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Hey. I found the solution (changing the menu settings in the menu.ini) Yay! :)

23 Jul 2008 2:10pm GMT

>- (in the path) Should I rename tr / td / th to be more editor friendly, if so, what about: table row / table cell / table heading ? or simply: row / cell / heading ? > >- In the same spirit, what about: ol / ul / li ? ordered list / unordered list / list item ? By all means: Yes! :) I'd prefer if you used "table row" etc since that's more easy for novice users to understand. I can't see that it would clutter or slow down expert users in any way either.

23 Jul 2008 2:07pm GMT

Hi guys Please can someone help me? I have created a new content class, pretty much the same as the frontpage class, but with some extra attributes. The class works, but the page using it is not visible within the content structure tree within the admin section, and it's not showing up on the main menu of the web site, which I need. Have I missed something? Should I have some settings somewhere to do this? Many thanks in advance, Matt

23 Jul 2008 2:01pm GMT

What do you mean by private? You need vpn to access it, apache password, or is eZ Publish setup to require login by user? In last case, you can use a setting in site.ini called PolicyOmitList: [RoleSettings] PolicyOmitList[]=rss

23 Jul 2008 1:29pm GMT

Ok, maybe it's time to define what 'Still does not work' means,what is this extension supposed to do and what does not work? The thing you just did, should at least make it appear when you go to /ezinfo/about page with info on the extension, does it?

23 Jul 2008 1:22pm GMT

when viewing the article contianing the image file I have noticed that the name of the file has spaces within it. ie 'first last.jpg' The file itself is called 'first-last.jpg' I assume this is significant as i can re-upload an image and it displays correctly. Which SQL tabel contains the filenames?

23 Jul 2008 12:55pm GMT

Hello, I am never use WebService, and I don't know how make.......... Can I have some explication on it? Thanks in advanced,

23 Jul 2008 12:44pm GMT

I added 'addcollabruleInfo' => 'extension/addcollabrule/ezinfo.php', (the extension I'd like to use) in autoload/ezc_extension.php And in site.ini, ActiveExtensions well contains addcollabrule. But the extension still does not work. Which other files should I edit ? Thank you.

23 Jul 2008 12:17pm GMT

Hi Piotrek thanks for your reply. I am very curious what kind of policy you use for defining your contexts, then. I understand the semantic approach - I think it's a good idea - but in practice, it got very messy over time, simply because I couldn't decide/explain what semantic contexts actually exist. Could you give some real live examples from your end ? >With your approach (template paths as contexts), I expect lots of unnecessary (expensive) >redundancy as well as problems if application changes its structure etc, which is actually >very likely to happen to any app. The redundancy is less then I expected, and actually not a big deal. It is obviously exactly as much as you have code redundancy, which should not be much. If the application changes structure, yes, I have to rebuild the dicts ... if its simply moving a file, search and replace should do. >Also, the context name may reflect some meaningful information >that may not be part of the path. Also not that often. In fact, the location of the template / php already *is* pretty semantic, if you use a good layout and naming scheme for your files. *-pike

23 Jul 2008 11:49am GMT

Hi Piotrek What you wrote is really true, I think I have made a mistake. By the way, I will see that site, ezpedia. Thanks for the reply.

23 Jul 2008 11:47am GMT

OK you're right, extension//design/standard/templates/content/datatype/view/ezxmltags/**.tpl is the good one. Thanks :)

23 Jul 2008 11:42am GMT

Hi, The VAR folder and it's subfolders are all set to 777 to remove any permissions issues. I can see similar to the following in the debug output:- The reference alias original file var/plain_site/storage/images/galleries/volutidae/amoria-maculata-caroli/2804-1-eng-GB/Amoria-maculata-caroli.jpg does not exist But this file does exist at the location specified. Should it have public_html at teh beginning of the URL?

23 Jul 2008 11:22am GMT

Hello, we have a RSS link present on a private page. When I open this link with Firefox, I see the RSS as I'm connected to my site. But when I try to use this RSS link on a computer that is not connected, I can't have my RSS. Also,I can't have my RSS on a Netvibes page. Is there a way to make it possible? I have problem to know wich ez-publish version we are using as it is a version developped by a external company. Thanks,

23 Jul 2008 10:40am GMT

We're in the middle of discussion on how to deal with issues right now. It's great that you share your experiences - so big thanks! I'll try to share some more thoughts when I have time, but right now only one thing: after long confusion of what policy to use for contexts, i finally decided to simply use the path of the template or php file in which the word appears. so the above example would be inside /design/mysite/test.tpl. this does not make much sense to the translators, but all the words will still be chucked together nicely, and translators will recognize the clusters from the front end. there may be a bit of duplication, but since most of your duplicate code will end up in include files anyway, not much. And as a big plus, whenever I see the word foo in the dictionary, I know where to find it in the templates or php, and vice versa, quickly and efficiently ! I'm not sure I like this approach. Yes, it is tempting to make things easier, but... Seems to me that the idea behind context is a bit different (although I may be wrong). I stick to more semantic side of context, so for example if I have an extension with lots of validation messages, I group them under one context. If there's a module that does something specific, it deserves its own context, etc. With your approach (template paths as contexts), I expect lots of unnecessary (expensive) redundancy as well as problems if application changes its structure etc, which is actually very likely to happen to any app. Also, the context name may reflect some meaningful information that may not be part of the path. One more thing: we've divided extension development process into two separate, subsequent phases: Developers use UTF-8 in the templates and skip translation layer, using Polish language directly. This saves a lot of time, lots of translation mistakes, frees developers to concentrate on functionalities rather than communication/languages, which they don't have to be good at. We don't put translation layer (i18n/ezi18n) until the ext. is finished or almost finished. That also means planning for contexts can be done at that stage, which results in better context organization, and this can be done by different people!

23 Jul 2008 9:05am GMT

Thanks a lot for this fix but how can we do if we don't have access to a shell ? Only ssh/ftp access. Could you detail the steps to follow to fix this issue without update via svn ? Modifying a template file or something like that for example...

23 Jul 2008 8:00am GMT

Hi pike, Thank you for your howto. Problem with the link for doc: http://ez.no/ezpublish/documentation/configuration/configuration/language_and_charset/creating_a_new_translation

23 Jul 2008 7:44am GMT

Here are two simple php scripts which can help you to preserve owner_id, creator_id, "modified" and "published" values after migrating content (for example forum posts) with import/export package functionality between two eZ publish installations. Synchronization is based on remote_id values.

16 Jul 2008 5:12pm GMT

eZ Flow was first introduced last December together with eZ Publish 4. Since that time, there has been a lot of development activity at eZ, but our announcements have focused on eZ Publish. Here is a look at some of the new features planned for the next version of eZ Flow.

You will be able to test some of the features listed below with the first eZ Publish 4.1alpha release. The details of additional features not mentioned here will be announced when the eZ Flow roadmap and release dates are set.

15 Jul 2008 5:56pm GMT

The July issue of SHARE! Magazine is dedicated to sum up the Open Nordic & eZ Conference, and some of the most important stories published in week 25.

11 Jul 2008 11:32am GMT

EMI Music is the biggest independent record label in the world. EMI Music represents 1,000 artists from all musical genres in 50 countries. One of its focuses is to develop and promote digital services via the Web, mobile channels, and TV throughout the world, providing fans with a rich, complete musical experience.

25 Jun 2008 10:52am GMT

The permission system controls access to your site's content and functionality. It includes a set of user accounts and access permissions. Here, we focus on the relevant concepts and how to manage the permission system in the Administration Interface. This article is the second in a mini-series based on concepts presented in the new book eZ Publish Advanced Content Management. It includes an example at the end that builds upon what was discussed in the first article in this series in order to create a protected area on a site.

24 Jun 2008 10:47pm GMT

Sections group virtual collections of nodes. On their own, sections are nothing more than identification numbers. However, they can be used by eZ Publish in several different, powerful ways. The purpose of this article is to explain the section concept, identify the related features and show how sections are used and managed. This article is based on concepts presented in the new book eZ Publish Advanced Content Management, and is the first of a two-part series about sections, users, roles, and policies.

23 Jun 2008 9:35pm GMT

This extension integrates a popular OverLib JavaScript library with eZ Publish. Beside providing a simple template operator for automated generation of OverLib instances, it introduces a fallback configuration architecture for even easier and flexible use. It is possible to use pre-configurable presets, ad-hoc configurated calls as well as any combination of the two approaches.

23 Jun 2008 1:02pm GMT

More than 400 participants from 35 countries were on hand to share CMS experiences on the 6th annual eZ Conference / Open Nordic in Skien, Norway. The lineup of thought-provoking presentations started off with the CEO of eZ, Aleksander Farstad, who shared his views on the content management market and the power of open source.

23 Jun 2008 9:10am GMT

The development team is happy to announce the release of the sixth major version of eZ Components: version 2008.1. Starting from this version, eZ Components requires PHP 5.2.1.

20 Jun 2008 9:10am GMT

eZ Awards 2008 started of at 20:10 on the night of thursday 19th. All in all, 12 winners were celebrated for their contribution to the eZ Ecosystem and the overall Open Source community. Among the 12 were 3 awards handed out by the Open Nordic organization.

20 Jun 2008 8:55am GMT

view a matrix of all products with their prices, translations and visibility status.

19 Jun 2008 5:15pm GMT

We are happy to announce the release candidates of eZ Publish 4.0.1 and 3.10.1. These releases carry fixes for about 250 (!) different issues.

The cycle for these releases has been longer than normal because of a family of bugs related to multilingual URL aliases in eZ Publish 3.10 and beyond. There are a few known issues remaining with URL aliases though, which will be tackled with the final release.

12 Jun 2008 7:58pm GMT

eZ Awards is one of the highlights of eZ Conference and recognize key contributors to the eZ Ecosystem and the Open Source community over the past year.

12 Jun 2008 11:18am GMT

The extension replaces external links in an eZ publish page with a shorter, indirect URL of the form http://www.mysite.com/url/12345 and makes it possible to count the clicks on each link.

10 Jun 2008 2:34pm GMT

eZ is proud to announce the third book from the eZ Press: eZ Publish Advanced Content Management. This book is compatible with eZ Publish 4.0. It was written to address the needs of content managers and webmasters, providing a comprehensive advanced guide to managing content with eZ Publish. It builds upon concepts from the eZ Publish Content Management Basics book. Both books were written by Bergfrid Marie Skaara, who used her experience with eZ Publish training and project development to produce this highly practical set.

09 Jun 2008 5:34am GMT

We have had a small chat with Paul Borgermans, head of eZ Labs to see what he expects from the eZ Publish Developer Day + eZ Conference.

06 Jun 2008 5:50am GMT

This extension allow you to vote for an object and to count each time an object is seen (hits)

05 Jun 2008 12:23pm GMT

eZ Newsletter Mail Management extension

30 May 2008 2:21pm GMT

The Mercanet extension allows to integrate the eZ publish e-shop with Mercanet method of payment .

30 May 2008 2:16pm GMT

The Fianet extension allow to integrate the eZ publish e-shop with Fianet method .

30 May 2008 2:11pm GMT

The Ogone extension allows to integrate the eZ publish e-shop with Ogone method of payement .

30 May 2008 1:50pm GMT

Payment gateway for Cybermut

30 May 2008 12:46pm GMT

This extension allows a developer to write templates to create, draft, edit, hide, move and delete nodes and versions without using /content/action and /content/edit calls. It allows/requires you to write your own, customized, edit forms that use a well documented and easy to understand interface. It's not intended as a replacement for the admin, but rather as a simplified framework to build custom edit interfaces for the public user or intermediate parties (editors). Please note * This is not the default way to create forms in an ezPublish site. Documentation on the default way of doing this is in the book, page 149-152. I can't find it online. * This is in Beta. Things will change. Help is appreciated.

26 May 2008 5:42pm GMT

Children indexer allows to return parent nodes when searching for a term occurring in their (helper) child nodes. For example, by using this extension it is possible to return an article or a forum thread when searching for a term occurring in a related article comment or a forum post.

23 May 2008 3:52pm GMT

The Swark extension implements many operators and a couple of workflow events needed very often, yet missing in eZ Publish.

20 May 2008 11:15am GMT

Company : http://www.novactive.com Author : Sébastien Morel - s.morel@novactive.com French description : http://www.novactive.fr/ezpublish_eznewsafp.htm This extension is designed to easily insert one or several "AFP(Agence France-Presse) News Blocks". (Those News are develivered by AFP in XML : NewsML. http://www.afp.com/francais/home/ In addition to displaying the index of the differents News, it displays also the full content of a news in the website context($module_result.content). The index block is loaded using Ajax so the cache eZpublish is bypassed to display the last news in real-time.

16 May 2008 2:52pm GMT

In an eZ Publish site structure, there are often nodes that hold information shown as a part of the full view of a different, master node. Showing the full view of the former nodes themselves or getting them as search results is usually unwanted. This is common in forums and articles with comments. If you have worked on a large eZ Publish project, you have probably used such nodes without referring to them by a specific name. This article explains what we call "helper nodes" and also explores the template and content model issues involved, relating specifically to search results.

14 May 2008 9:17pm GMT

Content in eZ Publish is stored in attributes of content objects. A datatype describes the type of value that can be stored in an attribute and is the smallest possible entity of storage. It determines how a specific type of information should be validated, stored and retrieved. eZ Publish comes with a set of datatypes for, among other things, plain text, formatted text, images, email addresses and dates. This article explains how to create additional datatypes in eZ Publish 4, and explores how to take advantage of some of the new eZ Publish 4 features.

13 May 2008 4:16pm GMT

The Swark extension implements many operators and a couple of workflow events needed very often, yet missing in eZ Publish.

07 May 2008 8:13am GMT

This extended_attribute_filter allow excluding content object with node_id.

28 Apr 2008 1:36pm GMT

The eZ content model serves as the framework for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce sites, extranets, and more. This article explains the structure of the eZ content model, as well as what makes it extensible and flexible enough to enable the creation of the most demanding and wide-ranging applications.

07 Apr 2008 9:08pm GMT

Using Varnish HTTP acceleration with eZ publish About Varnish: Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6/7 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and takes full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems. Written from scratch by developers with experience from writing operating system kernels, and taking full advantage of the advanced I/O, threading and virtual memory facilities offered by modern operating systems, its performance exceeds that of its competitors by an order of magnitude. More about Varnish: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ Using the Varnish reverse proxy in combination with eZ publish requires a modification of the current Session and cookie handling within eZ when the user is able to login on the site. Having a hook within the eZ cache system to clear the Varnish cache for a specific URL would be an enhancement. This project should include: - Rewritten, enhaced eZ session / cookie handling - Purging mechanism within eZ publish - General guideline / documentation how to implement Varnish within an eZ publish enviroment. - Sample varnish .vcl files for: single installation, multiple instances - Installation documentation - Performance test

18 Mar 2008 11:48am GMT

OpenID has gathered an impressive mass of support (Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Verisign, etc.) and seems to be destined for a breakthrough. Some LAMP-platforms (Drupal, Joomla) already provide support. We need to get on that train. I know eZ Components has some support, but as an out-of-the-box solution it'd be ideal.

04 Mar 2008 7:52pm GMT

We need some more built-in web2.0 functionality like "Private Messaging". Suggested functionality: - users should be able to send messages to other users. - a user should be able to view, edit and delete his messages - a user should be able to reply to a message - a user should be able to get notified via email if he has received a new message Feel free to add some missing features!

03 Mar 2008 10:08am GMT

eZ Find is a great improvement over the standard search engine in eZ Publish, but it's missing the possibility to do fuzzy and wildcard searches. Suggested improvements: Wildcard: w?rd - matches: word, ward, ... car* - matches : car, carisma, ... te*t - matches : test, tenuit, ... Fuzzy: sestem - matches: system, systems, ... The total workload for this improvement is estimated to 10 work days.

29 Feb 2008 4:20pm GMT

Develop a customization for ez 4.0 for operation with Oracle 10G.

09 Jan 2008 2:13pm GMT

Hi! Please see the following post at the forum: http://ez.no/developer/forum/setup_design/javascript_inside_ezpublish_script I think some kind of solution should be implemented somehow...

14 Dec 2007 4:02am GMT

The management of translated content in eZ Publish could be optimized to provide better collaboration between authors, editors and translators which would both ease the management and administration and in return reduce translation cost of maintaining a multilingual website. See the requirement specification for details.

22 Nov 2007 12:54pm GMT

We're accessibility certified specialist in Lyon (France) and most of our leads and/or customers need to improve the accessibility level of their internet site. To help them to increase this accessibility level, particulary in the public sector in France, we need to use a CMS with a full features of accessibility (front and back office). We intend to participate in a community project that could be financed by EZ Systems, to study and adapt the EZ Publish CMS to answer to these new constraints (WAI AAA for exemple in a large ministry in France is mandatory), European Labels are also to be considered (Accessiweb, EuraCert,...)

23 Oct 2007 3:47pm GMT

PROJECT NAME: Shopping List - Sharing PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Enable the online shopper to share his shopping cart with others. Enables the owner of a web shop to send offers on a package of products to his customers. BENEFITS: Get the possibility to share the shopping cart in your web shop. This feature will give you greate benefits: - Enable the online shopper to share his shopping cart with others (useful if he wants comments from colleagues, family or friends before he makes the purchasing decision) - Enable the owner of a web shop to send offers on a package of products (Shopping List) to his customers. PROJECT INFORMATION: When an online shopper presses Views Cart, he normally will see all he has put in to his cart, the total amount and also there is a place he can click on "Buy". With this new feature he will get a new place he can click: "Send Shopping List". Upon pressing this button, a new window will open up. He will there see for instance the following. Headline: "Forward your Shopping List to a friend" Text: All fields marked with * are mandatory. Text: "*Receivers e-mail " Text: "*Your e-mail " Text: "Regards " Text: Message for the receiver Box with editable text: "Hi, here is a Shopping Cart I've created at . I think you will find it interesting. " Button: "Send Cart" Text: "Tip: Do you want to send to multiple receivers, use comma to separate the e-mail addresses." Text: "Please be aware that the e-mail addresses will not be stored. They will only be used for this message. WHAT ABOUT DISCOUNTS AND LOG IN? When someone opens this link, he will see the Shopping Cart without any customer specific discounts. The customer must log in to see his customer specific discounts. When he presses "Buy" or tries to edit the cart, he will be asked to log in.

01 Oct 2007 2:21pm GMT

More than two years ago, in the User Group for education in Scandinavia (eZUG edu), we discussed the possibility of doing a joint project to get an eZ Calendar, as time handling so greatly affects many other important aspects of publishing. A lot of approaches were discussed. Integrations, different standards, synchronization and much more. Also on the funding side we in fact managed to jointly raise appx USD 100.000 at one point, but the project still failed. I've attached a drafted specification put together for a case discussed with MySQL, who also at some point wanted this functionality. The idea is to share the story with you. At some point I suspect this WILL become a project, but we currently have no specific ideas as to how. The current calendar in eZ Publish is, I think, but a minor step in making this as it ought to be. Please feel free to browse through the document and to comment on how we might proceed to make this real.

22 Aug 2007 9:02am GMT

The eZ survey extension, http://projects.ez.no/ezsurvey, is widely used, simply because people need such functionality on their sites. It has some bugs now, some are described in comments at the page for v.1.1: http://ez.no/community/contribs/applications/ez_survey__1 eZ survey should be a certified and supported extension, for both new eZp 3.x-versions and the coming eZp 4 versions. Maybe it should be included in standard eZ publish distribution. New functionality and improvements needed should be discussed here, then a specification should be written. A wish from me for functionality would be more detailed access-control of the different views and operations. One example: survey -> remove -> owner(self) to be able to let users administrating their own survey, and not deleting other's.

20 Aug 2007 7:47am GMT

We`re in need for a system/extention that lets users registrer sales/points using ez publish. And also shows the results in a highscore. What we need is basicly ez`s own system for partner activities. I`ve heard with Vidar Top about it, but that "extention" is not stable/complete enough to be released. http://ez.no/partner/reportpoints http://ez.no/partner/view/full Hopefully somebody else also needs this!

13 Aug 2007 1:57pm GMT

Felix Woldt of JAC Systeme has published a highly useful tutorial on extension development. http://ez.no/community/contribs/documentation/jac_tutorial_ger_de_ez_publish_extension_entwicklung Unfortunately this paper is available only in German (or Polish, due to a publication in eZ Special), but it would be highly valuable for all eZ developers. The tutorial has 36 pages that need to be translated from German into English.

02 Aug 2007 1:56pm GMT

Have you ever wished that the email notifications sent from eZ Publish gave you more insight into the context or content of the change which you have been alerted? Our customer's first question is always, 'What changed?'. With a very large number of content objects (articles) in their website and a large number of content editors working around the clock from all around the world the customer's site content administrators only have a limited amount of time to spend monitoring and reacting to notification emails. Currently in order to view these differences each time they receive an email notification they must login each time into eZ Publish to view the full diff of the content object's versions. Customers often have a strong desire to see at a glance what's changed within the notification email, instead and/or without going to the site to see what's changed using the existing content diff functionality. We envision that users monitoring published content object modifications using the notification system will be able to receive an email notification as part of the moderation workflow containing an overview of changes between different versions (plain text diff output) of a content object in eZ publish. Provided that older versions of a content object exists, two versions will be selected and analyzed. The differences between the versions will then be presented within the existing email notifications sent to the user. This addition would greatly enhance the relevance and usefulness of email notifications sent from eZ Publish.

29 Jul 2007 11:28am GMT

How content is organized and structured in eZ sites is critical for the users ability to select and retrive the requested content. In informastion design there is a 20/80 rule. 20 persent of the content in a site is frequently requested for 80 persent of the users. The rest of the content 80 persent is there for special requests only. This has to make concequences for how the content is structured. The main purpose of this project is to find some common denominator that can be applied in all sites. For the higher education in Norway the eZ user group in Norway will try to find common denominator for this kind of sites.

18 Jul 2007 4:10pm GMT

As media archive is a critical component to managning multimedia elements so is the overall publishing frontend interface. There are already some good ideas out there implemented at educational sites. Others initiatives are on the way. Once again I would like to point out the core issue here. Content managment is critical for making reliable og credible sites and if the publisher is not happy publishing content it will reflect the sites ability to deliver reliable og credible content. And it will have impact on the visiting users ability to get the requested content. The main purpose of this project is to collect existing frontends and proposed ideas and put it all together and as the media archive let a panel of publishers reviews it. After some interation its ready for release.

18 Jul 2007 3:56pm GMT