What is new in DPE Content Manager

Version 3.5

Docker Image for Release 2026.2.0

• https://docker-registry-public.davidsystems.com/dpe-contentmanager:release2026.2.0

Drag & drop of groups includes/resolves group member metadata on-the-fly

• Needed for hybrid use cases

Configurable AutoLogout

• Automatically logout after N seconds of user inactivity (no mouse or keyboard)

• Set parameter ContentManager|AutoLogout = <value in seconds>

Support for Windows Authentication

• Automatically logon with Kestrel or NTLM

• Requires AD-synced users

• Requires enabled DpeNanoServices

• See Preparing settings.json

Sending entries from CM to CAE clipboard via menu

• As an alternative to sending them to the CAE timeline

• See Open Audio Entries in Contextual Audio Editor (CAE)

Important Bugfixes

• OIA-10492 On‑The‑Fly Waveform Creation was not Triggered by Player (needs updated DPE/Nano backend also)

Version 3.4

Docker Image for Release 2026.1.0

• https://docker-registry-public.davidsystems.com/dpe-contentmanager:release2026.1.0

Configure Docker Image via environment variables

• See Deploying ContentManager as docker container

Define Relationships between entries (Entry Hooks)

• See Define Relationships between Entries (Entry Hooks)

Bugfixes

• RCE: drag and drop from player or clip area onto timeline item was broken since 3.2.5

Version 3.3

Collaborative text editing (and no file locking anymore)

• Also see Collaborative Text Editing

• Note: Collaborative Text Editing does only work when using Content Manager 3.3 (or newer)

  It is not available when using Database Manager (DBM), editing a RTF in DBM still locks the doument

Docker Image for Release 2025.3.0

• https://docker-registry-public.davidsystems.com/dpe-contentmanager:release2025.3.0

Version 3.2

Docker Image for Release 2025.2.0

• https://docker-registry-public.davidsystems.com/dpe-contentmanager:release2025.2.0

Bugfixes, speed improvements and small features

Version 3.1

• Bugfixes

Version 3.0

Independent deployment and maintenance

• Starting with version 3.x, ContentManager is an independent, standalone web application that can be hosted in any web server and on any platform

• ContentManager can be updated and maintained independently from the service backend

• We provide a ContentManager docker image for easy, containerized deployment

• ContentManager is not part of the DPE setup anymore, which previously installed web frontends and web services as one monolithic application inside Microsoft IIS

Improved table search and overview

• Keep table selection when searching for tables

• Spot all selected tables easily

• See selected table(s) in tab header

Entry grid context menu (right click on entry)

• Configure Right-Click Context Menu
  Choose which context menu items appear in the top bar or in the new entry context menu or in both

Faster metadata editing

• In-place edit of title in grid

Speech-to-text Support

• CAE-like S2T experience in details pane

• Play head and text position/selection are linked

• CAE-like shortcuts work in S2T area

• Adding Speech-to-text component

Improved Audio Player

• Playback speed can be changed (in details pane), e.g. 0.5x or 2.0x

• Larger and redesigned control buttons (that will soon be used in all DAVID web applications)

Details Pane Templates

• Advanced Details Pane Templates
  Support for embedded JavaScript event handlers onSelectedEntryChanged_DetailsPane and onEditModeChanged_DetailsPane allow to add dynamic behavior to your page
  

• Adding combo-box component and binding to dynamic data sources
  Improved combo-box widget allows to combine any definition list (also user defined definition lists) to any metadata field now

Other

• Table and user specific content facets

• Support for automatically setting MusicID

Redirection

• The DPE Installation 2.13.x allows redirection to the new 3.x versions via configuring web.config files