[opencms-dev] Problems with Multiple Projects

[Vishal Shah]

michael,

Ok, Now I understand how opencms deals with the directory structure. So I
went ahead and cleaned up everything and recreated the database and
re-initialized the database.

1) now I created a new project with the root directory as the included
directory. But when I went to the explorer view of that project, it was
making all the directories under /content as faded, disallowing me to add
anything to the templates directory.

what did I do wrong here ?

Thanks,

Vishal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Emmerich" <emmerich at german-navy.de>
To: <opencms-dev at www.opencms.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Problems with Multiple Projects


> Hello Vishal!
>
> > I was having some problems with creating multiple projects on OpenCMS:
> >
> > 1) how do I create a project with an entirely new directory ? I tried
doing
> > that with the new button under new project wizard, but it gives me
error. So
> > I have to select only an existing directory.
>
> You cannot create a new directory BEFORE you have a project at all. So
> you should create a project including the location where you want to
> have the new folder (if its a folder in the root directory, you must add
> the root folder to your project).
> Once the project is created, you can add a new folder in this project,
> when you publish the project, the folder (and its contents) will be
> transferred into the online project.
>
> > 2) when I select the root directory for more than one project, how will
the
> > templates directory work, because it then locks up all my files and I
cannot
> > edit them. Because according to the template mechanism guide, when you
> > create a new project it automatically creates the templates folder in
the
> > root directory, probably that is why it is locking up all the files in
that
> > directory.
>
> Hmm, this sounds strange to me.
> Normally you should be able to select a folder (and of course the root
> folder as well) in several different projects, and they should not have
> side effects to each other (at least this did not happen to me so far).
>
> For each project, a new copy of the /content/templates/ folder is
> created in the project, independend from the ones that might be existing
> in other projects. Locking and unlocking files there should not lock or
> unlock files in other projects.
>
> When creating a new project, no file should be locked in it initially.
> There are only threescenarios when this can happen:
>
> -Something went wrong publishing an ealrier project, but this should
> have resulted with an error message then.
> -Did you have set up your browser NOT to cache the pages? The Ie most be
> set up to look for new pages for each request.
> -You might have changed the projects in the pjeject selecto of the
> workplace too fast - if the explorer is not loaded completly there is a
> chance that it might get confused when switching the projects.
>
> Michael
>
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