Since the last time we visited the sector center in episode 1 there has been a lot of change happen to the sector center. Of course we have had a redesign of the sector center area but the most importantly the sectors have become a lot smarter by handling more data types such as dates, dropdowns, textareas, and most importantly the ability to handle relationships between other tables or sectors within the same database. The great thing about all of this is that PureEdit still remains code free to set all of this up.
When I first started planning PureEdit I felt like basic textareas and basic textboxes that was supported by scaffolding and CRUD would be enough to handle basic sites but I realized that if I want to make PureEdit useful for other developers I better do something about PureEdit's biggest flaw which was its lack of ability to handle a) dates and b) relationships. I figured at this point I thought I would release PureEdit 1.0 without the abilitu to have dates and relationships but I felt like out of every feature that was on my 'future releases list' that these two (dates and relationships) were the most needed.
Having the ability to automatically build relationships and forms without any coding really speeds up the process of building the backend administration of your content management system. If you haven't done so yet go head over and watch the new episode.
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