I don't "get" CMS builder....

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:16:37 -0800

Hi,
This might be just me but I really don't get CMS builder, it seems like a backward step compared to article manager. Now I may be just doing something wrong but what I loved about Article Manager is the way it could create categories and articles on they fly. Without any further coding or template setup.

From what I can tell with CMS builder is that if one of my users wants a new section called 'About Us' - they create it in CMS builder and then they have to manually create a HTML template that fits into the design of the rest of the site, paste and change the generated HTML code and FTP it up to the server. This doesnt seem right to me and is a massive job for large and growing websites.

Are we doing something wrong or is this how its supposed to work? Why can't we just have a html template that it uses?

Thanks

Re: [nacho] One article manager install - multiple websites?

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:05:16 -0800

Hi,
Did you ever get chance to advise on how I could set this up please?

Thanks

Re: [Donna] Connect to Twitter and Facebook

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:01:56 -0800

With mine I had to make this change:

$my.siteDescription:textOnly$ (I added in the textonly bit)

This was because I was using bold and br lines and other html code in my description field and the built in IE RSS reader didnt like it...

Re: [nacho] Connect to Twitter and Facebook

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:41:37 -0800

This is the code I use for my GlobalRSS.xml template:

This can be found in \cgi-bin\templates\articleLists

$my.siteName:textOnly:htmlEncoded$
$settings.publish_url$
$my.siteDescription:textOnly$
$_lastUpdated:format(www, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss)$ PST
en-us

$article.title:textOnly:htmlEncoded$
$published.articlePage.url$
$category.name:textOnly:htmlEncoded$
$article.summary:textOnly:htmlEncoded$
$article.date:format(www, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss)$ PST
$published.articlePage.url$

Take a backup copy of yours, then copy the code above and save it as GlobalRSS.xml - upload it to the appropriate directory and republish the rule. Let me know if that works?

Cheers
Dan

Re: [djmaine] Connect to Twitter and Facebook

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:38:56 -0800

Actually thinking back I had to make some changes to my rss template to get it working properly - it always displayed an error when viewing in Internet Explorer etc.

Hold on and I'll post my template code for you.

Re: [svsanchez] Connect to Twitter and Facebook

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:33:13 -0800

Also - for the share feature why not just use Add This?

Just edit your template to include the code - free from here: http://www.addthis.com/

Dan

Re: [djmaine] Connect to Twitter and Facebook

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:31:13 -0800

There is a free way of doing this and I'm using it now.

By default Article Manager publises an RSS feed at the root of your domain /rss.xml and this updates everytime you add an article etc.

So assuming you still have that in place you can use a free service to publish an update from your RSS feed as a Tweet or Facebook posting.

I use the website http://twitterfeed.com/ - this essentially re-publishes your RSS feeds - you can control if you want to include a link, how often to post etc. Its dead easy to do!

Hope that helps.

Dan

Re: [ross] One article manager install - multiple websites?

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:17:05 -0700

Hi,
Yes they will be on the same webserver (Its a windows virtual box) and the software would have access to all sites.

I appreciate your support could not help with everything and I get on great with article manager, its templates, publishing rules etc. but if I could have a point in the right direction with this that would be helpful.

Thanks

Re: [ross] Article Manager 3

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:14:53 -0700

Thanks - I've tried CMS builder but I didnt think it was a patch on Article Manager.

The main reason is you can't make pages on the fly, you have to manually copy the generated code into a html template which seems a backwards step from Article Manager?

Article Manager 3

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:26:44 -0700

Hi,
Is there a article manager 3 in development or any new features we can look forward to in artman 2 coming soon?

#nacho

One article manager install - multiple websites?

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:04:58 -0700

Hi,
I am a current user of article manager and have a few licences, for ease of maintaining my websites is it possible to have just one install of article manager to manage my different websites?

I have a dedicated windows server available and all domains are hosted on this. Licence costs are not what I am trying to aviod as I understand I would still need all my individual site licences, I just want to make my life a little easier.

All sites use a very similar design and I assume I could just use different publishing rules to get round the differences.

So, is it possible? Could you do this under consulting if its not possible?

Thanks!

#nacho