That worked....with one excepttion. There is a file called brand.mdtext, in cms it show up as empty, with no possibility to edit it, but SVN shows the content as:
home: home search: search name: Apache OpenOffice tagline: The Free and Open Productivity Suite logo: AOO_logos/OOo_Website_v2_copy.png domain: www.openoffice.org divid: bannera announce: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator! announceurl: http://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/openoffice_graduates_from_the_apache announcetip: Read the announcement --- is that a special case ?? I will edit the other parts and send the diff files, using the normal CMS way, BIG thanks to ariel ! jan On 1 November 2012 20:10, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:07 PM, jan iversen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I am confused, please forgive me for being a novice. > > > > On 1 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM, jan iversen <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > HELP !!! > >> > > >> > Ariel created very nice mdtext files to help me, which I wanted to use > >> but > >> > when I follow Rob´s introduction (youtube) on how to use CMS I am > >> presented > >> > with HTML....what am I doing wrong ???? > >> > > >> > >> If the original file checked in is HTML, I'm not sure the CMS Web > >> interface will allow you to rename it to a .mdtext file. I'd just add > >> a new index.mdtext or whatever. If the file is mdtext then the CMS > >> web interface will give you an mdtext-specific UI with a preview. > >> > > I can see that Ariel committed the mdtext in SVN, and looking at > l10n-new I > > can see that she published it... > > > > So I would have expected cms to show me mdtext ???? otherwise I do not > > understand how we work with cms and mdtext. > > > > Ah. OK. You might need to do an "update" in the CMS. The CMS is > looking at a working copy of the website's source files. If someone > changes something directly via an SVN checkin, the CMS does not see > that change until you do an update. This can be done via the CMS web > UI at the level of a file or directory. > > -Rob > > > > > >> > >> > Is it correct to assume that if I want to use mdtext I can forget CMS > and > >> > do it in SVN directly ??? > >> > > >> > >> The CMS is a shortcut to making simple changes to HTML or Mdtext or > >> any other text-based files on the website. Behind the scenes it uses > >> SVN to check in the files. You can always do everything in SVN if > >> you want. > >> > >> > Sorry for asking, but this does not seem to be obvious for > >> non-documentary > >> > programmers :-) > >> > Jan I. > >> > > >> > > >> > On 1 November 2012 18:57, jan iversen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > > >> >> See below please. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On 1 November 2012 18:45, Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected] > >> >wrote: > >> >> > >> >>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 06:25:12PM +0100, jan iversen wrote: > >> >>> > Did you have an opinion on my request for a change of the site > >> >>> template, to > >> >>> > include context-specific menus ? > >> >>> > >> >>> Dynamic menus are not possible. What we already have is a sort of > >> >>> context-specific menu, did you take a look at topnav.mdtext? You can > >> >>> change the top navigation bar to whatever you want. The same is true > >> for > >> >>> the left and right bars. > >> >>> > >> >> Now I really feel like a "noise provoker", NO I did not see > >> topnav.mdtext > >> >> correctly. > >> >> > >> >> With that you have solved all my problems, THANKS you !!! > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>> > >> >>> Note that website threads, even related to l10n, are better posted > on > >> >>> ooo-dev, with a proper [www] tag; we should try to keep this mailing > >> >>> list with the low traffic, if possible; beside there you can get > >> answers > >> >>> from the CMS experts ;) > >> >>> > >> >> I agree, this thread was just started due to an announcement by Rob, > >> and I > >> >> am at the moment very cautious not to start new threads unless > >> absolutely > >> >> unavoidable due to a reminder on the dev list. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks again for taking the time to help me, now I can change l10n > and > >> >> still be with the scope of the standard, which is important to me. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> Regards > >> >>> -- > >> >>> Ariel Constenla-Haile > >> >>> La Plata, Argentina > >> >>> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >
