Hi, Firstly, if you search for RedDot, you might not find on the opentext knowledge base. Try searching for OpenText Management Server and OpenText Delivery Server and you will find them. They are supposed to be part of OpenText Web Solutions Group. You will find documentation on Management Server, Delivery Server on how to build websites with these systems. As to your questions, they are too broad and documentation provides
a lot of that stuff. To give you a quick info on this: 1) Management Server is the source for all content and the CMS. So content editors login to this and publish out their content to Delivery Server. Delivery Server is the end product that will be serving content to the website users (though apache will be sitting in front of delivery server and serving as in any J2EE app), that is capable of personalization and all kinds of dynamism to the site. 2) Management Server is installed on Windows, and is asp/asp.net application and can be extended using Reddot proprietary language called RQL using ASP or ASP.NET by calling reddot services. 3) Delivery Server is in java (can be installed on windows or linux, just need app container) and can be extended using Java. It has a special language of its own called dynaments which let you do all the personalization and login and any dynamism you need on the site. 3) Dynaments document will provide you with a lot of inbuilt dynaments that help you provide such personalization. Verity is the search engine Delivery Server usually integrates with, that indexes the content present on the Delivery Server and provides for search functionality on the end site. You can use GSA or others too, but will be more complicated. You can integrate other scripting languages like php or python as u need with Delivery Server. This is kind of very high level description of the products you are dealing with. As to your questions: 1) Delivery Server dynaments will cover this part. It is like Management server will require some front end skills and backend skills. Delivery Server will require all backend skills. The course you need to go for is OpenText Delivery Server course for this kind of dynamic functionality. 2) if your page is external site facing and dependent on that,then you will be developing that on the Delivery Server. If it is cms based, then it will reside on the cms side. Based on CMS or Delivery Server side, your language of development will vary as explained above. 3)Smart Forms is supposed to be for creating forms, and hence is on the cms side. AS such it will be installed on the CMS server. Delivery Server is a seperate system altogether from CMS. 4) I think if you try going through OpenText WebSoluitions Group (OTWSG) and look for their products or search on Open Text Management Server and OpenText Delivery Server, you should find documentation in there. Hope it helps. Thanks, Prasanth Prasanth Nittala | www.oshyn.com | 213-483-1770 -----Original Message----- From: RomanDesign <[email protected]> To: "Prasanth Nittala" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [reddot] Looking for advice... Hi All, I apologize for some newbie questions, but the amount of information here is overwhelming and I could not immediately find answers in this group, which seems to be the best resource I found so far. I'm a web designer/developer and I'm starting to develop corporate website on RedDot (basically redesigning and moving existing site with some changes from current Joomla nightmare to RedDot). I had the 5-day training course from Open Text on RedDot, but not on Delivery Server. I do have extensive background in web design/developing, including HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP/ASP. I'd appreciate any info or guidance on the following questions, not covered on the course: 1. How to implement and manage external user registration, user login, and pages visible only for users - i.e. basic behavior of website that has users. Is it an existing functionality in basic RedDot or Delivery Server? Are there plugins that cover it? Should it be custom- programmed totally outside RedDot? where do I start? The course basically covered only static websites with internal users that can update contents. 2. I will need to call an executable on the server, feeding it some numbers and displaying other numbers that it will give out. It would involve some PHP or ASP programming, but where do I do it? External page via iframe? Internally in RedDot? 3. SmartForms was recommended as forms/data management plugin. Any info on how to implement it? Where would it be installed, on RedDot main interface, or Delivery Server? Come to think of it, as I've never seen the delivery server, is it in the same "web" interface as RedDor ot a completely separate beast? 4. I would appreciate links to any knowledge bases or resources on RedDot - Google was not much helop and I could not find any if they exist. I logged on OpenText knowledge base (client provided credentials) but I can't even find anything related to RedDot product there... Thanks! I appreciate all advice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" 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/reddot-cms-users?hl=en [http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en]. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" 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/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
