Floodlight

What is Floodlight?

This is the code base behind Floodlight, a powerful story-building website that enables community change makers to inspire action and advance their issues through more substantive, engaging and persuasive data-driven storytelling.

For more information, see http://www.floodlightproject.org/

Changelog

dev

• Support latest version of Tastypie (#614)
• Support replacing uploaded image assets (#738)
• Don't automatically add linebreaks to story summary (#740)

0.9.7

• Make viewer header not be position:fixed (#684)
• Prevent wrapping in header-right menu (#702)
• Wrap Backbone modules in self-executing anonymous functions (#710)
• Update thumbnail view lookup keys when initial sections are first saved (#725)
• Fix race condition on initial save (#728)
• Invalidate cached places list when story's places are updated (#730)
• Remove dependency on Namespace.js

0.9.6

• Fix race condition when updating Solr index when a section is removed (#723)

0.9.5

• Fix table of contents elements (#715)

0.9.4

• Fix table of contents toggling (#709)

0.9.3

• Add ability to close alerts before they fade out
• Avoid duplicate alert messages
• Move search bar to top of map in explorer (#559)
• Fix scrolling of asset drawer (#692)
• Supress builder tour when user clicks the "X" icon (#697)
• More subtle response when story is saved (#548)

0.9.2

• Wire up links to detail view of news items in homepage slider (#703)

0.9.1

• Use mock geocoder in tests unless user explicitely specifies a geocoder in the settings (#700)

0.9

• Prevent assigning multiple assets to the same section/container (#595)
• Prevent submitting the builder asset creation form when either a file or URL has not been specified (#606)
• Add display of connected story featured images in viewer (#610)
• Add weight field to Story model and sort latest stories by this field (#625)
• Sort latest projects and latest organizations lists by published timestamp (#625)
• Sort projects in the projects list view by published timestamp (#625)
• Show asset views after switching between workflow steps (#696)

0.8.10

• Fix positioning of builder workflow step tabs (#695)

0.8.9

• Properly dehydrate related fields when they haven't been cached (#566)

0.8.8

• Properly evaluate logged-in-user when previewing stories (#690)

0.8.7

• Fix regression where section list width was being incorrectly set for newly created stories (#556)

0.8.6

• Maintain section list height, even when there are a large number of sections (#556)

0.8.5

• Fix connected story links in viewer in modal IFRAME (#487)

0.8.4

• Don't write to browser history when opening viewer in modal IFRAME (#487)

0.8.3

• Escape JSON when output inside <script> tags (#658)

0.8.2

• Match oEmbed URLs beginning with either "http://" or "https://" (#681)

0.8.1

• Fix duplicate CSS being included in builder

0.8

• Prevent saving multiple assets to the same section and container (#535)
• Quote styles in viewer (#565)
• Make placeholder behavior in builder form fields more consistent (#616)
• Use django-compressor to compress and version static assets (#624)
• Add space to content in viewer to accomdate bottom bar (#627)
• Fix alignment of builder toolbar icons in Chrome >= 0.25 (#649)
• Do better housekeeping of Backbone views for asset editing (#671)

0.7

• Wired in home page banner (#198)
• Better cleanup of Select2 instances on Explore page (#480)
• Made link and button colors consistent across the site (#514)
• Move "View all stories" button higher up on project and organization detail pages (#531)
• Make "My Account" menu consistent in the sidebar and megamenu (#544)
• Make titles in Explore view left-justified (#576)
• Include count and link to connected stories in homepage featured slider and explore pasge (#629)
• Apphook to connect news items feed to a CMS page (#646)
• High-level query API for stories
• Implemented a reusable menu class and template tag for rendering menus
• (Mostly) remove hard-coded URLs from navigation
• Factor navigation menus into separate templates

0.6.5

• Use Django 1.4's signature for PasswordResetForm.save (#661)

0.6.4

• Allow superusers to open any story in builer (#657)

0.6.3

• Only log JavaScript errors to the server once (#635)

0.6.2

• Workaround for multiple assets per section container issue (#534, #535)

0.6.1

• Fix width of builder section list in Chrome (#648)

0.6

• Ability to add Teasers to CMS Pages

0.5.5

• Properly register backport i18n tag library.

0.5.4

• Hide error popup for uncaught JavaScript exceptions (#634)

0.5.3

• Log uncaught JavaScript exceptions to the server (#623)

0.5.2

• Wait until viewer images are loaded before resizing containers and captions (#622)

0.5.1

• Show error message on uncaught JavaScript exceptions (#623)

0.5

• Add support for Django 1.4.* and Django CMS 2.3.* (see docs/upgrading.rst)
• Improved asset type selection user interface (#381)
• Simplified flow in the publish/share step of the story builder (#515, #590)
• Use the site-wide sharing widget in the publish/share step of the builder (#515)
• Set default featured image in the builder (#515)
• Improved user interface for featured image selection in the builder (#515)
• Story viewer is navigated one page at a time. (#518)
• Builder story summary editor has a character counter and warning when character limit is hit (#530)
• Update and save the story slug when it's initially published (#596)
• Cleanly handle errors and cache response from upstream Creative Commons license API (#605)
• "View" button in publish/share step goes to the story viewer and not the detail page (#612)
• Update Backbone to version 0.9.10 and Underscore to version 1.4.3
• Update dependency version of django-notification to 1.0 (see docs/upgrading.rst)

0.4.4

• Fixed clobbering of connected story relations when editing a seed story (#611)

0.4.3

• Added link to connected stories in "Latest Stories" list on homepage (#609)

0.4.2

• Fix preview connected stories (#601)
• Fix display of connected story byline (#607)
• Hide connected stories in latest story list and make their detail and viewer views inaccessible (#609)

0.4.1

• Fix for #599 (Home page featured image scaling)

0.4

• Fix for #146 (Story section list should advance one thumbnail at a time instead of being a continuous scroll)
• Fix for #245 (Placeholders getting cut off in tag view in builder)
• Fix for #417 (Cannot load a previously saved story in builder when accessing through a hash-based URL)
• Fix for #320 (Tools tips on filters on Explore page obscure the drop-down list)
• Fix for #465 (Clean up builder table of contents scroll arrows)
• Basic in-browser integration tests for builder
• Redesigned template selection view in builder (#383)
• Added a subtle border around images and videos in the story viewer (#520)
• Updated home page layout and ability for users to edit home page news items (#433, #567)
• Moved layout selector widget in builder (#442)
• Use CSS to "crop" thumbnail images in various templates

0.3.1

• Embedded story widget height attribute needs a 'px'

0.3

• Fix for #231 (When adding a link in Story Builder text editor "OK" and "Cancel" buttons need to be more prominent)
• Fix for #271 (builder.css has some JS output as selector)
• More prominent social signup/login buttons (#347)
• More visible Summary and Call To Action sections in story viewer (#369)
• Fix for #415 (Builder tour popup falls off screen in Internet Explorer)
• Polyfill for input placeholders in Internet Explorer (#416)
• Users can make a request to create a new Organization (#458)
• Users can make a request to create a new Project (#463)
• Fix for #486 (Call to action overlaps with sharing information on story detail page)
• Usability improvements for adding story sections in the builder (#506)
• Ability to view the builder tour again (#508)
• Usability improvements for modal story viewer (#519)
• Fix for #546 (Incorrect Open Graph meta tags for Project and Organization detail pages and filtered Explore page)
• Fix for #557 (Build step help is shown for other steps)

0.2

• #237 - Fix builder last saved date in Internet Explorer
• #435 - Sans-serif body fonts
• #448 - s/Communication Preferences/Notifications and Subscriptions/
• #451 - Use museo for headers in story viewer
• #452 - Normalize font sizes in viewer
• #459 - Embedable widget for stories
• #460 - Change story publication status in "My Stories" view
• #461 - Public profile with story lists for each user
• #464 - Full-text search for stories
• #475 - Consistent share widget that wraps AddThis widgets and embed code
• #485 - Cleaned up table styling in "My Stories" view
• #490/#532 - Remove italics in form inputs
• #491 - Fix missing save button in builder in Internet Explorer
• #493 - IndexError in admin when adding a Project or Organization
• #498 - s/Sponsoring Organizations/Contributing Organizations/
• #500 - Make "Home" link in footer active
• #546 - Fix OpenGraph tags for projects and organizations

On the shoulders of giants

This project includes a number of excellent open-source libraries:

• The 1140px Grid V2 by Andy Taylor
• Backbone by Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud
• D3 by Michael Bostock
• Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
• Guiders.js by Optimizely
• Handlebars by Yehuda Katz
• HTML5 Boilerplate
• imagesLoaded by David DeSandro
• JavaScript Pretty Date by John Resig
• jQuery by John Resig
• jQuery Cookie by Klaus Hartl
• jQuery Condense Plugin by Joe Sillitoe
• jQuery Iframe Transport by Christopher Lenz
• jQuery Jeditable by Mika Tuupola
• jQuery Masonry by David DeSandro
• json2.js by Douglas Crockford
• Formalize by Nathan Smith
• Leaflet <http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/> by CloudMade, Vladimir Agafonkin
• LeafClusterer by Imre Deak
• Modernizr
• Normalize.css by Nicolas Gallagher and Jonathan Neal
• Select2 by Igor Vaynberg
• SimpleModal by Eric Martin
• Tooltipster by Caleb Jacob
• TinyMCE by Moxiecode Systems AB
• Underscore by Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud
• WYSIHTML5 by XING AG