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Important ShadoCMS Variables

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When working with templates, ShadoCMS makes available a whole bunch of variables. These variables can be used in templates for accomplishing tasks like conditional processing.

Here is a list of some important variables.

Overview

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By default, ShadoCMS sites are set up and coded to use the name of the site in all URLs. This works very well as a default option as it requires almost no webserver and code changes. But there are times when you want to make the URLs in your site mor...

Regular Expression for Finding Unqualified Component Names

{ts '2008-11-18 07:07:56'}

Using fully-qualified component names is always a good idea. It reduces the risk of incorrectly using a wrong component in case there are multiple components with the same name on a ColdFusion server. Also, when using ShadoCMS, it makes the code more...

Working with Page Variables/Properties

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Page variables (known as page properties in an earlier life) are very useful in setting up variables that can be inspected by templates at runtime. The inspected values can be then used to change the logic on a template. This allows developers to res...

Email Users When They are Added to a Site

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When users are added to a ShadoCMS site, by default they are not notified that they have been added. However, if you need to notify users by email that they have been added to a ShadoCMS site, you can easily create an event handler that does this. He...

Adding Print and PDF functionality

{ts '2008-11-10 05:10:43'}

Often it is very useful to add functionality to a site that allows a user to print a whole section to screen (which can then be printed to a printer) or to a PDF.

It is fairly straight-forward to create this in ShadoCMS. Here is how.

Automate Lucene Search Store Indexing

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Here is a script that can be added to ColdFusion scheduled tasks to automate indexing of a few or all Lucene search stores.

ShadoCMS Search and Java Version

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The ShadoCMS search uses a few Java libraries to index and retrieve content -- in site tree, digital assets and SOF objects. These Java libraries are dependent on the version of Java that is being used on the ColdFusion server. You need to have Java ...

Hungarian Notation for ShadoCMS Sites

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Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of a variable indicates its type or intended use.

Test-driven Development with ShadoCMS

{ts '2008-09-18 00:41:06'}

Writing tests as you develop code for a ShadoCMS site is the best way to ensure that the code you write works as expected. We recently added information in the documentation section that shows how to setup a test-driven development system using the M...

Shado 8.5 New Release - Member Manager

{ts '2008-09-16 15:17:20'}

Straker releases the new member manager module as the first in a series of module enhancements and new functionality additions over the coming months.

ShadoCMS 8.5 Released

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ShadoCMS v8.5 has been released further solidifying Shado as a leader in the Multilanguage and Rich Internet Application market.

System Requirements for Installing ShadoCMS 8

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Using Decimals in ZoomFlex Properties

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Custom object queries in ZoomFlex

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Question: What is the best way to retrieve objects based on obj_uuid

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Lowercase Returned Results in a Delegate

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Debugging ZoomFlex Applications

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When you are developing and extending applications with ZoomFlex, you would need to use debugging to see the results of your changes to the code. As ZoomFlex applications have two components to it -- client-side Flex application, and server-side Cold...

Automatically creating folders in Digital Assets based on Site Tree

{ts '2008-03-12 20:11:14'}

There are times when you want to automatically create a folder in Digital Assets (FMS) manager for each newly added section/page in the site tree. Some implementations of ShadoCMS adopt this as an organizing principle for their digital assets. Implem...

Date Formatting in Flex Datagrid

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