Hi all,

Ektron seems to be blocking the mime types I add.  They are added to the web.config but the files are not being accessed.  Anyone know of a fix or work around.

 <staticContent>            <mimeMap fileExtension=".vcl" mimeType="text/plain" />            <mimeMap fileExtension=".vcp" mimeType="text/plain" />        </staticContent>

After a few communications with Ektron, I have finally got a solution to this problem. I have compiled it into a simple repository class that anyone needing these functions can use:

    public class CmsTaxonomyRepository

    {

        public IEnumerable<TaxonomyData> GetTaxonomyList(string parentName)

        {

            var taxonomyManager = new TaxonomyManager(ApiAccessMode.Admin);

            var taxonomyCriteria = new TaxonomyCriteria(TaxonomyProperty.Name, EkEnumeration.OrderByDirection.Ascending);

            taxonomyCriteria.AddFilter(TaxonomyProperty.Path, CriteriaFilterOperator.Contains, parentName);

            taxonomyCriteria.AddFilter(TaxonomyProperty.Name, CriteriaFilterOperator.DoesNotContain, parentName);

            return taxonomyManager.GetList(taxonomyCriteria).ToList();

        }

        public IEnumerable<TaxonomyData> GetTaxonomiesAssignedToUser(string parentName, long userId)

        {

            var commonApi = new Common();

            var directoryData = commonApi.EkContentRef.GetAllAssignedDirectory(userId, EkEnumeration.TaxonomyItemType.User);

            var taxonomyManager = new TaxonomyManager(ApiAccessMode.Admin);

            var taxonomyCriteria = new TaxonomyCriteria(TaxonomyProperty.Name, EkEnumeration.OrderByDirection.Ascending);

            if (!directoryData.Any())

            {

                return new List<TaxonomyData>();

            }

            taxonomyCriteria.AddFilter(TaxonomyProperty.Id, CriteriaFilterOperator.In, directoryData.Select(d => d.DirectoryId));

            return taxonomyManager.GetList(taxonomyCriteria).ToList();

        }

        public IEnumerable<string> GetUsernamesAssignedToTaxonomy(long? taxonomyId)

        {

            if (taxonomyId == null)

            {

                return new List<string>();

            }

            var commonApi = new Common();

            var directoryRequest = new DirectoryRequest { DirectoryId = taxonomyId.Value };

            var directoryData = commonApi.EkContentRef.GetAllDirectoryUser(ref directoryRequest);

            return directoryData.Select(d => d.Email);

       }

Just in case anyone else out there requires these functions.

I had the same issues as AMamut in the original post.

I've checked and double-checked machine names and URLs.  I changed the Logon entry on the SharePoint site to use a different account for the two Ektron services.  Still nothing...

After much frustration, I removed the firewall rule on my SharePoint server, and recreated it.  I also changed the URL for my SharePoint from the DNS entry (sharepoint.mysite.whatever) to the machine name.

And it worked!

It's now crawling my content... hopefully, this helps someone? 

My ektron v8.6 recently started adding querystrings to the end of image urls. ie: image_logo.jpg?n=3936

Is this a configuration setting somewhere within ektron that I can turn this OFF?

Check this webinar

http://www.ektron.com/Webinars/Details/Getting-Started--Developing-with-Ektron/

Also contact your Account manager for 8.1 download link

We are looking to create a list of content of related items based on multiple taxonomy categories.  We discussed creating collections to pull this information but I think that might be too clunky (and not particularly dynamic), or having the editors including a div tag in the content query, but this, doesn't seem optimal.

What is the best option for this?

Does anyone know how to make the pictures display horizontally across rather than vertically?  I'd like to fit as many pictures as possible in the first row and then have it spill over to the next.

I don't see any properties for this feature.  Looking at the generated html shows each image in a new <tr> tag, and I'd really like a second column.

On a side note, I also noticed that if you upload a picture via drag and drop, the resulting image is tiny.  How can this be fixed?  Or is there a way to disable the drag and drop?

This is version 8.6

Just wondering, are there scripts available to upgrade the Ektron database or is it only possible using the install utility?

Can this be run on the actual DB server rather than the architecture itself from teh web server?

regards

Andy

ul.bulleted

a.arrow

but when that style is applied the 

<ul><li></li><li></li></ul>  becomes <ul><span class="bulleted"><li></li><li></li></span></ul>

instead of <ul class="bulleted"><li></li><li></li></ul>

and <a></a> becomes <a><span class="arrow"></span><a> instead of <a class="arrow"></a>

How can this be fixed. Thanks in advance.

Apparently you need to add a reference to the Ektron.Cms.Contracts dll.

And no Using is required.

This information should really be noted within the description tab of the documentation!

I was able to build my smartform class using vs.net command line xsd.  I can follow the example online using GetList, but for some reason, I can't seem to get the ContentManager.GetItem function to work here.  I want to parse the contents of a single content item, where I know the ContentId

hello all,

My Ektron is V86

when i run CMS400Min.sln in VS2010 here comes an error.

Error         1       c:\inetpub\wwwroot\Workarea\Commerce\Coupons\SharedComponents\Type\Type.ascx.cs(212): error CS1010: Newline in constant           

This is the error line:

clientData.CurrencySymbol = couponType == TypeClientData.CouponTypes.Percent ? "? : currency.CurrencySymbol;

i haven't change a word.it's strange.

I don't know how to fix this, it takes me a lot of time.

can anybody kindly help me with this?

Thank you very much.

olivia

The solution is much simpler than that:

        userdata.Username = username;
        userdata.Password = password;
        userdata.DisplayName = username;
        userdata.DisplayUserName = username;
        userdata.Domain = domain;
        userdata.Email = mail;
        userdata.FirstName = firstname;
        userdata.LastName = lastname;
        try
        {
            userapi.AddMembershipUser(userdata);
            UserData cUser = userapi.GetMembershipUser(username);
            Ektron.Cms.API.Content.ThreadedDiscussion td = new Ektron.Cms.API.Content.ThreadedDiscussion();
            td.SubscribeToBoard(DiscussionBoardID, cUser.Id, EkEnumeration.NotificationType.Replies); //DiscussionBoardID is the board that contains all the forums
            mCreated = true;
        }

Hi all,

I have created a form with a postback that has merge fields.  When the form is submitted and the postback renders all the text fields data are displayed vertically and do not wrap.  Any ideas on why this may be happening and how to correct?  I have included an screenshot for review.

Thanks in advance,

Lorenzo

Multi-site is not an option in this scenario.

We have an external site in our DMZ, from which we'd like to serve up a subset of web pages and DMS documents housed on an internal server, where that internal server is not accessible by external users.

In a world of APIs and connectors, it seems like it should be possible to do.

Via the Ektron API, we can access all of the HTML, taxonomy, and DMS meta data, to recreate the pages, via server-server API calls.  However, getting the DMS documents pulled in and references to those documents to create clickable links where they would be accessible by users is another animal. 

Any suggestions on how this may be accomplished?  What we want to avoid is maintaining those documents in two separate places, where they could ultimately get out of synch.  The constraint again, is that all communication to the internal server, must be made from the server in the DMZ. No external users can refrence the internal server in any manner (no virtual directories).

I'm feeling pretty bad off tonight.  I went to the Content menu bar choice.

I saw a list of folders for my site. I clicked on the one of interest, my college's "Library".  This caused a list of things to appear on the right side of the screen.  At the top, I put my mouse over "New" and chose "Menu".  I tried to create a menu but it did not seem to work in that, while the system seems to think the menu exists, I cannot see it in the list of menu tiems for the Library folder.  From reading the doc, I think that the menu needs a URL link, which would be the link someone would use to get to this menu, right?  That means the URL Link is going to be /Library/LibraryTutorials, right?  Or, am I misunderstanidng this?  URL link makes me think "href", the URL to get me to a page.  

     Or, am I suppopsed to create an actual page, not a menu first, in order to give the menu something to point at?   It's very frustrating to be able to do all sorts of things with other software and be so far from figuring out the trick for something simple.  I would really appreciate suggestions on how toresolve this.  Yes, I have read page after page of the help pages on menus:  adding them, deleting them, adding a submenu to them, but I'm still stumped.  Thanks

Ken

We are using a Content Selector meta data type object for a piece of content to link it to a related content. When clicking on the 'Edit' button, it brings up the page to allow the user to select the piece of content to link it to. However, the starting folder seems to be a random folder (it's always the same) that almost none of our editors have access too. This causes confusion because it pops an error message. 

Is there a way to change this default folder it lands in?

I typically follow an approach similar to the one blogged about by Joe Mayberry @jaytem. My widgets are typically data driven user controls that bind to a datasource. I do this so I can point to a mock datasource that doesn't depend on Ektron, then when I'm happy with its implementation, I point it to my ektron datasource, load it into the workarea, and go from there.

Read Joe's blog post mentioned by EG above, then watch this webinar on layering an application. Doesn't specifically mention widgets, but you can follow the general approach with widgets just fine--

http://www.ektron.com/Resources_And_Tools/Webinars/Screencasts/Developer_/_I_T_/Building_an_Extensible_and_Maintainable_Website_on_Ektron_-_Part_1/

apparently I was loggin in just fine, in other words, admin-admin worked..What's wrong is that redirection mechanism is not working...it might be my browser...IE. In other words, after entering admin (userName) and admin(passWord), and click submit, the page just bounces back with empty fields....It should redirect me to the workarea.aspx page....No Sir...I have to enter the path into the address bar. Once I did that, I realized that I "was" being logged in. Can anybody think of why it would behave this way???

Sorry about bumming up a old post. I'm trying to get a taxonomy's custom property value on 8.6SP1 but I'm coming across some issues on the 3tier sites when I'm using the CustomPropertyObject. Would you be able to let me know how I can get the custom property value on the 3 tier site?

Using the code eGandalf provided I run into unity mapping issues in the 3 tier site but works on the middle tier site.

Kelly,

Are you a  member of the administrators group?  Also, are you trying to remove users from the Everyone group?

The key is to NOT place your widget files in a folder underneath the widgets folder. They need to reside AT THE root of the widgets folder. You can place ALL ELSE in a folder with the same name as the user control file AND place other assest in there such as css and javascript.

Where is IWidget interface on Ektron 8.6 ???

Uh, I figured it out. It looks like th samples on line require you to use an ASP.NET multiview control, to wrap user-specific infomation. I will do that next, and ViewSet.SetActiveviewz() should be available. 

Hi everyone,

I am wondering if there are any known conflicts between Ektron version 8.5 and the optional Application Request Routing feature in IIS7.

Please forgive my lack of knowledge of Ektron. I am not actually a developer; I work for a software company that is installing product for a customer who uses Ektron on their web server. The program we are installing has a web component and we are unable to get the webpage to successfully launch. As far as we can tell, the only difference between this and other sites we have successfully installed in the past is that this site utilizes Ektron. We do utilize the Application Request Routing feature in IIS7 and I'm wondering if it and Ektron may be incompatible.

Any thoughts would be very much appreciated.

Thank you!

I will try that out, thanks again!

Martin

In 8.6 search, we're getting content back that is past its expiry date.

I added a filter that looks like this:

expressionTree &= SearchContentProperty.ExpiryDate.GreaterThan(DateTime.Today);

and that caused no content to come back at all.

I looked at the item expiry dates and seed that the default is "1/1/00 12:00:00".  I have tried various ways to test for that as well, including IsNotNull, EqualTo(new DateTime("1/1/00")), etc.  Some give exceptions for invalid file time.  Others just continue to get no results.

Can't find any documentation regarding this.
Anyone?

Thanks.

-jpr

Permissions still apply to pagebuilder layouts created in the CMS, and menus adhere to permissions. So it should be automatic if you have all your permissions set up correctly. Of course, it won't work if your menu items are addes as "External Hyperlinks" because they then lose their connection to the content.

If you're using the API to retrieve the menu data, it may be a different story, but I'm not sure.

How do you "embed" and/or "resource" a  JavaScript with a user control...authored in an ASP.NET web site project for ultimate redistribution...see David Ebbo's article...http://tinyurl.com/8hfpzr7