On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 05:04, James Gifford wrote:
> Hi

Greetings!
 
> 1. The big problem - Inability to customise article input forms.

This is fixed by using the MidCOM datamanager to define your
document types.

http://www.nathan-syntronics.de/midgard/midcom/

At the moment MidCOM provides its own separate content creation
interface, but progress was made in the recent OSCOM Sprint to
integrate it with Aegir CMS.

> Tarjei said customised parameter input fields would be introduced in 
> Aegir 1.1.  Does anyone have the spec for the proposed fix?  How 
> comprehensive is it?

This is still in planning. However, if you want total extensibility,
define your document types as MidCOM components, and you can easily
choose the storage formats and user interfaces in the datamanager.

MidCOM doesn't yet provide the Aegir WYSIWYG editor but I think this
will not be far off. Torben?

> 2. Lack of features in Example Site  
<snip>
> All this code must be out there 
> somewhere - is it just a matter of people donating it back into the 
> project?  

Those are good suggestions. And indeed, all those features
mentioned are available out there. It wouldn't even take me
a long time to add them to the Sample site... the question 
is just when to allocate resources to it. 

Of course, clients are the first priority for me, and they
need/want improvements in Aegir CMS instead of the Sample sites.

> I'm not sure if this is a server side issue or an internet connection 
> speed issue but it is really slow.  I saved the article edit page with 
> all its libraries and it was about 250K.  We have people all over the 
> country on 56K modems so that is a really big page for them to download. 
>  I know we can turn off the rich text editor for them but I was 
> wondering if at least some of this problem is server side which would be 
> solved when we move to a production server rather than a small testing 
> box.  The old admin interface is really quick.

This is a known issue that comes with providing a richer interface.
If you want lighter interface, you can use the AIS content
administration interface that comes with MidCOM separately from
Aegir CMS.

> I couldn't really get my head around MidCOM as a possible solution for 
> any of these problems so if it is, it would be great to know how I can 
> test it.  I've installed it but I just don't understand how to do 
> anything with it.  It really needs a basic tutorial.

Agreed. Torben could be of help here :-)

> James

/Bergie

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