Client Tools v2.0.0 RC published
As mentioned on Twitter I have published the new version (v2.0) of my ClientTools as Release Candidate 1 today.
If you don't know the ClientTools here just a short summary: the ClientTools is a windows form application which connects to one or more umbraco installations via webservices to maintain these. It adds some usefull and easy to use features like the log viewer and the version cleaner. I started the ClientTools back in 2007 and didn't touched it for more than a year. Now I did a redesign concentrating on v4.x of Umbraco.
What's new?
- v2 uses only one web service to reduce the maintenance work and to ease the upgrading
- v2 uses the build in DataLayer and standard SQL, so it will work with MS SQL Server but also with MySql and VistaDB.
- v2 is build with .NET 3.5. Sorry, but no support for .NET 2.0 only systems.
The Features: Settings
In the settings windows you define the Umbraco installations you want to maintain with the ClientTools. Add a new profile, edit the username, password and the url of the ClientToolsWebservices.asmx file on your umbraco installation. Remember: if you check the save password option the password is saved as clear text on the hard drive.
LogViewer
The LogViewer is the most used feature by myself. It gives you the option to check the log table of umbraco. You can filter by various options (by log text, by date, by log header, the user id or node id). You can also set the number of the rows to return. Also you can easily delete selected logs:
Version Cleaner
The version cleaner is new due to the fact that umbraco does not have a build in mechanism to delete old or messy versions (I will add an event handler to this project for that soon). Atm there is only the tree view for the version cleaner, but it shows you how much versions every node has and how much versions the nodes below are using. You can select unwanted versions and delete them. Versions which are the newest or the published cannot be deleted.
The next weeks I will publish RC2 including the grid view version cleaner and the option to delete versions by number of versions to leave or by date.
Suggestions and comments are welcome.
Cheers, Thomas
Comments
- Douglas Robar wrote at Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:14:59 GMTSoooooo glad you've updated your excellent Client Tools, Thomas! Thanks!
- Chris Houston wrote at Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:18:46 GMTHi Thomas, Great to see you have updated your client tools, everyone seems to be dusting off code this year and updating it which make me wish I had a bit more time to do the same! I look forward to having a play with your latest release. Cheers, Chris
- Chris Houston wrote at Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:21:10 GMTHi Thomas, Just a quick point, just noticed that your site says I made the last comment at 01:18am GMT but it was actually 00:18am GMT so maybe something wrong with your server time? Cheers, Chris
- Martin Meixger wrote at Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:52:45 GMTGreatly appreciated! [RC1] Works great for me. Thank you very much.
- Thomas Höhler wrote at Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:03:23 GMT@Chris: Thanks for mentioning. The time is set correctly on the server, but it has to be GMT+1. The server is located in cologne, germany. Will update it tonight.
- Kenneth Solberg wrote at Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:24:24 GMTNice job Thomas! Thanks for sharing!
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This blog is written by Thomas Höhler. Living next to Frankfurt, Germany,
I am trying to share my experiences about
Umbraco [the most flexible CMS I know],
my ClientTools for Umbraco,
and some other more or less usefull stuff
