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After this cowpoke took a brief holiday ride into the sunset, the “Back in the Saddle” beta update marks a return to high-plains beta development of your favorite rootin’ tootin’ content management system. The new release of Big Medium rustles up some tasty vittles for your site, including improvements to the rich-text editor, content-menu filtering, expanded newsfeed options, and lots of bug fixes.

Whoa there, partner, read this

If you’re updating from a previous version... This update contains a considerable number of JavaScript updates, some of which may not be updated in your browser by a simple page refresh. After you install the update, please have all of your organization’s editors follow the browser update instructions at the bottom of the page.

Go git em

Download the latest version of Big Medium here.

The download package includes installation instructions, including info for upgrading from previous versions of the Big Medium 2 beta. (If you’re upgrading from 2.0b30 or later, see the shortcut instructions below.)

The Nitty Gritty

Here's what's new in this update:

New Features

• Several improvements to the rich-text editor:

  • The “remove format” button now has a lot more juice, truly removing all formatting from the edit field.
  • New “source” button lets you toggle between HTML and rich-text views
  • New paragraph format menu lets you select paragraph styles, including text headings
  • Superscript and subscript text styles
  • Find/replace text in the edit field

• The edit menu now allows you to filter the content selection by title and/or section.

• Full-text newsfeeds now include images and pullquotes.

• The “RSS Preferences” screen now allows you to choose the sort order and whether the section pages (including the homepage) should be included in your feed.

• Removing a new theme or applying a theme now also removes any custom styles entered via the site editor.

• Rebuild menu now allows you to limit page builds to the homepage only, or the front pages of specified sections.

• Adding a new image, document or person to a page now always opens the “new” tab instead of the “library” tab.

Bug fixes

• Dropdown menus now work properly in Internet Explorer 7.

• Streamlined and improved rich-text cleanup to better avoid format errors and gremlins.

• Fixed a bug in Internet Explorer that prevented further entry in any text input fields after saving a new image, pullquote, document or media file. For now, unfortunately, this also means turning off rich-text entry for image/document captions, author blurbs and pullquotes.

• Fixed a bug that could cause crash error for Windows servers without ImageMagick installed.

• Fixed a bug for Windows servers that prevented the "random tip" option to work properly (Windows servers previously displayed all tips instead of a single tip at random).

• Fixed an issue that could prevent Big Medium from finding ImageMagick on Windows servers.

• Pullquotes and image/document captions now properly handle <script> tags.

• Fixed bug that prevented theme files from being moved or deleted when changing or deleting a site's page directory.

• Fixed bug in the “Cup o’ Joe” theme that caused the right-column links on the homepage to slip to the bottom of the page in Internet Explorer.

• Fixed typo in “remove theme” intro text.

• Fixed a bug that could allow empty content titles to slip through under certain conditions, even though it's a required field.

• Fixed display/margin problem in editor screen's content field tabs in Internet Explorer 6 and 7.

• Rich-text field now highlights correctly when you click in it.

• Fixed a crashing bug in the legacy-site importer when importing a site that is totally unconfigured (no sections).

• Fixed a bug that could allow <> html tags to appear in link title tags, a HTML syntax error.

• The “edited by” field now gets properly updated after changing publish status from the edit menu.

Upgrading from 2.0b30 or later?

If you're upgrading from v2.0b30 or later, you can update to the new version by uploading only the following these instructions:

Update bmadmin/index.html

Inside the bmadmin directory, locate the file named index.html. In a text editor like Notepad or BBEdit, open the index.html file in the bmadmin directory on your local hard drive. You must update two URLs in this file to reflect locations on your web server. The first is marked with this comment in the file:

*******************************************************************
UPDATE THE “ACTION” URL TO POINT TO THE DOMAIN WHERE BIG MEDIUM IS
INSTALLED. FOR EXAMPLE:
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-login.cgi/login-verify
*******************************************************************

and again:

*******************************************************************
UPDATE THE “HREF” URL TO POINT TO THE DOMAIN WHERE BIG MEDIUM IS
INSTALLED. FOR EXAMPLE:
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-login.cgi/login-reminder
*******************************************************************

Upload in “binary” or “automatic” FTP mode:

• bmadmin (directory and all contents)
• moxiedata/support/assets (directory and all contents)

Upload in “plain text” or “ASCII” FTP mode:

• moxiebin/Modules/BigMed.pm
• moxiebin/Modules/BigMed (directory and contents)
• moxiedata/templates (directory and contents)

Run the updater

After uploading the files listed above, browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site's moxiebin directory. For example:

http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi

Clear browser cache

After installing the update, instruct all Big Medium editors to clear their browser cache by following the relevant instructions for their browser:

Internet Explorer 6

1. Quit and restart Internet Explorer.

2. Browse to a non-Big-Medium page.

3. In Internet Explorer, go to “Tools>Internet Options.” In the “General” tab, click “Delete Files” in the “Temporary Internet Files” panel.

4. Click OK to confirm that you really want to do this. Then click OK again to dismiss the preferences window.

5. Sign into Big Medium.

Internet Explorer 7

1. Quit and restart Internet Explorer.

2. Browse to a non-Big-Medium page.

3. In Internet Explorer, go to “Tools>Internet Options.” In the “General” tab, click “Delete...” in the “Browsing history” panel and click “Delete Files” in the “Temporary Internet Files” panel.

4. Click OK to confirm that you really want to do this. Then click OK again to dismiss the preferences window.

5. Sign into Big Medium.

Firefox

1. Quit and restart Firefox.

2. Browse to a non-Big-Medium page.

3. Go to Firefox preferences, and click the Cache tab. Click the “Clear cache now” button.

4. Sign into Big Medium.