The last couple of months I've been working hard at getting
Contour (HQ's
official form builder) ready for Umbraco v5. Today we are
releasing a beta version that you can install on your Umbraco v5
sites.
What can I do with the beta?
If you've already used Contour it will look almost identical,
all the UI bits are in place so you can create forms, attach
workflows, view and export entries, use prevalue and datasources
and fine tune form security for your backend users. All that from a
new section in your Umbraco v5 backend. There's loads of great
lessons learned from making it that I can't wait to share and I'm
preparing an awesome CodeGarden session about it
The beta will be fully functional untill 01/04 after that it
will go into trial mode and you'll need a valid license (still
using the same license model so existing licenses should simply
work).
Getting started:
In order to run the Contour beta you'll need to be running an
Umbraco v5 5.0.1 build (since Contour relies on some recent fixes),
you can get the latest build here: http://nightly.umbraco.org/Jupiter/501/
It just takes a couple of clicks to install Contour and once
it's active you can start adding forms to your pages. To see how
easy it is check this short intro:
Whats missing?
We're aiming to get all the features you know from the v4
version in the v5 port but currently there are a few bits
missing.
- Datasource: umbracoNode
- Prevaluesource: nodePrevalue
- PrevalueSource: umbracoPrevalues
- Record editing
- Page id missing on record
- Place holder parser for umbraco properties
Once these are in place we'll have the final release ready
Report bugs
If you encounter any bugs during your tests it would be a
huge help if you report them by going to this page.
Download the Contour 2 beta build