Setting up a demo CMS Builder site

Hi Kurt,

From what I understand, a separate demo requires a separate license (at least for a while the "demo" license was available at a reduced rate).

Just to be safe, if I was going to go to the trouble of setting up a separate demo for my clients, I'd not only set up a separate installation, but I'd set up a totally separate set of section editors and viewers as well.

Then again, I list my religious preference as "Devout Coward"

Is there a reason that you'd want the site to be "live" and in "demo" mode at the same time?

If not, then as I understand it you can just turn on the demo mode for the site and a new temporary database will be created for each demo user.

More is avaialble at http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/CMS_Builder_F35/gforum.cgi?post=72448 and at http://www.interactivetools.com/docs/cmsbuilder/demo_mode.html

and a pretty cool demo of the demo is on-line at: http://demo2.interactivetools.com/cmsbuilder

Others may have had more experience with setting up demos and will probably weigh in with their opinions.

Best,

Jerry Kornbluth

Hi Kurt,

Here's some more information on this.

The demo mode feature is built-in, so basically you just enable it and it creates a unique temporary copy of the database for each user. So once you turn demo mode on you can't use that install for anything but a demo, since any changes you make will not be visible to other users.

Let me know if you have any other questions about how that works.

Dave,

Thanks for the reply. You told me exactly what I expected.

What I want is to have a demo of a 2 or 3 page sample website using CMSB on our site for our customers to try. Since I have used CMSB in developing our site, I will need to y install a 2nd CMSB license in a subdirectory off of the root of my web site to run the demo pages correct.

Are there any gotcha's I need to look out for in having 2 CMSB installs on the website.



Kurt

Hi Kurt,

Nope, it should run just fine -- just make sure they're in different directories, and are using different databases (or at least, different prefixes in the same database.) :)

That demo license can still be purchased at 75% off with the promo code CMSDEMOCOPY if you need one.