News

Simple Content And Webform Modules Released

We've just added two nice modules to the base Webiva download (still on the development branch) - a "Simple Content" and a "Webform" module. While thse modules don't drastically extend the functionality of the system they do significantly streamline the ability to do a couple of basic things inside of Webiva normally would take a number of extra steps with custom content models.

The first - "Simple Content" allows you to create Simple content models that are used to fill in structured information directly on a page. For example you could create a banner content model that has fields for an image and text and then create a site feature to style it correctly. Users could then add that simple content model directly to pages and instead of futzing around with the WYSIWYG editor could just select an image from the file manager and some text and get a correctly styled paragraph.

The second - "Webform" is fairly self-explanatory - it allows you to quickly create forms and collect information - optionally connecting those forms to the people tab. A single site feature can be used to style all your Webform paragraphs. A simple results paragraphs allows you to show realtime results (like a simple poll module) back to your users.  Great for petitions and the like: "join the 5021 people in supporting X." Also has a dashboard widget to show you incoming results for review.

If you are familiar with the custom content system using either of these modules should be fairly self explanatory.

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Webiva Facebooked Module release

The Webiva Facebooked module was released over the weekend, a lightweight Facebook Connect integration module that allows users to use FB Connect for Authentication on your site allong with a slew of utility paragraphs for things like recent visitors list, sharing, etc. The module can be pulled from the Webiva-facebooked GitHub repository. Just install in vendor/modules, activate, and it will even show you the settings necessary to create the application inside of facebook.com.

The module uses the mini_fb gem by Appoxy to handle the backend integration, which make it a lot cleaner to integrate than something a little more exhaustive like facebooker.

Webiva Book Module Released

The second external Webiva Module, the Book Module has been released and is available for installation from GitHub. Modules are installed by adding them into the vendor/modules/ folder. More docs and guides coming soon.