New Site Builder 3 Assets

Jun 30, 2010

There are two new nuggets of pure gold in the growing list of Site Builder 3 assets! The first, added by Bryon "Anakin" Noel, is a custom map asset that allows you to plot multiple locations onto a Google Map.

EDIT: July 2, 2010 - Bryon has taken the map offline for a few days to add plotting by coordinates to the map. It'll be back up soon!

map

This asset will allow you to give users an overview of any kind of location-based content you have, from strawberry fields to fields of dreams. The new feature also ties into Bryon's "Directions" asset, so your users can highlight a location and request directions AND NEVER LEAVE YOUR SITE. Amazing!

The second asset was added by yours truly, Dave "Dave" Krause, and it allows you to pull in content from the eXtension collection of FAQs, articles and events.

extension

Simply tell the asset what categories you want queried and how many results to show, and your page will spit out a linked list of results! For now, these results will link out to the eXtension.org site containing the actual content, but we are hoping that eXtension will soon make the full articles available to us using the same tools.

In other Site Builder related news, the importation routine will be available on Tuesday, July 6 before lunch! We do live in exciting times!!


By Dave Krause
Author - Interim Chief Information Officer