Re: Publishing Problem

2009-10-26 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi Ken, did you ensure that the pages are not only connected to a structure element, but also that this structure element appears in the published code of the parent page? Regards, Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Preassigning content classes

2009-10-16 Thread Stefan Buchali
From v9 or 7.5.2 (I'm not sure) you can adopt the restrictions for creating a new page also for connecting existing pages. Unfortunately this is a setting of a link element, not a global setting, so you will have to manually go through all your link elements... Other ways of connecting pages are

Re: Smart Edit - Page Menu is not getting displayed

2009-10-16 Thread Stefan Buchali
the page menu is called by the window onload event. So if there are Javascript errors on your page in open reddot mode, the page menu call won't work. -Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot

Re: Asynchronous Project

2009-10-07 Thread Stefan Buchali
Tiffany, this article may help you: http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/to-kill-a-publication Great article Paul! Did help me a lot so far. Regards, Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users

Re: Finding child template type by Render Tag

2009-09-25 Thread Stefan Buchali
That's exactly how I felt when I found it out :-) ... thanks to this great page from Ingo Hillebrand, BTW, there can also be found some other not documented stuff: http://www.shift8.de/2009/04/25/rendertags-eine-ubersicht/ -Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Navigation Manager - controlling levels of display

2009-09-18 Thread Stefan Buchali
I'm not sure if I got you right, but I think you will need to configure your navigation area as follows: level 1/2 selected no not selected option (to show the route) level 3/4 selected/not selected (to show a normal menu) -Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Imported content classes instances showing up as blank

2009-09-16 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi, I would check the template - project variant assignment first. Regards, Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: RedDot vs Vignette

2009-09-16 Thread Stefan Buchali
http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/is-the-reddot-cms-dead-no-its-not-but-whats-next-open-text --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Publishing Error

2009-09-16 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi, check your assigned filenames, maybe one name appears twice, resulting in one page overwriting the other. Check also possible target container constructions that could result more than once in this certain file name. Regards, Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Can't publish page to Staging Project Variant

2009-09-07 Thread Stefan Buchali
Are the pages that won't be published to Staging connected to anchor elements only which switch to the LiveSite project variants? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to

Re: How I can simulate Delete Element Content via RQL for stf field

2009-09-03 Thread Stefan Buchali
Saving an element via RQL with an empty value attribute means leave it as is it. To delete its content, you must save a # followed by the session key: ELT guid=[!guid_element!] value=#[!session_key!]/ But take care: You cannot *simulate* this. if you delete it, it IS deleted and can only be

Re: Pre Assign Content Classes - Navigation Manager

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi, as far as I remember, this limitation takes only effect on creating pages the editorial way (via SmartTree and SmartEdit), but not in Navigation Manager. Maybe this issue will be fixed in versions higher than 7 (or 9 or 10 or 20?)... Regards, Stefan

Re: AddPage, AppendPage placeholders

2009-08-13 Thread Stefan Buchali
So they re-implemented them! That's great news! Sorry for the confusion – I just ignored them since they were not working in both 4 and 5... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To

Re: AddPage, AppendPage placeholders

2009-08-11 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi Ingo, these two RedDots were working in InfoOffice (and were VERY useful!), but RedDot Solutions did not implement them any more in the new RedDot generation (starting with version 4.0). However, they remained selectable in the Template Editor until now :-) But AFAIK they just don't work.

Re: Get URL of page via RQL

2009-07-31 Thread Stefan Buchali
We've had this requirement a lot of times, and discussed this often with RedDot support, but we had to accept that retrieving the full url is almost impossible. It depends on the following: - File name of the page itself - File name of a target container page, if used - Extension (if not given

Re: Multiple list in same page

2009-07-29 Thread Stefan Buchali
many questions ... :-) there are two ways to use a list: a) to simply create a link list b) to transfer content from the linked pages to the page containing the list ... well, a third way would be to combine them, but imo your task can be solved with b. So to give you some quick answers: 1)

Re: Multiple list in same page

2009-07-29 Thread Stefan Buchali
Arsalan, you can connect the same page only once to a certain list (or container). If you need to link to exactly the same page, but under another link name, then you either should use connect url and type in the url of the page (this will work only on published pages, not in RedDot), or create

Re: Page looks fine in Page Preview mode but throws PageNotFound 404 error in Smart Edit

2009-07-24 Thread Stefan Buchali
, Stefan On 22 Jul., 17:59, bobbykjack bobbyj...@gmail.com wrote: I have a need for this exact behaviour since, for some reason, there's no block mark to represent 'show in redot but not in publication'. How do I 'close' the RDExecute block? - Bobby On Jul 17, 2:36 pm, Stefan Buchali stefan.buch

Re: Page looks fine in Page Preview mode but throws PageNotFound 404 error in Smart Edit

2009-07-24 Thread Stefan Buchali
Yes it IS a common requirement, but block marks only tell between SmartEdit (RedDotMode) on one hand and Preview+Publishing (NoRedDotMode) on the other. If you use Version 7 or higher, RenderTags will give you this opportunity. Use Context:CurrentRenderMode for this: 0 is Preview, 1 is

Re: how do I get loginguid for user defined job

2009-07-22 Thread Stefan Buchali
what you have is IODATA loginguid=[!login_guid!] what you need is IODATA loginguid=[!guid_login!] (change login and guid) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this

Re: Render tag caching?

2009-07-17 Thread Stefan Buchali
Did you activate Navigation Manager in your general project settings? You must do this even if you don't use Navigation Manager, but just RenderTags. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users

Re: Page looks fine in Page Preview mode but throws PageNotFound 404 error in Smart Edit

2009-07-17 Thread Stefan Buchali
Sid, don't mix two different rendering technologies: PreExecute runs when the page is rendered (SmartEdit, preview AND publication) You indicate it via block marks. It is used to publish the result of a script as a static page. RDExecute runs only within RedDot (SmartEdit and preview), AFTER

Re: Find/Replace not working for text type elements

2009-07-14 Thread Stefan Buchali
I don't have Oracle experience, either, but I've heard about a case where an encoding problem was the reason, as RedDot by default uses UTF-8, and Oracle by default uses ASCII. When setting up the database, the Oracle admin must take care of every single field (I think...) and set its encoding

Re: Navigation Manager errors and RDSERVER.INI flags=256

2009-05-08 Thread Stefan Buchali
flags = 1024 must be set to make the NM work. flags = 256 must be set to keep the temporary PreExecute files to debug them. If you want to have both, you must add these values, otherwise the NM will not work. So set flags = 1280 and it will work.

Re: can one element pull a value from another within the same content class template?

2009-05-08 Thread Stefan Buchali
You can only pre-assign structure elements to another structure element of a CK. A newly created page of that CK will get its structure elements assigned to each other. Unfortunately this does not work for content elements! These can only be pre-assigned to other elements of a yet existing page.

How can I get the number of language variants

2009-05-08 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi, is there a way to easily find out a) how many language variants exist in a project b) or in how many lvs a page exists without using RQL (that's what I mean with easily)? So, is there an info element or any cool not yet documented Render Tag? Regards, Stefan

Re: Executing RQL in Reddot template

2009-05-07 Thread Stefan Buchali
... some save commands do not work in PreExecute mode. I've had this issue when trying to save some content into a standard field in RedDotOpenPageMode. It only got saved in RDExecute. but all the rest does, that's true. Regards, Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Executing RQL in Reddot template

2009-05-05 Thread Stefan Buchali
another reason why it may not run: if you are logged in as sharon when you (or someone else) run the RQL (which also logs in as sharon), make sure that your account is set to more than 1 session at a time :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Customizing Reddot UI

2009-04-28 Thread Stefan Buchali
this could be done as follows: 1) check the pv1 as publish not released pages 2) create a workflow with two release steps 3) between release 1 and release 2 it is possible to publish pages only to pv1, but not to pv2 4) after release 2 a page can be published to pv2 Triggering publication 1 as

Re: Customizing Reddot UI

2009-04-27 Thread Stefan Buchali
The dropdown you mention is the machine that does the publication itself (your CMS server). This is only necessary if you use multiple CMS servers within a cluster. It would be possible to customize the UI, but you would have to re- program the whole dialogue and create a plugin for publishing.

Re: XML encoding CMS content

2009-04-23 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi Markus, I tried this and it seems that this colon: problem occurs only within navigation tags! %!! Escape:HtmlEncode(Context:CurrentPage.Headline) !!% -- works fine %!! Escape:HtmlEncode(Context:CurrentIndex.Page.Headline) !!% -- empty if colon ... but back on the replace issue. Using the

Get CK name of a page with rendertags

2009-04-23 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hi, does anyone know how to get the content class name of a page using render tags? I want to do the following: Iterate through all pages within a container and react if a page of a certain content class exists there, e.g.: foreach itemname=item object=Context:CurrentPage.Elements.GetElement

XML encoding CMS content

2009-04-22 Thread Stefan Buchali
Hello, RedDot CMS offers an option to not convert to HTML its elements. This ends up in either outputting Ä Ü are German umlauts. or Auml; amp; Uuml; are German umlauts. There is no possibility to just convert the five XML-reserved chars, saying: Ä amp Ü are German umlauts. So I went a bit on

Re: XML encoding CMS content

2009-04-22 Thread Stefan Buchali
them. Can you confirm, that this issue doesn't affect your project? Cheers, Markus On 22 Apr., 17:16, Stefan Buchali stefan.buch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, RedDot CMS offers an option to not convert to HTML its elements. This ends up in either outputting Ä Ü are German umlauts

RedDot CMS Plugin: Multiple instances with only one click

2009-04-17 Thread Stefan Buchali
Our new plugin enhances the functionality of RedDot CMS by allowing to create and connect multiple instances of a content class at the same time. Do your editors' health a favour and save them lots of clicks by downloading and installing it from our website:

Re: Rename menu items

2009-04-16 Thread Stefan Buchali
I do agree with Tiffany - especially when we do trainings with new editors of our customers it always causes great confusion. Link elements should better use reference page, but list elements and containers must use connect existing page (otherwise all other yet connected pages will get lost).

Re: Keywords

2009-04-15 Thread Stefan Buchali
just to check if I understood right what you are trying to achieve: 1) You create+connect a new page to a list 2) You add some keywords to that page 3) You only want the keywords to determine where the page appears 4) By changing one of these keywords (current to archive) you want to move the

Re: Export Content to Office compatible files?

2009-04-14 Thread Stefan Buchali
The only built-in way to export content is to export all instances from the content class action menu (open instances in the tree, then you will find it in the action menu). This exports your pages on a content class base to XML files that can be opened with excel after a little bit of editing.

Re: RQL - determine ELEMENT attributes...

2009-04-07 Thread Stefan Buchali
I don't know why, but you have to preload the elements before you can access them, when you have added new elements to a content class with already existing instances. This can be done by clicking the elements node in smart tree with this rql: IODATA loginguid=[LOGINGUID]

Re: RQL - determine ELEMENT attributes...

2009-04-07 Thread Stefan Buchali
by the way: link elements work the same way, these also must be preloaded if added when instances yet exist: IODATA loginguid=[LOGINGUID] sessionkey=[SESSIONKEY] dialoglanguageid=DEU TREESEGMENT type=page action=load guid=[PAGEGUID] descent=unknown/ /IODATA On 7 Apr., 09:07, Stefan

Re: RQL - determine ELEMENT attributes...

2009-04-07 Thread Stefan Buchali
The returned XML is not ok. It should look like IODATA PAGE guid=ACB8AB958AF941D3B2F347718FB7FE40 sessionkey=393A8BDD961B4F3DB0537F0287DC4127 dialoglanguageid=ENG languagevariantid=ENG ELEMENTS action=load pageguid=ACB8AB958AF941D3B2F347718FB7FE40 parenttable=PAG

Re: GetElement().Value render tag does not work for standard field types other than text

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan Buchali
Yes I have had the same problem in version 7.5.1.86. Due to RedDot Support, only text type standard fields work properly. It does not matter whether you use .GetHtml() or .Value. The only workaround is to change the type of the standard field to text (no good solution, I know...) On 6 Apr.,

Re: Foreach with Rendertags

2009-04-06 Thread Stefan Buchali
Yes that's possible: reddot:cms foreach itemname=Contact object=Context:CurrentPage.Elements.GetElement (Str:NAME_OF_LIST).Value countername=counter htmltext %!! Store:Contact.Elements.GetElement (Str:NAME_OF_ELEMENT).GetHtml() !!% (or: %!! Store:Contact.Elements.GetElement