What’s new in Sitefinity Documentation for the past two weeks

As you all know by now, January was a big milestone for Sitefinity Documentation – we launched a new portal, which I hope you like. We wanted to do this for a long time, and now that it’s done we can concentrate on delivering content. Here’s what we’ve been publishing for the past two weeks.

Developers Guide

• Content Lifecycle
• Workflow
  • Default Workflow
  • Custom Workflow
• Roles
  • Roles data providers
  • Managing roles
  • Users and roles
• Users
  • Password format
  • User statistics
  • User profiles
  • Managing users

Installation and Administration Guide

• Authentication and Single Sign-On
  • Authentication Models Overview
  • Setting up SSO with windows authentication
  • Setting up SSO with claims-based authentication
  • Switching to claims-based authentication
  • Switching to forms authentication

Getting Started Videos

We have covered many topics in the Getting Started section with videos. Some of the latest you can view directly on YouTube:

• Creating a blog for your sitefinity website
• Working with Sitefinity advanced configuration settings
• Enabling and using workflow in Sitefinity
• Working with Sitefinity Permissions
• Configuring Sitefinity SMTP and Email Campaign settings
• Creating your first Sitefinity email campaign

Blogging Highlights

• Inter-field communication: dynamic states dropdown depending on a country dropdown
• Selecting documents in Field Controls with EditorContentManagerDialog
• Using Sitefinity to Manage our own product documentation
• Creating Custom Configuration Settings in Sitefinity 4
• Creating dynamic module items using the module builder API
• How to add additional logic into Sitefinity built in widgets

We have even more planned for next month. Meanwhile if you have special requests for documentation, you can use the new feedback form to send it our way.