Roadmap of EAV and 2sxc - Vision of the Future

The 2sxc roadmap contains the things we think are fairly important to tackle next. Since we're all working for free, there is no commitment to do this in the order you see below. And sometimes a customer will need a feature quickly - and pay for it - then it will appear sooner.

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Last Update: 2022-11-10

November 2022 - LTS and v15

  1. ✅ Publish blazor-cms.org
    1. ✅ get a great page speed - 95%+
    2. ✅ Get blazor-cms.org to index really well in google
  2. ✅ v14 LTS #2 ca. v14.12 🚀
  3. v15 Release
    1. ⏳ Improve logging so it's in an own library
    2. ⏳ Update CSV DLL to latest version
    3. ⏳ Improve install-file names
    4. ⏳ Better indicate premium features and explain to the user what it is and how to get it
    5. ⏳ TinyMCE upgrade to v6
    6. Improve WYSIWYG
      1. div-Sections to better allign images
      2. Images which auto-resize based on size
      3. Ability to do more configuration on WYSIWYG
        1. ability to override toolbar buttons
        2. ability to set various easy-to-set configuration
        3. Possibly ability to preset various configurations globally or at site-level and use in other places
    7. Review dropping _ prefix requirement on cshtml files by protecting them in an another manner
      1. It's not needed on Oqtane, as the files are not accessible
      2. Only needed ATM on DNN because each file could be called from the browser directly
      3. Probably make sure all base classes refuse to render standalone
    8. ⏳ Ability to import apps from folder directly
    9. Support Oqtane v4 with .net 7 - ATM Oqtane doesn't plan on going to .net 7

Probably 2022 December

  1. Auto-Install more apps from catalog - even after some have already been installed - ca. 1d - SDV?
  2. ⏳ Toolbars Service Improvements: transport data for use in notes etc. ca. 0.5d 2dm
  3. Code editor intellisense for most APIs - ca. 3-4d
  4. Data Sources
    1. Improve data sources for Pages - ca. 0.5d
    2. Improved custom DataSources API - ca. 1d
    3. New data sources like: ADAM (Files, Folders), Navigation, Metadata-Types, etc. - ca. 2d
    4. ⏳ Publish SharePoint DataSource (premium)
  5. Deprecation System (show in UI, mark all APIs clearly, blog) - ca. 2d
  6. Many automated tests in the core JS APIs (toolbar, etc.) - ca. 5d - SDV
  7. Apps / App Maintenance: publish other new apps
    1. New timeline
    2. etc.
  8. CSP - ca. 5d
    1. CSP for the Edit UI incl. custom extensions etc.
    2. CSP Tutorials, docs and more
  9. Provide Page-Level Metadata and Settings (outside of a specific App) - ca. 2d
  10. Metadata for Page, User, Site incl. Notes for each - ca. 2d
  11. Notes everywhere - especially on the page - ca. 2d
  12. Formulas - ca. 2d
    1. Formula Boost #3 (intellisense in Formulas, entity-type info)
    2. JS Docs for formula

Blazor CMS

  1. Oqtane Theme release and cre8magic Nuget v0.0.2
    1. cre8magic Google Analytics
    2. Improve getting started with theme etc.
  2. Create blog
  3. Create section with showcase
  4. Create section with partners / experts

Minor: Tutorial App Enhancements

  1. More Tutorials Formulas - ca. 0.5d
  2. Get tutorial app to run perfectly on Oqtane - ca. 0.5d 2dm

Backlog 2022 Q4 v14 / v15

New Stuf and Major Enhancements

  1. Note-feature to add notes to various things like entities, fields etc. (show, persist show, add to all kinds of things, ...) - ca. 3d
  2. sxc-angular
    1. Re-release sxc-angular demo-app for it
    2. Js Docs for sxc-angular

  3. Language editing permissions - improve, test, finalize, document - ca. 3-5d

    1. also allow non-admins to possibly translate resources

  4. string-Dropdowns from many data sources like

    1. CSVs
    2. WebService
    3. svg files icon-picker
  5. New Icon-Dropdowns from other data sources for better icons-support without fonts

Apps / App Maintenance

  1. maybe Status App

WIP / Ongoing Larger Projects / Enhancements

  1. Language Editing Permissions based on roles/users
    • Implemented v13 2022 Q1 but not in production, so probably not fully ready / tested / documented
  2. Enable viewing read-only data / configuration to better discover options/features
    • Implemented to ca. 70%, but shared data metadata can't be accessed in UI ATM
  3. Provide more help UIs for using REST APIs
  4. Make the Metadata-System completely discoverable
  5. Standardize how to integrate into other systems (non-Dnn/Oqtane) (ca. 70% done)
  6. OpenGraph system - probably requires rewrite of CSP-Stack
  7. Create demo app with react
  8. More public headless APIs and Demos

Oqtane specific

  1. CSP for Oqtane
    1. It's partially done, but docs are missing
    2. Unsolved aspect: collecting all necessary resources for CSP of pages not initially loaded
  2. Oqtane Page/Module integration / use (also for notes etc.)

Priorities 2022 Q1 V13

  1. ✅ Improve Tutorials massively
  2. ✅ View Metadata
  3. ✅ Oqtane Website Mode which can be indexed in Google
  4. ✅ Improve Feature-Management
  5. ✅ IFeaturesService
  6. ✅ Shared Apps across Sites (Patrons only feature)
  7. ✅ Enable editing of Shared Templates / files
  8. ✅ Enable shared APIs
  9. ✅ Disable translation of specific content-types
  10. ✅ Dnn Factory replacement to render module or get DynamicCode outside of 2sxc
  11. ✅ Fully integrate with Dnn Dependency Injection
  12. ✅ Improve DI Scopes to Module-Level
  13. ✅ IImageService

Completed Priorities 2022 Q2 v13 / v14

  1. ✅ v13 LTS
  2. ✅ Image-Service/Picture
  3. ✅ Image primary area / corner selector
  4. ✅ Patron features with licensing & payment system
  5. ✅ LightSpeed cache
  6. ✅ v14 Release
  7. ✅ DNN 9.6.1 only
  8. ✅ Formula Boost with many new features #1
  9. ✅ DNN DI integration
  10. ✅ Update turnOn to 0.1.2
  11. ✅ CSP for the site (DNN only ATM)
  12. ✅ Formula Boost #2 (more context info, features-infos, etc.)
  13. ✅ NPM Types updated to latest release
  14. ✅ Enterprise Features which will be availabe for bigger sponsors
  15. ✅ Patron-System, where sponsors of 2sxc get some extra features
  16. ✅ Standardize how to integrate into other systems (non-Dnn/Oqtane)
  17. ✅ Service Kits
  18. ✅ Deprecation System
  19. ✅ Toolbar Services v1
  20. ✅ JS Docs updated to the latest version and auto-generated
  21. ✅ Tutorials Formulas
  22. ✅ Update all Apps to the lastest/greatest conventions
  23. ✅ v14 LTS

Completed Priorities 2022 Q3 v14

  1. Toolbars Service Improvements
    1. ✅ icon-metadata
    2. ✅ group C# API
    3. ✅ SVG icons
    4. ✅ base64
    5. ✅ ui multiple params
    6. ✅ bugfixes
    7. ✅ params multiple params
    8. ✅ array params
  2. ✅ Debug-logging on Oqtane client side code, bugfixing ca. 0.5d
  3. ✅ Change storage of app.xml to App_Data, change how import works and enable import-from-folder/git
  4. ✅ Clean up JS code, latest webpack, packages etc. ca. 1d
  5. ✅ Infrastructure for automated testing of JS - ca. 5d
  6. Apps / App Maintenance
    1. ✅ Update most apps which used ephemeral variables for formulas to just use parameters (new in v14) ca. 0.5d
    2. ✅ new Timeline Apps
    3. ✅ new Files App
    4. ✅ new Jobs
    5. ✅ Make many Apps backwards compatible with Bootstrap 3 for a big customer
    6. ✅ Have the core apps tested & optimized for WCAG for a government customer
  7. ✅ Re-release sxc-angular
  8. ✅ Remove dependency on SharpZipLib

2022 October v14.09 - 14.12

  1. ✅ Improve UI/Flow of system registration (ATM still confusing)
  2. ✅ Make sure edit-ui doesn't need material fonts from CDN for icons
  3. ✅ Create a new app.json configuration file for 2sxc apps to tune how export/import works
  4. ✅ Remove Newtonsoft JSON and migrate to System.Text.Json
  5. ✅ Improve handling of app-metadata (resources, settings)
  6. ✅ Enable init and import completely new app directly from folder/git copy 1d SDV
  7. ✅ Ability to sync Apps through git including the Assets and ADAM
  8. ✅ Improve handing feature details to edit-ui
  9. Data Sources
    1. New data source Users
    2. New data source Roles
  10. ✅ Update Imageflow to latest version
  11. ✅ Remove dependency on Newtonsoft - only use System.Text.Json
  12. ✅ Create https://schemas.2sxc.org for json schemas
  13. ✅ Create JSON Schemas for image recipe and app.json
  14. ✅ More formula tutorials how to call a WebAPI
  15. ✅ Security update System.Data.SqlClient
  16. ✅ Oqtane 2shine Theme release
  17. ✅ cre8magic v0.0.1 released

Future / Other

  1. Update DB-Schema
  2. Support for persisting data to the file-system instead of DB
  3. Database re-organization ca. Dec. 2021
  4. Blazor integration for use in client-side Blazor
    ATM not really usefuly, because blazor is not run-time compiled yet, so development would be super difficult
  5. nopCommerce integration
  6. Review Orchard / Umbraco integration
  7. In-Page direct upload / replacement of images
  8. In-Page direct editing of texts
  9. Possible side-by-side editing with live-preview
  10. Multi-import apps (drag-drop many) - probably patrons only
  11. Import Export
    1. Improve JSON import (language differences etc.)
    2. Improve xml and app import (language differences, etc.)
  12. App Update System (features to help migrate an App to a newer template)
    1. Unclear how to do this, but probably needs some kind of compare/merge features
  13. ...or whatever is needed next :)