The time between the last update and this latest 2.3 version has been really exciting because we’ve been spending time not only on some new features and improvements, but also working with teams USING Interface on great projects.

Version 2.3

Enhancements

• Save options implemented across associations
• UI enhancements (such as, easier way to edit associated items)
• API ability to order by multiple fields
• Added incremental loading to association search

New Features

• New file upload using swf upload (faster and better for large files, such as video and pdfs!)
• Added “sensitive” column type for content columns to hide from the API (while still allowing the rest of the model to be available)
• Model Inheritance

Check out our Examples page to see some of the latest sites to be launched in Interface, such as Uncommon and Invisible Creature.

We have a few new features in the works, so stay tuned!

To our Interface and Web Hosting customers,

Last night, around 11:20pm PST, our web hosting partner, Slicehost, experienced a significant power outage at a data center that interrupted service to a large number of websites between 11:20pm-12:45am.

Our hosting monitoring system alerted us to the problem and staff was aware of the problem immediately. Our servers were affected by this and although they were brought back up as quickly as possible, several of our client’s websites were unavailable during this period.

As of 1am, all of our client’s websites had come back online and were functioning properly. Some lingering problems still existed today, but our team has been working to correct those since early this morning.

We’re always looking for ways to improve our customer’s website performance and reliability. Even with this recent issue, Slicehost continues to be highly regarded as the best choice in the cloud/ web hosting industry.

Sign up for the Service Updates blog RSS feed to learn about any service interruptions and information as we learn it ourselves. If you have any further concerns, feel free to touch base with us.

Thanks again for your business,

The Interface Crew

The team has been really excited to spend time lately on “little” things that are making Interface more polished and well-rounded.

Enhancements

• Improvements to search logic
• Content list bug fixes
• Tweaked various minor display issues
• Search now finds results from Locations (i.e., search by city) and Images (search by image file name, etc.)

New Features

• Added Save Options for content: Save and New (saves current item and then opens form to add a new one), Save and Duplicate (saves current item and then creates a duplicate of that item to edit & save), Save and Close (saves and then closes current item)
• Included color and quality options to image cache
• Ability to search across nested associations from Content List search in toolbar.

To update your Interface version, make sure your developers and the project are ready for the update and then use the “Update Now” button on the Dashboard. You’ll get an email notifying you when the update is complete.

The team is focused on a number of other small improvements for the next Interface version before we move on to a few new big features. In the meantime, check the Blog for more information about Interface.