Embracing Sprint to 100, “Anand”: Elevating your CMS experience

The significance of little improvements

Our teams have been busy launching major features and capabilities over the past 12 months, but we want to ensure we’re not overlooking the little things that make a big difference in your daily workflows. Consider how even simple changes—like improved navigation, enhanced search functionality, or customizable settings—can significantly improve your day-to-day interactions with our content management system (CMS). This initiative is focused on enhancing your user experience by integrating smaller, yet impactful quality-of-life improvements into our CMS.

Our development philosophy

At the heart of this initiative is the essence of the word “Anand,” which means happiness and joy in Hindi. Our goal is to strike a harmonious balance between delivering delightful smaller features and the larger, game-changing updates that you’ve grown to expect from us. Every new feature we roll out is carefully crafted to ensure it sparks joy in your daily interactions inside the CMS. 

Through Sprint to 100, we are creating a development philosophy that prioritizes your experience. We want you to feel empowered and excited about using our platform, knowing that we are continually striving to meet your needs. By focusing on both the significant and the subtle, we believe we can profoundly enhance your workflow and satisfaction.

Listening to your feedback

Sprint to 100 was born from listening to you and addressing long-awaited feature requests. Over the years, we’ve gathered invaluable feedback from teams and individuals who truly grasp the intricacies of our CMS. This added perspective drives us to focus on meaningful adjustments that can make a significant difference.

These improvements span anywhere from UX/UI enhancements and functionality additions to bulk actions, filtering and organization, and wayfinding—we’ve got you covered. Let’s dive deeper into the specifics of what Sprint to 100 entails.

UX enhancements

Enhancements to improve overall user experience:

• ‘Option + Shift + Arrow’ keyboard shortcut to highlight text
• Ability to search reference entry based on Author or Date
• Ability to sort options in alphabetical order while choosing a reference entry in the reference field
• Ability to view and open reference field in a new tab (when reference field is added to a modular block inside parent modular block) in any locale beyond master language

UI enhancements

Improvements to the visual interface for better design or usability:

• Display of the 'number of referenced entries' on the reference field
• For JSON rich text editor (RTE):
  • Ability to resize image by adding absolute height and width in image properties
  • Embed option for in-line entry creation within JSON RTE
  • Option for developers to define height of a JSON RTE field

Bug fixes

Fixed issues or errors identified:

• Resolved UI scrolling issue in widget apps and calendar on Chrome and Edge browsers
• Increased width of Modular Blocks in UI to address width limitation to improve usability
• Resolved User list sorting issue
• Skip fallback locale validation for locale update API calls which are only intended for renaming a language

Search relevancy improvements

Improvements that enhancement search functionality:

• Ability to support Advanced Search for custom JSON fields
• Ability to support Partial Keyword Search
• Ability to use and search within JSON RTE in Advanced Search
• Ability to search for Entries by titles in Venus UI
• Ability to save search results in Basic Search when filters are applied

New functionality

New features or capabilities added to the CMS:

• Filtering/sorting by tags in the Reference Selection dialog
• Ability to organize Entries inside folders
• Option to select multiple default values if multiple choices are allowed for the select field

Every single enhancement has been carefully crafted and implemented with you in mind, in response to your specific request, providing solutions that not only increase efficiency in your workflows but streamline processes and diminish friction points in the CMS. While major features are still essential to our development roadmap, we understand that sometimes it’s all about the little things that truly elevate the day-to-day experience in our platform.

Looking ahead

The beauty of this iterative process is that it allows us to refine our offerings and ensure they provide maximum benefit and value to you. Sprint to 100 symbolizes our pledge to create a user-centric platform that not only meets but exceeds your expectations.

As we continue to shape the future of our CMS, we want to thank you for being a vital part of the Contentstack community and embarking on this journey with us. We will continue to make your experience with our CMS as enjoyable and efficient as possible, one step at a time. Please continue to share your thoughts and feedback with us. We look forward to growing with you!