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Posted to user@ofbiz.apache.org by Hans Bakker <ma...@antwebsystems.com> on 2009/01/10 15:12:52 UTC
Re: How to use the OFBiz CMS?
Yes Tim, you are right, if you are using screenswidgets it is not
working, i needed it however and fixed it in rev: revision 733275.
regards,
Hans
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 10:53 -0600, Tim Ruppert wrote:
> Yeah - the CMS rendering on the backend is not working as far as I
> know - so I stopped using that a while back. I've got a site based on
> it though, but it's not exactly simple to describe how it's setup. I
> believe that there is an example in the demo stuff which is how mine
> got built.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
> --
> Tim Ruppert
> HotWax Media
> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
>
> o:801.649.6594
> f:801.649.6595
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Bruno Busco wrote:
>
> > Tim,
> > many thanks for your help.
> > The way you indicate is exactly how I am doing it right now. But, I
> > guess,
> > this is not the CMS way of doing it.
> > I mean, what I was looking for, is the steps to have an HTML page
> > loaded in
> > the DB from the content application UI and served at the url
> > /ecommerce/control/cms/xxxxx
> >
> > Many thanks anyway
> > -Bruno
> >
> > 2008/6/22 Tim Ruppert <ti...@hotwaxmedia.com>:
> >
> >> I just:
> >>
> >> 1. Make a screen using the ecomm decorator with a name like "aboutus"
> >> 2. Then I have a small piece of HTML in an FTL file that gets
> >> rendered like
> >> this:
> >>
> >> <screen name="aboutus">
> >> <section>
> >> <actions>
> >> <set field="leftbarScreenName" value="leftbar"/>
> >> <set field="MainColumnStyle" value="center"/>
> >> <set field="title-property" value="PageTitleMain"/>
> >> <set field="headerItem" value="aboutus"/>
> >> </actions>
> >> <widgets>
> >> <decorator-screen name="main-decorator"
> >> location="${parameters.mainDecoratorLocation}">
> >> <decorator-section name="body">
> >> <platform-specific>
> >> <html><html-template
> >> location="component://project/webapp/project/snippets/aboutus.ftl"/
> >> ></html>
> >> </platform-specific>
> >> </decorator-section>
> >> </decorator-screen>
> >> </widgets>
> >> </section>
> >> </screen>
> >>
> >> Pretty simple. This will do something static - but mostly I drive
> >> them
> >> from the db.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Tim
> >> --
> >> Tim Ruppert
> >> HotWax Media
> >> http://www.hotwaxmedia.com
> >>
> >> o:801.649.6594
> >> f:801.649.6595
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 22, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Bruno Busco wrote:
> >>
> >> Since I only needed few pages I would have been more than happy to
> >> use the
> >>> OFBiz embedded CMS.
> >>>
> >>> But I cannot make a single page appear anywhere...:-(
> >>> ...and no help, not a single how-to...
> >>> ...has anybody ever used the OFBiz CMS out there?
> >>>
> >>> Does anybody have a list of steps to have a simple static HTML
> >>> rendered
> >>> with
> >>> the same ecommerce style?
> >>>
> >>> Many thanks for any help,
> >>> -Bruno
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 2008/6/16 Adrian Crum <ad...@hlmksw.com>:
> >>>
> >>> Using Drupal or some other CMS with OFBiz is common.
> >>>>
> >>>> We use Drupal for our public facing site, but it is not connected
> >>>> to
> >>>> OFBiz.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Adrian
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Bruno Busco wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Another option that I am considering is to use Drupal as CMS and
> >>>> link it
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> the OFBIz ecommerce. I have already used Drupal and OFBiz is
> >>>>> already
> >>>>> running
> >>>>> behind Apache with PHP and MySQL.
> >>>>> So it should be quite simple to go on this solution but I would
> >>>>> prefer
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> use all functionality offered by OFBiz.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
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