IP.Dynamic Again

I feel that I often start with “Work continues on IP.Dynamic…” so I’ll skip that bit and dive straight into what’s new.

I’ve all-but-finished the Articles manager. The articles manager rather unsurprisingly allows one to manage articles. Articles are contained in a hierarchical format (what’s the buzz-word of the day, ‘taxonomy’?). Articles are contained in article categories (which can be children of other categories) and article categories are contained in an article group.

So, for example, you can create a group called “Knowledge Base” and populate it with articles. Another group could be called “Matt’s Blog”. Each article group exports a ‘default view’ component tag (available via the ‘Insert Special’ menu). This default view shows the articles in the classic knowledge base format of a list of categories which, when clicked, show the category’s child categories and articles.

The really cool thing is that you can also create custom views. You can filter by category, creation / updated date as well as meta-data such as article title, content, etc. You can apply a template to handle the output and export it as a tag. IP.Dynamic will come with a few of these custom views already set up. On my test site I have a view set up as a blog, complete with Permalinks and links to comments. This gives great power over your articles and this single component is capable of providing content for your FAQs, KBs, news and blogs.

I’ve finished tweaking the skin, too. We’re thinking of posting a dev update after the weekend which will contain screenshots and some short movies of the really nifty stuff.

’till then…