Improved publishing schedule

A new dialogue box will be introduced with calendar support and time inputs to improve the publishing schedule for items in the block queue. This will greatly improve the interface for editors to pre-plan the publishing process and specifically to organize items that are to be published in the future.

Drag-and-drop positioning of published items

You will be able to change the position of published items using a simple drag-and-drop interface. This helps to better organize how items are displayed in a specific block on a frontpage.

Easier re-publishing of archived items

The user experience is further improved for moving items from the history to the queue. This will be a direct action instead of an "edit-remove-publish-edit-publish" process.

Expanding and collapsing blocks while editing

Blocks will behave like expandable and collapsible windows. This will enable editors to focus on blocks of interest, while collapsing the other blocks. The screenshot below shows an expanded block with several collapsed blocks below it. Note that the button positions and names might vary when the new eZ Flow version is released.

Changing the zone layout without deleting existing blocks

Previously, changing a zone layout would delete all existing blocks. However, we will add the possibility to re-map blocks between zones when the zone layout is changed. In cases where the new zone layout contains less zones then old layout, the user will be prompted to choose the zone to which the blocks are re-mapped.

Limiting block content to certain classes

For manual blocks, you will be able to limit items to objects of specific content classes. This is useful when blocks are designed to support specific types of content, such as images. When an editor uses the Browse interface to choose objects to add to a manual block, only allowed content types are displayed.