Caisy Changelog

Organization audit log

• Visualization of organization events: Implemented comprehensive event tracking and visualization, allowing administrators to monitor and review all important actions within their organization. This includes user activities, role changes, and other security-related events in an easy-to-read timeline format.

Richtext improvements

• Unique ID functionality: Added permanent unique identifiers to richtext elements, enabling better content tracking and referencing. This enhancement allows for more reliable content management and makes it easier to maintain relationships between different content pieces.

Blueprint and Document Management

• Slug Field for Blueprints: Added a new slug field type for blueprints. The slug behaves like a string field but helps editors by providing auto-complete from selected titles, ensuring always-valid, URL-safe strings.

API Improvements

• Filter by Document ID: Enhanced the external API to allow filtering queries by document IDs. You can now filter using a single or multiple document IDs, making it easier to craft precise where clauses and improve the efficiency of data retrieval.

Feature Enhancements

Live Preview and Collaboration

• Inline Live Preview UI: We’ve implemented an inline live preview in the web app, making it easier to see changes in real-time as you edit.

• Draggable Live Preview: The minimized live preview window is now draggable, giving you more control over your workspace.

• Enhanced Collaboration: Improved live collaboration tools allow multiple users to work seamlessly on the same document, improving teamwork and productivity.

• Comment Mentions: Enhanced mention functionality in comments to improve communication among team members.

Blueprint and Document Management

• Disable Blueprints: Added a flag to disable blueprints directly from the UI, giving you greater flexibility in content management.

• Blueprint to Component Conversion: You can now convert document blueprints to components, providing more customization options.

• Field Error Visibility: Document tabs will now display an error state if there are field issues, making it easier to identify and correct errors.

• Title Character Limit: A character limit of 128 has been set for document titles to improve consistency and readability.

User Experience Improvements

• Redesigned Asset Linking: The process for linking media assets has been redesigned, offering an improved selection and linking experience.

• Date Field Input: The date field input has been enhanced, allowing for manual typing and a more intuitive date selection UI.

• Release Sidebar Calendar: The calendar in the release sidebar has been expanded for better usability.

• Optimized Scrolling: Scrolling behavior has been refined when the live preview is active, ensuring smoother interactions.

• Long Text Handling in Linked Titles: Improved handling of long text in linked document titles with popovers, making it easier to view full titles without clutter.

Performance and Stability

• Bulk Operations Handling: Performance improvements for handling bulk operations on documents, ensuring faster processing times.

• UI Stability Fixes: Resolved UI flickering and reloading issues, particularly in the asset modal, for a more stable experience.

• Blueprint Editor Optimization: The blueprint editor sidebar has been optimized for smoother interactions and reduced lag.

Bug Fixes

• Blueprint Selection: Fixed issues with blueprint and group selection in various workflows.

• Asset Uploading in Rich Text Editors: Resolved problems with uploading assets in rich text editors.

• Locale Handling: Corrected issues related to locale handling and sorting in documents.

• UI Consistency: Fixed inconsistencies in UI elements, including member tables, document connections, and modals for a more cohesive experience.

Miscellaneous

• Improved Error Messages and Tooltips: Enhanced error messages and tooltips throughout the application to provide clearer guidance and reduce confusion.

We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements! As always, your feedback is invaluable in helping us refine your experience. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the near future!

We encourage you to explore these updates and share your thoughts.
Here's what's new:

UI Update

We're proud to announce a major update to the caisy user interface, making content editing even more enjoyable. Key changes include:

• Improved Clarity for Nested Documents: Navigating through complex structures is now more intuitive, allowing for a seamless workflow even with multiple nested documents.

• Increased Content Visibility: Optimized use of screen space lets you view more content simultaneously without sacrificing usability or aesthetics.

• New Feature Recent and Pined Project: Jump directly to your last used project or pin any project you like for quick access.

User Management Rework

Security and flexibility in user management have been significantly enhanced:

• Invite-First Principle: An organization-wide invite-first principle has been implemented to increase security. Users must be invited and accept the invitation before any information can be accessed.

• Enhanced Role and Access Visualizations: New display options illustrate the inheritance of roles and permissions across organizations/groups/projects.

• User Deactivation and Deletion: Users can now be temporarily deactivated or permanently deleted in compliance with GDPR, providing greater control over user management.

• Access Management View: A new view allows admins to manage and understand a user's access to projects and groups within an organization, improving oversight and control.

• Organization Member Overview: Enhanced visibility of direct and indirect members across the entire organization, with global options to search, deactivate, or delete members.

• Unified Member Limit: The member limit is now global across the entire organization, including all plans, offering up to 9 members in the free tier with additional members for each paid project.

Dynamic Dates and Duplication of Documents Workflow

• Enhanced Duplication: Documents can now maintain or automatically duplicate linked documents across multiple levels. This update is solving a common issue faced by editors when creating new pages from existing ones.

• Blueprints and Linking: A new linking type, "Unspecified," allows for the linking of assets, documents, and components within a single connection field, with a preview similar to component linking.

• Dynamic Date Fields: The date field now supports setting dynamic ranges in days before or after the current date.

Comment Function

Improving the way you and your teams communicate and collaborate with comments.

• Direct Comments: Engage directly on documents and individual document fields for more efficient, real-time collaboration.

• User Mentions: Mention individual team members in the comments to draw attention.

• Replies and Priorities: Reply to comments and prioritize crucial feedback.

Notifications

• Enhanced Notifications: Receive UI and email notifications for comments mentioning you or replies to your comments.

• Invitations: Get notified whenever you get an invitation to join a new organization.

External API

• Tagging Improvements: Tags now have their own "all query" and are handled as full objects with typing, including id, name, and color, in the external API. This change introduced a breaking change, leading to the release of external API v4

New Feature:

• Instantaneous Live Collaboration: Teamwork is at the heart of any successful project, and our new feature is designed to make it even more efficient. Dive into real-time document collaboration and see every edit as it happens. The indicator on the bottom left provides a quick view of active users in your project. With a simple click, you can view team members and jump directly to their current document.

Enhancements:

• Streamlined Nested Publishing: Managing main and linked documents has never been easier. With our improved Nested Publishing feature, when you're ready to publish the main document, caisy will present you with nested documents you've worked on. This allows for a seamless publishing experience, eliminating the need to navigate back and forth.

General Improvements: In addition to the above, we have made several under-the-hood improvements to ensure a smooth user experience. This includes optimizations for speed and reliability, along with minor bug fixes.

Your feedback remains crucial in our development journey. We encourage you to explore these new features and share your thoughts. Stay connected for more updates in the coming weeks!

New Features:

• Image Focal Point: Have you ever been frustrated with images getting awkwardly cropped, especially when it comes to key details like a person's face? Our new Focal Point feature allows you to set a specific point on an image to be the focus. Now, when you resize or crop the image, the system ensures that this crucial spot remains visible. Never worry about awkward crops again!

Announcements:

• New Blog: We're excited to announce the launch of our new blog where you can catch up on the latest tech trends, product updates, and best practices.

• Upcoming Tutorial Series: Stay tuned for the end of next week when we'll publish a YouTube tutorial series that provides a comprehensive walk-through of how to get the most out of our platform.

Big Next Steps:

• Feature-wise: Brace yourselves for a game-changing September! We have some truly exciting new features in the pipeline designed to enhance collaboration and project management within your organization.

Improvements:

In addition to these new features and announcements, we continue to fine-tune the performance of our platform. Minor bug fixes and general improvements have been implemented to provide a smoother, more reliable experience.

Your feedback is indispensable to us, and we're always eager to hear your thoughts. Enjoy the new features and look forward to even more enhancements coming soon!

New Features:

• Direct Document Editing in Header: Say goodbye to untitled documents and the need for an "Internal Title" string field. With this update, we're enabling users to directly edit documents right in the header, bringing more efficiency and organization to your content management process.
  

• Enhanced Asset Linking View: We've made sorting and viewing assets a lot easier with the introduction of gallery card view for asset linking. This enhanced view provides a visually appealing and convenient way to manage your assets, making sorting a breeze.
  

• API Key Access Rules: Enhancing the security and control of your system, we've introduced the ability to set read or write rights for each API key. This means you can safely expose your API key on the client side as needed, with control over what actions can be performed.

Improvements:

Alongside these new features, we've made general performance improvements to ensure a smooth and efficient user experience. As always, we've addressed minor bugs to enhance the stability and functionality of our platform.

Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and experiences. We hope you enjoy these new features and improvements in our platform!

New Features:

• Self-Service Billing: We have introduced a self-service billing system powered by Stripe, allowing users to manage their own subscriptions and payments directly within the organization billing section. This feature streamlines the process of upgrading your project, eliminating the need to request via chat.

• Collapsible Navigation Bar: To provide a tailored user interface, we've rolled out a collapsible navigation bar. With the click of a button, you can choose to view or hide the labels next to the icons, thereby enhancing navigation and overall usability within caisy.

• Revamped Asset Gallery: Our asset gallery has undergone a significant transformation. It now utilizes a justified grid layout, providing a more visually appealing and user-friendly overview of your assets. Despite the enhanced view, we've ensured high performance for a smooth user experience.

As is customary with our updates, we've also addressed various bugs and made performance optimizations to further refine your interaction with our platform. Your feedback remains integral to our growth and improvement, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on these new features and enhancements. Enjoy using the upgraded version of our platform!

Improvements:

• We have made the drag handles easier to use by increasing their drag area.

• To enhance your editing experience, we have implemented scroll position memory. Now, whenever you edit a child document and return to the parent one, your scroll position will be preserved, saving you from the hassle of scrolling back to where you left off.

Bug Fixes:

• An issue that sometimes prevented users from searching for blueprints within the connection field has been fixed.

• The error handling process for inline linked documents has been improved. This streamlined approach will offer more clarity and avoid confusion for the editors.

New Features:

• A bug reporting tool has been introduced within the app. Now, you can record videos and take screenshots that are sent directly to our development team, along with necessary information such as network logs. This will aid us in reproducing and fixing bugs faster. You'll find this new feature at the bottom left of the screen, just above the chat icon.

• We have updated the Dashboard to offer enhanced functionality and a better overview. Along with this, we have redesigned the personal settings window for better ease-of-use.

• Creating a new project has never been easier. We have streamlined the process and added guidance steps, enhancing the workflow of project creation.

As usual, this update is topped off with general performance improvements and minor bug fixes to ensure the platform runs smoothly and efficiently. Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we encourage you to keep sharing it. Enjoy using the enhanced version of our platform!