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  • rdb: Editing draft pages by other users in SmartEdit

    RedDot CMS Blog 27.03.2020 EN 2009 , SmartEdit , SmartTree , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Editing draft pages by other users in SmartEdit Your colleague i

    Your colleague is on holiday and forgot to release a press release you urgently need? You have to work on a text with multiple authors which shouldn’t get released or published by accident?

    27.03.2020

  • rdb: jRQL plug-ins V1.1 out with automatic setup routine

    RedDot CMS Blog 20.03.2020 EN 2010 , jRQL , Plug-Ins , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: jRQL plug-ins V1.1 out with automatic setup routine Since my rush anno

    After the initial installation you need to start an wizard to import the installed plug-ins into MS. At one step within this wizard you can choose which plug-ins you want to import and in which projects you want to enable them. Beside the setup routine...

    20.03.2020

  • rdb: RedDot and Usability: How to make your RedDot CMS projects easier to use for authors

    RedDot CMS Blog 13.03.2020 EN 2011 , SmartEdit , SmartTree , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: RedDot and Usability: How to make your RedDot CMS projects easier to use for authors

    Regardless of which CMS application you use to manage a site or how well you optimise it from a performance perspective, the project will be deemed a failure by end users authors if they are unable create and edit content quickly and easily...

    13.03.2020

  • rdb: That Parent/Child relationship explained

    RedDot CMS Blog 06.03.2020 EN 2009 , Projekt , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: That Parent/Child relationship explained In other words… we’re finally going to

    The most important part of any project is the careful planning of everything, not just the design of the final site. You need to be comfortable in the knowledge that what you build now will be easy to maintain, update and expand.

    06.03.2020

  • rdb: Quick Tip: Workaround for rendertag: Context:CurrentDepth

    RedDot CMS Blog 28.02.2020 EN 2008 , Navigation Manager , RenderTags , Tipps und Tricks , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Quick Tip: Workaround for rendertag: Context:CurrentDepth

    In the current versions, the render tag <%!! Context:CurrentDepth !!%> is not working properly, in some versions it isn’t even recognized as a render tag in the templates.

    28.02.2020

  • rdb: Skipping levels in the navigation

    RedDot CMS Blog 21.02.2020 EN 2009 , Navigation Manager , RenderTags , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Skipping levels in the navigation I’ve been working on

    There may come a time in your life when there are certain pages in a site’s structure that you really don’t need, or want, the site’s users to go to in order to streamline the site a little. A good example could be a Press archive that is broken down...

    21.02.2020

  • rdb: OpenText Web Solutions Management Server Developer shortcut

    RedDot CMS Blog 14.02.2020 EN 2009 , Development , SmartTree , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: OpenText Web Solutions Management Server Developer shortcut An

    Anyway, many of you will already know this but since I just found out, that this is still possible (and often very helpful within a developing or project/error analysing process I just thought it helps.

    14.02.2020

  • rdb: The One True Container – RedDot CMS Tutorial – Part III

    RedDot CMS Blog 07.02.2020 EN 2009 , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: The One True Container – RedDot CMS Tutorial – Part III The Return of the King – Include C

    What is the solution? Taking the process that led us from “copy and paste” to “header and footer” to its logical conclusion – “one include container” to contain all common code. How do we do that? One step at a time. If you are starting out on a new...

    07.02.2020

  • rdb: The One True Container – RedDot CMS Tutorial – Part II

    RedDot CMS Blog 31.01.2020 EN 2009 , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: The One True Container – RedDot CMS Tutorial – Part II The Two Towers – Header and Footer

    What I have tended to see “in the wild” (and how my first project went) was what I call “header and footer” base templates. Basically the process is the same as for “copy and paste” above, with the following exception – common pieces of HTML code are ...

    31.01.2020

  • rdb: The One True Container – RedDot CMS Tutorial – Part I

    RedDot CMS Blog 24.01.2020 EN 2009 , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: The One True Container – RedDot CMS Tutorial – Part I One Container to rule them all, On

    Ok, first up – a warning and some history. This is a long post that I have been working on, off and on, since the end of last year. Don´t be scared, most of the time and the bulk of the post is in the examples – which I have only recently had access to...

    24.01.2020

  • rdb: RedDot LiveServer SSL switch

    RedDot CMS Blog 03.01.2020 EN 2009 , SSL , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Delivery Server , Englisch rdb: RedDot LiveServer SSL switch That has already been posted inside the comme

    That has already been posted inside the comment of an older project but I thought this would be useful as an own post because it shows very good how to create a switch for SSL within the Open Text Websolutions Delivery Server 9.

    03.01.2020

  • rdb: Workflow Email Bug – Workaround

    RedDot CMS Blog 27.12.2019 EN 2009 , Troubleshooting , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Vorschläge , Web Site Management Server , Workflow , Englisch rdb: Workflow Email Bug – Workaround Some time bac

    Some time back I was working on a RedDot project for a Local Government based in Melbourne, Australia where we were required to create 52 (crazy I know!) separate workflows to manage content within the site – each one corresponding to a specific...

    27.12.2019

  • rdb: Date decoding/encoding

    RedDot CMS Blog 20.12.2019 EN 2009 , .NET Framework , ASP , ASP.NET , RQL , Tipps und Tricks , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Date decoding/encoding Take

    In CMS, date information is always given as a floating point number or as an integer. A floating point number includes that date and time, whereas the integer only contains the date. Here is how you convert a number into a date.

    20.12.2019

  • rdb: Import and export for different RedDot CMS versions

    RedDot CMS Blog 13.12.2019 EN 2009 , Projekt , Tipps und Tricks , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Import and export for different RedDot CMS versions Wheneve

    Whenever you have to export a project from a newer minor version Open Text Management Server to an older one you will get - The error email.

    13.12.2019

  • rdb: Performance Tuning Parameters for Navigation Manager

    RedDot CMS Blog 06.12.2019 EN 2009 , Einstellungen , Navigation Manager , Optimierung , RenderTags , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Performance Tuning Parameters for Navigation

    In CMS 7.5 Service Pack 2 a number of new cache tuning parameters were introduced into the Navigation Manager services. These are primarily controlled by settings in a few of the configuration files. I am going to talk briefly about what they do.

    06.12.2019

  • rdb: Debugging PreExecute ASP – Reloaded

    RedDot CMS Blog 21.11.2019 EN 2009 , ASP , PreExecute , RDExecute , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Debugging PreExecute ASP – Reloaded Gavin Cope already c

    Gavin Cope already came up this year with his great article on how to debug classic ASP script which runs in OpenText Management Servers PreExecute Mode. Keith Bloom picked up the idea and improved it a fair bit so that you now are able to see the Error..

    21.11.2019

  • rdb: Debugging Pre-Executed (classic) ASP

    RedDot CMS Blog 15.11.2019 EN 2009 , ASP , PreExecute , RDExecute , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Debugging Pre-Executed (classic) ASP The Problem I’m

    I’m sure that pretty much every Web Solutions Management Server developer would have come up against some pre-executed ASP in their templates that has failed. The ensuing frustration at having no built-in method of debugging or even just...

    15.11.2019

  • rdb: Getting a Page Preview from outside the CMS

    RedDot CMS Blog 08.11.2019 EN 2009 , ASP , RQL , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: Getting a Page Preview from outside the CMS This blog post is inspired by “S

    Some background first I think. There are 2 ways to log in to CMS – normal and integrated. An integrated login means that your Windows user account is passed silently by your browser to the CMS server and you don’t need to type in a username or password.

    08.11.2019

  • rdb: Accessing the Windows Integrated login system from RQL

    RedDot CMS Blog 01.11.2019 EN 2009 , LDAP , RQL , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , WebService , Englisch rdb: Accessing the Windows Integrated login system from RQL As you

    As you may well know you can configure your CMS to utilise Windows Integrated login. This SSO process will take the login credentials supplied by your browser and use them to automatically log you into the CMS. Works out of the box in IE when you’re...

    01.11.2019

  • rdb: ASPX PostBacks in CMS

    RedDot CMS Blog 25.10.2019 EN 2010 , .NET Framework , ASP , ASP.NET , Tipps und Tricks , Unofficial RedDot CMS blog , Web Site Management Server , Englisch rdb: ASPX PostBacks in CMS We mostly do

    We mostly do ASPX .net web sites in Open Text Management Server, and it has always bothered me that the pages don’t operate properly inside the CMS, so the other day I decided to figure out what the problems were and try to make it work...

    25.10.2019

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