[opencms-dev] folders/files starting with dot in 9.0.1 ?

[Alexander Kandzior]

Christoph,

 

the dot was chosen because in the sort order of the traditional workplace,
folders starting with a dot will usually be on top. 

 

And since the dot folders are "system folders" - they required in order for
the system to work properly - it seemed natural to use the "." like Unix
does. 

 

Kind Regards,

Alex.

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[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Kukulies
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 12:22 PM
To: The OpenCms mailing list
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] folders/files starting with dot in 9.0.1 ?

 

Hi Tobias,

thanks for doing the work of looking the respective files up for me in the
documentattion.
Now I have the meaning what the files/folders do, but my original question
was,
why it was chosen to let them start with a ".".

Is there some special mechanism behind this, having a file/folder start with
a dot in the VFS?


Am 22.08.2014 um 11:13 schrieb Tobias Karrer:

Hi Christoph,

at the best have a look at the documentation together with the demo
templates or the developer demo.

.config is for configurations (see page 19, 45, 79ff)
.content is where the xml content is stored using ADE ("sitemap content
folder", see page 45, 79ff)
.new holds the page model (see page 19, 45)
.detailContainers is used for specific containers on detail pages (see page
66+67)

.categories is the category repository in your site, if you don't want to or
can't use /system/categories/
.galleries may be your parent folder for image-/downloadgalleries (see page
29ff), but could be any other folder of according type

(pagenumbers of OpenCms 9.0.1 Documentation)

Best,
Tobias

 

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