[opencms-dev] TemplateOne questions
Joe McFadden
Joe.McFadden at icr.ac.uk
Wed Jun 8 19:03:42 CEST 2005
Hi Arash,
Thanks again for your help - I've been looking at other projects
the last few days and but now have a couple of days clear
to get to grips with OpenCMS 6.
The multi-site configuration docs and your explanation make sense.
However, I think this is specific to cases where you want different
parts of a site served under different URLs. In my case,
I just want to have something like
intranet.somecompany.com/department1
intranet.somecompany.com/department2
and have each departmental area managed by different staff.
This I think is most simply achieved with separate projects in a single
site.
Correct?
Thanks,
Joe
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>>> arash.kaffamanesh at pomegranate.de 02/06/2005 20:10:44 >>>
Joe,
> If I want to have 2 separate content areas (with different groups of
> editors) for an intranet site,
> with the potential to add further content areas in the future, what
is
the best way to manage this in OpenCMS?
You have to setup a multisite configuration, you can do this easily by
adding a second site node to the opencms-system.xml:
<default-uri>/sites/intranet1/</default-uri><br />
<site server="http://www.sitea.de" uri="/sites/intranet1/>
<alias server="http://cms.intranet1"/>
</site>
<site server="http://www.siteb.de" uri="/sites/intranet2/">
<alias server="http://cms.intranet1"/>
</site>
And create to sites beneath the sites folder, e.g. /sites/intranet1
and
/sites/intranet2, read the Alkacon-Documentaion about Multisite
Configuration!
> Have I understood this correctly? We may want to manage other sites
from the same openCMS in the future, so I assume this > is just a case
of creating separate site modules for each site.
Yes you are on the right way, it is very easy, but you must set the
right permissions for the different goups on the site nodes, which
shall
be allowed to select the right templates from the different modules,
you
shall set the permissions on the jsp templates accordingly! It must be
also possible to have one module with different templates to achive
this! For example if you have two Master-Templates
master_intranet1.jsp
and master_intranet2.jsp, you can allow the group intrante1 to select
the first template and intranet 2 group to select the second master
template, by setting the permissions accordingly, hope I don't say
anything wrong ;-)
> Finally, what is the effect of making a folder of type 'microsite'?
The microsite is a special site type (site template), which allows you
to "quickly" create a site with folders and configuration files, but I
think it uses the templateone resources, but I recommend to create
your
sites manualy, it is only a matter of few minutes :-)
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Arash Kaffamanesh
-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Joe McFadden
Sent: Donnerstag, 2. Juni 2005 17:41
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] TemplateOne questions
Arash,
Thanks for the very helpful reply.
I can see that sites root under the sites dropdown - not sure how I
managed to miss that!
I meant I'd like to keep a copy of the 'out-of-the-box' templateOne
code, in case I needed to go back to it or refer to it. Your
suggestion
of creating a new module for this makes sense and I will try that.
As a follow-on question, I'm still a little unclear on how best to
start
a new project in OpenCMS.
If I want to have 2 separate content areas (with different groups of
editors) for an intranet site,
with the potential to add further content areas in the future, what is
the best way to manage this in OpenCMS?
I've just bought Matt Butchers book on OpenCMS, and from a quick read
I
think I should first create a site module, to contain all the
templates,
css, scripts etc for the Intranet as a whole. I should then set up
projects for the 2 content areas (e.g. 'department1', 'department2'),
and set up permissions and users/groups as required.
Have I understood this correctly? We may want to manage other sites
from
the same openCMS in the future, so I assume this is just a case of
creating separate site modules for each site.
Finally, what is the effect of making a folder of type 'microsite'?
Thanks again for any help and pointers,
Cheers,
Joe
>>> ark-d at betasystems.com 02/06/2005 13:53:12 >>>
Joe,
> 3. In OpenCMS 5 you could see the system folder in the VFS and edit
> templates there.
> I've logged in as Admin, but I can't see the system folder. How
do
> I actually edit the template?
change to the sites root ( / ) from the sites dropdown box, if you
can't
see the sites root as admin, then you have to make a new installtion.
> 2. If I want to set up the test site in a way that some test users
only
> see one folder,
> how do I this? Is this the purpose of the 'microsite' folder?
with permissions you can allow. disallow users to see a folder or not.
How best do I copy the TemplateOne template so I also have an
> unedited copy?
> I found on the list archive other people asking this question,
but
> no answers!
what do you mean with "unedited copy" ?
if you want to clone templateone create a new module and copy all
resources under templateone to your module and modify the manifest.xml
of your module to have the xmlcontent definitions etc.. as
templateone.
HTH,
Best Regards,
Arash Kaffamanesh
opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org wrote on 02.06.2005 12:56:42:
> Hi,
>
> Just started to look at OpenCMS 6 RC 1 and have some queries on the
> TemplateOne module. I want to set up a small test site as a quick
> evaluation using TemplateOne as opposed to creating my own JSP
> template. I want to check what the right way of doing this is:-
>
> 1. How best do I copy the TemplateOne template so I also have an
> unedited copy?
> I found on the list archive other people asking this question,
but
> no answers!
>
> 2. If I want to set up the test site in a way that some test users
only
> see one folder,
> how do I this? Is this the purpose of the 'microsite' folder?
>
> 3. In OpenCMS 5 you could see the system folder in the VFS and edit
> templates there.
> I've logged in as Admin, but I can't see the system folder. How
do
> I actually edit the template?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joe
>
>
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