Flash Uploader Issue

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 23:34:48 -0800

Hi Ross,

Thanks for the reply. I can certainly look at this for the v3.06 installation but I have a lot of sites running on v2 who aren't able to go any further because of the PHP requirements and so it would mean moving server.

Is there any fix or workaround that we can use for existing sites without changing to v3.07?

Regards, Paul.

Flash Uploader Issue

Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:34:15 -0800

I've noticed in a number of CMSB installations that the Flash uploader doesn't work properly. I'm using Firefox and customers have also reported this issue.

The 'Add or Upload File(s)' link is there and clicking this brings up the browse window but on selecting a file, the browse window is closed and nothing else happens. Switching to use IE works so it's something peculiar to Firefox but as I've mentioned, also affects other users.

I've checked and have the latest Firefox/Flash combination. I've just tried this out in CMSB v2.63 and v3.06 and get the same issue.

Do you have any ideas how we might be able to resolve this?

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [greg] AJAX Auto-Suggest fields

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:06:44 -0800

Thanks Greg, I'll have a look at it. Is this something you'd considering adding for me on a paid consultancy basis?

I want to add it into the CMSB Admin interface, not on the website.

Paul.

Re: [greg] Displaying relevant fields

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:04:39 -0800

Hi Greg,

I think this will be perfect, thanks for your help.

Paul.

AJAX Auto-Suggest fields

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 04:30:11 -0800

I think a useful feature would be an extension to the field type 'textfield' that combined some of the settings from a list field to allow for AJAX powered suggestions to appear.

The field would appear in CMSB as a text field but as the user started typing, suggested values would appear based on the settings for that field. The settings could be similar to the list field, so either a static list or a lookup on another database table.

Can you let me know if this would be possible, and whether it's planned at all for future releases?

Thanks, Paul.

Displaying relevant fields

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:23:43 -0800

I would like to create a section in the CMS for products.

Each product belongs to a certain product group, for example Televisions or Cameras.

What I would like to happen is that when (via the CMS), a new product is added, once the applicable product group is selected, then certain fields relating to that product group are presented.

As an example, if the selected product group is Televisions then I would like the fields to be screen size and number of HDMI inputs whereas if the selected product group was Cameras then the fields might be resolution or other fields relating to this product group.

I don't think this is possible at the moment but can you tell me if it's on the development plan?

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Jason] Forum software recommendations, please

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 07:21:20 -0700

Hi Jason,

Do you have a better idea of when you might be releasing the beta version of the forum software yet?

I have a customer who's really keen on this so I told them I'd get back to them in a couple of weeks so they're looking for an update from me.

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Jason] Table layout query

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:49:57 -0700

That's great, thanks Jason.

SEO capabilities

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:12:30 -0700

I'm coming across an increasing number of projects where a competitor is quoting for the work but using Wordpress as a platform.

One of their arguments is invariably that it's great for SEO.

Is this something you've looked at in terms of why Wordpress might be good at SEO and the possibility of being able to build similar functionality into CMS Builder?

It would be useful to be counter any pro argument for Wordpress with an equally good one for CMS Builder.

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Jason] Forum software recommendations, please

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:12:19 -0700

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply. Do you have anything like a feature list for this, something I can use to try and sell the concept to a prospective client?

I've essentially got to get a proposal to them this week and it would be really useful to be able to put something in there about the forum.

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Jason] Forum software recommendations, please

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 03:01:13 -0700

Hi Jason,

Do you have any update on the release of your forum software?

I have three sites that could use this so am keen to see what you've come up with.

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [greg] Table layout query

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:58:06 -0700

Thanks for the reply, this is essentially how I've ended up doing it.

To make it slightly easier, I added a related records field to the menu section so within 'Evening menu -> First courses' I can see all of the menu items and can add, update, etc.

It would be really useful to be able to use the drag and drop in here as well, are there any plans to introduce drag and drop ordering in related records?

Table layout query

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 05:20:14 -0700

I'm trying to achieve something in CMS Builder but not sure it's possible.

The website I'm working on is for a restaurant and the restaurant have a number of menus from which to order food.

Each menu, is then divided into sections (starters, mains, etc.)

The most user-friendly way I can think to do this would be to have different sections in the CMS set-up for each menu but we'd like to offer the restaurant owner the ability to create new menus going forward without coming to us.

I can create a section called 'Menus' which might have records for 'A la carte', 'Lunchtime', etc.

Then a section called 'Menu sections' which could have records like 'A la carte - Starters', 'A la carte - mains', 'Lunch - starters', etc.

This would allow the restaurant owner to create new menus but the only way I can see that they can then add menu items would be to have one CMS table for menu items where the menu name and section is specified.

This is OK but they would need the ability to drag and drop to re-order items and this would mean all menu items from all menus would appear under the same CMS section and each time a new one was added, it would need to be dragged into the correct place in the correct menu.

Sorry this is so long-winded but is there a different way to achieve this?

TinyMCE upload extensions

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:25:30 -0700

We're having trouble uploading PDF's via the WYSIWYG editor as it's not in the list of allowed extensions.

Please can you let me know how we can add this as a valid extension?

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Jason] preview button

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:11:56 -0700

Hi Jason,

If I remove the where clause then the Preview function doesn't work, it returns the first record (as per the sort order) from the table.

With the where cause reinstated, the preview function works but stops working with the error mentioned in this thread when the website membership is activated.

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Damon] preview button

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:46:43 -0700

Hi Damon,

But surely this code is required to load the correct record based on the record number in the URL?

I'm having the same issue and whilst removing this code doesn't stops the error message, it also fails to load the record based on the number in the URL, instead loading the first record as per the sort order for the section.

Can you let me know if there's more to it that I'm missing please?

Thanks, Paul.

UPDATE: I've found that this is in someway connected to the website membership plugin as if that plugin is disabled then the preview function works as expected. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: [Tom P] Redirect after save - Related Records

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:23:47 -0800

Thanks Tom, that's exactly what I wanted.

For anybody else that's interested, here's another great response of how to add a 'Create' button for a Related Records field which can then be used with Tom's suggestion:

http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/P78970#78970

Redirect after save

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:35:48 -0800

I've set-up related records to appear at the bottom of another record, in this case it's product availability records to appear at the bottom of a product record in the CMS.

I can add a separator using custom HTML for 'Create new record' which takes the user to the form to add a new product availability record but when they save this, they are taken back to the product availability section within the CMS.

Is it possible that after saving the record, I redirect them back to the product record that were looking at previously?

Thanks, Paul.

Website Membership - alternative accounts table

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:20:27 -0800

I'm using CMSB v2.14 and WSM v1.06.

I'd like to use an alternative accounts table and so have changed the parameter in the plugin to do this. To create the new accounts table (called users), I replicated the structure of the accounts table without the access list.

The problem I have is that creating users via the new users table in the CMS doesn't encrypt the passwords, even though this setting is turned on. When a user tries to logon, the logon fails, presumably because the password has been stored as plain text but the password entered at login has been encrypted.

To get around this, I've had to turn the encryption off and reset the passwords for all CMS users (the original accounts table). This now works but all passwords are stored in plain text.

Is there a way I can use encrypted passwords and an alternative accounts table?

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [ross] Problem uploading image

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:22:16 -0700

Hi Ross,

No, this definately isn't related to the image size. The server allows uploads of up to 5Mb and this image is smaller than a number of images already uploaded.

Regards, Paul.

Problem uploading image

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:52:32 -0700

I've found an intermittent problem when uploading jpg images to an upload field that creates thumbnails.

The upload progress indicator reaches 100% but then stays on the screen and the upload record isn't saved.

This only happens for certain files but the files can be opened in Photoshop and Internet Explorer so not sure what's happening.

I've attached a file to see if you could test it out at your end please?

It only seems to happen for upload fields that auto generate thumbnails, or resize the image.

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Jason] Website Membership - Logoff

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:04:02 -0700

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the reply. It's pretty much what I've done, I've created a new function as follows:

function _websiteLogin_user_eraseLoginSession() {
@$_SESSION['wl_username'] = '';
@$_SESSION['wl_passwordHash'] = '';
@$LOGGED_IN = false;
}

And I call this from the plugin instead of calling the standard _user_eraseLoginSession().

However, my concern is why you're destroying the session completely as opposed to just initialising the variable like I've done. Is there a reason for this?

I understand what you say about re-coding to not use session variables but I think the issue centres more around the _user_eraseLoginSession() code removing more than just the login session. I often inherit code from existing sites and re-coding isn't likely to be practical.

Thanks, Paul.

Website Membership - Logoff

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:01:52 -0700

I've found an issue with a site I'm working on that has the Website Membership installed.

For parts of the site to work, I'm relying on the $_SESSION array but have found that if somebody logs off, or enters and incorrect login for a login form attached to the Website Membership plugin, a function is invoked called 'user_eraseLoginSession', found in login_functions.php

The function is as follows:

function user_eraseLoginSession() {
if ($_SESSION) { session_destroy(); }
$_SESSION = array();
$CURRENT_USER = false;
}

The problem as I see it is that this removes the entire session and so any other session variables that were stored are also lost.

Is there a way that this function can be changed so as just to remove the relevant session variables?

Thanks, Paul.

Admin only fields

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:08:30 -0800

Hi,

I think it would be a good feature to be able to have fields only visible to Admin users. I know there is a setting for Admin only at the moment, but this allows field to be viewed and updated by Admin's AND editors. On some of the systems I've installed, it would be useful to have fields that aren't available to anyone except and Administrator (i.e. me), such as configuration options for the site that are stored in CMSB.

Could this be feasible in the future?

Thanks, Paul.

Re: [Chris] Notice: CMSB v2.07 Beta!

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:36:03 -0800

Hi Chris,

The new software is great, I've been hoping for a preview function for a while so good to see that in there and the datepicker is a really nice feature.

Regarding the preview function, I've noticed that uploads are not part of the preview system, in that if you remove or change one, this is effective on the live site. This is not altogether surprising owing to the way uploads work but is this something you've considered? I just wonder what customers might think if they change an upload, say an image, preview it but change their mind only to find it's too late.

Thanks, Paul.