Powerful Tools One Click away with Cascade Server Firefox Extension

By Syl Turner

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 at 4:00pm

Cascade Server is very simple to navigate through already, but some of us power developers need a few more shortcuts. Sure, we have access keys (Alt-E to edit, Alt-S to submit, etc.), but some of us are clickers. That’s why the Cascade Server Firefox Extension was created!

Features

Now, you can easily right-click on an asset and it provides numerous asset options! View, Edit, Copy, Delete and Publish is now only one click away, instead of two!

This works anywhere there’s a link to the asset, too. So if a page is linked within the content, you can right-click on the link to reveal the same options!

That’s not all! If you would like to easily create a new default asset, just right-click anywhere, go to the “New Asset” menu, and select one of the default assets to create a brand new one!

What’s that? There’s more?! Yes! Now, if you know what asset you’d like to go to, just right-click, go to “Go To Asset…” and a new dialog box appears where you can type the absolute path to any asset, or administrative entity, to go directly to it! You can also press F4 to open the dialog box!

I know. I know. You can’t believe it. There are so many useful features, there can’t be anymore, right? Wrong! We have added additional functionality to the Bulk Change tool! On the list of assets screen during a bulk change, right click to reveal the Bulk Change menu! It allows you to select only certain types of assets, even based on regular expressions!

We still have two more features that are helpful! If there are a lot of workflows sitting on the workflow screen, and you’d like to delete them all, just right-click and go to “Delete All Workflows.” If successful, a dialog box will tell you how many workflows have been deleted.

We have one more feature! Similar to deleting all the workflows, you can now delete all the publish jobs in the queue! Go to the publisher status page (Tools -> Publisher -> Active), right-click and go to “Delete All Publish Jobs.” Again, a dialog box will appear if the deletion is successful.

Additional Information

This extension will not allow your users to bypass any security or access rights restrictions. For example, the “Edit” option may still appear on the right-click menu, but if you don’t have access to edit, you won’t be allowed to access the edit screen.

We have found that there are some display issues on Firefox for Mac, where some icons don’t appear. These are only style issues, though. The functionality still works.

This extension works on Firefox 2.0 and higher. We will continue to work on the extension by adding new features and fixing any issues that may appear. However, this is NOT supported by Hannon Hill. Any questions to Hannon Hill about how to use it, any issues that annoy you, etc., will be ignored. This is only a side project and cannot be supported. Feel free to send us feedback or use JIRA to suggest new features, and we may add them on future releases.

We make no guarantees with this extension! Keep that in mind.

Download the Cascade Server Firefox Extension

*Extension Credits: Martin Robinson and Syl Turner, with a very special thanks Andy Gardner, Joel Stevens, Brett Goodwin, Artur Tomusiak, and Steven Pease for all their suggestions and debugging ability.

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