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Sometimes pages in a CMS project do not publish because the "page is not linked".In order for a page to publish, it must be linked to a list or an anchor somewhere in the structure.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.
Dec
11
2009

WebCMS Usability at the End of 2009, Year 1 »

In 2008 we started using the CMS with 1 small site published. During 2009 we published 17 additional sites, varying in size. 2009 can be considered VCU's first real year using a university supported CMS.I am freshly back from An Event Apart in San Francisco, where the hot topic is UX (User Experience). The conference had me wondering, how usable is our . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Dec
10
2009

The CMS is not a Wiki, so how do users collaborate? »

Okay I know the CMS is not a wiki! But at a university the big word on campus is "collaboration". So if you can't change the people, you have to give them a work around.We are not talking about this:Student worker creates page > Supervisor Approves > Page is PublishedThat can be solved with a simple content workflow. What we are talking about here . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Nov
5
2009

STF Child Element Of »

This little tidbit actually came as a suggestion from a colleague using OpenText at PennState University [http://www.psu.edu]. Quick preface note, when requesting that an editor enter a URL for a link, keep in mind that you do NOT have to use an anchor element for this. Standard Text Fields can be formatted to accept different values, including dates, e . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.
Nov
4
2009

Changing Standard HTM extension »

By default, OpenText publishes all pages as foo.htm. Changing the extension from htm to html is a quick simple process.Of course, you can change the extension by appending the file name on the property panel of each page:Though this is NOT best practice, as it requires redundancy, and only changes the extension at the page level instead of the global se . . .
Posted by tlfrance in the WebCMS blog.

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