squidex/squidex

Headless CMS and Content Managment Hub

What is Squidex?

Squidex is an open source headless CMS and content management hub. In contrast to a traditional CMS Squidex provides a rich API with OData filter and Swagger definitions. It is up to you to build your UI on top of it. It can be website, a native app or just another server. We build it with ASP.NET Core and CQRS and is tested for Windows and Linux on modern browsers.

Read the docs at https://docs.squidex.io/ (work in progress) or just check out the code and play around.

How to make feature requests, get help or report bugs?

Please join our community forum: https://support.squidex.io

Status

Current Version Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/KakM4F3S/squidex-roadmap

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio 2022
• Node.js (development only)
• MongoDB
• .NET 8 SDK (Already part of Visual Studio 2022 v17.8)

Deployment Options

Platform	Documentation	Quicklink
Azure	Docs
AWS	Docs
Docker	Docs
GCP	Docs
Heroku	Docs
IIS	Docs
K8S	Docs
Render	Docs
Vultr	Docs

Contributors

Core Team and Founders

• Qaisar Ahmad Interaction Designer, Pakistan
• Sebastian Stehle Software Engineer, Germany (currently Sweden)

Contributors

• civicplus (Avd6977, dsbegnoce): Google Maps support, custom regex patterns and a lot of small improvements.
• cpmstars: Asset support for rich editor.
• guohai: FTP asset store support, Email rule support, custom editors and bug fixes.
• pushrbx: Azure Store support.
• razims: GridFS support.
• sauravvijay: Kafka Rule action.

Contributing

Please create issues to report bugs, suggest new functionalities, ask questions or just share your thoughts about the project. We will really appreciate your contribution, thanks.

Cloud Version

Although Squidex is free it is also available as a Saas version on https://cloud.squidex.io.

squidex's Issues

Add Backup and Restore Function in the UI / API

It would be nice to have a api or an ui to have general backup and restore mechanism. (Similar to wordpress?)

this will be most important for all on cloud demand users which don't have access to the physical installation

Add button to purge all data for a schema.

• New Event (Schema Purged)
• Confirm Dialog
• API Integration

Content not saved

I creatd a simple schema then i added first content element it seems like it is saved with out content i entered

the created schema looksl like

Show notification when content cannot be saved because of validation errors.

Add History feature

As Squidex is eventsourced it has informations about all versions of an item like "content"

so it would be nice to see the history and the values at a given state.

From this we get some nice sourcecontroll-like features

• Revert error changes
• Having some kind of manuell tiny backup
• see when a wrong content were created and who did it.

Possibility to invite new users to squidex system

At the moment of writing an user must first login to the squidex system before you can unlock him and give him the right rights for a particular app.

A more user friendly solution can be that you can invite someone by a email. (like Slack does)
When this user then accepts the link and logs in with his google account, he can directly access the content where you gave him the rights for.

More detailed:
Add the moment the user has been added by the admin, but the user has not clicked on the invite link already, the admin can change the rights for this "not activated" user.

Improve String Representation for Content Lists.

Add Cors (*)

Content Save with STRG+S and other short cuts.

Allow multiple event publishers

• List of event publishers (Key => Name)

Improve UI to indicate that only existing users can be added.

Requested by #16

Add link to Github next to Feedback icon?

Editors cannot edit content

Wrong permissions for languages API.

Asset field sometimes shows all assets available

When there is no asset present in a asset content field, the field sometimes shows all assets available. This is strange behavior, since it's not always...
Looking at the document, no ID is present for this field (see red circle)

RabbitMQ Integration

Push events to RabbitMq.

• Write RabbitMq EventHandler
• Read configuration (URL and credentials).
• Apply event filters.
• Added RabbitMq to Docker Config.

JSON Editor ist not stable

Does not seem to save correctly on all browsers.

ETag support for Contents

• Send ETag (DONE)
• Send NotModified status code if ETag matches If-Match header

When saving a content don't autoclose the edit content pane

Track the number of API calls per day.

• Provide store to track number.
• Show charts

Simplify config

• Remove Squidex prefix from config keys.
• Add Squidex to environment variables.

Search query is preserved when switching schema.

Add Option to define default Value for DateTime

Optional default values:

• Now
• Today
• Fixed Value

Export feature in UI

Add refresh buttons to reload data.

Limitation of the number of contributors ir broken.

You cannot add contributors if you have not defined a limit

Changing a contributor to developer form editor throws error

I want to the the role of a freshly added developer but as a result i get the error message that he already exists.

When pressing F5 (2 minutes later) he still doesnt have the new role

Add Button to set Date/DateTime to Today/Now

when I create a schema with a element that has a textarea i don't see a textarea in the content

List view in addition on top of thumbnail view for asset page

When there are a lot of assets (like 200) it will be handy to use a list view. With a list view you have the possibility to simple select multiple assets and also the possibility to show more items than the thumbnail view.

Improve Language Handling

• Define fallback languages for each language.
• Define languages as optional to ignore them for required validations.

Add Archive / Revert Delete Function

currently it is very easily possible to accidentally delete a schema. when this happens all contents of this schema isn't accessible anymore.

Squidex will still have this information in its history. So it would be nice to have some kind of Archive where i can see all deleted entries and having the ability to revert the deletion .

In this case we can handle disaster scenarios that are related to accidental deletions

Swagger Documentation broken for GetSchemas

See: https://cloud.squidex.io/api/docs#operation/Schemas_GetSchema

User Management V2

Bug: Searching for content does not work with "-" character

EventConsumers should filter events by stream name.

Improve the performance of event consumers to filter by stream name.

• Change MongoDB filter to Regex.
• Ensure Indices
• Add StreamFilter to IEventConsumer
• Use StreamFilter in EventReceiver

Reordering of Fields with Drag and Drop.

http://valor-software.com/ng2-dragula/

Allow logos / icons for apps.

Not able to build. Any idea?

I receive the error

Squidex.Infrastructure -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Infrastructure\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Infrastructure.dll
Squidex.Infrastructure.GoogleCloud -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Infrastructure.GoogleCloud\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Infrastructure.GoogleCloud.dll
Squidex.Infrastructure.RabbitMq -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Infrastructure.RabbitMq\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Infrastructure.RabbitMq.dll
Squidex.Infrastructure.Redis -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Infrastructure.Redis\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Infrastructure.Redis.dll
Squidex.Core -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Core\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Core.dll
Squidex.Infrastructure.MongoDb -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Infrastructure.MongoDb\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Infrastructure.MongoDb.dll
Squidex.Infrastructure.Tests -> C:\Projects\squidex\tests\Squidex.Infrastructure.Tests\bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\Squidex.Infrastructure.Tests.dll
Squidex.Events -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Events\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Events.dll
Squidex.Core.Tests -> C:\Projects\squidex\tests\Squidex.Core.Tests\bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\Squidex.Core.Tests.dll
Squidex.Read -> C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Read\bin\Debug\netstandard1.6\Squidex.Read.dll
Schemas\SchemaDomainObject.cs(56,44): error CS1501: No overload for method 'Dispatch' takes 1 arguments [C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Write\Squidex.Write.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\1.0.4\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\build\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.targets(92,5): error : Cannot find project info for 'C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Core\Squidex.Core.csproj'. This can indicate a missing project reference. [C:\Projects\squidex\tests\Squidex.Write.Tests\Squidex.Write.Tests.csproj]
Schemas\MongoSchemaRepository_EventHandling.cs(41,48): error CS1501: No overload for method 'Dispatch' takes 1 arguments [C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Read.MongoDb\Squidex.Read.MongoDb.csproj]
C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\1.0.4\Sdks\Microsoft.NET.Sdk\build\Microsoft.NET.Sdk.targets(92,5): error : Cannot find project info for 'C:\Projects\squidex\src\Squidex.Core\Squidex.Core.csproj'. This can indicate a missing project reference. [C:\Projects\squidex\tests\Squidex.Read.Tests\Squidex.Read.Tests.csproj]

Improve Save Buttons

1. Save & Publish (default, green)
2. Save as Draft (gray)

Dialog to notify user about unsaved changes when editing content.

Add non-existing user as contributor and send invitation link.

Requested by #16

Enforce lower case characters, when for apps and clients.

Conversion from JSON to BSON fails

• They do not seem to be compatible, e.g. some property names are valid in JSON but not in BSON.
• Long numbers fail to be serialized.

Does it work with Azure Doc/CosmosDb?

It has a MongoDb compatible API, so it might work? Anyone given it a crack?

Copy multiple assets from the asset page to an asset field at once

RFC

Possibility to copy multiple assets from the assets page into a Asset type field, but there is no multiple select functionality. (So that you can drag multiple assets from assets component to an asset field type)
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Search for contents does not work.

Improve Html Editor

• Add button to switch to html mode
• Integrate more plugins?

EventConsumers stop working when they loose the connection to MongoDB

Solution: Just retry

Asset list shows full mime type for Microsoft Documents.

• Write mapping to "Short-Mime-Types"
• Use file extension as fallback.
• Limit number of characters.

Add a non contributor that currently has no squidex account

I want to add a user that doesnt not have squidex account currently.It seems like this doesnt work. So he has to create a account first.

a) a hint text that tells me that i can only add users with a squidex account would be nice

b)It would be faster and easier if I can just type a mail and if the user doesn't have a account he gets an invitation link.

c) another down side if this dropdown shows me all current user is that I can spy the list of all user accounts ;) Maybe the list should be limitited to accounts with the same domain (if it is a custom domain)