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Sometimes when you're building a form you need to set an id or a class on the <form> tag. That's usually done for styling or for attaching some Javascript to the form. It's now easier than ever to do that with Aptuitiv Studio. In the past you would have to write out the HTML for the form tag instead of using the convenient {#form.tag.open} tag (documentation). While that worked, it would be nicer…

We recently added another API parameter to the Navigation API in Aptuitiv Studio that you might find useful. Say that you have a navigation menu that shows the primary navigation across the top of the website. The main navigation has drop-down menus so the navigation menu is configured to show all sub navigation. In this example you also need to pull in specific sub navigation into the left…

Sliced Design, one of our partners, recently contacted us with a great feature request. They were building a site with a contact form that needed to have some dynamic default values for some of it's fields. In the site they have links to the form that look like this: site.com/contact?name=Joe. They needed to have the "Name" text box automatically filled with the value from the "name" URL parameter…

For the last few months we've been working on improving the file browser that we use with TinyMCE in Aptuitiv Studio and I'm pleased to announce that it's now ready. We've been using the TinyBrowser plugin and while it does a good job and has a fair amount of functionality it also has a few shortcomings. The most notable is that if it has a problem generating thumbnails it would crash and not…

Breadcrumb trails are a great way to help your site visitors find their place in your website. They're especially useful if a visitor lands deep in your site from a search engine listing as the breadcrumb trail can give them a sense of where they are and an idea of the other content on your website. A breadcrumb trail is a type of secondary navigation for your website. It should supplement your…

Recently we have introduced blog tags and tag clouds into our Blog Add-on. This is a pretty exciting feature that we knew our Blog was lacking for some time now. Well it has finally come up in our development schedule and we think everyone will be pleased with it.   What is a Tag you ask? A tag is a way to outline the important topics of a particular blog post. This way the reader has an idea of…

Global Tags While working on the new demo site for Aptuitiv, I came across an issue. I had designed the site to utilize the Accounts feature in the Site Template. As you may know, you can pull in account information of the user currently logged in by using Global Tags. I hadn’t featured this in any of my designs yet, so I thought I would try it out with the demo site. We are using a lot of the…

Sliced Design has done us a big favor recently. They spent the time to create a new demo site for us. You can view the new website by going to demo.aptuitiv.com.   They were tasked with creating a design that showed off the functionality of Aptuitiv Studio as much as possible. I must say they did a great job.   Here are a couple screen shots that show how Sliced Design showcased some of the more…

We've had our Navigation APIs for a while and this morning we just added some more functionality, so I figured it's a good time to give an overview of what our Navigation APIs are and how you can use them. The Navigation Menu API lets you do the following things. Use the same navigation menu in different areas of your website but display it differently each time. Pull just sub-navigation items…

We recently updated our Blog app to make more RSS and Atom feeds available. Previously you could only get a feed on recent posts. We've quadrupled that and now you can get the following feeds in either RSS or Atom format. Recent Posts Posts by category Posts by tag Comments for a single post We also give you a lot of control over how the feed is created. As with before you can change things like…