenCms from Git, please keep the following in mind: The tag numbers for all OpenCms 8.0 final releases are "build_8_0_x", so the 8.0.3 release is tagged "build_8_0_3".

The Git repository is available from Github at github.com/alkacon/opencms-core.

How you can help

Contributions to the OpenCms core development are most welcome. Please contact the core development team on the opencms-dev mailing list in case you are interested in supporting the development of OpenCms.

Please use our Bugzilla to report bugs in this release: http://bugzilla.opencms.org/

Thank you for using OpenCms and have fun with OpenCms 8 :-)

Download OpenCms 8.0.3 now!

Alkacon Software GmbH — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:34:27 GMT

OpenCms 8.0.3 is now ready and available for download.

OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community.

OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements.

With OpenCms 8.0.3, many important and useful additional features and improvements have been added to the core system and a number of issues that persisted in the 8.0.2 release have been fixed.

Main improvements in OpenCms 8.0.3

With the introduction of "Function Pages", JSP based dynamic pages can be added with simple drag and drop in the sitemap editor.
The sitemap editor's improved "Create Page" dialog offers a wider choice of types distinguishing "Container Pages", "Type Pages" and "Function Pages".
It is now also possible to select the page model when using the sitemap editor's context menu option "Create sub-page".
The available container page models can be accessed for editing directly from the "Create page" dialog in the sitemap editor.
The sitemap editor executes the "Show page" action if the page icon in the sitemap is clicked.
JSP function elements can now have multiple formatters to be used in different containers.
The element option bar displays a "Resource is currently locked" icon if an element is currently edited by another user.
The content galleries have been improved with a text search field to directly search for "Galleries" and "Categories".

Please check out the release notes for further details of the changes in this release.

Other features of OpenCms 8.0

The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows to create page content by drag & drop.
The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and rearrange the navigation tree by drag & drop.
A multiple file enabled upload dialog all based on HTML replaced the old "Upload Applet".
The "Content Subscription Engine" allows to inform users when important documents have changed.
The XML content editor now support <xsd:choice> elements.
The publish dialog supports session based selection of content as well as add/remove of individual resources.
Extended support for creation of content for mobile devices with the <cms:mobile> tag.
A central "Shared Folder" has been added that is available from all sites for sharing content.
JPA support has been added to the database layer, so there's support for 10 additional databases.

We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.0.3 release. OpenCms 8.0.3 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7.0 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 8.0.3.

Users of the Alkacon OCEE packages require a new version of Alkacon OCEE for use with this OpenCms release. OpenCms 8.0.3 requires Alkacon OCEE version 3.0.3 or newer.

About OpenCms

Independent research has shown OpenCms to be a market leading solution amongst Open Source CMS systems. The software has been in continuous development for the last 10 years and has an active community of Open Source developers.

More than 100 international IT companies have been registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider on the OpenCms website. A steadily growing list of reference sites also shows the increasing use of OpenCms.

OpenCms is an enterprise - ready web content management solution build in Java and XML from open source components. OpenCms can easily be deployed on almost any existing IT infrastructure and provides powerful features especially suited for medium and large enterprise internet or intranet applications. OpenCms is open source software distributed under the LGPL license.

Alkacon Software GmbH is the company responsible for the development of OpenCms. Today OpenCms is a leading open source CMS solution in widespread use all over the world. Many businesses and organizations use OpenCms as a cost effective, professional alternative to expensive license products.

Alkacon Software GmbH offers its customers training, support and add-on products for OpenCms. This gives our customers a layer of security and convenience often required for mission critical OpenCms installations. Please see the Alkacon product overview for more details.

The team at Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts wants to thank everyone who has contributed to this release of OpenCms.

Alkacon OAMP GeoMap Module 2.0 for OpenCms 8 available

Alkacon Software GmbH — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:42:50 GMT

With version 2.0 of the OAMP GeoMap Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, you can add a full-featured and highly customizable Google map widget to your OpenCms 8 installation without knowledge of HTML. Add a GeoMap to any page in OpenCms 8 just by Drag & Drop. With the ADE Editor all changes are made directly on your website.

Within just one GeoMap you can highlight as many locations as you want. You can select a location by address or coordinates. Resize the map or change the zoom level or map type. If you want to use existing KML-files, the OAMP GeoMap Module can handle that, too.

Upgrade your last holiday's blog, your next party's promotional page or the contact information of your company website with this intuitive interactive map widget with integrated route planner.

The Alkacon OAMP GeoMap Module 2.0 features:

Add an Alkacon GeoMap to your website by Drag & Drop.
Select one or multiple locations by address or coordinates.
Resize the map or change the zoom level or map type.
Complete configuration of an Alkacon GeoMap is directly done in the ADE Editor
Load an existing KML file from OpenCms’ virtual file system or to enter the URI of a KML file based on a remote server.

All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available on https://github.com/alkacon/alkacon-oamp.

New OpenCms 8 Training Courses

Alkacon Software GmbH — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:25:00 GMT

The new OpenCms 8 Training Courses provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.

OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.

Our OpenCms Training Courses

The five day training course "Alkacon OpenCms Complete Training" is a comprehensive "jump start" to OpenCms development. It provides insight in OpenCms template and module creation, and also covers advanced procedures in OpenCms API development.
The OpenCms Basic Template Training is a three day training course, intended for people with previous experience in building websites using HTML, PHP or other web technologies, but with basic Java knowledge only. This course provides an overview of JSP development basics in OpenCms and an introduction of the JSTL standard.
The Alkacon OpenCms Advanced API Training covers basic and advanced procedures in OpenCms API development. This three day training course is aimed at experienced Java web developers who have previous experience with Java, HTML and JSP and want to learn the OpenCms related special APIs.

Learn more about the great new features of the new OpenCms 8 and order your training today.

OpenCms 8 tutorials at opencms-wiki.org

Alkacon Software GmbH — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:20:12 GMT

We updated the HowTos section at http://opencms-wiki.org with the most valuable tutorials on essential OpenCms 8 concepts.

Learn how to build container templates, mobile templates and Plug & Play modules for OpenCms 8 and how to upgrade from OpenCms 7.

The tutorials are getting continuously revised to keep you up to date with elementary changes in OpenCms 8.

New additions

Check opencms-wiki frequently for new additions.

You can contribute to the opencms-wiki with Project Reports, Tutorials and Best Practices.

Any suggestions on missing Basic Information should be made to the mailing-list.

Order OCEE 3.0.2 for OpenCms 8 now!

Alkacon Software GmbH — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:32:16 GMT

The latest OCEE release version 3.0.2 is a compatibility update for the new OpenCms version 8.0.2.

Please note: OCEE 3.0.2 is not compatible with OpenCms 8.0.0 - 8.0.1.

Please see the OCEE release notes for a full description about the new features and changes in this version.

Notice for users of OpenCms 7: The current release of OCEE for OpenCms 7.x is version 2.1.4. OCEE 2.1.4 is compatible with all 7.x versions of OpenCms.

Main features in OCEE

Support for multi-staging scenarios with the OCEE Replicator: You can configure a "development" server that first pushes all generated content to a "staging" server e.g. for approval, and then afterwards to the "delivery" server. This is freely configurable, and there is no limit on the number of stages.
Centralized configuration of servers with the OCEE Cluster: You can now edit the scheduled jobs, search index configuration and module parameters for all individual servers in the cluster from a common GUI in the workplace server.
Support for OpenCms OUs in the LDAP Connector: It is now possible to connect each OpenCms OU with an individual path in the LDAP Server.
Improved performance with the OCEE Accelerator: A much improved cache policy in the Accelerator now selectively flushes only certain cached items after publishing instead of just flushing everything.

About Alkacon OCEE

OpenCms 8.0.2 release notes

Alkacon Software GmbH — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:00:00 GMT

This is the release of OpenCms 8.0.2. With OpenCms 8.0.2, many important and useful additional features and improvements have been added to the core system. Moreover, a number of issues that persisted in the 8.0.1 release have been fixed.

Important features of OpenCms 8

The "Advanced Direct Edit" (ADE) mode allows to create page content by drag & drop.
The sitemap editor allows to create new pages and re-arrange the navigation tree by drag & drop.
The "Content Subscription Engine" allows to inform users when subscribed documents have changed.
Extended support for creation of content for mobile devices with the <cms:mobile> tag.

Main new features in OpenCms 8.0.2

It's now possible to easily enable drag & drop for any existing JSP. Just create a reference to the JSP with the new ADE resource type "Dynamic Function". See the "Login Box" or "Search Box" in the Template III demo for examples.
Refined element permissions for ADE now support Elements dragable by everyone, but editable only with special permissions.
The sitemap editor now displays status information such as title and VFS location above the currently edited sitemap. It also features a "go to the parent sitemap" button in the toolbar.
Group containers now have a "Break Up" option which removes the group and places all elements individually on currently edited page, making it easier to create pages with slightly different configurations.
If a content is previewed in the ADE content gallery, it can now directly be dragged & dropped from the content preview to the current page.
The legacy direct edit provider for pages using "old" templates now allows to open the "Property" dialog to edit the page properties in direct edit mode. Moreover, it also features a "Logout" option.
A full demo of the content subscription engine has been added to Template III.

Other new features and improvements in OpenCms 8.0.2

Optimized gallery performance using dynamic scroll-bar and lazily added elements in gallery list.
Refined naming schema for automatically created resources now uses "-" instead of "_" for SEO reasons.
Restyled message box on top screen now follows the general OpenCms 8 look & feel.
Refined the option in the "Simple" tab of the new ADE Properties Dialog.
Improved sitemap configuration with "Combo Box" displaying all configured resource types.
Improved sitemap configuration with option "Local contents" to create all new resources automatically below the current sitemap.
Improved sitemap configuration with new option "Disable all" to disable all inherited configurations.
Improved sitemap editor now shows sub sitemap folder resource type icon if a resource is the start of a Sub-Sitemap.
Added new EL function for JSP that tests if a detail page is configured for a resource type.
Improved server side filtering of <script> tags in user generated content of ADE elements.
New XSD path translation feature allows to configure old and new location for moved XSD files that are referenced in existing XML resouces.
Removed jQuery references from the devDemo module to simplify it.
Unified VFS image widget now used for different gallery types.
Changed some JSPs for Template III to use %(link.strong) macro.
ADE base schemas are now stored in Java package files, not VFS.
Applied patch to abstrract the Lucene index writer used, contributed by Florian Hopf.

Fixed issues in OpenCms 8.0.2

Fixed issue in ADE Editor where elements last used (edited, moved, removed, etc.) where not moved to top of the "recent" list.
Fixed issue in the ADE gallery full text search of the "Advanced" tab, where options were not shown correctly in localized versions.
Fixed issue in sitemap editor, where creating a new page resulted in different names if either the "+" symbol in the top menu or the context menu was used.
Fixed issue that sitemap editor in online projects displayed only an empty page., instead the sitemap in now shown in "read only" mode.
Fixed issue in the sitemap editor where the "Back" button was not working anymore when the sitemap got changed.
Fixed issue with sitemap / module configuration and OCEE cache, where a previously added element was not visible when editing it again.
Fixed issue that deleting a user with Root-Admin role failed.
Fixed issue where the toolbar could not be switched off in "old" version 7 templates.
Fixed several issues in image gallery regarding scaling, resizing, cropping and setting of title / alt text when editing xmlpages.
Fixed several issues in download gallery regarding the creation of download links when editing xmlpages.
Fixed issue that the ADE button may become overlayed and thus unreachable when pasting external script code in a container.
Fixed issue with mouse over handling where buttons often still shown even though the mouse pointer was no longer above the item.
Fixed issues that creating a new detail page for a content type in ADE sitemap created a blank container page and not the default model page.
Fixed issue that drag & drop of elements did not work if the element type was not configured in the ADE configuration.
Fixed issues with preview in galleries regarding scrolling and localization.
Fixed issue within image gallery where the fields "Title/Alt Text" and "Copyright" were not filled with the according property values of the selected image.
Fixed issue that when a new page is created and repeatedly renamed in the sitemap editor an exception might get thrown in the ADE Editor when this page was edited afterwards.
Fixed several issues in style and coloring.
Fixed issue that in certain cases the position of a page in the navigation as defined in the sitemap editor was lost after leaving the sitemap editor.
Fixed issue that a ConcurrentModificationException happened sometimes when demo content modules were imported.
Fixed issue that paging in Template III search did not work.
Fixed issue in sitemap editor that the icon of a sub-sitemap moved around in the sitemap changed to the container page icon.
Fixed issue where articles assigned to categories where not found in the ADE new wizard.
Fixed issue where the "Show last page" button did not work anymore when switching from the sitemap editor to the parent sitemap.
Fixed issues with the "Favorites" tab in the ADE clipboard where elements appeared multiple times or removal of elements failed.
Fixed issue that newly created empty group containers vanished if the title was not entered.
Fixed issue in the property dialog where inherited values were displayed ambiguously after entering / leaving the field without changes.
Fixed issue #1976: Error in ADE to create new section.
Fixed issue #1982: "change navigation" fails on expired resources.
Fixed issue #1983: Can't create user under sub "Webuser organizational unit".
Fixed issue #1986: ADE toolbar cannot be closed when using <cms:editable />.
Fixed issue #1988: ADE toolbar covers <cms:editable/> "direct edit" button.
Fixed issue #1989: When leaving the ADE sitemap “/cms/” (servlet-mapping) remains in the path.

Backward compatibility

We recommend everyone who uses OpenCms to update to the 8.0.2 release.

OpenCms 8.0.2 is fully backward compatible to all prior 7.x versions. Templates and other OpenCms developed code from version 7.0 or 7.5 should work "out of the box" with version 8.0.2.

Notice for users of Alkacon OCEE: OpenCms version 8.0.2 requires Alkacon OCEE version 3.0.2 or later. In case you want to update your OpenCms installation to 8.0.2, please make sure you update Alkacon OCEE to 3.0.2 or later first!