Publication of pending notifications can now be triggered from the configuration panel. The publication process can be easily scheduled as a cron job or scheduled task, but this panel is useful for testing or explicitly forcing a publication.

This is a shot of the migration process in “Verbose” mode, showing all debugging messages as well. This system allows upgrades and migrations to the database to be efficiently and clearly managed.

The first upgrade comes with a warning that there is no version information, so the system simply chooses the migrator for the previous version. Click “Upgrade” to execute the migration and upgrade the database.

Once a new version of the WebCore or an application has been installed, log in as root and click Configure in the banner to come to this screen.

The 2.7.0 release will always look like this, as there was no version information prior to this version. Future versions will naturally be able to better determine which upgrade is needed.

This screenshot illustrates the power of the delete/purge concept. The normal user simply uses “Delete” to get rid of unwanted items — these items no longer appear for that user. An administrator can see the deleted items and purge them when appropriate (or restore them if the user wants their data back).

From the explorer, it’s easy to select all deleted items and purge them in one operation.

The history got updated and is now grouped by day and has most details hidden in layers. This makes it much easier to read and see what’s been going on with a particular object. User icons are now also displayed in many more places and are included in the history grid as well.

This shot is from the Albums application and shows a few of the niceties of WebCore 2.7.0:

1. Standardized support for searching for any application object (pictures in this case), including the hierarchical location.
2. This view is the new “object summary” view and is also used to display subscriptions.
3. Pictures customize the view to show their file size
4. The small icons on the top left are the new “minimal” dropdown trigger points, as shown on the first item
5. Searches now highlight the search term in all text (also consistently highlighted in the linked pages).

A WebCore objects looks the same in an HTML email as it does when displayed on a web page — it’s the same renderer doing the work. The mail renderer takes care of inserting “top” links (the little yellow-on-green up arrow above the item) to make it easy to zoom around a mail with a lot of items.

Users can control the maximum number of items in mail with subscriptions options.

WebCore Applications can publish almost any object. This mail shows details of releases, changes and jobs from the earthli Projects application.

Even if your site generates a lot of content, earthli WebCore publishing manages it nicely, generating a table of cotents for mails that contain more than one item. Click on the link in the table of contents (HTML only … plain text is, well, plain text) and you can navigate around the mail like any other web page.

This snapshot shows an HTML mail displayed on OS X using Apple Mail.

The earthli Browser Detector comes with the WebCore and is also available as a standalone component.

Seen here in the “Shale” theme.

earthli Albums takes full advantage of the WebCore’s advanced form rendering capabilities to offer attractive, easy-to-read options to the user. Your forms don’t need help files and “confused?” links … just include the necessary information in an easy-to-follow layout and have it automatically generated.

The drop down menus have been in earthli for a while now, but they’ve seen some new improvements:

• Width is determined by content
• Right-aligned menus line up perfectly now, without guesswork
• Look completely controlled by CSS

You can’t see the mouse in this screenshot, but it’s hovering over the “Explorer” item in the menu. Themes can completely customize the menu just by overriding a few styles.

As you can also see in this screenshot, the icons have gotten more work as well.

All earthli applications can now use the calendar picker to choose a date. The calendar is also available individually and can be downloaded from the Javascript Calendar home page.

earthli Projects now gives you even more control over releases. Instead of just a “time scheduled”, there are now two times to schedule: when development stops and when the product is shipped.

These dates are also used when sorting for “scheduled jobs” in other views, so that the most critical jobs show up first.

This is the form for creating a new release. It also shows off the new form renderer, showing how simple it is to include icons and descriptions for complex layouts.