Cascade 5 Series - Hannon Hill Releases 5.2!

By Chris Armistead

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 2:45pm

Hannon Hill is proud to announce the release of Cascade Server 5.2 boasting even more new features aimed at enhancing the experience of users and administrators alike.  The new features made available with the release of 5.2 are Drag N' Drop Folder Reordering and Publish Queue Reordering. 

Drag N' Drop Folder Reordering gives users the ability to drag and drop assets in a folder rather than reordering assets with the up/down/top/bottom arrows.  This new feature provides a quicker, more elegant way to reorder the contents of a folder.  A custom cursor will appear over a row signifying that it is able to dragged.  However, for those of you who still like the old way of reordering with the up/down/top/bottom arrows, Cascade Server 5.2 will continue to support this option. 

Publish Queue reordering has been added in response to some enterprise Cascade deployments which often have independent business units that publish on their own schedules. Because this can lead to long wait times for time-critical publishes that are stacked behind whole site publishes, Managers and Administrators will now have the ability to reorder jobs in the publish queue in the drag and drop format.  System preferences will allow administrators to configure which roles can reorder the publish queue - giving permissions to Administrators, Managers and above, or selecting the option to disable the ability to reorder the queue.  In addition, all publish jobs in the publish queue will now be displayed for users who can access the publish status screen rather than being limited by Read permissions.  This will help eliminate confusion about why a job at the top of the queue has not started.  All jobs that have not yet started can now be moved with drag and drop ease to ensure that time-critical publishes can easily be given higher priority. 

Finally, we added a WYSIWYG upgrade for FireFox 3 compatibility in anticipation of its release. 

I'm excited about Cascade Server 5.2 and its new features designed to improve efficiency for several levels of users. These new features reflect Hannon Hill's commitment to making Cascade Server a product that meets the growing needs of all our customers.  We hope you enjoy!

Don't forget to check back here for new Cascade Server 5 Series upgrades and features.

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