[opencms-dev] "New" icon greyed out??

stuart.powers at gmail.com stuart.powers at gmail.com
Fri Mar 24 18:49:03 CET 2006


Well, I "solved the problem" by selecting the Offline project instead of any
of the projects I had created myself.  My new question is why was this only
possible while in the Offline project and not in the "stu-test" project?

-Stu

On 3/24/06, King, Dennis <DKing at netopia.com> wrote:
>
> As I understand it, projects are quite useful for _content_ developers.
> You can create a new project, which is essentially another Offline
> project, and work on a lot of files in a separate sandbox, independent
> of other Offline project changes you might want to publish on a
> different schedule. You can then publish your entire new project at
> once, with the option to delete it at that time, rolling the content
> into the offline project. Essentially you are branching and merging.
>
> What comes out of the box seems like it should be sufficient.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Robert Petermeier
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:51 AM
> To: The OpenCms mailing list
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] "New" icon greyed out??
>
> stuart.powers at gmail.com schrieb:
> > I am now trying to create a new folder (or new <anything> for that
> > matter) but the "New" icon is greyed out.  I've tried
> > locking/unlocking the project (perhaps incorrectly?) but no matter
> > what I do I cannot seem to un-grey the "New" icon.  I have also
> > created an even newer project, and the icon in that view is also
> greyed out.
>
> Stuart, with OpenCms you don't actually create projects. At least to my
> understanding, projects merely serve the purpose of separating the
> contents that have been released to the public (the "online" project)
> from the ones that are still being edited (the "offline" project). What
> you actually use to package content and/or functionality are modules. It
> is possible to create more projects than the two default ones, but I
> honestly don't know why.
>
> The terminology employed by OpenCms here is certainly misleading, as it
> differs from that of common IDEs.
>
>
> Bye,
> Robert
>
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