What’s New in v8.6 for Developers

Bill CavaChief Evangelist

At a Glance: What’s New in v8.6

Three new products• Ektron Cloud Manager• Ektron Digital Experience Hub (DxH)• Ektron v8.6 WCM

September 10th, 2012@ 1:00 PM EDT

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New Content Editor

New v8.6 Editor• Completely new editing engine• Fast editing experience, loads quickly• Runaway spacing resolved• Handles copy + paste from Word very well• Supports HTML5

September 6th, 2012 at 1:00 PM EST

Microsoft Search Server 2010Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint

2010

Highly relevant keyword queries

Enterprise scale

Searchable metadata & Smart Form fields

Robust CMS query APIs

Integration of external content sources

Did you mean?

Automatic query suggestions

Deep query refinement

Similarity search (“Find similar”)

Relevancy tuning with rank profiles

Supported in Ektron version 8.6

What’s Available in Ektron 8.6?

What’s Available in Ektron 8.6?

CMSCMS

Ektron Search Server Service

Ektron Search Server Service

SharePoint

CMSCMS

Ektron Search Server Service

SharePoint

IIS

8.5 Environment

8.6 Environment

Query ServiceSuggestion ServiceQuery Statistics Service

Query Service

What’s Available in Ektron 8.6?• Single administrative interface

• Streamlined communication• Minimized points of failure

• Query service isolation• Query services no longer restricted by SharePoint performance

constraints.• Ease and flexibility of deployment

• IIS site vs. SharePoint solution

• Indexing enhancements• Schema changes to ensure index field uniqueness• Streamlined property creation, crawl process• Fewer restrictions on Search Server configuration

URL Alias RedirectManagement

Changes to Aliasing

Architectural changes• Before: aliasing engine was based on materialized

views, which were precomputed as the underlying data was modified

• Now: Two primary tables: mapping table and rules table

Most immediate impact• eSync performance – only moving rules (10-50% of

previous cost was moving aliases)• Search – primary URL (quicklink) is indexed

Release Noteshttp://documentation.ektron.com

Server Controls• Ektron Templated

Server Controls• Ektron UI

Controls• Ektron Server

Controls

Framework API Addition

• Dozen or so tweaks & updates• Framework API additions

var aliasData = AliasManager.GetTarget(url, 1033);

var contentData = contentManger.getItem(aliasData.TargetId);

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