[opencms-dev] What's Channel

[Alex Epshteyn]

Thanks, Alex.

And as I mentioned in another post, if you need help with reviewing and
editing docs - I would be happy to help.

-Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Kandzior [mailto:alex at opencms.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:59 PM
To: opencms-dev at www.opencms.org
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] What's Channel


Hi Alex,

regarding your questions and guesses about channels...

> 1) There is any documentation about channels?

Unfortunatly not much so far.

> 2) No one on this list is using channels?

I would be suprised if many do. A pity. We do, I know one other company
that does.

> 3) guess - Channels are intended for content categorization as a 
> general purpose alternative (to be used with cms_module_master ??) to 
> channel mechanism used by News module?
> 4) guess- Channels are intended for defining multiple "deploy 
> targets", like different publications, etc.

Correct. It's like you create channels as a folder structure. Then you
have your content item (let's say a news item) and you have channels
that are intenend for the news items. You have output templates where
you say "display this news channel at that page", perhaps by attaching a
property to a page. When you write a news item, you select in which
channels it should appear, and multiple ones can be selected. And then
the news item appears on all the pages. Stuff like that.

> 5) Someone used channel successfully and would like to share their 
> experience?

Sure, it all will be in the magic upcoming documentation, at last we
will give you what we use so far. Nothing will be held back. But I know
this is beginning to sound lame as I keep promising without delivering
much (beside that releases). I am sorry but please give us just some
more weeks time.

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com