Re: [Damon] Upload paths are not working properly

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:48:11 -0800

Hi Damon -
Yes the general settings URL and folder are set correctly.
I did at one stage have the individual field set to a custom folder, but have turned this back off again, so they should be using the general settings specified.

However, as you have seen, the path seems to disappear completely when I create new records or amend (by re-uploading) old ones.

Regards, Steve.

Upload paths are not working properly

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:12:13 -0800

Hi -
I have had some detail pages that were working perfectly well until recently. However (and this might have co-incided with a long overdue upgrade about three months ago) something strange is happening.

Images that are uploaded for certain fields are not displaying - when I check the source I often find that the path to the image is completely missing (so it only displays the filename).

I have the URL path set in 'General Settings'. I have tried various different things, such as setting custom paths and then unsetting them. I've checked everything I can think of but nothing seems to work.

One odd thing is that I'd expect old detail pages to follow suit as they are constructed 'on-the-fly' from the template file and the database, but the older records seem to work perfectly well. However, if I remove and re-upload the image it disappears (the path and the image)

Here's an example of an old record with the path and image still working (best practice logo top right): http://www.eyps.info/providers/Providerpage.php/7

And here's one that worked perfectly well until a few minutes ago when I deleted and re-uploaded the same image: http://www.eyps.info/providers/Providerpage.php/13.

As far as I can remember I haven't changed the template file, but can't swear to it. But I'd have thought it would have treated all files the same if it was the template causing the issue.

Any help would be gratefully received - it's one of those tear your hair out things which is probably perfectly obvious...

Re-set recordnum

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 06:40:08 -0700

Hi -
I've been using recordnum in a list page to number the articles for reference (eg 'tutorial 1' etc). However, having deleted a couple of them there are now gaps (eg tutorial 3....tutorial 6).

How do I get the records re-counted so that those gaps disappear?

Regards, Steve.

Re: [Jason] Uploading folders?

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:12:42 -0700

That's useful, thanks Jason -
If you could suggest how that would work in this scenario I'd be grateful:

I want to make a list of sample reports which people can view. The report consists of one html page, which links to a sub-folder with a variable number of images and other files in order to produce the html file correctly.

So I need to upload the html file and then the folder and all files within it. Can I make an upload field which will upload this sub-folder and all files within it, and if so how do I go about it?

Regards, Steve.

Uploading folders?

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:48:40 -0700

Hi -
I don't suppose it's possible to get CMSB to upload folders and contents in a single field is it?

Creating a user guide

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 07:56:32 -0800

I'd like to make an online version of a user guide which could be then maintained and updated in elements, but I can't really see an easy way of getting CMSB to control it.

For example, it would need to have an indefinite number of chapters and subsections (Top level heading, 2nd level heading, 3rd level heading etc), just as a normal userguide might have (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc).

If the content was entered by CMSB, each of these levels would require their own multi-record sections and appear in the editor list as a hierarchical list.

Does this sound feasible? It's just a question really, I won't be shocked if it's not! [:)]

Re: [Jason] Broken links lead to last record in section

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:41:44 -0800

Thanks Jason -
I used the record check function you gave me above to send it to an error page, which works fine.

Regards, Steve.

Re: [Jason] Broken links lead to last record in section

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:07:48 -0800

Hi Jason -
I think probably to get an Error 404 type of page? Or a custom equivalent where I could suggest what might have happened?
Regards, Steve.

Broken links lead to last record in section

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:56:14 -0800

Hi -
Don't know quite how to describe this properly, but here goes:

You know when some mail clients receive an email with a long URL link in them, they 'break' the URL a part of the way along and wrap the rest of it onto the next line without the hyperlink?

We have to send out quite a few emails containing links like these, which some of our customers are sending back saying that the link doesn't work.

The problem we're having with CMSB detail page links is that instead of putting a broken link page up, which would be fine, the hyperlink on the first part of the link contains the detail page and part of the individual record, and this causes the link to deliver the last record for that section.

I hope that makes sense. I'll try to demonstrate what I mean below:

This link sends you correctly to a particular page:

http://www.foundation-stage.info/newfsf/aboutus/LEApages/laPage.php/Hampshire-County-Council-18

The following link, however, has been broken by the email client and contains only the first part of the link as a clickable hyperlink:

http://www.foundation-stage.info/newfsf/aboutus/LEApages/laPage.php/Hamp
with the rest of the line broken and wrapped onto the next line: shire-County-Council-18

However, instead of taking you to an error page, the link takes you to the page for Wandsworth, which is alphabetically the last record in the index.

Is there anything that can be done about this?

Re: [Jason] Last x articles from a number of sections

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:26:34 -0800

Thanks very much Jason. It's the end of a long three days and that worked perfectly, which means I owe you a pint if you ever come over to the UK!
Best wishes,
Steve

Re: [Jason] Last x articles from a number of sections

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:54:59 -0800

Hi Jason -
Thanks - here's a category index page. If you select any of the items you'll find the detail page with the return to index link on the top right in a little box.

http://www.foundation-stage.info/articles/article_index.php?category=8

Re: [steve_e] Last x articles from a number of sections

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:31:56 -0800

OK, that all worked out great thanks. I just have one thing I can't seem to do. I want to have a link back to each category index page from the detailed article page, and I can't make it work. I'm not sure if it's because of the way the categories and articles sections work together, but the standard code supplied gives this line:

Back to index

which just leaves the reader on the same detail page when clicked. I'm not clever enough with php to work out how the _listPage should be working, so if you could advise I'd be grateful!

Best wishes,
Steve.

Re: [Jason] Last x articles from a number of sections

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:51:24 -0800

Thanks Jason - I'll get back to you if I need help.
Regards, Steve.

Re: [Jason] Last x articles from a number of sections

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:39:21 -0800

Oh crikey - I haven't even looked at categories, but that sounds like it should fit. Before I rip the whole thing apart and start again, the two things I need to think about are:

1 - I wanted to create each section so that I could, for example, have meta description tags separately for the list and detail pages.
2 - I wanted to be able to have each article type with its own list page, so that each could have their own menu item.

Just to save me a bit of experimenting and fishing around, is it possible to do both of those with categories, and are there any tutorials on how categories work?

Thanks for the suggestion Jason - wish I'd asked before I started! [:|]

Last x articles from a number of sections

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:50:40 -0800

Hi -
I'm slowly and painfully moving my site from AM (version 1 if anyone is old enough to remember that...) to CMS Builder. Most of it's done now, but I'm a bit stuck on how to re-produce one thing.

I have a number of different article types, all using different section editors. On the front page of the website I have links to the last four articles published. So something needs to search each article type, and get the most recent four, regardless of which section(s) they came from.

Hope I've explained that properly. If you can let me know how to do this I can re-use the solution in a number of slightly different ways on different pages.

Regards, Steve.

Re: [Jason] I've managed to disappear my content...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:04:29 -0800

Thanks a lot Jason. I appreciate the time taken to resolve the problem!
Regards, Steve

Re: [Jason] I've managed to disappear my content...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:48:14 -0800

Thanks Jason - I've done that. Let me know if you need any further information.
Regards, Steve.

I've managed to disappear my content...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:26:25 -0800

Hi -
I seem to have done something silly which shows up as my index and detail pages apparently not having any records. I did delete and re-create a custom schema preset around the same time, so not sure if this could have caused it (although I don't really understand how...).

If you look at this pagehttp://www.foundation-stage.info/articles/childdev_index.php it claims to have no records, although I can still see them both in CMS Builder and in the database. And this page: http://www.foundation-stage.info/articles/childdev/childdev.php?Child-initiated-Learning-1 until yesterday was the the url to one of them.

Any help gratefully received. [:)]

Regards, Steve

Re: [Jason] Including standard biographies in articles

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:02:21 -0800

That's great thanks Jason. Took me a lot of mucking about with it, but I got there eventually! [:)]

Including standard biographies in articles

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:21:51 -0800

I have a number of article sections and I'd I'd like to include a biography of the author together with a photo if they provide one.

The authors are regular contributors, and rather than copying their biogs and photos manually into each article, I'd like to set up the article section so that the administrator adding the article can select the biog and photo from a dropdown list.

I assume that I'll need a separate section to enter the biog and photo (which is not a bad thing because it then allows me to show a separate list page of all contributing authors. But I'm not clear on how I can include these two fields from one section into another.

Re: [Jason] Conditional additions to a detail page

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:11:47 -0800

Thanks Jason (and sorry for the delay in replying - lost track of the post).

Conditional additions to a detail page

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:35:00 -0800

I'm trying to create an 'articles' section, where some visitors will have access to the articles and others will not, depending on whether they belong to certain categories of membership (which is all specified within some forum software which pretty much controls our site).

So the way we do this at present is to have the whole page consisting of an if-then-else PHP statement:

"If this person is logged in and falls into this category of member, then generate the whole of the rest of the page (the article), otherwise re-direct to an apology page"

I'm having trouble fitting this into the CMS-B system, but hopefully I'm just not seeing it right. What I'd like to do is have the person preparing the article be able to select from a drop down, 'Visitor's article' or 'Member's article', and for the page to be generated with or without the PHP if-then-else code at the top and bottom of the detail page.

Is it possible to do that?

Regards, Steve

Re: [gkornbluth] Editing templates

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:15:46 -0800

Thanks Jerry I missed your reply. That's more or less what I'll do. I want to have an 'Articles' template with a large number of standard fields, which I can then use to create an indeterminate number of 'types' of article. Thing is I keep thinking of extra fields I'd like to put in this template, which is why I asked this question.

One thing that occurred to me is that it might be quite smart to have some types of templates that will automatically update or add fields in the sections that were created from them, which might save some repetition when you're adding fields at a later date.

But I can also see where that might cause unexpected problems...

Re: [chris] Date Created query

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:10:48 -0800

Thanks Chris, I'll let you know if I need further help!
Regards,
Steve

Re: [chris] Editing templates

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:07:45 -0800

No questions Chris, thanks - that sounds good!