During the last couple of months we’ve been busy working on quite a few optimizations and improvements in Sitefinity. You can take a look at the 4.3 release notes for details. Meanwhile, our documentation team kept improving the articles and resources, taking your feedback into account. This blog post is a summary of new resources we have and updates to old ones that you may be interested in.
New topics in the Developers Guide
- Forms module basic API – Managing forms
- Email campaigns module API – Managing campaigns, subscribers and messages
- Publishing system API – Creating custom pipes
- Creating custom modules – Locations – released with 4.2 SP1
- Fluent API for module installation – Manually creating backend pages for your modules is over
New How To articles
- Import Facebook events into Sitefinity using the Publishing System – This article uses the Facebook API and creates a pipe that imports events in the Sitefinity events module. Good showcase on how to create custom pipes, and also using a third-party API. Those of you integrating Sitefinity with other applications may find it particularly useful
New topics in the User Guide for new Sitefinity features
New features in the ECommerce module
The team has managed to deliver quite a lot of improvements and new features to the Ecommerce module
- Configuring UPS and a shipping carrier
- Configuring SagePay as payment processor
- Managing Tax settings
- Creating discounts and coupons
- The Ecommerce module checkout process
Also, there have been updates to old documentation for the ECommerce module:
Sitefinity Blogs Highlights
If you haven’t been following the content in our blogs closely, there are some gems there, too.
- Selecting Sitefinity Content in Widget Designers – A good example on how to use the built-in selector controls in Sitefinity
- Custom URL formats for Sitefinity Content modules – change what appears in an item’s URL, remove or add item properties
- Creating custom sidebar widgets – For those of you who want to extend the backend of Sitefinity. The example shows how to add a widget to filter by multiple categories
- Getting Started with RESTful Services in Sitefinity – How to call the RESTful API from external applications. How to authenticate through a service
We’ll keep on adding more topics and updating the documentation that you find problematic. If you have a particular request, you can always send it our way through the support system or forums. Stay tuned for the next batch of updates and have fun with Sitefinity.