The Sueetie Content Management System is only a few weeks old, but it underwent a substantial redesign to support some great features coming soon. CMS content is now integrated into the Sueetie Data Core Framework. Here’s the Sueetie CMS Overview Wiki Page with more information on the changes.
The display of CMS page updates in Sueetie Activities is the first example of new functionality made possible by Sueetie Data Core integration.
What's the Sueetie Data Core Framework? Here’s the Sueetie Wiki Data Core: Unification page explaining the major concepts. Essentially, all data created by Sueetie Applications (BlogEngine.NET, ScrewTurn Wiki, etc) finds its way to the Sueetie Data Core. Sueetie Framework descriptors are added to support a location context model, various reports and services like the Sueetie Activities list above.
An important design change occurred in Sueetie CMS Content Page Groups. In the past Content Page Groups contained a unique GroupKey value for addressing purposes and to identify the content group objects, but they were a separate data entity. Now each Content Page Group is associated with a Sueetie Application and uses the Application’s ApplicationKey for addressing and identification in place of a GroupKey. This makes content meta-descriptors like ApplicationType and ContentType available for services like the Activities list. It also adds the necessary intelligence to bring CMS Content Pages and Content Parts into the Data Core.
Here’s the Sueetie.com Administrative Applications form highlighting the CMS application with ApplicationKey “cms.” There is also a new “CMS” Sueetie Application Type. This is what will be included in Sueetie 1.4 by default. To create, say, a Services CMS area with the address, i.e., appkey, of /services/some-page.aspx you would change the AppKey to “services.”
A Sueetie Application must exist prior to creating a Content Page Group. If a unique, un-used Sueetie Application is not available, the Content Page Group administrative form does not allow a new group to be created.
The inclusion of CMS Page updates on the Sueetie Activities list is pretty great, but that’s not the main reason I redesigned Sueetie CMS. There’s more CMS coolness to come.