[opencms-dev] Tutorials - which order? was (Editor access prolem and pea for basic tutorials...)

[jonathan soong]

Hi

I am a new user of OpenCMS too, and am currently evaluating it for 
possible use at the medium-sized organisation i work for.

So far i have tried Typo3 (PHP/Mysql) and Plone (Python/Zope).

So far i have found the documentation of OpenCMS a little confusing, i 
don't know where to start!

I just tried reading through "How-To Template" and whilst i could follow 
it, i could not perform the exercises. I am not sure if
this is because i have misunderstood, or because i should have read a 
'Beginners' tutorial first.

I got to Step 2 and could not do:
"*Exercise:* Create a page that uses this template and edit the content 
of the page in the editor. Have a look at the page preview. Then try to
modify the template's HTML. Perhaps create a new template with a 
different layout."

I don't even know how to create a page!

It would be good if someone could tell me a list of tutorials to do as 
well as which order to do them in...(and put this information on the
website).

As far as my skills go, i have been programming for 3+ years using PHP, 
ASP, Java, Perl, Mysql, XML, etc as well as systems administration.

Kind Regards

Jonathan


David Booker wrote:

>As a new user, I'm baffled by some "gaps": 
>1.DOCUMENTATION: All my quesitons seem naive, because I can't find instructions for many "features" in the OpenCMS pdf-documentation or tutorials or documentation modules or help. Am I missing the "mother lode" of documentation someplace? Is there actually a tutorial someplace that ACTUALLY walks one through all the steps to put a site into OpenCMS, create the navigation (w/o java knowledge), assign projects and permissions and set the static export and adjust the URL, etc.....? The basic and module-based documentation doesn't.
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>2.HELP MODULE: The "context sensitive" help module is NOT. It's just a pared-down version of the basic manual section of the pdf documentation that accompanies the source distribution. Am I missing something? Is there actually a way to turn on a context-sensitive help?
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>3. ACCESS DENIED: Installed OpenCMS 5.0 on Tomcat on Unix. Simple tests of permissions, "right out of the box", defined some sample people's logins/roles....ok.....tried to edit a test document -- no problem for the Administrator, but access denied for Users and Projectmanagers. Permissions on folder and file set properly, roles appear correct.....What else can cause it? They can intermittently lock/unlock, but sometimes get denied. Can permissions be affected by the Unix machine's own permissions on which Tomcat is running? 
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>Tried giving the user a "task" but that did nothing, in fact didn't even send the message it was supposed to.
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>Tried publishing the folder....no change. Tried deleting the folder...not an option. Only deletes in the offline project, but stays on the Online project. Can't get rid of the thing!
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>Ok, brownie points to anyone with ideas.....
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>-Dave Booker
>Freiburg, Germany (wish it were Tahiti)
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