RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-20 Thread Micha Schopman
The issues with object based content management are for example, - do you create a totally separate content repository based on that perticulair language? Or do all languages select content out of the same bin. So all languages get mixed. - do all languages have the same account? Or are

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Ian Vaughan
to the above table ? And how would the relationship between the PRID's for example work for different languages ? From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 September 2004 16:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Mark Drew
September 2004 16:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist for multilingual content = not just creating a separate branche for other languages. yeah that was the first thing folks suggested when we started discussing this for farcry. i'm not for that technique (1

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Micha Schopman
And does someone separate content library, file folders, accounts, workflow, approval queues, template libraries, etc. per language, or do all languages in the system use the same libraries? Micha Schopman Software Engineer Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M, 3821 ALAmersfoort Tel 033-4535377,

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Mark Drew
Depends on your requirements (or the clients!) 1) Content library, this should be acontent item and assigned either to multiple languages or a single language (e.g. english and spanish versions both link to the english download as there is only one... which we can then separate, or it defaults to

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Ian Vaughan
? From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2004 10:39 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual) Depends on your requirements (or the clients!) 1) Content library, this should be acontent item and assigned either

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Mark Drew
article whether it is English or Welsh has the same articleid ??? Any ideas ? From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2004 10:39 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread CFDEV
] Sent: September 20, 2004 06:49 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual) If you look at the following example website http://www.allwalesunit.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5 and click on the Cymraeg link at the top of the page, which loads up the Welsh

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Ian Vaughan
From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2004 12:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual) Sounds to me that a single article can have translations (a standard way of dealing with content) I come from

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Paul Hastings
- Original Message - From: Ian Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual) If for instance you have the following example table containing Press

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Mark Drew
your table / tables be set up so a single article can have translations ??? cym/welcyare the ISO codes for Welsh From: Mark Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 September 2004 12:02 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Paul Hastings
1) Content library, this should be acontent item and assigned either to multiple languages or a single language (e.g. english and spanish versions both link to the english download as there is only one... which we can then separate, or it defaults to english PDF if there is no spanish

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Micha Schopman
Content libraries in my system are not content items. It is a structurized way of sorting content, under categories and by meta labels. In my case, each language has it's own Content Library because the category labels could be multilingual as well. It is a bit hard to explain, but see it as a

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Paul Hastings
It should never happen, that a spanish website gets english content by itself because the spanish version is missing. So if the spanish version of a pdf is missing, throw an error, not get the english version :-) You might give the client bad information. here here. [Todays Threads] [This

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Mark Drew
I think it depends on your business rules (rather than technology) The point I was trying to get across is that the user should not be limited to a repository of just that language as there might NOT be translations of that particular content (brand guidelines, Templates?) and the content should

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Paul Hastings
Any ideas on what relationship theArticleAction=language parameter is doing to perform the translation ? same table, same ID, different language. probably just sets the new language as the opposite of the current language (as least that's how we did thai\english sites). it also doesn't appear

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist (making a cms multlingual)

2004-09-20 Thread Paul Hastings
Don't you hate site that return you to the root but in the other language? frankly i've found hardly anybody works thru a website that way. normal folks come in, set their locale/language (or better yet their locale/language is silently delivered to them) navigate thru the site. a good app

Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Mike Kear
I'm currently doing a spec for a new CMS I'm building for my own use. (I'll think about making it available commercially later). I'm making it for CFMX, and all the presentation stuff is going to be in CSS. The CMS will output valid XHTML and because no layout code wiill be in the output from

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Mark Drew
Ohh many things i could add here.. but want to finish before nightfall! 1) Have you seen Aura (used by FarCry?) That is CSS and what have you. 2) Output content in XML and then apply a stylesheet to it? 3) Assetmanagement for images and documents and flash etc 4) Search engine 5) EASY type

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Kola Oyedeji
- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 September 2004 15:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist I'm currently doing a spec for a new CMS I'm building for my own use. (I'll think about making it available commercially later). I'm making it for CFMX

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Mike Kear
Piece of cake Mark!Might not get it done tonight.Will Monday do? Thanks a lot for your comments.Given me food for thought. Cheers Mike Kear Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year [Todays Threads] [This Message]

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Paul Hastings
which is still lacking in many of the cms systems I have come across is *decent* support for multilingual content. I believe the latest version of farcry may support this but I haven't played with it yet. define decent. as a first step last year i guess, we made it unicode compliant. the next

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Big Kev
-Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 September 2004 15:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist I'm currently doing a spec for a new CMS I'm building for my own use. (I'll think about making it available commercially later). I'm

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Micha Schopman
Multilingual, as in frontend support is still quite unique. Only bigger vendors in the medium, or enterprise level markets have builtin support for multilingual content = not just creating a separate branche for other languages. Creating a system being able to handle multilingual content, on

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Douglas Knudsen
know :) Doug - Original Message - From: Mike Kear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 00:56:27 +1000 Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piece of cake Mark!Might not get it done tonight.Will Monday do? Thanks a lot for your

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Mike Kear
My case for creating one is this I want to understand intimately the workings of one.Every time in the past i've tried to get into the inner workings of an application, I've ended up saying to hell with it, I can make one myself.It's not a lower cost way ot doing it, definitely,but I want

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Paul Hastings
for multilingual content = not just creating a separate branche for other languages. yeah that was the first thing folks suggested when we started discussing this for farcry. i'm not for that technique (1 new language = 1 new site). we'll see how this plays out w/farcry. Creating a system

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Mark Drew
Tuesday's fine :) Also the other things that are requested are: 1) selective workflow (not everyone needs to follow it) 2) Dated publishing (make live on .. until) 3) Preview of content... in site content.. 4) Site Versioningand Content Versioning 5) Content check out and check in 6) Management

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Micha Schopman
Including workflow editors, dynamic authoring rules on department and role and user level, and versioning of objects? .. I don't know how long it took you but It took me 3 months work in the evening hours. It is very difficult. Micha Schopman Software Engineer Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M,

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Micha Schopman
I would suggest you set up a simple frame for the system first, .. if you want to implement all the mentioned features you may kiss you summer vacation goodbye. Micha Schopman Software Engineer Modern Media, Databankweg 12 M, 3821 ALAmersfoort Tel 033-4535377, Fax 033-4535388 KvK Amersfoort

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Mark Drew
I have seen it in spectra just using Structs but the issue here is that you should get away from one record = one bit of content.. if you are doing versioning you will have an object that is a content and then another table with the versions and languages .. MD On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 22:15:33

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Kola Oyedeji
change languages in the cms to see the alternative version of the content in a different language. Kola -Original Message- From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 September 2004 16:16 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist for multilingual

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Tim Blair
Ideally I'd want to work with a language aware system such that I can change languages in the cms to see the alternative version of the content in a different language. ShadoMX has multilanguage support at object level, so you only have one site tree etc and can define multiple translations

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Micha Schopman
How does one manage multilingual content in ShadoMX, I am interested in this specific feature. Do you have screens showing how it works? [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]

RE: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Kola Oyedeji
PROTECTED] Sent: 17 September 2004 17:30 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist How does one manage multilingual content in ShadoMX, I am interested in this specific feature. Do you have screens showing how it works? _ [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Micha Schopman
I guess they still use seperate branches, according to some of the screenshots shown on the website. One of the screenshots show a treeview, and on top a dropdown box with english in it. My guess is changing this box changes the branch. Well that's the million dollar question, when I asked and

Re: Content Management System (CMS) Wishlist

2004-09-17 Thread Johan Steenkamp
What features are useful and which a waste of time? Depends on your target market for the solution. The requirements for corporate/enterprise are different to SME and membership based organizations. Johan www.assetnow.com [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe]