PackFlash Publishing

• New AJAX Tab lists - add up to 4 AJAX tabs with any group of article list. Over 40 themes and styles to choose from. 
• Ability to add pages to articles from right inside the editor. No complicated or confusing page break functionality. Simply insert a [Page Break] code at the chosen place for a page break and the system will do the work for you. 
• Added ability to import and export data including the choice of what data to export (using same logic as any other list in the system).
• Added ability for users to "recommend" or vote for an article.
• Administrators can now build lists of the "Most Recommended" articles and the "Highest Rated" (please download the most recent version of the Comments module for this feature).
• Improvement in the search feature to work more effectively when hitting "enter" rather than the "go" button

• SQL 2000 support
• SQL 2008 support
• Web farm/load balancing support
• Localized dates based on DNN language setting
• Tag cloud management enhancements
• Tag cloud view added to related content (configured in settings)
• Enhanced category filtering and language updates in the search module (option to filter based on inclusion OR exclusion of categories)
• Tag search functionality in the search module (when linked to form a tag cloud).

• Improved "save" function with better communication of completion of save
• Minor Bug fix - resizing of a square image overloading the thumbnail generator
• Addition of a new "list" template that provides a vertical scroller 
• Addition of a new "list" template that provides a horizontal scroller 
• Addition of a new "article detail" template that provides no image rotator
• Ability to search articles in the backend using a wildcard "*" to show all the articles 
• Abilty to search articles in the backend by categories (show all articles in a category using a wildcard "*" as well) 
• ISearchable interface implemented

• Implementation of "Trial" version functionality
• Enhanced Licensing capabilities
• Added Expiration Date to article options

Article Lists, Details, and Display

• Lists can apply filters by category, issue, and author 
• Ability to select specific issues to display in any particular list 
• Ability to select the number of articles to display in a list
• Ability to display the order (ascending/descending) based on the publish date, the title (alphabetical), most viewed, most emailed, or most commented on 
• Ability to choose the template for the list (6 list templates provided)
• Enable/Disable paging 
• Ability to determine the details page for any particular list.  If not selected, the global control will be used as a default.
• Ability to select to re-size images for the list view 
• Ability to select how the re-sizing will work (re-size by keeping the aspect ratio OR re-size and crop) 
• Articles can have many different display items: Title, Description, Thumbnail image, Author, create date, publish date, contributor, sub-title
• Ability to select the width and height of the thumbnail used within the list view. 
• Ability to choose whether additional articles for this list should be provided with a link, where the list for the full article list would be located within your site, and what the name of the link should be (for example, "more articles" or "go to complete list", etc.)
• Ability to determine where the RSS feed for the list should reside within your website 
• Ability to add additional module (Related Content) to display various related content on the article detail page 
• Configure the module to use "Share This" functionality
• Email a friend functionality
• Print the article functionality
• Ability to comment on articles at administrator's choosing

Easily Find, Add, or Edit Articles

• Find articles with admin search by title or article ID and by filtering by issue 
• Use the edit "pencil" to go directly to editing any article
• Articles can be entered in one page if desired and published with a publication date or can be associated with an issue and published when the issue is published. 
• Articles can be re-assigned to someone else at simple entry with instructions on what to do next by using simple, but powerful workflow 
• Create a summary to be used as a teaser for unauthorized users so that they register/login to see the full article details 
• Ability to have description be Text/HTML, a file (PDF, for example), a page on your site, and external url to another website, or Video/Audio 
• Ability to preview article at any time to see what it will look like before publishing  

Give Credit for Articles where Appropriate

• Add authors and then optionally assign multiple authors from the database 
• Create custom bylines 
• Add other contributors to the article with their own labels (photographers, illustrators, etc.)  

Associate Any Content or File to Your Articles

• Adding documents, files, video, mp3's to your related content makes them show up automatically in the Related Content additional module 
• Articles can be related to each other through a category filter and displayed in the Related Content additional module 
• Articles can have embedded inserts within them for content that is more closely tied to the material in the article.  Free form text (such as a quote), images, articles, video, or auxiliary content can all be inserted anywhere within the article via an HTML tag.  Each one of these inserts can be styled with CSS classes (5 styles included).  
• Articles can have a one-way (associate one article to another and the other article is not associated to it), two-way (associate one article to another and they are both related to each other), or create an ad-hoc group of associations (all associated articles are related to each other without having to specifically associate them)  

Image Display and Management

• Add an unlimited number of images to display with your article 
• Images will display in a "rotator" that will cycle through all the images 
• Arrows at both ends of the image thumbnails allow the user to manually rotate through the images 
• Two different included templates allow you to choose the size of the image display 
• Optionally add captions to each image to display at the bottom of each image on the rotation 
• Larger images can have a link to display the larger image if chosen 
• The image at the top of the list will be used as the image thumbnails for any list 

Share Your Articles with Others

• Configure the module to use "Share This" functionality
• Email a friend functionality
• Print the article functionality
• Allow subscription to any category (or all categories) with RSS feeds and RSS 
• Ability to determine where the details of the RSS feed live and the maximum number of articles to display  

Extensive Use of Templates

• Ability to choose a default article list template and change the template when adding a list to a page  (6 included with module)
• Ability to specify a "teaser" template for authorized user roles and separate template for unauthorized roles.  This allows you to provide a way to incent users to register on your site to see all the content. 
• Ability to specify a template for a cover story separate from the rest of the publishing module 
• Ability to specify a template for the list articles for an issue separate from the rest of the publishing module 
• Ability to specify a featured article template for an issue separate from the rest of the publishing module  

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Rules Built Into Module

• Article title, description, and keywords are used as the defaults for the meta title, description, and keywords for SEO purposes 
• Ability to modify each article's title, description, and keywords for search independent of the article's SEO meta title, description, and keywords (they can be independent if you choose them to be) 
• Article title uses the H1 tag for search engine prominence on the product detail page 

Comments

• Turn on and off the ability for users to make comments
• Turn on and off the ability for users to make comments anonymously
• Turn on and off the whether comments require administrator approval
• Turn on and off notification of new comments (with email address provided)
• Comments can be approved or unapproved at any time

Issue Management

• Articles can be grouped within an issue and be published all at the same time by publishing the issue. 
• Issues can have a publish date, title, description, and image (usually cover image). 
• Issues can be set as the current issue. 
• Issues can have an article detail page separate from how the rest of the publishing module works allowing for an issue to look more self-contained 
• Issue list module can display all issues with the cover stories in a grid structure that allows someone to choose the appropriate issue and go to the Table of Contents for that issue 
• Issue can be displayed as a Table of Contents module with all articles within the issue dispayed and the ability to jump to other issues through the use of a dropdown menu.  In the Table of Contents, the cover story will show first with the featured articles next, then all other articles. 
• Icons in Issue Management tell what is approved, not approved, and which is the current issue 

Flexible Workflow Rules

• Login to be able to see your queue with any actions that need to be taken. 
• Email notifications (tied to role) for assignments
• Keeps track of approval statuses, dates, and specific requestor action
• Items marked as priority will be tagged appropriately. 
• Administrators with the correct rights will be able to see articles awaiting publication. 
• Administrators will have the capability of seeing global staff workload.  

Allow Users to Search Your Article Database

• By default, search only searches article titles and keywords for speed 
• Ability to also have search crawl through sub-title, description, and detail text 
• Ability to choose the search display template (as a list) 
• Ability to exclude any category or issue from search results (perfect for displaying internal articles but not allowing them to get mixed with external content) 
• Ability to specify where the article detail page is for any search result (great for allowing someone to read multiple articles in a search results and easily get back to the search results page) 
• Ability to track common search keywords and phrases to allow an administrator to modify content appropriately