Hi Wolfgang,
Wolfgang Jeltsch schrieb:
Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2008 15:17 schrieb Andreas Hartmann:
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Wolfgang Jeltsch schrieb:
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Where’s the source tree if I created my publication using the web
interface? Is there any at all?
no, there is no source tree. The "Create publication" web interface is
not intended for development, rather to create new publication instances
in a production environment.
So what do I “develop” then? I thought, I develop a publication. Do I
develop a “publication template” or whatever which can be instantiated
several times?
Yes, this is a typical application scenario. The publication templating
feature is targeted for large organisations like universities. They
provide a template which is instanciated for all their departements.
I have to say that it’s really difficult to get all this information because
the Lenya documentation is really lacking at this point. You have some
tutorials with step-by-step instructions, some isolated descriptions of
concepts and some in-depth descriptions of very specialized things but you
don’t have any documentation which gives you an introduction to the whole
picture and the relationships between the different things. This makes it
really hard to start using Lenya and it might frighten off many potential
users. If I wouldn’t have been impressed by the pro-standards and
pro-flexibility approach of Lenya that much, I’d probably have switched to
some other CMS and in fact, I almost had used OpenCms instead of Lenya.
Yes, unfortunately our documentation is by far not sufficient given the
complexity of the product. Any help is greatly appreciated, if you're
interested in providing documentation, don't hesitate to ask for an
editor account.
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What about the documents of my publication? Will they be lost during
redeployment?
I'd recommend not having any content in the source tree to avoid the
risk of overriding productive documents.
Why does Lenya mix content and “source” by default then?
This is for historical reasons. In earlier versions, it was not possible
to keep the content outside the application directory. Nobody took the
time to change the default content location yet.
(I think, you meant “build”, not “source” by the way.)
No, I meant "source". But the same applies to the build tree (see below).
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So I want to build a simple website first. Basically, I want a publication
similar to the default publication but with less features (e.g., resource
types). Later I’ll probably want more advanced things and therefore use
additional features. How should I start?
I'd start with this tutorial:
http://lenya.apache.org/docs/2_0_x/tutorials/newpublication/index.html
Some details might be outdated, if something doesn't work don't hesitate
to complain.
HTH,
-- Andreas
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Andreas Hartmann, CTO
BeCompany GmbH
http://www.becompany.ch
Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01
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