On Dec 11, 7:15 am, Jedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, we want to role this out so that super users throughout > our company can manage their own content on their own homepages, > adding news, menu items etc etc. but we have a problem, its not very > easy and intuitive to use. Even creating a simple page and trying to > add images all seemed to use a non-logical way of doing things, we > struggled with it so our users will also struggle even more.
Actually we find that most users hardly struggle at all. All you need is a course book and some training. Plus if you like you can overhaul the specific wizard, remove features you don't want or change the UI controls to those you do. The reality is that FarCry is a very sophisticated solution. We have built the default implementation to be mid-way between power users and complete novices. If we provided a very simple default we would not be able to showcase the more advanced features. And vice versa. You say that adding images is illogical -- it would be insightful to know what you think would be the "logical" way to insert images. > I have spent alot of my own time trying to understand the application, > how the workflow works etc etc but in the end i daren't release > anything to my userbase. It would certainly be good to hear what you find confusing. That way we can provide better documentation to make it less so. > A larger problem i have is that it just doesn't install correctly in > an IIS6 Oracle 10g CF8 environment. The installer installed correctly, > after a second attempt, but it throwing errors up left right and > center. I get the impression from talking to users here that they have > had to tweak the system alot to get it to work on different platforms. Oracle has some problems with the installer. We are trying to resolve these. That said we have many clients running Oracle quite happily. However, we can only address the issues we know about -- you might make some investment of time to resolve these. > I am really dissapponted with it and after hearing what my manager > said and reading through your post i think i have been beaten, we are > going to move to something else. That's a grand shame. I would suggest you will not find any sort of magic bullet in the CMS world. If you require a sophisticated solution, you will need to invest time to configure a solution. Hoping that something will fit your requirements without effort would be a vain hope. Your other option might be to invest some money in mentoring, training and/or consulting for your initial configuration. Certainly if you purchased a commercial solution all these services would be part of the implementation ;) -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
