Technical Consulting

To help our Partners (AxCMS.net Solution Provider) with their first project we offer now to the new partners free technical consulting (up to 2 hours telephone / netviewer session). It boosts the proejct and helps to avoid the typicall pitfalls.

More info: http://www.axcms.net/en_axcms_solution_provider.AxCMS

Installation Service

Do you have difficulties with AxCMS.net Installation? We install AxCMS.net on your PC (remotely)! This service includes:

• Checking and installing necessary pre-requisites
• Installing AxCMS.net with Stadard- or Premium Template Project
• Aquiring and configuring development license for you
• Testing the installation
• Solving possible problems

Custom configurations upon request.

More info: http://www.axcms.net/en_axcms_install_service.AxCMS

You don't have to wait for your AxCMS.net license anymore if you request it online. The license file is generated automatically and sent back to you via email.

More reading about the topic licensing:

• Licensing (in Administrator Guide)
• KB10042: License file is not valid for current configuration
• KB10041: Could not load the license XML

And the best thing about AxCMS.net Licenses is - they are free of charge!

A quote from [2]:

"I’m pleased to announce that we have Released to Web, the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Connector for SharePoint.  The CMIS Connector for SharePoint ships as part of the SharePoint 2010 Administration Toolkit, providing a CMIS interface over the top of SharePoint as well as a CMIS Consumer Web Part that can be used to display content from other CMIS enabled repositories."

With this step SharePoint integration in an AxCMS.net project gets easier. CMIS domain model fits well into AxCMS.net model and WebServices (one of the two CMIS-bindings) are easy to consume from out AxCMS.net.

[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff934619.aspx
[2] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ecm/archive/2010/07/16/announcing-the-release-of-the-cmis-connector-for-sharepoint.aspx

By default tinyMCE (the text editor used in AxCMS.net) uses white background. If your site laout uses inverse color scheme (e.g. white font on black background) it would be not comfortable to see the white font on white background in the editor.

But there is a solution for this. You can configure the background color of tinyMCE (as well as some other options).

They can be defined in the file "/AxCMSweb_[your_project]/TinyMCE/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/content.css".

The line responsible for the background color is this one (default in the version 9.0 and 9.1):

body {background:#FFF;}

Change the color to #000 to make it black (or to any other value of your choice).

You can also add a keyword !important to override any value specified in the custom CSS file if one is used (default in the version 9.2 and above):

body {background:#FFF !important;}

AxCMS.net uses tinyMCE as a text editor. You might have noticed, that it wraps any text you type into the editor into the <p>-element. Usually it is ok, but sometimes you don't want this behaviour. For example, if you add a placeholder between <h1> and </h1> you don't want additional pair of <p>...</p>.

Fortunately you can control this behaviour of tinyMCE with an option "forced_root_block".

Locate the file "\AxCMSweb\EAL.js" and look for "forced_root_block" in it. You will find something like this:

forced_root_block : 'p'

Replace it with:

forced_root_block : false

and no more <p>-blocks will be added automatically around your text.

If you don't find this option in EAL.js, add it to the function InitMCE:

function InitMCE(elemID, validElements, path, labelID, pageID) {
    tinyMCE.init({
        mode: "exact", elements: elemID,
        theme: "advanced",
        relative_urls: "false",
        verify_html: "true",
        valid_elements: validElements,
        plugins: "insertlink,table,heading",
        heading_clear_tag: "p",
          forced_root_block : false,
        theme_advanced_buttons1_add_before: "h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6",
        theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "external",
        cms_application_virtual_path: path,
        ax_label_id: labelID,
        ax_page_id: pageID,
        content_css: GetDocumentStylesheets()
    });
}

If you are an AxCMS.net Developer you will find handy the new possibility to search in the AxCMS.net Online Help directly from your browser toolbar.

How to do it?

1. Go to http://help.AxCMS.net
2. Add "AxCMS.net Help" to the list of your search engines as shown on the screenshots below
3. Type the search term into the search box and hit Enter
4. That's it!

The ideas of semantic web [1] were proposed by Tim Berners-Lee early around 1997 - creating a web where information can be interpreted by machines. Since that there were much buzz around it, but very few noticable results.

But this week I was in Salzburg and saw 40 highly enthusiastic people – all from CMS vendor companies and research institutions – all talking about Semantic Technologies for CMSs. It was IKS Early Adopters Workshop [2]. IKS [3] is a 8,5 Mio EUR EU-funded proejct running 4 years (2009-2012). IKS stays for Interactive Knowledge Stack and it should enable small to medium CMS providers to use semantic-based technologies. At the current stage the major requirements are collected and first prototypes are starting to evolve. First of them is FISE [4] which allows to try out technologies and test the architectures. Semantic Editor [5] is another important part of the project and the guys from this team have some bright ideas – not only about adding semantic to content but about editing content in CMS in general.

It is yet too early to say, how semantic technologies will change the CMS landscape next years, but we will observe IKS development with great interest and hope that in 2 years semantic technologies are reality.

Links:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
[2] http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Workshops/EAworkshop
[3] http://www.iks-project.eu/
[4] http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/FISE
[5] http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Semantic_Editor

Usually you login into AxCMS.net (Management System) using your AxCMS.net username and password.

But you can easily switch to Windows Authentication and take advantage of the Single Sign On.

Read more under Secure Installation of AxCMS.net: http://help.AxCMS.net/en_help_cms_inst_security.AxCMS

What is in 9.2?

• Groups for Structure Elements
• Pre-Live System
• Many improvements for Editors:
  
  • Copy / Paste
  • Top Menu
  • Control over Favicons
  • Better control when Publishing
  • CSS Class and Image Format can be Applied to Images
  • Highlight Current Style / Color / Formatting in the Toolbar
  • Checked-Out Elements are Shown Red
• And many improvements for Developers & Administrators:
  • Meta Tags Usage
  • Extensibility for AxCMS.net Objects
  • Thumbnail Handling
  • Securing web.config Keys
  • Usage of Macros
  • Active Directory Synchronization

Presentation on 9.2 (For Partners)

http://www.AxCMS.net/upload/EN_AxCMS_net_9_2_extended_13343.pdf

Download AxCMS.net 9.2 (For Partners)

http://www.AxCMS.net/en_Partner_Download_AxCMS.AxCMS

Read about AxCMS.net Partner Programm

http://www.AxCMS.net/en_axcms_partnerstart.AxCMS

Information about upgrading from earlier AxCMS.net versions

http://help.AxCMS.net/en_help_inst_upgrade_9_2_0.AxCMS

There are many ways to create a category in AxCMS.net - manually via GUI, WebDAV, programmatically via API or import from XML.

1. The Classic: Manually via GUI
2. Import Categories from an XML File
3. Category Creation Box
4. WebDAV
5. Adding new categories via SQL
6. Cloning
7. Programmatically via API
8. API: Importing XML file programmatically
9. API: Using AxCategoryAdapter

Read on: http://help.axcms.net/en_help_cms_dev_categories_ways_to_create.AxCMS