Apostrophe 3.43.0 Further UI & UX improvements, easier multisite configuration, and improvements/fixes

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Salutations Apostrophe Universe!

During this cycle, our engineers touched on various improvements to our schema fields and editor-facing controls to make working with Apostrophe even smoother and easier. This includes changes to our open-source core and several of our enterprise modules. Check out the changelogs below for more detail!

The @apostrophecms-pro/multisite` module was updated to include a new option for running command line tasks for specific sites a little easier. Several new options were added for the finer configuration of your dashboard and sites.

Moving into our next cycle, we are completing another improvement to the @apostrophecms-pro/advanced-permission module, per-locale permission. This will allow more granular control over what users and groups can edit or publish documents in a particular locale. We are also moving forward on templating for empty pages and the ability to import and export files from @apostrophecms-pro/palette. As always, we are interested in your feedback. Feel free to drop by our new Discord channel, "The Office", and give us a shout!

Thanks for reading and helping us keep this vibrant community moving forward!

Apostrophe 3.43.0

Adds

• Add the possibility to override the default "Add Item" button label by setting the itemLabel option of an array field.
• Adds touch task for every piece type. This task invokes update on each piece, which will execute all of the same event handlers that normally execute when a piece of that type is updated. Example usage: node app article:touch.

Fixes

• Hide the suggestion help from the relationship input list when the user starts typing a search term.
• Hide the suggestion hint from the relationship input list when the user starts typing a search term except when there are no matches to display.
• Disable context menu for related items when their relationship field has no sub-fields configured.

Apostrophe 3.x modules

@apostrophecms/seo 1.2.0

Add useful meta fields to all pages and pieces.

Adds

• Canonical links for pieces, not only for pages from now on.

Enterprise modules

@apostrophecms-pro/basics 1.3.1

This module adds a range of basic widgets and their configurations to @apostrophecms-pro/multisite. Contact us or visit our new pricing page to learn more.

Changes

• @apostrophecms-pro/basics-hero-widget uses the max image size to prevent pixelation as the hero widget is often presented at full page width, even on large monitors. Contact us or visit our new pricing page to learn more.

@apostrophecms-pro/advanced-permission 1.4.0

This module provides more granular control over content permission. It allows the creation of custom groups with proscribed abilities and the ability to assign users to as few or as many groups as desired. Users and groups can also be assigned per-document permissions allowing for the fine control of who is able to edit and publish any document. Contact us or visit our new pricing page to learn more.

Adds

• UX improvement: change "Add Item" to "Add User" and "Add Group."

Hotfixes since the last release

1.3.2 (2023-03-23)

Fixes

• Users who can edit at least one document must be able to view all drafts, so that they can edit documents that contain relationships
  without breaking those relationships and losing content, e.g. image widgets for instance.

1.3.1 (2023-03-20)

Fixes

• Guarantee that userPermissions, groupPermissions and aposPermissions will be an array. This corrects a 500 error page seen when
  updating pre-existing sites to version 1.3.1 or adding the module to existing sites for the first time.

@apostrophecms-pro/palette 3.1.3

An in-context interface for changing CSS. @apostrophecms-pro/palette is a module that provides an in-context interface for changing the values of developer-set CSS properties. The values are stored in an Apostrophe piece singleton (like @apostrophecms/global) and applied to the site whenever the stylesheet link is included in a template. Adjusting values via the palette interface renders changes to the site instantly. Contact us or visit our new pricing page to learn more.

Fixes

• Fix An error occured Unable to switch modes. error when loading palette for the first time.

@apostrophecms-pro/multisite 3.10.0

This module lets you have many ApostropheCMS websites running on a single codebase in a single Node.js process. Each has its own database, users, media uploads, etc. Sites can be created and managed via a dashboard site. Contact us or visit our new pricing page to learn more.

Adds

• Adds dashboardShortName option to allow developers to control the base URL of their dashboard application. For example with a baseDomain example.com and dashboardShortName: 'admin', the dashboard app base URL will become https://admin.example.com. Tasks against dashboard can be executed with both --site=dashboard and --site={dashboardShortName} (with the previous example: --site=admin). This option is not currently supported by Apostrophe Assembly Hosting. Contact us if this is a concern for your project.
• Adds shortNameSuffix option (empty string by default) to allow adding a suffix to all shortName subdomains, including the dashboard. For example, if set to -assembly, cars.example.com will become cars-assembly.example.com. This option is not currently supported by Apostrophe Assembly Hosting, as we apply the naming convention for you when hosting for you. It's there for self-hosted customers with different needs.
• Adds localeSeparator option (defaults to .). When set to -, a site hostname en.cars.example.com will become en-cars.example.com. Like the above options, this applies only when the hostname is determined in part by the shortName field for the site, so if a production hostname is configured for the locale it will be used exactly as given. This option is not currently supported by Apostrophe Assembly Hosting, as we apply the naming convention for you when hosting for you. It's there for self-hosted customers with different needs.
• CLI site tasks can now be executed by their short name --site=siteShortName.
• Display the right environment label on login page for dashboard and sites. Based on baseUrlDomains where dev will be converted as development and prod as production. Other labels will be displayed as is. The environment variable APOS_ENV_LABEL will override this.