Re: 'Last 5 updates' component
Hi Anthony, Fair enough -- I suppose it depends what your spec said. Mine was for a What's New? section on the front page of the intranet site, so that people could see what new pages had been added, and click the links to go direct to the new page. Obviously if it wasn't a 'real' page that had been added, the user would get a 404 so that was no good in my case. Hopefully Brett doesn't need to go to the same lengths that I did :o) All the best, Simon. On Nov 24, 3:53 pm, AnthonyFusepoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I didn't see this request so complicated! Simon, in 2), you explain that you want to find the main page for each so called page in RedDot. You may have needed what you developed, but i think the real interest in developing such a tool is to know which page was modified in redDot, I mean the page as RedDot calls it, an instance from a template. As you just said you had to look for every instances of your page if It's not linked only once, keywords...that's a huge and useless job in my opinion even if I see what you wanted, and i understand better that performances can be affected. I think the RedDot Page 's principle must be kept in mind the most you can in order not to be overstressed with developing a tool as Simon did. When I think about the real (HTML/ASP/PHP) page with RedDot is just when i publish any page, I have to know exactly what will be really published (not always so easy!!). Well, Brett you have two different solutions! ;) Mine is of course way easier but depending on what you really need Simon's one can be needed. Anthony --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
RedDot Offshoring from India
Dear Reddotters I have posted this to inform Reddotters across the globe that we are a strong team, who work on RedDot CMS and Liveserver out of India. You may avail the price advantage by offshoring without compromising on the quality. For more information pls mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
IDs of pages in list
Hi, How do I get the ID of a page in a list? I thought it was simple: !IoRangeLista href=%lst_nav_items%%inf_page_id%/a!/ IoRangeList but that just gives the ID of the page the list is *contained* within. Any ideas? - Bobby --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Um, that's not what a standards compliant page looks like...
Sometimes Red Dot tries to be smart... if you want you can exclude certain templates from tidy check... in the css content class click on templates on the action menu click Assign Project Variants and check off Do not use Tidy: -Brian On Nov 25, 12:02 pm, abdn_webteam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're on the final straight towards publishing our first site using RedDot, and we're looking at the many tricks and workarounds they've included in the software to make it publish something resembling standards-compliant pages. All our code is of course compliant without any of this tomfoolery, but just to be sure we switched on the XHTML compliance check for our project variant, uploaded the tidyconfig.txt and HTMLConvertTable.txt, and ran a publish. Guess what? Our stylesheets are being published with XHTML headers. Now correct me here if I'm going astray: we have a content class with only the css in it, plus image placeholders for background graphics etc. We've created and connected a 'page' from that content class and linked it to the css 'anchor' placeholder in the head of our foundation template where the link href= lives. That's the way we were shown to link stylesheets in the training course. This all works swimmingly with no XHTML compliance check, so what are we doing wrong here? Or is it, inconceivably enough, RedDot's fault? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
CMS images not displaying
Hi All Suddenly all my Imgaes in the CMS pages got disappeard.It was all ok earlier.when I check the asset manager all the images are there.I can select the image and set it again but I dont want to do this for all the pages.any idea what I have done wrong or how to fix this --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: RedDot gripes
Thanks, and thanks for the blog. There is nothing wrong with being critical of reddot, in fact it's refreshing to hear that others are having similar frustrations. Also, too many people are too willing to accept bad and bloated software design, especially with large enterprise apps. We should expect more. Sure you figure it out after a year or two, but in my world, software that takes a year or two to learn well enough to properly manage has some interface, engineering and documentation problems, and ain't nothing wrong with talking about them! It could be said it takes less time to learn html. That said, I am also currently enjoying RedDot's many benefits, features and flexibility, along with it's frustrations. I look forward to reading your blog. -Dino On Nov 24, 3:47 pm, Jonathan Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry: as mentioned in the thread, it was changed to: http://reddotmusings.blogspot.com/ in order to convey a less-biased outlook. ~ Jonathan On Nov 24, 7:24 pm, dino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, the blog link doesn't seem to work, how do I see your blog? On Nov 19, 11:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to publicise some bugs, design flaws, and usability issues relating to RedDot, for those who might be evaluating it. I'm trying to foster debate about what kinds of features a modern day CMS needs and how they might be implemented. I'm trying to gauge public opinion - to what extent am I on my own here, and how much do others share my thoughts? I'm trying to let off some steam. On Nov 19, 7:15 pm, Adam Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you've really answered Morgan's first question. You're interested in the comments, but what are you trying to achieve with your blog? What purpose do you hope the comments generated by your blog will serve? Adam On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM, sayno more [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I'm interested in the comments, as evidenced - I think - by my responses to them. I'd like responses to my blog posts which are not how do I do this type questions, which would obviously not be appropriate in a blog format, by critical evaluations of a piece of software, and its design. 2. I'll be interested to see how many of the gripes have been, or will be, addressed. As you point out, some of these gripes are genuine flaws of the software as it stands right now, and will be useful information for those who are considering adopting RedDot for their website. 3. This sounds quite positive, so we'll all wait and see what the outcome is. 4. I've done just that with a dedicated follow-up post. Thanks. 2008/11/18 theHam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1. to clarify what you are trying to achieve with these blog posts, are you attempting to get some assistance and/or information with the issues you are describing? I think from the amount of people that have contributed to this post already that it should be demonstrated that there are people here looking to help you if you want it. Or from the sounds of your comment I cannot see how I could possibly get a positive outcome from this software, given the flaws that, IMO, are pretty fundamental have you made a decision and will not be interested in the comments from people here? If you could let everyone be aware of your position i think it will help the more passionate people here and hopefully stop this becoming an unproductive flame war (as these things types of threads tend to become) 2. I would love it if the RedDot engineers took some notice of these comments. RedDot have taken notice of these comments. The next version of reddot coming out will be addressing your gripe #1 as the text editor is being replaced. Gripe #2 is being addressed (i believe around may next year) with a cms frontend rewrite based on usability fundamentals. Yes these have not been released yet and do not address your issues right now but based on my previous comment other gripes like the ones you have been mentioned have in the past been progressively acknowledged and addressed - there is hope. 3. You asked earlier whether reddot would charge for upgrades, I'm unaware of what region you are from but from ours if you are up to date with your software support and maintenance upgrades are generally provided under those costs (N.B. this may be different region to region) 4. I posted in the comments a reference to this link. If possible could you directly edit your post to refer to this discussion? If people do not view the comments of the post they may miss the link. Cheers, - Morgan On Nov 19, 1:01 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
Re: CMS images not displaying
Maybe the server hosting your RedDot install needs an IIS reset or complete reboot? On Nov 25, 4:15 pm, chandima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Suddenly all my Imgaes in the CMS pages got disappeard.It was all ok earlier.when I check the asset manager all the images are there.I can select the image and set it again but I dont want to do this for all the pages.any idea what I have done wrong or how to fix this --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
