Release notes

Before, each user could have just one root. Now a user can have as many as they want.

They are listed on the Roots page. It's in the menubar in your worldoutline website.

The settings in Prefs command in the menu are now ignored. None of the values in there matter. However, we will have top-level prefs, so the command stays.

On the OPML Editor side, a root is called an Archive. This is because I built out from that feature to create the new Roots feature. Yet another terminology collision, because in the OPML Editor a root file is a whole other thing. Sorry.

Notes for users/admins

On your worldoutline server, be sure you've set up the DNS prefs at config.worldoutline.prefs.dns so we can assign domain names to your root outlines automatically. You can use the same server you're using to create blorkmarks.

On your worldoutline server, run worldOutlineSuite.roots.setupUserRoots. It updates each user's archive outlines, stored in their member table, with all the features used on the Roots page.

On each desktop machine, update opml.root.

The Roots page

The Roots page is where all the action is.

Start by creating a new root by clicking the big blue button. Hard to miss. :-)

It will create a root called Untitled. You should immediately edit it in the OPML Editor by clicking on the Edit icon all the way to the right. Change the title by clicking the Title button. Save it by clicking the Save button. When you save, refresh the roots page. You should see the count of saves go up.

By default it creates a blogpost. You can change the nodetype in the Prefs for the root. It's accessed by clicking on the Gear icon. Lots of other things you can set on a per-root basis in the Prefs. There will be more work in this area for sure. This was a big part of the rewrite.

One of the great things about the new way of working is that you can put domains in any of the roots, and as many as you want. The number of domains is in the 4th column.

You can mouse over the column titles to get a brief explanation of what it's about.

As always, I've left lots of hints around the UI, so please explore. Ask questions on the mail list.

Code relese

In the lists below, I have subtracted parts that have already been released. Also if a table is new, I removed all sub-items from the list, since they will be released when the table is released.

I also removed parts that were edited but not changed.

I used workspace.userlandSamples.findChangedParts to generate these lists. Very useful utility! :-)

Parts that changed in builtins.opmleditor

opmlEditor.website.openRoot

opmlEditor.worldOutline.archiveSubOutline

opmlEditor.worldOutline.buttons.archive

opmlEditor.worldOutline.getHeadlineUrl

opmlEditor.worldOutline.saveArchivedOutline

opmlEditor.worldOutline.viewHeadline

Parts that changed in html.directory

html.directory.viewNodetype

html.directory.walk

html.directory.viewDirectory

Parts that changed in worldOutlineSuite

worldOutlineSuite.roots

worldOutlineSuite.background.everyMinute

worldOutlineSuite.buildUserFeed

worldOutlineSuite.getOutlineText

worldOutlineSuite.getRootOutlineUrl

worldOutlineSuite.getTemplateText

worldOutlineSuite.init

worldOutlineSuite.initUser

worldOutlineSuite.main

worldOutlineSuite.setDefaultAtts

worldOutlineSuite.setUserDomain

worldOutlineSuite.userDefinedHostCallback

worldOutlineSuite.viewBlogPostCallback

worldOutlineSuite.viewDirectoryCallback

worldOutlineSuite.viewFeedCallback -- doesn't appear to be any change -- possible problem

worldOutlineSuite.viewHtmlCallback

worldOutlineSuite.viewMenu

worldOutlineSuite.viewOutline

worldOutlineSuite.viewOutlineCallback -- doesn't appear to be any change -- possible problem

worldOutlineSuite.viewPhotoCallback -- doesn't appear to be any change -- possible problem

worldOutlineSuite.viewRedirectCallback

worldOutlineSuite.viewRiverCallback -- doesn't appear to be any change -- possible problem

worldOutlineSuite.viewThumbListCallback -- doesn't appear to be any change -- possible problem

Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2012 at 12:01 PM by Dave Winer.