OK I've read the white papers and I've clicked around in the COAPI.  I
get how it works but I still feel like I'm missing a huge chunk of
information.  Everyone keeps referring to application scope and request
scope but how do I know what those really encompass.  Application.cfm
pulls in like 18 files which all reference other files and before I know
it I'm totally lost. It seems like the API starts at like the second
level.  I just don't know how to use it and I'm not finding the examples
very helpful.  I'm not a hard core programmer, but I think the things
that I want to do are fairly simple. 

So here is a very direct question. Maybe a very specific detailed answer
would clarify most of my issues.

The API is divided into 4 main sections.
farcry.farcry_core.packages.farcry
farcry.farcry_core.packages.rules
farcry.farcry_core.packages.security
farcry.farcry_core.packages.types

When I click on one of the above link I get basically a whole bunch of
objects that I can call and then subsequently a whole bunch of methods
associated with those objects. 

Question 1 - If want to use dmNavigation and the 1NavIDalias how do I
call it.

Question 2 - Is there documentation somewhere that tells me what's in
application scope and request scope. If not how can I find out...where
do I look.

I feel these are really dumb questions...they probably are but I'm left
with no options...I'm on a deadline and I have to make this work. 

Jaci



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff
Bowers
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:57 AM
To: FarCry Developers
Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Magazine

Jaci,

Jaci Chesnes wrote:
> The problem isn't the number of users it's the ability to archive past
> issues. Every month the current issue will have to be taken down put
> into an archive and a new issue with using the same templates will
have
> to be created The look will be the same put the links will have to
link
> to totally knew version of each page.  

There are many ways this can be done.  It really depends on what content

types you choose to implement your content with.

> For instance there will always be a section called departments that
has
> letters to the editor, Technology Update, etc.  But the content for
each
> of these will be new.  Because the current version can't be just
written
> over I need to generate basically another version of the entire site
> each month with blank pages for each of those various section while
> dumping the current version into some type of archive. Is there a way
to
> do this?

An approach out of the box might be to:
a. set up a categories
  - one for each issue of the mag
  - one for each section of the mag
b. write content and categorise with the right category
c. use a publishing rule in each section to display the relevant content
d. to update the site simply change the categories the publishing rule 
points at

You could easily achieve this with News objects and the news publishing 
rule.  OR you could build your own customisations to finesse this in 
some way.

> The second problem is that we have about 7 - 10 magazines that we
would
> need to do this for which means I need the ability to build an
> individual site for each one of the magazines. Can FarCry run multiple
> sites with multiple logins off of one install or do you need to run a
> separate install for each site?

Well you could have a different branch for each mag.  If each mag hangs 
off a separate domain I'd be inclined to go for a separate farcry 
instance per mag.  If you are not sharing content between the mags I'd 
definitely go for a separate instance per mag.

re: federated login.  You can easily set up a shared user directory so 
that you only need one set of credentials to login to all the different 
magazines even if they are distinct FarCry instances.

Hope that helps,

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

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