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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
Over the last 2 weeks, I've been researching openCMS 7.0.5 for my
corporate site. It looks promising, though of course I still have much
to learn.<br>
<br>
I'm currently looking at link management. The CRE stuff looks great
(using the link macros) but I'm having a hard time understanding how I
can use this in my environment.<br>
<br>
My site has a fairly similar structure to templatetwo - navigation on
the left, bread crumbs at the top, info boxes on the right, and main
content in the middle.<br>
<br>
The content must be simple as possible to edit - we'll be using direct
edit and such to keep users away from the workspace whenever possible.
They will be editing fields in xml content forms. They must be able to
create arbitrary links to both internal and external resources from
within content, and I would like to be able to manage their internal
links so that they would be automatically updated when their targets
are moved.<br>
<br>
With OpenCmsHtml fields within structured content, they can create
their own links using the WYSIWIG editor - it's quite nice, really.
However, I have two problems here. First, the html fields process
neither jsp tags nor %(link) directives, so I can't seem to get the CRE
to manage those links. Second, even if I could such things, it would
require leaving the WYSIWYG and typing in link macros, which would
terrify a large part of my user base.<br>
<br>
It looks like templatetwo does not address this issue - in the overview
section of index.html, the links to sausage pages are bare <a>
tags, with no %(link) stuff involved. Indeed, if I try to delete a
resource that is referenced a page in the templatetwo demo site, I am
told, in bright green letters, that no links will be broken.<br>
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If the links were separate OpenCmsVfsFile elements, I'd have the
template insert them inside a %(link) macro. With links embedded in
HTML elements, I'm stuck. The presentation slides from <a
href="http://www.opencms.org/en/events/opencms_days_2008/program/sessions/t2.html">Secrets
of using the OpenCms CRE</a> mention xml content several times, leading
me to believe there's something I'm missing, but there's not enough
detail in the slides alone for me to figure it out. Does anyone know
of another way to do this? <br>
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Thanks,<br>
Brian Williammee<br>
Smartbrief, Inc.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.smartbrief.com">www.smartbrief.com</a><br>
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