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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hello
Andre,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I hope
I can give some answers to your questions:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>1)
When creating a project, you can define two user groups, those who can work in
the project and those who can publish it. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>An
editor who creates or modifies content must be in the first group, he cannot
publish the changes. Only the users in the second group are allowed to publish
it, therfore you can use a workflow as you described. Note: if you are useing
the "admin" user, you are always allowed ot do everything in the
system.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2)
This is where Content Definitions and add-on modules are used. You have to
create a Content Definition (see the OpenCms doku for that) do define the
content and write a backoffice class / template that is plugged into the
adminstration view.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>3) No,
at least not "out of the box" The scheduler can start a own class at a given
time. It should be possible to write your own class which publishes a project
when called, so a mechanism as you described should be possible.
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>4) If
you want to use different serverers, you should use the import/export feature of
OpenCms to exchange data between them. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>5)
This is not possible (yet), but the internal structure of OpenCms is already
prepared for it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>6)
Link-Checking should be in the next release (if nothing goes
wrong).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=212124111-29052002> <FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Michael Emmerich</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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href="mailto:michael.emmerich@framfab.de">michael.emmerich@framfab.de</A></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=212124111-29052002> </SPAN>I have some more
high-level questions and hope, somebody can answer them.</FONT> <SPAN
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<P><FONT size=2>1. The workflow concept seems not very well defined to me. In
general, what I want, is that each page is going to a workflow, that editors
enter the content and once the page is finished, other people having another
role, can check the pages and reject or publish it. SO it is NOT always the
same person editing AND publishing one page. Is this workflow concept
supported with OpenCms? How? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>2. How can I support "strutured" content in OpenCms? I do not
want to use the WYSIWYG editor but instead let the author create pages with
some small text entry fields, possibly some drop down boxes to choose from a
predefined set of values? The advantage would be to enforce a very strict
layout. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>3. Can the scheduler be used to automatically publish and
remove pages to/from the live site? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>4. If I want to use a three-server based architecture
(production, stage and live server), how can I configure OpenCms to work this
way?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>5. Is it possible, to do an "Undo" once you have published
your complete site (to rollback to the previous version)?</FONT> </P>
<P><FONT size=2>6. Does OpenCms have an integrated link checker? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>It would be great, if somebody can help me out here.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>André</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>--</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Andre
Fuechsel, Senior Consultant & Software Architect</FONT> <BR><FONT
size=2>SchlumbergerSema, XML Network / Competence Center Content
Management</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2>Kaltenbornweg 3, 50679 Koeln, Germany
</FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Phone/Fax: +49 221 8299 -228 /
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