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

[Claus Priisholm]

Could it be that you did not map the necessary folders in the project 
you created? You can use the project to "sandbox" a part of the site, 
such that you can only edit the part that actually is a part of the 
currently selected project (I prefer the term "a project maps to 
folders" just to avoid the confusion that include or likewise terms can 
give raise to).

As for projects in general, while you may think of them as branching in 
CVS terms, it is not - you are always working on just one copy of the 
file. So there is no merging with the original (I guess if you want to 
term it for the marketing department you could label it "instant merge" 
since it happens as soon as you make changes :-)

But still, they allow you to "register" the changes inside a certain 
project, and afterwards publish them all in one go (without affecting 
other parts of the site being edited). This is indeed useful if more 
than one person is working on the site (and even if you're the only one 
- in case you have a long running update of say a new part of the site, 
while you still need to maybe fix typos in the existing part of the site).

But the limitation is that there is only one file and which ever project 
  (in case several projects mapping out to the same folders in the VFS) 
is  last used to change a resource (just locking it will do) becomes the 
project to which all changes "belong" and thusly will be published as a 
part of when you publish the project.


stuart.powers at gmail.com wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>     [mailto: 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 <mailto: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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