What’s new in Sitefinity 14.2

Filters and notifications for outdated content

Pages and certain content types can have a life span after which they become outdated (expired) and need to be revised or removed. Content editors can now easily locate and act on outdated pages through new filtering options on Pages page. The feature consists of configuration in the Advanced settings, two new filters – Outdated and Last modified by (both available via Pages), and notification preferences for receiving user notifications upon page expiration.
The feature is OFF by default. Therefore, the Outdated  filter and respective notification preferences are NOT available on the user interface unless the feature is enabled.
Sitefinity users can turn ON or OFF the types of outdated content notifications that they want to receive individually.

Dynamic notifications

This feature is about pushing dynamic notifications, which you have defined in a   JSON  file beforehand, to different groups of users. This feature is helpful, for example, when you want to create an additional communication channel with the Sitefinity CMS users. For the feature to work properly, this file should be stored on the file system under SitefinityWebApp\Sitefinity\Notifications folder and should be named notifications.json. Having this file on the file system enables the Sitefinity Administrators to push notifications to specific group of users. The target group for each notification is defined inside the file – you can choose between Admins, NonAdmins, and All users. With this option, you also have the flexibility of scheduling notifications – the system can deliver them on any defined date. The notifications.json file has an unique Id, based on which Sitefinity CMS remembers the last delivered notification. If you add new notifications to the file, only the the ones will be processed and delivered. For this purpose, you should change the file Id.

Asynchronous sync for Content Editors 

• Sync operation through the Content Editor experience is asynchronous and they are not blocked.
• The content editors  receive a notification upon successful/failed sync.

Migrate media libraries to DAM provider

For existing media content stored in Sitefinity CMS, you now have the option to migrate these libraries to your DAM provider. During the migration, the existing media content items will be moved to a new library in Sitefinity CMS, but their IDs will remain unchanged so existing relations between the media items and any other content will be preserved. The files of the media items though will be moved to your DAM provider and will no longer be managed by Sitefinity CMS.

Add user-friendly server name to SiteSync target

You can now add a user-friendly label to SiteSync targets so that it is easier to recognize and target the servers you want to sync content to. To do that, from SiteSync basic settings, you open the server properties and fill out the new Label field.

Report Ucommerce events to Insight

We’ve enabled you to track Ucommerce interactions and metadata for segmentation and personalization by conversion and touchpoint into Sitefinity Insight.

Search widgets for Sitefinity .NET Core

New search functionality is available for .NET Core. This allows you to specify a search index, perform search with suggestions, and display the results from the search based on the previous behavior. The following two widgets have been added:

• Search box

• Search results