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Sunday 04 May 2003 7:46:02 am
I'm sorry but eZpublish is just not ready for the masses.
It's clearly the killer app a lot of people have been waiting for, but it is one of the most difficult to configure I've ever seen. This, clearly, is a developer's application. In addtion, the documention is virtually impossible for the layman to follow. There's a sciene to writing instructional materials and this science appears no where in the documentation. Moreover, the ducumentation is all over the place. Even in the manual each paragraph gives you five links to somewhere else. Worst still, the writing has the style of one techi talking to another techi. And then there's the complete jumps from one topic to another you'll find again and again in the documentation. For example, in the section on Templates, it begins stepping you through the process of "creating an override template" you begin making the file and folder needed. You get that done, then all of a sudden the manual is talking about 'section function' 'fetch statements' ... 'parents' , 'children' etc. This is to say, discussion about the template you thought you were building is dropped like a hot potatoe, you're not into discussion about lists. Please see below for the text on this. In short, I've spent a week trying to figure this application out and have gotten no where. I'm making no progress so I'm going to stop. As I see it, one or two things are going to happen. Either someone is going to come along and develop a product just as good as this one with a far more user friendly interface, or the nice people at eZ will bring in a professional technical writer to provide the professional quality documentation this product deserately needs -- either way, my time will be better budgeted if I wait. So, I'll be checking in on a monthly basis to see if things have improved, other than that, I'm out of here. Here's the example of the documentation I cite above: 20:26 03/05/03 ....In this example we will create an override template for the 'full' view mode of the Folder class. To test it, create a file called 'full_class_1.tpl' in the directory 'design/admin/override/templates/node/view'. Login to the admin interface, create a test folder, and fill it with some articles. set [ViewCaching] to 'disabled' per instructions... Created the file, but when I logged into admin, couldn't create a folder. I pressed "new" underneither the
Just a list
This example simply lists out the names of the articles who are children of the folder we are viewing. The fetch statement fetches a list of children whose parent node id equals our node id, and assigns it to the template variable $children. The name of our node is printed as a header, and then we use a loop to print the name of each child. Looping is done with the section function </sdk/eztemplate/view/function_section/>. Note how we assign a namespace for the loop, called 'Child' in this example.
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