topic Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed? in Alfresco Archive

To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:10:37 GMT

Hi,I need to manage the static contents(30 pages) of an existing website.That means i need to create 30 webforms with 30 xsd files?so that it will deliver 30 xml files and in jsp i need to grab the details for display?pls clarify..Thanks,Guhan N

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

kvc — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:40:45 GMT

Guhan:

No, not exactlly.

Your web forms should be for distinct content types and page types. If you have a dynamic site, you may only have one content type (an article) and two page types (a home page and a section page). In this case, you'd have just tjhree output templates (either XSL or Freemarker) to generate you home, section, and details pages (the details pages generated from you distinct content items). The pages you generate would be JSP pages, so that your headers, footers, and navbars can be dynamically sourced or generated, and so that your home and section pages can dynamic generate links to your details pages.

You can also generate the entire site statically, and use standard SSIs for common headers, footers, and navbars. You can also have three additional forms and three additional templates associated with those forms so that end-users (and not developers) can change headers, footers, and navbars via Forms as they need. And although the site is static, since they are standard includes, they would immediately update all relevant pages.

Even the largest of sites typically don't have 30 web forms. Rule of thumb is if you are building more than 10 web forms for a site, think hard about how individual page variations can be captured in a single form that is more representative of a general model.

Let me know if that helps.

Kevin

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:52:43 GMT

Thanks for this…

But when im doing a bulk import of war file…im getting error like this….pls help.

Please correct the errors below then click OK.
A system error happened during the operation: No row with the given identifier exists: [org.alfresco.repo.avm.AVMNodeImpl#831]

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

kvc — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 10:52:42 GMT

Hmmm … are you running 2.0.0 Community, 2.0.1 Enterprise, or 2.1.0 Community? What platform (OS, DB, App Server)?

Kevin

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:23:18 GMT

im using alfresco-community-tomcat-2.0.0.

OS : windows 2000
db: default one provided by alfresco(hypersonic)

sample war files provided by wcm works….
but i have created a new war file with some sample files….

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:30:34 GMT

Another question kevin….

in the xsl defined i have used the below statement
<xsl:comment>#include virtual="/assets/header.html"</xsl:comment>

while generating new html page….. the header.html content is not getting included in that page…

Thanks…

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

arielb — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:04:26 GMT

you need to enable sever side includes in the virutalization server instance for this to work.

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:53:43 GMT

It's getting included now…………….

after adding the web.xml file.

Thanks.

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

kvc — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:45:32 GMT

Guhann:

I would strongly recommend two things:

* Upgrading to 2.1 Community RC1, or our forthcoming RC2 (later this week)

* Using another database other than the default Hypersonic (like MySQL)

2.1 includes more than just new features; it has all the stabilization enhancements from our Enterprise maintenance release, 2.0.1E.

Hypersonic is really just for poking around the system with a sample set of files. If you're bulk loading your own body of content and planning on doing substantial, it's strongly encouraged you use a more robust backing DB.

Kevin

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:48:46 GMT

Hi Kevin,

Based on ur suggestion, i installed community 2.1 version, but the basic functionality of tinyMCEeditor to create tables/to view the html source code are not available as default………………and also not configurable…..as in 2.0.

In this situation i can't able to use this 2.1 version………..as many of the users would like to create table/ to modify the html tag…..i can't proceed with this 2.1V.

Thanks,
Guhan N

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

kvc — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:02:07 GMT

We're looking into for our updated Community build, RC2, due end of this week. Will keep you posted.

Kevin

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:46:23 GMT

Hi kevin,

Seems like this advance tools(table,viewsource) is not included in alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0 final version also.
(to be frank without that we can't work anything).

Its already not available in alfresco-community-tomcat-2.1.0R1 , i thought this will be fixed in final version, but its not.

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

kvc — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:57:06 GMT

Guhann:

We added support for greater TinyMCE configurability, including support for tables, in our 2.1 Enterprise BETA 2 (currently available for subscribing customers).

Additionally, since BETA 2, we've opened up support for any TinyMCE plug-in you should wish to use and enable you to selectively define different instances of TinyMCE using different plug-ins for different elements within a web form. All are configured via web-cllient-config-wcm.xml. This new support will be made available mid-week as 2.1 Enterprise BETA 3 and is currently available for checkout from the v2.1.0 branch.

Hope that helps. These changes will also migrated their way into an updated Community release after ship of 2.1.0 Enterprise.

Kevin

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

guhann — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:20:56 GMT

After two months of time, still the updated community version(with additional support to text editor) is not released!!.

Text editor plays an important role in content management, but the editor which you have provided is not that much sophisticated/user friendly to use with, generally the width and height needs to be altered so that it can display long sentence, it should be available as a default one.

Re: To create static web pages - webforms/xsd needed?

jagruti — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:45:51 GMT

Your web forms should be for distinct content types and page types. If you have a dynamic site, you may only have one content type (an article) and two page types (a home page and a section page). In this case, you'd have just tjhree output templates (either XSL or Freemarker) to generate you home, section, and details pages (the details pages generated from you distinct content items). The pages you generate would be JSP pages, so that your headers, footers, and navbars can be dynamically sourced or generated, and so that your home and section pages can dynamic generate links to your details pages.

You can also generate the entire site statically, and use standard SSIs for common headers, footers, and navbars. You can also have three additional forms and three additional templates associated with those forms so that end-users (and not developers) can change headers, footers, and navbars via Forms as they need. And although the site is static, since they are standard includes, they would immediately update all relevant pages.

Even the largest of sites typically don't have 30 web forms. Rule of thumb is if you are building more than 10 web forms for a site, think hard about how individual page variations can be captured in a single form that is more representative of a general model.
for this reply can u help more how to do it step by step
Thanks
Jagruti