Hello Greg, Given that you have installed FarCry and run both the Admin and Application portions, you should find a complete set of the Aura files (copied and correctly installed) in the following directory....
C;\Inetpub\wwwroot\applications\%yourappname% (%yourappname% being the name you gave the FarCry install script) Given this application is already running, you would be better off using that for your walkthrough/trace than modifying the FarCry Aura directory (this is only a skeleton to create applications from - it is NOT an application itself and should not be modified). I don't know what the issue is with you not being able to access the FarCry site at Daemon but this is going to be a critical source of information for you (aside from this list) as most people will point you at articles or PDF's on that site. Having said that, if you are wanting to look at what you can do to "skin" your application, then you should look at the following: %yourappname%/webskin/includes (contains headers and footers that are used by object templates - the dm* directories - to wrap the content up in HTML tags) %yourappname%/packages (this is where you put your own extensions to FarCry - types, rules, and custom code) %yourappname%/config (important to understand these files in case you are having problems running FarCry) %yourappname%/customadmin/customadmin.xml (the place where you can add tabs to the Admin system for your own use) For working with some essential FarCry objects (such as the navigation tree and how to display objects) you should look at (BUT NOT MODIFY): farcry_core/tags/navajo/*.* farcry_core/tags/webskin/*.* In essence, each of the types of objects have corresponding directories in the %yourappname%/webskin directory (e.g. dmHTML, dmNews, etc.). Inside those directories you place your "templates" that objects of that type can use when you manage them in the Admin tool. There are some special naming conventions you need to meet here for things to show up in the Admin tool. For displaying a page, the name MUST start with "displaypage" and be followed by whatever you want to call it. In addition, you can place comments into the file so that a "user friendly" name can be displayed to the Admin user in the template list for the object. These comments look like the following (this is from displaypageStandard.cfm for the dmHTML type): <!--- @@displayname: Standard Page ---> <!--- @@author: Geoff Bowers ---> Obviously, in the Admin tool, this will display as "Standard Page". If you browse most of the "displaypage" style files, you will find that they generally use a <CFMODULE> call to include a header and a footer and then dump the content of the object in between these. You can be as complex or as simple as your like between the "wrappers". You don't have to do it this way, but it allows you to reuse your "skin" across a number of different types. These "skins" are usually put in the webskin/includes directory (but this is only a convention and you can store them wherever you like). There are other rules for naming other types of templates (such as displayTeaser for metadata type displays vs. whole objects). Once you have a handle on these aspects, the next thing you will probably want to look at is CONTAINERS. Containers are created in your skins and templates (not in the Admin tool). A container is a space on your page that can have content loaded into it at runtime. You determine what the content is by logging into the Admin tool, going to the website itself (via View Site in the Admin tool if necessary) and then use the little gray menu button up in the top left to SHOW DESIGN (do this on your working site and you should see at least one little grey marker that denotes the container). To change the content of the container you click on the container marker and a popup will present you with options. I wont go into too much detail about it (it is in the PDF documents from the site) but here you choose the TYPE of content you want displayed (you can have more than one type at the same time!) and then you configure the parameters that select the content from that type. Just have a play with this. After that, you start getting into creating your own types and rules (rules are a mechanism of determining what data should be displayed in certain situations - e.g. what news should be displayed here). 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