The UserLand Blog

We've released a new Manila tool to support the Akismet API that can be used to filter comments and other content for spam.

You can find instructions on setting up the plugin here:

http://maniladocs.userland.com/tools/manilaAkismet

David Bayly is extremely pleased to be able to announce - after more than 3 years of development - the release of the addedValues plugin for Manila. addedValues is a successor of John VanDyks' Metadata plugin and is free! addedValues extends Manila with integrated flat database functions, providing a web based development environment to create web applications within any Manila website. You can find out more in the feature overview. addedValues is available for download from the support website.

Information World includes a review of Radio UserLand and Manila:

"The UserLand portfolio actually comprises two products-- Manila and Radio UserLand. Both are easy to use, yet neither sacrifice advanced features for this worthy cause.

Perhaps best known for the Radio UserLand desktop tool, and suitable for personal and business use alike, is the server-based Manila product used by academic institutions and government agencies. Its popularity is due in no small part to its scalability, multiple authoring support and advanced automatic archival and indexing features, coupled with the ability to establish editors and departments for collaborative applications in a wiki-like fashion."

You can use the following macro on your Manila server to return a custom string depending on whether a user is logged in or not.

Save the following file to your system:

http://static8.userland.com/rack1/gems/blog/workspace.memberMessage.ftsc

Choose File->Open from the Frontier application window and select the downloaded file to import it.

You can customize the text when a user is logged in or out and then click the Compile button.

Then make the macro legal through the Legal Macros settings page.

And just insert the following into your template or message to test it out:

{workspace.memberMessage ()}

We've released the Manila 9.6 changes to the root updates servers. All the new features and changes are listed in the Manila 9.6 change notes.

You can visit the Updates page in the Frontier Admin site to update. We also recommend that you exit Manila and do a full backup of your Manila folder prior to updating.

We've released an updated version of the German localization to the Manila 9.6 beta. Thanks to the Swiss Macintosh users Group (MUS) Internet Team for working on this update.

If you are interested in working on updating an existing localization or adding a new one, you can use the TranslateAid plugin to simplify the process of editing or creating a new localization for Manila.

Background: Localization in Manila

We've released several changes to fix some bugs in Manila's static rendering feature.

• The rendering of navigator links for static pages has been updated to match the behaviour when viewing the navigator links on a dynamic page (no automatic insertion of a line break for items with long names and CSS class for links).
• Fixed a bug that incorrectly inserted the file extension when a link included an anchor.
• Manila sites using news items will no longer return a #hierarchy not found error in certain situations.

Update manila.root to receive the updates.

We released a a new "glue script table" that connects UserLand scripting environments to Salesforce.com through its SOAP interface.

Using the salesforce.com glue, it's easy to write custom applications for Radio UserLand and Manila, which utilize data in your Salesforce.com account.