Apostrophe 3.33.0: Easier schema customization, new publishing options, and fixes

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Howdy from Apostrophe Central!

In this release, we are helping you level up your UX with an improvement to the array schema field. Now you can specify that all of the schemas within the array appear grouped in the main editor modal, rather than opening up a brand new input modal. This can allow you to create simple, custom-looking inputs without much coding!

We have also added a new batch operation button to the Pieces management modal. Pieces can now be marked for batch publication to speed up your editing efficiency.

This release also contains a bug fix for widgets with relationship schema fields breaking the ability to add additional content to the page. This bug was brought to our attention by community member @devilray on our Discord channel. 🎉 Thanks!

Behind the scenes, our team has been working on converting some Apostrophe 2 sites over to Apostrophe 3. Along the way, we are creating and improving tools to make this process smoother.

Moving forward, we expect keyboard shortcuts to make its debut in the next release. This tool will make performing common editing tasks in Apostrophe quicker and easier. Until then, we leave you with this astonishing fact - 1/3 of the bandwidth in the world is consumed by Netflix, the rest is used by rm -rf node_modules && npm install. 🤣

Apostrophe 3.33.0

Adds

• You can now set inline: true on schema fields of type array. This displays a simple editing interface in the context of the main dialog box for the document in question, avoiding the need to open an additional dialog box. Usually best for cases with just one field or just a few. If your array field has a large number of subfields the default behavior (inline: false) is more suitable for your needs. See the array field documentation for more information.
• Batch feature for publishing pieces.

Fixes

• Prior to this release, widget templates that contained areas pulled in from related documents would break the ability to add another widget beneath.
• Validation of object fields now works properly on the browser side, in addition to server-side validation, resolving UX issues.
• Provisions were added to prevent any possibility of a discrepancy in relationship loading results under high load. It is not clear whether this A2 bug was actually possible in A3.

Apostrophe 2.223.0

Adds

• Allows to exclude certain groups of users from seeing a piece or a page in Permissions tab.

Fixes

• Handles joins in array fields correctly under high concurrent load. Previously it was possible for joins in array fields to fail to load under certain conditions.

Enterprise modules

@apostrophecms-pro/cypress-tools 1.0.0-beta.3

Note: Automated functional browser tests are an important part of quality assurance for enterprise websites and web applications. Cypress is an industry-standard, open-source library for carrying out automated functional browser tests. This module provides a collection of conveniences for testing ApostropheCMS sites and applications within Cypress. Contact us or visit our new pricing page to learn more.

Adds

• findInlineArrayItem and related commands.

Apostrophe 3.x modules

@apostrophecms/blog 1.0.1

This module bundle helps developers quickly add blog articles to Apostrophe 3 websites. It provides the blog post piece type (@apostrophecms/blog) as well as a special page type (@apostrophecms/blog-page) for editors to create a blog.

Fixed

• Documented the need to activate the bundle in app.js separately from activating the modules.

Apostrophe 2.x modules

@apostrophecms/content-upgrader 3.0.0-beta.3

This module is a tool to help migrate your content from Apostrophe 2.x to Apostrophe 3.x by creating a new A3 compatible database and copying over your uploaded media. It does not upgrade your source code.

Changes

• Allow the mapWidgetTypes option to override the standard transformers provided for certain widget types.

Adds

• Fixed a significant bug preventing proper import of areas when the content has been transformed.

3.0.0-beta.2 (2022-11-10)

• Correctly update the path of each page to the A3 pattern.
• Handle the main "trash" page correctly.
• Fixed a bug that broke the recursive updating of join/relationship ids.