Re: Simple question?
Thanks for the reply. Do you mean the Insert file link button when I click edit link in text editor? This is the option I´ve tried, and should work(?) if I get this right: Click to select a file from an Asset Manager folder as reference target. You can choose a file from your local computer, or from a folder on the RedDot Content Server. Im not sure what text editor I´m using but it should be the default provided by RedDot. On 18 Nov, 15:13, Chris Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got to use the media link in the text editor, or reference asset if using FCKeditor. Chris Nixon Director of Communication Technology Services University Relations - University of Arkansas 800 Hotz Hall - Fayetteville, AR 72701 479-575-5629 -Original Message- From: RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RedDot Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:05 AM To: RedDot CMS Users Subject: Re: Simple question? Edit: It seems like that the whole path is not found to the file. I tried to use a media placeholder and added a pdf file to it. In SmartEdit mode, the only thing that was shown was the path to the file in text. If I then copy this path to the href textbox when editing my link in text editor it works fine. But the question still remains; why is not this path included just when I add a file to a text link or a media placeholder? Regards On Nov 18, 9:54 am, RedDot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I´m pretty new to RedDot, been a part of a small team implementing a clients home page in RedDot and am now responsible for service and support of our clients homepage. To my surprise I found a seeemingly easy task not working for me. What I´m trying to do is simply link some text in the text editor to a pdf file. I´ve selected my text and clicked edit link and added my file to the link. When I then click on my link I get the message that there is no page to show or a blank window is opened if I set the target to new or _blank. I´ve seen this in a old project and this works fine in this project. Anyone have any ideas? Must be something I´m missing here... Regards- Dölj citerad text - - Visa citerad text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: No multi-value placeholder in RedDot... what are the alternatives?
Simon-- There are three ways to get by, 1)Leverage the RedDot Categories/Keywords built-in feature. Multiple Keywords can be assigned to a page instance. Though one at a time it is still an easy implementation for you the developer and the editors. 2)Build each category of your category list as an option list. Use the category value as the option list name and populate it as yes or no. Place them in a group and designate the first option list as parent and all others as child elements. 3)Use simple html select and specify multi and when the button is clicked, concatenate all the selected options and insert it into a standard text field. The 3rd option involves an RQL write which has to happen outside the page instance. So they script has to live somewhere else and be called asynchronously. When the write is done, you force a re-load of the page and the selected value will be shown. The trouble with the 3rd is that it is laborious for the developer. Every time the page loads, you also need to parse the standard text field value, parse them apart and populate them accordingly in the multi-select so that the user knows what has been selected. Henry Lu On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Simon Lewis, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a template where I need users to be able to say This page falls into the following categories: and then select any number of those categories. I'm aware there's no built-in way of doing that, but have never had to find a workaround until now. I thought of creating a simple HTML/JavaScript popup with a set of checkboxes, and getting that to output a comma-separated value for putting in a placeholder. That would be ideal, except it needs RQL or something to then write that value back to the page. Are there any bright ideas out there for getting me over this hurdle? Thanks very much! Simon Lewis. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: No multi-value placeholder in RedDot... what are the alternatives?
Sorry I did not realize that your goal is to have a few checkboxes not multi-select, but the methods mentioned are all valid. On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Henry Lu, Sun Certified Java Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon-- There are three ways to get by, 1)Leverage the RedDot Categories/Keywords built-in feature. Multiple Keywords can be assigned to a page instance. Though one at a time it is still an easy implementation for you the developer and the editors. 2)Build each category of your category list as an option list. Use the category value as the option list name and populate it as yes or no. Place them in a group and designate the first option list as parent and all others as child elements. 3)Use simple html select and specify multi and when the button is clicked, concatenate all the selected options and insert it into a standard text field. The 3rd option involves an RQL write which has to happen outside the page instance. So they script has to live somewhere else and be called asynchronously. When the write is done, you force a re-load of the page and the selected value will be shown. The trouble with the 3rd is that it is laborious for the developer. Every time the page loads, you also need to parse the standard text field value, parse them apart and populate them accordingly in the multi-select so that the user knows what has been selected. Henry Lu On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Simon Lewis, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a template where I need users to be able to say This page falls into the following categories: and then select any number of those categories. I'm aware there's no built-in way of doing that, but have never had to find a workaround until now. I thought of creating a simple HTML/JavaScript popup with a set of checkboxes, and getting that to output a comma-separated value for putting in a placeholder. That would be ideal, except it needs RQL or something to then write that value back to the page. Are there any bright ideas out there for getting me over this hurdle? Thanks very much! Simon Lewis. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: File Upload from a form:
Wouldn't you just need an image or media element placeholder on your template? On Nov 19, 4:49 pm, mave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can I upload a file to the Reddot CMS via a webform? If yes can you please let me know how to do that? Thanks, Mave. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
RE: RedDot gripes
Just to jump on the thought-train. While Reddot may have issues, so does every other CMS out there. We've used a number of the major players over the last few years and none are perfect, it just depends on what you are looking for in a system. What may be a major issue to one person isn't important to another. I've seen comments about the bug/support system from Reddot. Believe me, there are far worse out there. One of the leading CMS vendors, who shall remain unnamed, couldn't even get their training course material to be bug free... you were unable to complete the course exercises as they were missing some of the necessary components on the installation CDs. You can only imagine what state their support system was like ;) Question for Frederic... are there any plans for an English section to the user forums/wiki? Paul -Original Message- From: RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of markus giesen Sent: Wed, November 19,2008 20:45 To: RedDot CMS Users Subject: Re: RedDot gripes I work with RedDot since 2001/2002. And it definetly was state of the art at this time. I can agree that there are a lot of open source CMS out there, like TYPO3 which back in the days was not that good but since now made some great efforts. But still I'm ore than sure, that RedDot has it's place in the enterprise cms world. The bugs and how they manage them is definetly something to discuss, but I think another blog which only figures out the negative sites or maybe negative ones is the wrong platform. Better publish some articles in a forum, I think even the google group is not the final solution for reddot related information. On 19 Nov., 20:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to publicise some bugs, design flaws, and usability issues relating to RedDot, for those who might be evaluating it. I'm trying to foster debate about what kinds of features a modern day CMS needs and how they might be implemented. I'm trying to gauge public opinion - to what extent am I on my own here, and how much do others share my thoughts? I'm trying to let off some steam. On Nov 19, 7:15 pm, Adam Boyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you've really answered Morgan's first question. You're interested in the comments, but what are you trying to achieve with your blog? What purpose do you hope the comments generated by your blog will serve? Adam On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM, sayno more [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I'm interested in the comments, as evidenced - I think - by my responses to them. I'd like responses to my blog posts which are not how do I do this type questions, which would obviously not be appropriate in a blog format, by critical evaluations of a piece of software, and its design. 2. I'll be interested to see how many of the gripes have been, or will be, addressed. As you point out, some of these gripes are genuine flaws of the software as it stands right now, and will be useful information for those who are considering adopting RedDot for their website. 3. This sounds quite positive, so we'll all wait and see what the outcome is. 4. I've done just that with a dedicated follow-up post. Thanks. 2008/11/18 theHam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED], 1. to clarify what you are trying to achieve with these blog posts, are you attempting to get some assistance and/or information with the issues you are describing? I think from the amount of people that have contributed to this post already that it should be demonstrated that there are people here looking to help you if you want it. Or from the sounds of your comment I cannot see how I could possibly get a positive outcome from this software, given the flaws that, IMO, are pretty fundamental have you made a decision and will not be interested in the comments from people here? If you could let everyone be aware of your position i think it will help the more passionate people here and hopefully stop this becoming an unproductive flame war (as these things types of threads tend to become) 2. I would love it if the RedDot engineers took some notice of these comments. RedDot have taken notice of these comments. The next version of reddot coming out will be addressing your gripe #1 as the text editor is being replaced. Gripe #2 is being addressed (i believe around may next year) with a cms frontend rewrite based on usability fundamentals. Yes these have not been released yet and do not address your issues right now but based on my previous comment other gripes like the ones you have been mentioned have in the past been progressively acknowledged and addressed - there is hope. 3. You asked earlier whether reddot would charge for upgrades, I'm unaware of what region you are from but from ours if you are up to date with your software support and maintenance
Running asp code
Ok, this is my problem... i can run anythign under hte son for asp except... anythign doign wihta request. I was told that we would need to setup our liveserver to send the asp code to iis and then back. I am just unclear on how to get that setting into liveserver... I wanted to know if anyone has done this and how can i go about doing this. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
List Order
When users add pages through a list element they are entered in, in the opposite direction of the nav manager. So when I call a nav area I created through the list the order is upside down. How can I fix this? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
isActive isCurrent
Hi, I've spent an insane amount of time trying to get isActive and isCurrent to work on my site -- and it just doesn't. I followed the instructions in the RedDot Community article and had to make a few modifications for my particular situation. Basically, the nav I'm looking to get is this: Item 1 (not active) Item 1 subnav 1 (not active) Item 1 subnav 2 (not active) Item 2 (ACTIVE) Item 2 subnav 1 (not active) Item 2 subnav 2 (ACTIVE) This is in my foundation template: !IoRangePreExecute !IoRangeList % If isCurrent(%list_LeftNav%) Then % div class=leftnav_element_selected A href=%anc_Main%Current: b %hdl_Headline%/b/A%con_leftnav_selected% /div % ElseIf isActive(%list_LeftNav%) Then % div class=leftnav_element_selected A href=%anc_Main%Active: b %hdl_Headline%/b/A%con_leftnav_selected% /div % Else % div class=leftnav_element A href=%anc_Main%None: %hdl_Headline%/ A%con_leftnav_nonselected% /div % end if % !/IoRangeList !/IoRangePreExecute The templates for con_leftnav_selected and con_leftnav_nonselected are exactly the same for now, but eventually I want to also have preexecute script in there to determine which item I'm currently on. I'm really stumped with this. I can't believe I'm the first person to need nested isActive isCurrent functionality... and for now I an't even get the main level to display correctly. Kristy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: File Upload from a form:
No, I can't use the ASP.NET as this is not running on IIS but a unix box. I think webservice and reference dynament may help. But I am not sure how to use them. Anybody ever used it? Thanks, Mave On Nov 20, 7:14 am, camdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't you just need an image or media element placeholder on your template? On Nov 19, 4:49 pm, mave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Can I upload a file to the Reddot CMS via a webform? If yes can you please let me know how to do that? Thanks, Mave.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: isActive isCurrent
Couple of questions: Where did you put your actual isActive isCurrent asp functions? Also, where is your code to create the breadcrumb string used by the two functions? You are using anc_Main for your href, but lst_LeftNav as the controlling list - what is anc_Main? Wayne. On Nov 20, 9:41 am, Kristy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've spent an insane amount of time trying to get isActive and isCurrent to work on my site -- and it just doesn't. I followed the instructions in the RedDot Community article and had to make a few modifications for my particular situation. Basically, the nav I'm looking to get is this: Item 1 (not active) Item 1 subnav 1 (not active) Item 1 subnav 2 (not active) Item 2 (ACTIVE) Item 2 subnav 1 (not active) Item 2 subnav 2 (ACTIVE) This is in my foundation template: !IoRangePreExecute !IoRangeList % If isCurrent(%list_LeftNav%) Then % div class=leftnav_element_selected A href=%anc_Main%Current: b %hdl_Headline%/b/A%con_leftnav_selected% /div % ElseIf isActive(%list_LeftNav%) Then % div class=leftnav_element_selected A href=%anc_Main%Active: b %hdl_Headline%/b/A%con_leftnav_selected% /div % Else % div class=leftnav_element A href=%anc_Main%None: %hdl_Headline%/ A%con_leftnav_nonselected% /div % end if % !/IoRangeList !/IoRangePreExecute The templates for con_leftnav_selected and con_leftnav_nonselected are exactly the same for now, but eventually I want to also have preexecute script in there to determine which item I'm currently on. I'm really stumped with this. I can't believe I'm the first person to need nested isActive isCurrent functionality... and for now I an't even get the main level to display correctly. Kristy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: List Order
Hmm, I don't know if there's a fix for this at all: RedDot always attaches new items in lists and containers at the top while Navigation Manager always sorts it top down. The only way to fix this would be the use of RQL. But there's no page created event, where you can attach your RQL script to. So I think this would be quite tricky. We hat this issue quite often but no solution sofar. So I really would appreciate any hint on that matter. ;) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups RedDot CMS Users group. To post to this group, send email to RedDot-CMS-Users@googlegroups.com 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
