Bob Campbell wrote:
1) We have a web site with a few small ColdFusion MX apps (address book, acronym list, etc). My question is: can existing CF apps be incorporated into Farcry? I'm not looking for a how-to (at the moment!) but just looking at how we can integrate Farcry and our existing Intranet site and avoid running content outside of Farcry.
Absolutely. There are a number of different ways you might do this, so it might be an idea to elaborate on what you want to integrate. But to give you some ideas have a look at these how-tos:
http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/documentation/developers/how-to
Integrating DRK4 Pollster - A Walkthrough
This is an example of integrating the DRK4 Pollster app. All admin is done in the FarCry admin area, and polls are published to pages using a publishing rule.
Include Objects - a walkthrough
Include objects can be used to whack in any old bit of CF and still have it retained within the layout of the site. We use this for the search results, contact us forms, etc.
And of course there's custom types, rules, admin and so forth. There's a veritable swiss army knife of integration features.
2)Having purchased MX Studio 2004, management wants to use the Halo page designs that are part of Dreamweaver. Can these types of css templates be used in Farcry? Again, I'm not looking for a how-to but just an idea of how difficult or "easy" this would be...
Halo designs over Aura? (http://www.leorex.com/products/aura/)
Yes. You can completely throw-out the existing design and replace it with a new one. We've spent a lot of time making sure this is as straightforward as possible -- have a look at the myriad of different designs out there at the moment: http://farcry.daemon.com.au/go/features/farcry-sites
Also make sure you check out the cool things we do with style sheets to help you implement cool CSS: http://daemoninternet.mmalliance.breezecentral.com/p99348887/
If you get a halo site going let us know -- I think we'd all like to see what it looks like :)
Best regards,
-- geoff bowers Managing Director Daemon Internet Consultants Macromedia Premier Solutions Partner http://www.daemon.com.au/ p. 02 9380 4162 f. 02 9380 4204
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