Re: Integrating with Sharepoint

2009-12-17 Thread dmackerman
By "link up" do you mean just sharing content? On Dec 11, 6:52 am, Michael wrote: > Does anybody have any experience of linking RedDot with Microsoft > Sharepoint? > > We use RedDot for our external website and Sharepoint 2003 for our > Intranet and it would be nice to link the systems up, but I

Re: RedDot 10.0 SP 1

2009-12-11 Thread dmackerman
Here's the link to the release notes: http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6D_Pu5zGUuMODMxYWJjZjItOThjMC00YWM5LThlYTAtYTVlZGIyM2M4NGUy&hl=en I've publicly shared them through Google Docs so everyone should be able to see them. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

RedDot 10.0 SP 1

2009-12-11 Thread dmackerman
Is now released and can be found at: https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll?func=ll&objId=16745888&objAction=browse&viewType=1 You'll need a Knowledge Base account to access the file. Just found this out yesterday while on the phone with OpenText support. -- You received this mess

Re: jRQL - Java API for RedDot CMS and WSMS

2009-11-25 Thread dmackerman
This looks very, very powerful. Thanks for letting us know about it! I'll be checking it out in the next couple of weeks. On Nov 24, 7:37 am, Frank wrote: > Hello all interesting in RQL! > > I built an API encapsulating RQL request and response handling in a > flexible way to use API written in

Re: Edit CSS stylesheets inside of RedDot?

2009-11-18 Thread dmackerman
Spoke to soon, figured it out. 1) create a css content class (or multiple content classes if you want multiple stylesheets) 2) create an anchor element in your master page (use the "insert url and path only" option) 3) create a new page off of this anchor element linking to your stylesheet 4) voil

Edit CSS stylesheets inside of RedDot?

2009-11-18 Thread dmackerman
What is the best practice/most commonly used way to use stylesheets inside of RedDot? Currently we are using a media element which is linked to a physical file. This works fine, but it is a pain to upload the stylesheet everytime we need to make a small change. I was thinking about using a contain

Re: Navigation Manager Render Tag help

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
One problem josh, The dropdown menu's no longer function on the internal pages. I assume this is due to the nature of the query that is used to generate the the "children" of the dropdown. On Nov 17, 2:32 pm, dmackerman wrote: > AHHH. Forgot a space in between the &quo

Re: Navigation Manager Render Tag help

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
AHHH. Forgot a space in between the "operator" and "valueb" parameters! Hey, thanks so much Josh! I've spent like 2 hours trying to figure this out! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users"

Re: Navigation Manager Render Tag help

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
Basically it displays: Home About Contact But no drop-downs on the About + Contact menus. All of the links do work correctly. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To p

Re: Navigation Manager Render Tag help

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
Basically it displays: Home About Contact But no drop-downs on the About + Contact menus. All of the links do work correctly. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To p

Re: Navigation Manager Render Tag help

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
l. On Nov 17, 2:14 pm, "j...@apostate.com" wrote: > On Nov 17, 2:12 pm, dmackerman wrote: > > > And both of those templates are associated with the same navigation > > area? > > Yes -- both are associated with the same navigation area (which we > call "Main Me

Re: Navigation Manager Render Tag help

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
And both of those templates are associated with the same navigation area? Thanks for the response, I'll play with this! On Nov 17, 1:55 pm, "j...@apostate.com" wrote: > > I'm struggling to get my navigation to output the way that I want it. > > Here is my current page structure (this is a dev e

Navigation Manager Render Tag help

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
Hello everyone, I'm struggling to get my navigation to output the way that I want it. Here is my current page structure (this is a dev environment that I am trying to get working) Home -- About -- Services -- Our Team -- Contact -- Contact Form -- Driving Directions I have set u

Re: A RedDot Community - What do you want?

2009-11-17 Thread dmackerman
OpenText sort of has a dicussion board on their Knowledge Base, but it's not very good and not very active. You can see it here: https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/llisapi.dll/open/16515766 You need a knowledge base account to login. On Nov 17, 12:18 am, markus giesen wrote: > Hi there,

Re: How to use “Tag" function in RD or is there any plugin of "Tag" used in RD

2009-11-12 Thread dmackerman
Just to clarify, you mean "tagging" of articles with keywords? Like an article about Michael Jordan would be tagged "basketball, NBA, Michael Jordan", etc? On Nov 11, 10:53 pm, Echo wrote: > Hi, everybody > > Since Wordpress has "Tag" plugin, I am thinking that if there is any > plugin of "Tag"

Re: Create a custom form for page creation?

2009-11-09 Thread dmackerman
I've figured out how to make a list with pages, and all that is working fine. Now my issue is this: Say I have 2 content classes, one is called Event and the other is called Event Listing. The Event content class has all the placeholders for information about the events, and the Event Listing cla

Standard Field Date Format

2009-11-09 Thread dmackerman
Hey everyone, I'm working with the Standard Field - Date and it doesn't seem to be entering the dates correctly. I have it in for the custom format of "dd/MM/yy" (09/09/09 for example) and it does not output the dates correctly. For example, if I select today and choose it on the calendar, I get

Re: Create a custom form for page creation?

2009-11-09 Thread dmackerman
A calendar or event list widget would be excellent! On Nov 8, 5:28 pm, markus giesen wrote: > Hey Dave, > > So are you looking for a RedDot to create new pages? (Then Ingo is > right) > Or are you looking for something like a calendar or event list widget? > > Cheers, > Markus > > On 7 Nov., 07:

RedDot Official Training

2009-10-16 Thread dmackerman
Hey guys/gals, Has anyone attended the "official" training offered by OpenText? I'm referring to this course in particular: http://www.opentext.com/training/coursedetails.html?id=1817 We are in the process of redesigning and restructuring out entire website from the ground up. I was brought in t

Re: Printable Variant

2009-10-06 Thread dmackerman
Got it. Thanks Rich. On Oct 6, 11:33 am, reddotrich wrote: > dmackerman, > > You can create a different template for each project varient. > > Go to Administer Content Classes in Smart Tree and expand the content > class you want to change, there will be a node called templat

Re: Printable Variant

2009-10-06 Thread dmackerman
Is there some sort of conditional that I can place in my template to specify the title for each variant. Something like: (pseudo code): if (projectVariant = "HTML") { pageTitle = "This is a page title"; } elseif (projectVariant = "Printable") { pageTitle = "This is a page title [prin

Printable Variant

2009-10-05 Thread dmackerman
I'm coming into a new project, and they 2 project variants. The first is an HTML (for displaying pages normally) and the second is a "Printable" variant which displays the pages content only? Where do I edit this template? I need to change the title of these pages. --~--~-~--~~---

Page Titles

2009-09-22 Thread dmackerman
Is there a way to dynamically pull in the page title's into the attribute? I assume this would be done in the Content Class that controls those pages? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users

Trying to understand RedDot

2009-08-20 Thread dmackerman
Hello everyone, I am very new to RedDot, and I'm trying to understand the correct structure of how to setup a project. I'm trying to grasp the concept of Content Classes, containers, templates, etc. My basic knowledge is this: Every page that will have the same content, will all use the same Co

Issues with RSS Feeds

2009-07-31 Thread dmackerman
Hello all, Just a precursor, I've read all of the other RSS Feed posts in this group and am still kind of confused on how the process works. First things first, I've created a Content Class name RSS Feed. It has the basic XML structure for an RSS feed. The I understand that part. Looks somethin

Re: Why do you use RedDot?

2009-07-31 Thread dmackerman
about why you/group/ company chose to use RedDot. On Jul 31, 11:08 am, dmackerman wrote: > I was just thinking about this the other day. I recently joined a > company that is using RedDot to manage a website we maintain. Just > digging through RedDot makes me sick, the way it handles

Why do you use RedDot?

2009-07-31 Thread dmackerman
I was just thinking about this the other day. I recently joined a company that is using RedDot to manage a website we maintain. Just digging through RedDot makes me sick, the way it handles things seems very ineffective, especially for the kind of management we are doing with the website. Seems to