Did you go into Admin -> COAPI Management -> Type classes and deploy the 
new properties?  You have to do that before the webtop can use what you 
created.

RonY wrote:
> Hi Jake,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Where i am stuck now when i am trying to display the new fields for
> the users to edit.
>
> I never see it in the edit html form.
>
> I am trying to get my head around the plp.
>
> I did a sample test for adding a dmProfile field and it worked, but
> the dmhtml seems a little more complex.
>
> Any help?
>
>
> On Apr 2, 11:51 pm, Jake Churchill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Honestly, I would suggest creating a new content type.  You have news,
>> facts, etc for dynamic content and several media libraries already
>> available to you.  What I usually do in this situation is create a new
>> dynamic type with a custom rule for displaying the type.  The
>> contributors are then able to create multiple courses, faculties, etc to
>> be inserted into the pages later.  I have several farcry blog entries 
>> athttp://jake.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm/Farcry.  You can specifically look
>> athttp://jake.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm/2007/1/12/Farcry-Custom-Type-HOWTO
>> for custom types 
>> andhttp://jake.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm/2007/1/12/Farcry-Custom-Rule-HOWTO
>> for custom rules.  Then all you need to do is create a new display
>> template that has a container in it.  Get some courses/faculties put
>> into the custom types then go into design mode and place the new rule
>> into the container for that page.
>>
>> If you don't want to do that, you can extend the dmHTML object and
>> create specific versions of it.  You would have a dmCourse object and a
>> dmFaculties object which both extend dmHTML.  This is harder in my
>> opinion than a custom type because you have to integrate your custom
>> stuff into the PLP widgets which requires more work.
>>
>> Jake Churchill
>> CF Webtools
>> 11204 Davenport, Ste. 200b
>> Omaha, NE  68154http://www.cfwebtools.com
>> 402-408-3733 x103
>>
>> RonY wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>       
>>> Our CMS requires different HTML pages such as courses, faculties and
>>> standard pages, along with some others.
>>>       
>>> The course page requires course specific information like course code,
>>> duration, cost etc.....to be entered when creating a course page.
>>>       
>>> Now i would like to enable our CMS users to add a course page and add
>>> have these options available for them to fill out, along with the text
>>> entered via the HTML editor.
>>>       
>>> I have created a sample custom object called courseInformation. But i
>>> am trying to understand how to incorporate it into ONLY the course
>>> pages. Offcourse, i would not want it to appear in other pages such as
>>> the standard or faculty pages.
>>>       
>>> Also, i would like the users to enter the course summary and
>>> information, which will be the middle content of the page AND also, i
>>> would like them to enter what should appear as the right content [ say
>>> for example the prices for each course and some other information,
>>> which may be separate from the middle content ].
>>>       
>>> Can someone direct me in the correct path to do this?
>>>       
>>> I am new to Farcry but I have read alot of docs about it, and am still
>>> not clear on how to do this.
>>>       
>>> Thanks all,
>>>       
>
>
> >
>
>   

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