You have the dropdown to show you the five latest notifications and then there is the all notifications page to view your entire history.

There has of course also been contributed a lot of cool modules since and here are some of them.

The DMS gutter module allows you to see which items have personalization and tests assigned to them.

The module was contributed by Mark van Aalst who you can find blogging here.

The Enhanced Email Action gives you some new tokens for use with a workflow email action.

It was contributed by Dan Cruickshank from Fish tank consulting.

With the Export to Json module you can export the data in the Web forms for marketers module into Json. The current Web forms only allows to export into Excel and XML so a very nice feature to be added.

The module was contributed by Mrunal Brahmbhatt.

The Limited Text Field module does as the name suggests put a limiter on how many characters your text field can include.

The module was contributed by Ruud Falier who you can find blogging here.

With the Link List Field Type module you can have a list of links using . Internal, media  and external links.

The module was contributed by Andreas Bergström who blogged about the module here.

The Security Updater allows you to define your security rules in XML. This will allow you to more easily copy your roles to another environment.

The module was contributed by Dave Leigh.

The CDN Connector allows developers to route all media requests (dynamic and static) through a proxy CDN.

The module was contributed by Katherine Lee.

The Sitecore License Expiration Module 2.0 displays a warning in the content editor when your license is about to expire and can be configured to send the administrator an email. You can set how far in advance you want to be notified.

The module was contributed by Robbert Hock

The Sitecore Log Analyzer is used to parse Sitecore log files with an interface that gives you a better overview of large data.

Some of the features include:

• Analyzing, grouping and navigating through log entries of Sitecore instance.
• Analyzing Sitecore instance performance using Health Monitor counters.
• Investigating Sitecore instance lifetime using visual timeline.
• Reporting log entries to Sitecore.

The module was contributed by Roman Chernyk.

The Sitecore Metro Desktop gives you an interface like that of Windows 8 but for your Sitecore desktop.

As you can see from the screenshot below it looks pretty cool.

The module was contributed by Alen Pelin who you can find blogging on the module here.

The Sitecore Pull up fields module allows you easily create a new base template from an existing one if you for example don’t need all the fields in it or pull new fields into one.

The module was contributed by Michael Reynolds who has a blog here where he describes in full detail how the module came about and how to use it to its full extend.

Happy coding and sharing.

The Sitecore PowerShell Console for Sitecore Rocks as the name suggest is the awesome Powershell Console module fitted for Sitecore Rocks. So now you can use your Powershell skills in Rocks as well.

The module was contributed by Adam Najmanowicz who you can find blogging here.

With the Sitecore E-Commerce Services MvpWebStore you are giving a project for a web store. Developers can use this project to access the Unity container, configure dependencies for the Unity container and access the API and get a list of product categories.

This is a module developed by the Sitecore E-Commerce team.

The Sitecore Adaptive Images module will detect a visitor’s screen size and rescale the images if necessary.

The module was contributed by Scott Mulligan who you can find blogging here.

The Simple Tracking Tags module gives you a solution on how to allow your web marketers to start tagging the content. The blog post below describes in detail how this is done.

The module was contributed by Andy Uzick who you can find blogging here.

The Pixlr Image Editor will enable you to edit images inside the Media Library using the Pixlr online tool without leaving Sitecore.

The module was contributed by John Penfold.

The ImageProcessor Module extends the pipeline for image processing and adds functionalities like:

• grey scale
• rotate flip
• pixel precise image crop
• center crop

The module was contributed by the guys from Namics.com

The DeadUrls module helps you get rid of those 404 not found pages when your content editors move items around on your site.

The module was contributed by Mikael Högberg who you can find blogging here.

Happy coding and sharing.

The Logger Module provides an abstraction of the built-in Sitecore Logging features. It gives developers better control over logging output (Targets, Log Level) and allows logging to be controlled at runtime through Sitecore Backend.

The module was contributed by namics.com

The Pretty Date allows for new date types for Sitecore to display more pretty date format for different type of notifications. So instead of 48 hours, it could say 2 days

The module was contributed by Vlad Shpak.

The Sitecore Error Manager shows friendly error messages to the user. The user should see an error page, based on a Sitecore item if an error occurs.

The module was contributed by Kevin Brechbüehl from unic.com

The Splitshot module makes it easy to browse your site when having multiple languages.

It was developed by Alexander Doroshenko who you can find blogging here.

The YouTube Uploader allows you to upload videos to YouTube through the Content Editor. Like the YouTube Integration module added the videos from an author to the media library this module does it the other way around by uploading videos to Sitecore that will then be uploaded to the author’s YouTube account.

The module was contributed by John Penfold.

The Sitecore Email Campaign Manager (ECM) is a full-featured email marketing tool built into the Sitecore Customer Engagement Platform (CEP). The ECM Segmentation Module extends Email Campaign Manager and provides the ability to segment email recipients based on conditions.

This is a feature that comes with ECM2 but Morten Bork thought that this is also something the customer’s who were on version 1.x would also benefit from he developed this extension.

Happy coding and sharing.

It also looks like that the shared source contributors have received it well and in October more than 10 modules was added.

Like the Field Suite module that add five new field types to your template creation.

The module was contributed by Tim Braga from Velir. You can find him blogging here.

The command line tool Revolver is now available in a free version will become shared source.

The module was contributed by Alistair Deneys who you can find blogging here.

The Glimpse plugin for Sitecore a module to help developers by displaying information about the current request in a browser.

The module was contributed by David Morrison.

You can search for all the other modules on marketplace http://marketplace.sitecore.net/

Happy coding and sharing!

When building the Marketplace we have taken the feedback that we got for the Shared Source Library on Trac and tried to meet many of the obstacles that people found using it.

From a users perspective we have made finding the module you were looking for easier by using the Lucene engine and our own Taxonomy module which let’s contributors classify their modules project space so using tags will also show them the module in the search result.

From a contributor’s perspective it is now possible for them to get statistics on how many times their module has been downloaded and it has also been made easier to let the contributor know what you think of the module by rating, recommending and writing a review.

All the Shared Source modules on Trac have been moved to the marketplace and mapped to the contributor’s SDN account, if your module isn’t listed on your profile let me know and it will be fixed.

For now the source is still on the Trac’s SVN repository but the plan is to have it moved to another location, the contributor can select the one they prefer, I can recommend Codeplex or Github.

So the documentation and package will be available on the Marketplace and the source will be available where the contributors chooses.

So we are calling on all the contributors to help move the source away from Trac’s SVN.

Hope you all go visit the new Marketplace and if you have any feedback please let me know.

You can also see a video here of how to create and setup a project space on marketplace.

Happy coding and sharing!

Sitecore Item Buckets allows you to manage very large structures of items. The module uses a Lucene/SOLR based framework for storing, querying and scaling Sitecore to handle these large item structures.

The module was contributed by Tim Ward.

The Lucene TreeList Ex Editor module is a custom treelist editor which uses lucene to easily find items in a large tree.

By using Lucene you can search for items you can also search on date fields and use wildcard search for your item hunting.

If you want to narrow which items you are searching through you can set up a filter for your search as well.

The module was contributed by Niket Ashesh.

The Sitecore Installer module is the module for you that frequently installs a Sitecore solutions. After an easy setup you can at any time fire up this application an create a new version of Sitecore within a couple of seconds. If you have modules that you always install after installing Sitecore, the module does that for you as well.

The module was contributed by Rasmus Rasmussen who you can find blogging here and he has made an introduction video of the module here.

Happy coding and sharing!

The Custom Clones Listing module is a simple extension to the Content Editor that will show all of the clone items created for a given content item.

The module was contributed by Mark Ursino who you can find blogging here.

The Specialized Treelist module is an enhancement to the existing Sitecore treelist field type. With it you use the Lucene index to search for the item in a large treelist.

The module was contributed by Martin Knudsen who you can find blogging here.

The Fed Authenticator Module allows for Federated Authentication to Sitecore using the Windows Identity Foundation.

The module was contributed by Kevin Buckley who you can find blogging here.

Field Fallback is the ability for a field’s value to come from somewhere other than the field itself, a clones source, or its standard values. Various fallback scenarios have been provided in this solution with the ability to customize it as needed. The supplied scenarios are:

* Ancestor Fallback – A field falls back to the value of its nearest set ancestor
* Lateral Fallback  – A field falls back to the value of another field, or chain of fields
* Default Fallback  – A field falls back to a text value or a token that is transformed at render time (not item creation time!)
* Language fallback – This is based on Alex Shyba’s Language Fallback module

You can find Sean blogging about the module here and on August 15 he will be presenting the module at a Sitecore user group meeting. You can read more about it here.

The Image Extension module allows you to extend the image sitecore control by using the real extension or set a default image which will appear blank if image field is empty.

The module was contributed by Benjamin Vangansewinkel who you can find blogging here.

The IconSelector is a developer productivity tool that automatically assigns icons to newly created templates and template sections based on a dictionary of patterns.

The module was contributed by Nick Allen.

Happy coding and sharing!

The Sub layout Queryable Data source allow you to select the datasource location of the Sublayouts / Renderings with a query in place of setting it statically.

Then after selecting your sub layout this dialog box opens and selects the layouts from the settings seen here.

The module was contributed by Benjamin Vangansewinkel who you can find blogging here and watch the YouTube video on how to use the module here.

The Sitecore Redirect Manager module helps you to keep the rank and search rating for pages which were replaced, moved or removed from your site.

The module allows you to redirect in three ways

The module was contributed by Alexander Davyduk from Sitecore.

The SC Log Explorer is a windows application that gives you an easy and simple overview of your Sitecore log files. I find it way easier than looking at the log files than the log viewer in the Sitecore desktop.

The module was contributed by Kiran Patil who you can find blogging here.

The Sitecore .Net UI Test Framework is a tool that helps you create functional UI tests for Sitecore Products, including Sitecore Desktop and Sitecore Page Editor.

The module was contributed by Alexey Vaschenko, one of the Sitecore QA engineers.

The Accessibility Checker Module makes use of the Open Source Accessibility AChecker to allow editors to check their content against various accessibility standards including:

    WCAG 2.0 (A-AAA)
    BITV (Germany)
    Section 508 (US)

The module works in two ways, one as a Field or Item Validator, also as a live preview with errors and warning highlighted.

The module was contributed by John Penfold, a technical pre-sales consultant for Sitecore.

The Datasets Module is Sitecore component that allows you to create a data set very easily. Pointing to a list of Sitecore items you can select the fields that you want to show in your data set as shown in the image below.

The module was contributed by Paul Martin who you can find blogging here and visit the project room to download the module and read the extensive documentation on how to use and extend the module.

Happy coding and sharing!

The MongoDB DataProvider is a Data Provider for Sitecore that allows you to run a Sitecore database on MongoDB instead of SQL Server or Oracle.

The module was contributed by Robin Hermanussen who you can find blogging here.

In his post here he describes the benefits in performance when using MongoDB over SQL Server

The Friendly Item Names module lets you control the names of the items that editors create.

So after you in the module’s settings have specified which templates it should work for an entry will then auto rename a character to what you have specified.

So if your Danish editors use ‘ø’ in a text it will automatically get renamed to ‘oe’. You can create your own list of entries for what should be renamed into.

The module was contributed by Morten Ljungberg who you can find blogging here.

The Item URL Tool provides a Sitecore user the ability to quickly retrieve a URL for an item as well as the ability to search for an item by its URL.

So be right clicking on an item you can select the URL of an item like so

You will be presented with this dialog box

Which copies the URL to your clipboard.

It also works the other way around, so you can quickly find an item based on the URL. Simply paste the URL into the quick search and it will find the item for you.

The module was contributed by Tim Braga who you can find blogging about the module and other Sitecore stuff here with the rest of the gang from Velir Studios.

Happy coding and sharing!

The Photo Album module allows you to create your own photo album, upload photos and view albums from all users.

You can view an image in details or view all the images in the album in a slide show.

The module was contributed by Vladimir Rybak.

The purpose of the Compare Servers module is to help developers/administrators detect and help correct differences between Sitecore server environments. It is geared towards synchronizing items in a DEV or TEST environment with a PROD environment.

Each node in the treeview represents a comparison between the item on the Test and Prod environment and depending on the status of the item it will be represented with an icon for example if there are no differences, if the item is missing on either the local or compare database.

The module was contributed by Paul Martin.

The Edit Form module provides the content editors with the ability to perform multiple tasks at once such as copy, cut, and delete as you can see in the screenshot below.

The module was contributed by Tim Braga who you can find blogging here with a blog post describing this module in further details here.

The Enhanced Template Builder allows the user to easily create and edit templates.

When clicking the image button highlighted in the screenshot, a screenshot of the field type will open so you know what kind of type you are about to add to your template.

The buttons next to the source field will open up a query field so that you can see which results it yields.

You can read a more about the module in the post Tim wrote here.

This module was also contributed by Tim Braga from Velir Studios.

Happy coding and sharing!