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We recently pushed out an update that allows you to save your content in the BranchCMS administration using a keyboard shortcut. Anytime you are working on editing a page, blog post, template, content template or whatever, you can save your changes without touching your mouse with the following keyboard shortcut: PC: Ctrl+sMac: Cmd+s If you're on a Windows PC simply hold down the Ctrl key and the…

We recently pushed out an update that warns you if you are leaving a page without saving your progress. If you were editing something and you made changes to it and before you saved your progress you reloaded the page, went back to a previous page or navigated to a different page, then you will now get a warning about leaving with unsaved changes.  A lot of modern mouses have either swipe…

We use loading indicator images and popups to show our users when something is happening within BranchCMS. They are good design patterns to use as they let you know that something is going on and it's ok to wait a few seconds. For example, we use them when saving pages or when loading a new page to edit.  We have been incrementally updating the UI across BranchCMS and decided that it was time to…

We use a lot of icons in BranchCMS to add more visual clues to the different actions that you can do.  For example, we use a "save" icon with the Save buttons. And there are a lot of icons with our tables that show lists of items like a list of blog posts.  We started out a long time ago using PNG and GIF images for the icons. Then a few years ago we switched to font icons. First we…

The code editor for site Templates and Snippets has been in need of an update for a long time. We have been using the Ace editor for all other code templates for a while now, but for various reasons the editor for the Templates and Snippets hasn't been updated.  Well now it has. The same editor that is being used for app content templates, form templates and every other code template is now…

The Repeating Fields attribute (formerly called "Repeating Collection of Components") adds a lot of power and flexibility to BranchCMS. It allows you to easily set up a group of fields and then the page editor can add as many sets of the fields as they want. We recently pushed out an update that gives it a major overhaul to it's look and functionality.  Here is the new look. The…

We just pushed out a new release that fixes a long-time issue in BranchCMS.  Our Forms app is very useful and allows you to create custom forms. However, until today it was a pain to place a form on app pages (like blog posts or a store product page).  If you wanted to add a register form on a blog post you first had to adjust the URL of the form, which created an extra step that was often…

When you're typing in a password for an account or admin user the text that you enter is masked for security reasons. By default password fields turn the text that you type into dots (••••••••••) to hide the text from prying eyes. It's nice to have but honestly it doesn't add much security and it can lead to typing mistakes.  Quite a while ago we updated the style of the login…

We recently pushed out a new new update that lets you access cookie values within your code in Branch CMS.  This can have a big impact on how your visitors interact with your website. With this update you can create cookies using Javascript and then in subsequent page loads use that cookie value in your Branch Code to do different things like: display different content for different users load…

About a year ago we added support for tracking user activity within Branch CMS. This allowed you to set who edited, added or deleted what. The only problem was that you couldn't easily see it for an individual page or app item like a blog post. Until now. We just pushed out an update that allows you to view the activity on an individual page, blog post, store product, site template, snippet…