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  • Permanent Publish Data

    Robert Curlette
    • Under Community Review
    • 9 Comments
    Do not allow items to be deleted from the Publish Queue. Sometimes in Production, content has been incorrectly published or unpublished, and the user is able to remove the history and we have no idea who published what, or when. Suggestion is to have...

  • Add rollback option in Addon to the previous version

    Marko Milic
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    You must manually back up the add-on before installing the new version because it is automatically overwritten. The request is to make the Addon service version sensitive, in the sense that it can roll back the addon to the previous version at the request...

  • Allow Users to set a retrieval 'priority' on a Translation Job.

    Paul Brou
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned
    • 1 Comment
    Among Job A, Job B and Job C, I want Job B to be picked up by the Translation Manager service first for e.g: my "Flash Sale", however Translation Manager does not have the possibility to prioritize the retrieval phase.

  • enable configuring logging via Add-on extension

    Marko Milic
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    At the moment, it is not possible to configure Add-on logging. If I want to log something from the extension, I must manually configure logback.xml for these classes (namespaces/packages), for example in the deployer storage extension addon. My idea...

  • Multiple values check box in schema when you change maxOccurs from "Unbounded"

    Neil Gibbons
    • Under Community Review
    • 3 Comments
    When you tick the "Allow Multiple Values" option when building a schema field you get an Xml element in source like: <xsd:element name="drawbacks" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded" type="xsd:normalizedString" /> When you want to limit the number...

  • Integration to create JIRA items (or requests) from the context of a Website

    Alvin Reyes
    • Planned for Future Release
    • 1 Comment
    At the SDL Connect 2016 event, one of the the user group attendees described this use case. The customer publishes articles online using SDL Web that require subject matter expert (SME) contributions and review. These SMEs work for the company,...

  • Alert/status bar on top of GUI

    Harmen Henkemans
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    In case of need I would like to have the oppertunity to put an alert message on top of the GUI to everyone who has access to the gui. Only admins can set an alert, for instance: "We're aware of the current publishing issues. We're looking into it." This...

  • Advanced search additions: Date NOT Modified & Date last published

    Vanessa Rijkens
    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    We constantly try to improve the quality and lifecycle of our content. It would be really helpful if the Advanced search could be used to find items that have NOT been modified or have not recently been published (but are online). Maybe something is already...

  • Built-in SQL profiler for CME and Content Delivery

    Kiran Bhat
    • Accepted, Not Yet Planned
    • 0 Comments
    It would be great to have a built-in SQL profiler for CME and Content Delivery in Sites. For example : Adding/concatenating 'sql_profile=yes' in the URL should show all the queries running in the background for the current activity. SDL Worldserver...

  • Enable override of ALT attribute in WYSIWYG fields

    Amy Pearson
    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    ALT attribute is currently entered via the description field when adding the image as a component. However, for accessibility, the ALT should be contextual. On one page, the image may be communicating one thing, but on another page, it might be used...