Roadmap
In a pursuit to become more transparent regarding future Sitefinity releases, Telerik decided to maintain a public Product Roadmap. With this we want to give you details on what to expect from us in the next months and to show our commitment to constant quality improvement. This effort is part of our initiative to ensure regular and predictable releases of Sitefinity.
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What’s in store for v4.0?
- Forms Module
The module will allow users to create customized forms and collect statistics based on site visitors’ responses. - Analytics Module
This module will collect statistics on the user activity on a Sitefinity site and display reports to administrators. - Granular Permissions
This functionality will allow administrators to set permissions on a content item level. - Integration with Windows Workflow Foundation
This includes support for WWF runtime, a set of predefined activities for Sitefinity workflows and web controls for displaying and executing workflows dynamically. - Inline Content Editing
Inline editing allows editing of content directly on the page of the live website. - Page Layout Builder
The Page Layout Builder enables you to define the page layout by simply dropping and resizing different layout elements. It’s entirely done through the user interface with no technical knowledge required. - New Project Manager
The new wizard-based Project Manager takes care of the Sitefinity 4.0 installation as well as creating, deploying and upgrading Sitefinity projects. - Enhanced Performance and Improved User Experience
The Sitefinity 4.0 back end is completely ajaxified, resulting in a considerable performance boost. The administration area has improved look and feel and provides unmatched user experience. - Personalization of the Sitefinity Administration
Sitefinity 4.0 allows you to customize the administrative backend based on the roles and responsibilities of the different CMS users. Multiple configurations can be created and applied on a user or role basis as a policy, providing an additional level of security and personalization. The administration area pages can be edited and customized as easily as web pages. - Localization Manager for the administration area
The localization manager provides an intuitive interface for translation of all items in the Sitefinity administration area. Changes are stored by date and time, allowing for easy localization updates with new version upgrades. - Advanced content classification (taxonomy)
Along with categories and tags, Sitefinity 4.0 will support facet and network taxonomies, allowing for defining advanced content relationships and classification. - Advanced Search Mechanism
Sitefinity 4.0 comes with an intuitive query builder which allows you to define advanced search and filtering criteria, especially useful when operating with large data sets.