Re: [isdoo] Why should I purchase CMS Bulder over free options?

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:33:20 -0800

I'd love the answer as well as I am looking for a CMS for all our network sites and we already have a number of licenses for products from here and so are interested in more.

We're specifically looking for a CMS that will handle our membership accounts - which all come with their own blogs, forums, galleries, shoutbox, chat, ims, groups, galleries and email lists.. all which are served by a free cms that we like, but again, we are in the upgrade process and this is very timely.

My specific questions are:

Memberships? is there availability for membership management?

SPAM - the main issue we have on all the sites is UNRELENTING bot spam - signup attempts, attempts to access the contact features etc.. are there safeguards in place?

Blogs - multiple blogs for anyone or just one?

Community features - are there any or is this more geared toward individual users?

Re: [Donna] summaries posted to non am pages?

Thu, 24 May 2007 04:39:00 -0700

Hi Donna - I see where I was heading in the wrong direction. I like AM2 but it is a bit of a learning curve.. (for me anyway [blush])

I'm trying to bring summaries (with photos in some instances) of articles to a non article manager page.

the headline, photo and summaries come from already entered articles - but all from different categories so they show completely different things (obviously)

What I want to be able to do is take the latest two offers and display the headline and the summary details of the latest two offers on my front page (non article manager)

In addition, I want to show my featured program/charity/event with the title, photo and summary - from an already published article in the system) and bring that to the front non article manager page

And then finally, I want to bring my featured corporate participant also to the front page with the title, summary photo and summary from their permanent article.

fun huh? thanks for all your help :)

Re: [Donna] summaries posted to non am pages?

Tue, 22 May 2007 12:53:11 -0700

ok - so I have two summary output templates

saved in articlePages/summaryOutput.html and lastaddedsummaryOutput.html

I have copied the article pages publishing rule -

Rule Name: Summary Output Pages

Rule Description: summarty article detail pages

Rule Type: a page for each article

Template : templates/articlePages/summaryOutput.html

Placeholder Set Name published.articlePage.[url "http://www.blastmt.com/cgi-bin/program/admin.cgi#"]suffix[/#0000ff][/url]

and from there I am a bit lost.. a lot lost actually..

Re: [Donna] summaries posted to non am pages?

Tue, 22 May 2007 09:58:39 -0700

YAAAY

thats the missing link - i think i get it now

thanks :)

Re: [Jesus] SSI latest news call from a regular shtml page

Tue, 22 May 2007 05:00:15 -0700

I'm also waiting for info on how to do EXACTLY the same thing.

I have my own index page and am already using the global index page

my main page is not an article manager page and I need to bring in summaries of articles to the front page..

anyone with some specific instructions?

summaries posted to non am pages?

Mon, 21 May 2007 04:51:49 -0700

Is it possible to have either the already templated summaries post to non article manager pages or just bits and pieces of the summaries post to a non article manager page?

I have three areas on my index page that need the article summaries from three different categories on my main non article manager page. My index page is outside article manager.

I'm not sure which way to proceed.

The information is all in the summary of every article - but I don't know how to call it to a non- article manager page.

If I call via ssi - the whole page will come in since it's already templated and I don't know how to separate the summary from the article itself to bring it to a non article manager page.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

thanks a lot.

Re: [Sector3] Most Recent News Article on AM2 Independent Home Page

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:55:55 -0700

not the same question, but the answer applies.

www.interactivetools.com/iforum/Products_C2/Article_Manager_2_F31/search_syntax_and_results_display_question_P55292/

Re: [ChetW] search syntax and results display question

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:50:22 -0700

Hi Chet.

Yes, thank you. It does help. A lot.

I was making a mistake - I was trying to call it via the search function like in article manager 1 - and i put the template into the searchEngine directory as a search result instead of as an article output.

that being said, is there any real reason to have a non article manager page at all as the index?

my hope is to use article manager as a cms and have as much info as possible in the article page area (admin) - and take individual elements and display them in various areas of the site in different configurations - articles, summaries, headlines etc..

so far, we've got the templateif set up to show what we want informationwise in the summaries - thank you again for that btw:

http://www.blastmt.com/program/publish/

what I'm trying to do is integrate as much of the content into this layout as possible

http://www.blastmt.com/testdirectory/articlemanagerindex.html as the main page and
http://www.blastmt.com/testdirectory/insideindexwithsearch.html

as our interior pages

and split the navigation into the top and side like in the art.

search syntax and results display question

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:34:10 -0700

I've added the about author sections to the site, and the notes to the author section.

I would like to be able to have a custom display that shows the summary image and the about author for a specific individual

so if I have a subcategory called featured vendors - and copy the info to that as required - what ssi do I use to generate that display to a NON ARTICLE MANAGER page?

I have the template with the output all laid out and in the searchEngine directory called featured_vendors.html but that's where I start to get lost.

in article manager 1 we called everything with an include to the front page outside article manager, but I'm not sure what the syntax should be for article manager 2

thanks for any help at all

Re: [kimberleyb] summaryImage and linked fields question

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:09:50 -0700

just in case anyone wanted to know the answer to this..

here is what was added.

thank you chet :)
and ross and donna..

where the code was this in the articleLists/globalIndex.html and the articleLists/categoryIndex.html files

$article.summary$

the code is NOW this - with the above code removed and replaced with the code below

$article.summaryImage$ $article.summary$

summaryImage and linked fields question

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:42:39 -0700

Hi guys.. time for some more fun with Article Manager 2 :)

We're using Article Manager as our Program Participant display catalogue - so EVERY article will follow the same outline with certain identifying info in the summary for quick viewing, then of course, more in the article area for merchant promotion.

I used the summaryImage instructions from the other posts to get the image to display and to rearrange the summaries, I've updated the templates and republished everything - but am having no joy at all.

http://www.blastmt.com/program/publish/index.shtml the two listings there should be displaying the summaryImage but they are not.

The image summary field displays in the admin as does the externalLink box.

We're using the Author field as the Vendor field and are planning to use the tutorial to link those together for Vendors who have more than one product in the Program.

SUMMARY IMAGE = linked to the article page
TITLE = also LINKED to the article page
change AUTHOR field to VENDOR = Searchable by Name (LINKED to a listing of VENDORS=authors)
URL = LINKED to the URL of the VENDOR
CITY = SEARCHABLE for local program participants and walk ins

can you tell me how to integrate that into article manager 2? Im a little lost since all my knowledge is based on article manager 1

specifically we need the actual code to integrate into the templates as follows:

SUMMARY IMAGE

TITLE

VENDOR(author)

URL

CITY

Regular Price

regularPrice FIELD OUTPUT

BLAST Price

blastPrice FIELD OUTPUT

SUMMARY FIELD CONTENT

thanks for any help in advance

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Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:47:51 -0700

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