WSF installation trouble

[alf_beg]

Hi,

I have several questions please :


1) I need some help concerning WSF installation please. I used the wiki (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/WSF) to install it.
Everything goes well until the step 5 which is :

Create a navigation content item using web form, navigation, and name it as NavigationTree and put it under "/content/navigation". Again, you can just create a dummy one and update it with NavigationTree.xml under extra folder. If you want to use different name, you then need to adjust the navigation setting in SC.xml.

While creating the content, I name it correctly (NavigationTree) but for the "value" (I suppose that the value field is the output path  "/content/site-configuration") I don't understand what to select. Do i just need to enter "/content/site-configuration" ? Because if I do that, I don't manage to replace the NavigationTree.xml created by the one given in the wsf-1.5-website-war folder.
So what i did is  delete the NavigationTree.xml using the user sandbox and replace it by the one in  wsf-1.5-website-war  but I suppose that I need to Regenerate the renditions  (data dicionnary –> web forms –> navigation–> More actions–> regenerate renditions) in order to update NavigationTree-menu.html and NavigationTree-sitemap.xml. But it says : 0 renditions have been regenerated in web project demosite.

another thing : 2 days ago, i had an error whil regenerating the renditions :

javax.faces.FacesException: Could not retrieve value of component with path : {Component-Path : [Class: javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot,ViewId: /jsp/wizard/container.jsp][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlForm,Id: wizard][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlOutputText,Id: _idJsp18]}caused by:org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Could not retrieve value of component with path : {Component-Path : [Class: javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot,ViewId: /jsp/wizard/container.jsp][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlForm,Id: wizard][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlOutputText,Id: _idJsp18]}caused by:javax.faces.FacesException: Could not retrieve value of component with path : {Component-Path : [Class: javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot,ViewId: /jsp/wizard/container.jsp][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlForm,Id: wizard][Class: javax.faces.component.html.HtmlOutputText,Id: _idJsp18]}caused by:javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Cannot get value for expression '#{WizardManager.stepDescription}'caused by:javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Exception getting value of property stepDescription of base of type : org.alfresco.web.bean.wizard.WizardManagercaused by:javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Bean: org.alfresco.web.bean.wizard.WizardManager, property: stepDescriptioncaused by:java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetExceptioncaused by:java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: unknown format type at…‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

but thiis error doesn't occur anymore. Don't know why.

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2) i can't find the path where the web application is stored. My web project name is" demosite", and i don't see any demosite folder in the webapp … except in the virtual server.
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3) Is there a way to store the data from the web form in the mysql database istead of in an XML file ?
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4) After installing the WSF, is there a detailed tutorial which explain how it works and how to customize it to develop our own web site ?


Thank you for your help.

[sdavis]

I'd suggest getting started with http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/New_Web_Content_Management_Plan#Getting_Started, and in particular the Product Eval Guide listed there.