Re: [Dave] CMS Builder vs. Listings Manager

Mon, 26 May 2008 18:56:46 -0700

Dave,

I've searched CMS 1.15 and I can't find that snippet of code anywhere. I do find "echo $value" in the list.php file, but it's in a line of code that is different than what you suggested above, see below.

I've attached the version of List.php I have installed.... I upgraded from 1.05 to 1.15 if that makes any difference. I can't find the snippet $tdAttributes anywhere either.

Eric

Re: [Dave] CMS Builder vs. Listings Manager

Mon, 26 May 2008 11:50:23 -0700

No, the user can't be trusted with a WYSWIG field. :)

Can we created a system field that would be a querry to the DB and place the tag for the image in the necessary html tag?

Re: [Dave] CMS Builder vs. Listings Manager

Mon, 26 May 2008 02:26:57 -0700

Ok, I finally got around to doing this work and it's working great. You can see the page in question at
www.larryjostillustration.com/portfolio.php

I used two upload fields because the "thumbnail" is not simply a re-sampled version of the entire image... it is usually a region of the larger artwork cropped so that it's a teaser for what the full image is...

The one thing I'm trying to figure out is how to display one of the images in the list of records in the CMSAdmin window for that section. I have the field name listed in the ListPage Fields... "dragSortOrder, title, preview_image" but the image is not showing up (though the column header "Preview Image" is...)

Thanks for your thoughts on this one.

Eric

Re: [Dave] Notice: Announce your new CMS Builder websites here!

Mon, 26 May 2008 02:14:07 -0700

Several new sites... wow, CMS Admin really rocks - thanks for a great product!

http://www.kumonofredmondridge.com/

http://www.kumonperrysburg.com/

http://www.larryjostillustration.com/index.php
[portfolio section was previously Listings Manager... just now being updated]

http://www.waffp.org

Re: [Dave] Notice: CMS Builder v1.14 released!

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:40:26 -0700

I noticed when upgrading from v1.10 to v1.14 that the new Admin > Regional Settings menu item was squished up and super imposed on top of the General Settings item in the Admin menu.
Upon further investigation I found that the upgrade directions do not tell us to upload the "cmsAdmin/images/icon" folder to get the new icon(s) added.

Uploading these images took care of the spacing problem.

Re: [Dave] Using dragSortOrder

Thu, 01 May 2008 00:32:18 -0700

Dave,
I've updated a client site from CMS 1.10 to 1.14.
I then went into an existing section and added a new field "dragSortOrder". I noticed I could not use the "quick add" function as it automatically changes the case to "dragsortorder" and that produces an SQL error when viewing the records in that section. The only way I could get this to somewhat work is to paste "dragSortOrder" into both the field label and field name in the Field Editor window.

This adds the "Drag" field to the list of records for the specific Section, but the up and down arrows aren't active. i.e. my cursor doesn't change into the four arrows icon and I can't drag anything.

I've tried adding both "dragSortOrder" and "dragsortorder" to the ListPage Fields and Order by section in the Section Editor's screen.

Any thoughts?

Re: [Dave] Notice: Roadmap & Feature Requests (post feature requests here)

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:20:30 -0700

The ability to add "sections" some what like in Article Manager. I want the ability for my Clients to be able to add a new section to their website using a template based upon any existing section in their website site.

Re: [Dave] Notice: Roadmap & Feature Requests (post feature requests here)

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:15:11 -0700

I want the "Drag" to reorder feature in Admin>Section Editors to be available for in the list of pages when "multi-page" has been selected as the Section Type. This feature could be a check box when setting up a Section so we could allow / disallow users' ability to modify the order.

Controlling how many menu items display...

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:25:42 -0700

I've been poking around, but I can't find a way to control the number of Sections that get listed as menu items before appearing in the drop down menu.

My site has 7 menu items with relatively short names. The last two items appear in the drop down menu.

Would it be possible to simply display all the menu items with float left style so they wrap within a vertically expanding header? Or any other way we can see ALL of the sections regardless of how many we have in a website?

thanks,
Eric

CMS Builder vs. Listings Manager

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:29:21 -0800

Hi All,

I have a website that uses Listings Manager to publish a gallery of images, with alternate images as the thumbnails. (see http://www.larryjostillustration.com/listman/exec/search.cgi?search=1&perpage=1000&lfield3_match=Main )

Is there a way to accomplish something similar with CMS Builder?

I _think_ we could do it by:

1. use a multiple page "section" that has a record which allows us to upload two images, thumbnail and full size image (note the thumbnail is a cropped portion of the full-size image, not simply a reduced image).
2. use a list viewer that returns results without any "break" between the results, and then constrain the "list" in a table cell with a fixed width

Are there any other (more elegant) ways to do this?

Also, this client uses a Macintosh... I've noticed some inconsistencies in CMS Builder between Firefox on Mac and Windows (mostly with the WYSIWYG editor). We're running Firefox 2.09 on Mac, are there any known bugs in this area?

You can see the current pages (previously updated with Page Publisher) here:
http://www.larryjostillustration.com/index.html

CMSB pages here:
http://www.larryjostillustration.com/index.php
(note that all of the menu items on the Portfolio page currently point to the .html pages rather than .php pages as we aren't ready to make the switch to CMS Builder just yet...)

Thanks for your input!
Eric

Re: [jmueller0823] Auto Publish Script

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:56:07 -0700

That website doesn't exist either...

Any other ideas on auto-posting? I would like to have the content from an RSS feed published by another website to appear as content in an article on our elementary school site.. we would love to have "word of the day" content from a couple of providers such as Dictionary.com appear on our site (with proper credits and links to their site, as appropriate).

Thoughts?

Re: [MikeB] Adding an RSS Feed to an Article

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:47:01 -0700

Ha - ok, I got that far before the coffee coma set in...

How do I insert an RSS feed into an article so that article's page displays the content from the publishing / syndicating website?

Does this require AM 2.15 and the SSI fix? Or is there some other way to accomplish displaying content from a general RSS feed?

Sorry for being such a ludite :(

Adding an RSS Feed to an Article

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:41:16 -0700

Ok, I'm having a brain-dead day...
I would like to add a RSS feed to an article, are there steps anywhere on how to do this?

I would like to add "On this day" http://www.reference.com/help/linking/thisday-expert.html

Thanks for the hint.

Category Images not Resizing

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:20:48 -0700

Hi All,

I'm having a bit of problems getting images uploaded as Category Images to be resized.

For example, I want to resize category images to a specific size, which is different than the thumbnails for my articles. In the Category Table I've edited the "image/ Category Image" entry to override upload restrictions and resize both the maximum image dimension as well as the maximum thumbnail dimesion to be 180 x 180. Unfortunately the images that end up getting used are the same dimensions as the original that I uploaded. I've double checked to make sure that the published category page is referencing the thumbnail (images have "_thumbnail" added to their name.)

AM2 indicates that it's found GD v2.35, which seems to be working fine for resizing images placed in an article.

Any thoughts on what's up?

Eric

Gallery Layout - taming the layout monster...

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:00:11 -0700

Hey Guys (and Donna!)

I'm using 2.13 with the following gallery code. The problem I have with using div style float is that the images don't layout in a nice table-like matrix if they happen to be of varying size/aspect ratios (portrait vs. landscape) and / or have captions of varying lengths.

See http://www.orcapta.org/announcements/Test_of_Gallery.shtml for an example of what's happening.

$article.gallery$

$file.caption$

Any thoughts on how to get it to layout in a nice table irrespective of the size of the thumbnail or the length of the individual caption?

I tried playing around with table tags a bit but wasn't very successful.

Thanks,
Eric

Re: [majeske] Grouped Headlines Categories

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:11:48 -0800

Hi Majeske,

Try selecting the "Unlinked - don't link to published files from other categories" in the category menu screen, it's located in the Advanced Options section. This should take it out of the menus.

Eric

Re: [wbkelly] Easiest way to learn am2

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:07:20 -0800

Hey WB,

I was absolutely baffled as well when I first picked up AM2... AM1 was so simple and straightforward it was just plain elegant.

That said, I'm slowly becoming a covert to 2.0. All I can recommend is taking the time to read the tutorials (forget the user guide, it's more conceptual than illustrative and didn't help me much at all). When you get stumped post a question to the forum so we can all learn; everyone at InteractiveTools is great, and if they don't answer very quickly someone on the forum will likely speak up.

Be warned though, creating a site in AM2 does take more time than 1.0, so be sure to add a few extra hours to your estimates for the first site or two. Even though we all keep a copy of the templates we modify to speed the creation of a website, there's still a fair amount of publishing rule tweaks that have to be made that never were required in 1.0. (in AM 2.0's defense, it does give us a lot more creative opportunity than 1.0, which is much appreciated.)

FYI - My first site took me 3 times as long to complete as my last AM1.0 project, mostly because of the learning curve.

Re: [mgdamore] Different Templates for Categories

Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:55:50 -0800

I typically create three or four different category designs for sites that I develop. In this case, it makes sense to use a variety of templates and publishing rules, it also makes it much easier for the client to change the behaviour of one of the categories as all they have to do is update the publishing rule (which I walk them through.)

Re: [ross] AM duplicating some content

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:03:09 -0800

I am having a similar problem...

It seems that AM2.02 is occasionally duplicating the text in the "Content" field. I haven't been able to nail this down, but I believe that it is occuring when you switch between the standard article view and "full screen".

This has occured on a several articles on two different machines for a couple of different users. Both machines are running IE 6.0.2900....

I've tried various things like having text copied to the system clipboard when toggling back and forth between views, having text selected while toggling, etc... opening, editing and resaving the files multiple times. I have been able to reproduce the problem, but have not narrowed it down to a specific cause / steps to reproduce.

The the following article for an example: http://www.kumonofnorthsurrey.com/faqs/index.shtml

Re: [Damon] Article Manager v2.1 - New features on the way...

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:21:45 -0800

Any word on the status of 2.1 ??

Eric

Re: [Damon] AM2 - templateIF magic in categoryMenu.html

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:27:04 -0800

Hey All,

Ok - I'm mighty happy (and a wee bit embarassed) to say that I figured out the problem I was having.

The code that Daman and all have suggested works just fine. The problem was that I after I set up my globalIndex.html template, I copied much of the code and used it to speed up the creation of my categoryIndex.html templates. Unfortunately, I didn't notice that the menu include that I copied was $published.globalMenu.webpath$ rather than $published.categoryMenu.webpath$ Because of this little mistake I my category specific menus weren't being displayed, even though the proper include_categoryMenu.shtml file was being published to the respective category folders.

Whew!

Hopefully others will avoid the same mistake I made!

Re: [Dave] Article Manager 2.1 - Emulate AM 1.41 Install Option ??

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:04:32 -0800

Thanks for the reply Dave.

Things like "publish summary only" could easily be added to the templates and database and simply be hidden (in the DB) so that it doesn't overly-complicate the user interface for folks that don't want it, but still be "one-click" away for those folks who do. I do have a standard set of templates I build 1.0 installations off of, but so much of 2.0 requires changes to publishing rules and db entries that it's just not as simple.

Article Manager 2.1 - Emulate AM 1.41 Install Option ??

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:13:13 -0800

Hi Guys (and Donna!)

I have to say that there are a lot of great things in AM 2 that I'm looking forward to mastering... but in all honesty the new "power" has more than doubled my development time for the simple jobs I used to be able to crank out with Article Manager 1. I find myself needing to do way too many changes to the database structure as well as templates to accomplish the things I used to take advantage such as Article Types, Menu Structures, etc....

Is it possible for you to have an alternate template and database structure already setup that emulates AM 1.4 ?? I have to admit that being a "low cost provider" type of guy who is using Article Manager for small businesses and non-profits I'm hard pressed to justify the amount of time it takes to configure AM2...

I know it'll become "second nature" in the future, but it still seems that we might have sacrificed a bit of the "quick and simple" aspects of AM1 that made it a great tool for price sensitive small businesses in exchange for the robust and incredibley flexible capabilities of AM2... which make it a fantastic starting point for really custom development but consequently drive up development time (and costs).

My perfect mix of features would be:
AM 1.4 plus...
- resizing of images/thumbnailing
- publish to multiple categories

Thanks for all your hard work and understanding.

Eric

Re: [Damon] AM2 - templateIF magic in categoryMenu.html

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:17:12 -0800

Hi Damon,

I'm trying to recreate the menu structure I was able to make using AM1..

http://www.seattlecouncilptsa.org/index.shtml

Thanks for your suggestions!

Re: [Damon] AM2 - templateIF magic in categoryMenu.html

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:38:59 -0800

Hey Damon,

This doesn't seem to work... are you sure the code is right? We seem to have a couple of smiley faces in a row...

Eric