imperia 11.3 is here!

New imperia 11.3 is now available for download.

The new imperia update is now available. With the new version, it was particularly important to us that editors can do their work in imperia even more efficiently. We have therefore adapted the design so that an improved user experience is possible.
In addition to the fundamental revision of the user interface, we have added further functionalities for filter search and search function, adapted the tagging and made the Miniweb more user-friendly.

Remember: With a valid maintenance contract you are entitled to update to the current version at any time. Request your imperia 11 registration key from imperia Support today.

Better UI design - better user experience

In imperia 11.3 we have put a special focus on making the existing UI design cleaner and easier to understand, so that users of imperia will find it easier to use. The "tidying up" work began, for example, with the display of the menu tree, which we have visually enhanced with fold-out arrows, continued with the arrangement of headings and labels and ended with a general reworking of forms with larger line spacing between fields. One of the most significant changes is the 2-column panel view, which we have firmly integrated into the pages of the system. Thanks to the greater division into individual sections, content is now presented in a more structured manner and is easier to find.

In order to better distinguish individual sections from each other, we have broken up the previously existing list view in some places and replaced old checkboxes and radio buttons with clearer text boxes. These can now be activated via toggles. The access rights have also been adapted to the new design and are now based on a recurring pattern. In addition, there is now also a subdivision into rubric and document authorisations for better clarity.

As it was not always clear what information was requested in some fields in the previous version, we have added helping texts to make it easier to fill in. Extended content fields will now only be queried if an appropriate pre-selection has been made in order to streamline the overall selection. Another important change in 11.3 is the reminder about saving content. In the previous version of imperia it was possible to make a change, for example, in the rubric tree and then switch to another area. However, if you forgot to press "Save", all changes were lost. We have solved this problem with the new version: If you switch to a new section and have not yet saved your changes, an automatic dialogue box opens to remind you to save your changes.

Seek and you shall find: Filtering and searching in the document browser

The upper function bar, which in imperia 11.2 had a similar structure to Word, has been removed in the new version and integrated into the new design. These functions are no longer available on a global level, but in the multi-menu on the section itself. The search function has also been fundamentally modified: imperia 11.3 now offers a full-text search function that also searches the meta fields of the documents and thus displays detailed results. We have enhanced the filter functions with additional filter chips so that you can select additional options and no longer have to configure filters manually. By clicking on the corresponding filter categories, it is much easier to put together filters. For more specific search queries that cannot be covered by the filter search (for example OR searches), there is an extended filter search in 11.3. What is particularly exciting here is that the search query actually carried out is displayed as Insight Query Language (IQL). This is especially useful for developers if they want to build their own pages and only want to display documents that match a certain search query.

Create your own dictionaries with the tagging

In the new version we have created a new page called "Tags". Here, tag dictionaries can be created and managed. The defined tags can then be called up in the document. Editors gain significant advantages through the tag controller, as they can only select the tags that have been created for them. In addition, newly created tags are also displayed directly in the filter bar.

Miniweb in new design

To create independent pages within larger website constructs, the Miniweb is a very popular add-on for many of our users. However, in the past, in some places this could not be used intuitively. With 11.3, the Miniweb also benefits from a clearly structured UI design. In the menu it is now very easy to select the hierarchy level under which the new page should be sorted by mouse-over effect. We have also chosen this functionality in the sense of accessibility. We have also transferred the navigation generation, which exists in imperia on a global level, to the mini-web. This means that the existing data structure for the creation of menus in the rubric tree in the Miniweb now works in exactly the same way. This will make it easier for our editors to create pages in the minweb and improve the overall user experience.