Woo-hoo! Alright! Bring it on, guys!

email feedback from silverstripe staff arrived today, assuring the need for a very own dataobjectmanager forum will be raised in the next team meeting early next week.

i'd also like to mention that as enhancement for complex table fields is a major issue for 2.3.4 (see http://open.silverstripe.org/ticket/3476), so dataobjectmanager might be the solution to this.

Couple of questions for UC, or anyone else with experience:

1. I have a page that uses the SimpleHTMLEditorField and am having issues with users who copy and paste in content. This issue also applies to the CMS, but the CMS has a 'paste as plain text' option. Is it possible to add this option to the SHEF. Or is there a way to create new DataObjects using a more standard CMS view rather than one of the popups?

2. Is there a possibility that future versions of ImageDataObjectManager could support other image types than JPG out of the box. I saw a forum post with a fix, but I'd like to make as few changes to the core module as I can, so that on future updates I don't have to chase down all the fixes I did in previous versions. For the time on my custom page types I'm using the FileDataObjectManager as it is more than good enough for our current needs. Perhaps a nice way to do this would be to use setAllowedFileTypes, or can one already do that?

I'd like to throw another big Thank You out to Uncle Cheese. The DOM and related modules make the end user experience using our sites thousands of times better than they could be. And the coding is pretty darn easy too. We took a very complicated Wordpress site with a ton of customizations, and no end user controls in the admin panel, and converted it to SS using DOM, and I, by myself, was able to do all the coding and templates in under 2 days, all while working on other projects as well. Just about everything is now controllable from the backend in some hacked together javascripts running on the site. Every time I figure out how to do something new in SS it usually floors the rest of the team I'm on, and it almost always involves something UC has made possible.

Yep, get's my vote too!

That is actually something that the community could really do with, we should think about having awards like 'member of the month' and 'Silverstripe Website of the month'. I think that would really encourage more participation.