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

[Joachim Arrasz]

Hi,

--> www.opencms-forum.de


Here you can find lot`s of stuff around opencms and on opencms.al-arenal.de
too

Hope this helps for the first steps ..

Kind Regards

Achim

> 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.
>>
>>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?
>>
>>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?
>>
>>Tried giving the user a "task" but that did nothing, in fact didn't
>>even send the message it was supposed to.
>>
>>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!
>>
>>Ok, brownie points to anyone with ideas.....
>>
>>-Dave Booker
>>Freiburg, Germany (wish it were Tahiti)
>>
>>
>>
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