Well, here we are in November. The season is well underway, and while football fans here in our home state of Oklahoma are a little less than thrilled with the performances of our home teams, there's still a lot to be excited about here in the Element Fusion offices. This week, we've got a couple of nifty new features and a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes improvements to be rolled out on LightCMS, WaterCMS, and SkyCMS.
FTP Secure
We're enhancing system security even further with the release of FTPS secure access. We've provided standard FTP access to your websites for years now (a rarity amongst hosted solutions), and now we've improving it with the ability to connect securely. It all works just as it has worked before (view our FTP documentation), but you can now set your FTP client to utilize FTPS protocol and all traffic between you and the server will be encrypted.
Links to uploaded files in form entry notification emails
This is another very often requested feature. Now when you allow your users to upload files to forms you create with our form builder, we'll include a link to download the file right inside the notification email (if you turn email notifications on). Previously, to access the file, you needed to log in and visit the "manage entries" screen on the form element in question. Now, you'll be able to access your files instantly. Neat!
Behind the scenes magic
In addition to the publicly visible features listed above, our team has been hard at work optimizing and improving all the magic that happens behind the scenes. Though you might not immediately see these changes, you can be assured that we are taking care of everything that's under the hood.
Update schedule
This release is scheduled for Thursday morning, November 5th, 2009 in a window of 8am to 9am CST (GMT -6). We don't anticipate any system downtime for this update.
Posted on
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
by Tim Wall
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