Dec
5
2011

WebCMS v10 to get memory upgrade »

Tuesday morning, 12/06/2011 at 5:30am, the CMS will be down for a RAM upgrade to enhance system speed. The system is expected to be back up at 6am.

Changes can be viewed through TS Change Management System:
http://www.pubapps.vcu.edu/changes/plannedChange.aspx?processFlag=1&dID=11926

User Description: CMSE10 & CMSP10- Add RAM – It has been determined that CMSE10 & CMSP10 need additional RAM to eliminate performance issues from hard disk paging.  The VMs will be briefly shut down to be reconfigured.  This outage will affect production OpenText WebCMS functions.  This has been coordinated between VCUTS UCC staff and VCUTS Web Services staff.

Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Nov
28
2011

Reddots in render tags v10 »

In v10 red dots embedded in render tags no longer show. This is because of the way red dots are rendered in 10. I found this article but it didn't work on my webconfig. Then I found another article on the OT KC that broke out the values into ASCII. Put the code in the same place mentioned in the above article, only format it as follows: <Repla . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Nov
9
2011

V10 Upgrade Sildes »

OpenText_v10 Slides from 11/9/2011 presentation . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Aug
8
2011

TS CMS New Feature: Hide Suggested Reading »

The Technology Services website wireframe was set up in the following manner:Home > Knowledge Base > Knowledge Base Topics > Articles and Article Indexes about the TopicThe page views are recorded so that the Knowledge Base Topic page can return a list the most popular Articles and Article Indexes at bottom of each Topic page.Additionally, the . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Jul
20
2010

WUG Meeting Overview »

At the July 14th WUG meeting, Jim Yucha briefly described VCU's CMS. Here is a quick recap:OpenText (formerly RedDot) is VCU's officially supported CMS.The CMS currently has 28 sites in production, up from 15 sites in November 2009.As of July 10, 2010, the CMS has 244 user accounts.We are currently testing version 10 and hope to have this rolled out by . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Apr
12
2010

Unlinked Pages »

Sometimes pages in a CMS project do not publish because the "page is not linked".In order for a page to publish, it must be linked to a list or an anchor somewhere in the structure. (There are exceptions to this rule, though none of the current projects at VCU fall in this realm).Disconnect/Reconnect PageWhen you receive this error, the first thing you . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Apr
9
2010

Preventing duplicate publication »

In OpenText CMS, when a page is linked via keywords, the system duplicates the page and publishes twice (if in different directories) instead of making a path to the original.To prevent this happening, this code tricks the page into thinking the page is referenced instead of copied. Therefore it keeps the correct path:<reddot:cms>  <foreac . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Apr
6
2010

Reference Link/Page Plugins »

For Developers:When developing a template, you can preset an element's content for all new pages by selecting an instance of that element that is already populated on an existing page. Double click the instance to put in the clipboard. In the content class template, expand until you find the element, and choose "Reference Element in Clipboard". The prob . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Jan
20
2010

Be Notified »

To be notified of updates and outages to the CMS server, join the Web CMS Change Management mailing list: http://www.vcu.edu/cgi-bin/listsub?cm-webcms-l  Note: Use the same link above to unsubscribe from the list. Read more about VCU TS Mailing Lists/ListSERVs. . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Jan
4
2010

Hello 2010, CMS Agenda for 1st Quarter »

Back from break, and I am missing my afternoon naps. Over the winter break, the CMS experienced periodic outages. The system was reset this morning and appears to be working fine.Here is what is coming up for 2010:The Computer Center, Server guys in Web Services, and I are working on bringing up a new box for the CMS. This new server is faster and large . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.

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