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‎Howto: Content Manager

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‎Topic Format Commands

Fourstones at 06:50, 29 July 2008

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Fourstones: New page: ==Howto: Content Manager== In ccHost 5 you can create pages in your system without any HTML/XML file editing whatsoever. Examples of pages created this way are the ccMixter home page and...

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New page: ==Howto: Content Manager== In ccHost 5 you can create pages in your system without any HTML/XML file editing whatsoever. Examples of pages created this way are the ccMixter home page and...

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==Howto: Content Manager==

In ccHost 5 you can create pages in your system without any HTML/XML file editing
whatsoever. Examples of pages created this way are the ccMixter home page and
"As Seen on the Web"

*http://ccmixter.org/
*http://ccmixter.org/view/media/remix/trackback

The second example is mapped to a navigation tab. The creation of a page like this
and mapping to a tab are explained here:

First create new content topics:

1. While logged in as admin account: Click on 'Global Settings' in the menu
2. Click on 'Manage Page Content'
3. Click on 'Create New Content'
4. At 'New Content Type' type in "my_page_content" (without the quotes)
5. Enter a title and topic contents
6. Click on 'Submit Content'

Repeat these steps for addition topics except replace step (4):

4. At 'Content Type' select 'my_page_content' from the drop down,
leave 'New Content Type' blank

Images are uploaded to cchost_files/images (replace cchost_files with the name of the
files directory you supplied during install). To refer to those images use the new 'img'
block in your topics. Example:

[img=/cchost_files/images/my_image.gif][/img]

You can also use the new 'left' or 'right' blocks to float images or blocks of text:

[left][img=/cchost_files/images/my_image.gif][/img][/left]

Next create a new content page:

# While logged in as admin account: Click on 'Global Settings' in the menu
# Click on 'Manage Page Content'
# Click on 'Create a New Page'
# At 'Content Type' select "my_page_content"
# Enter a page title like "My Page" (without the quotes)
# Click on 'Submit' - this should take you back to the 'Manage Page Content' screen
# Click on 'view' next to your new page to preview the page (Note the URL in your browser)

To map your new page to a tab:

# While logged in as admin account: Click on 'Manage Site' in the menu
# Click on 'Navigator Tab Sets'
# Click on '[edit tabs]'
# Click on 'Add tab'
# Under 'Function' select 'Execute URL'
# Under 'Data' enter the URL from Step (7) in the section above
# Click on 'Submit'

HINT: entering a full URL in a tab causes a re-direct (extra round trip to your server). To
prevent this in Step (6) enter "/viewfile/my-page" without the quotes and
substituting my-page with the name of your page.

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 |-
 | <code><nowiki>[right][b]floated right markup, img tag works here too[/b][/right]Normal markup that wraps around the right text</nowiki></code>
-| <div style="float:right">floated right markup</b></div>Normal markup that wraps around the right text
+| <div style="float:right"><b>floated right markup, img tag works here too</b></div>Normal markup that wraps around the right text
 |-
 |-
 | <code><nowiki>[color=red]Red Text[/color]</nowiki></code><br /><small> (also blue or green)</small>
 |<font color="#FF0000">Red Text</font>
 |}

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	prevent this in Step (6) enter "/viewfile/my-page" without the quotes and		prevent this in Step (6) enter "/viewfile/my-page" without the quotes and
	substituting my-page with the name of your page.		substituting my-page with the name of your page.
		+
		+	==Topic Format Commands==
		+	When entering a topic you have the option to use ccHost formatting short cuts based on a variation of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbcode BBCode] tags.
		+
		+	{\| class="wikitable"
		+	\| style="text-align: center" \| '''Code'''
		+	\| style="text-align: center" \| '''Effect'''
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[b]bolded text[/b]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| '''bolded text'''
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[i]italicized text[/i]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| ''italicized text''
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[u]underlined text[/u]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <span style="text-decoration:underline;">underlined text</span>
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[url]http://example.org[/url]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <span class="plainlinks">[http://example.org http://example.org]</span>
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[url=http://example.com]Example[/url]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <span class="plainlinks">[http://example.com Example]</span>
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[img=http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nc-jp.png][/img]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/nc-jp.png
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[quote]quoted text[/quote]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <blockquote><p>quoted text</p></blockquote>
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[quote=fourstones]attributed quoted text[/quote]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <i><p><b>fourstones says:</b></p><p>attributed quoted text</p></i>
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[big]Large Text[/big]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <font size="6">Large Text</font>
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[small]Small Text[/small]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <font size="-2">Small Text</font>
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[up][/up]</nowiki></code>
		+	\| http://ccmixter.org/ccskins/shared/images/thumbs_up_tiny.gif
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[right][b]floated right markup, img tag works here too[/b][/right]Normal markup that wraps around the right text</nowiki></code>
		+	\| <div style="float:right">floated right markup</b></div>Normal markup that wraps around the right text
		+	\|-
		+	\|-
		+	\| <code><nowiki>[color=red]Red Text[/color]</nowiki></code><br /><small> (also blue or green)</small>
		+	\|<font color="#FF0000">Red Text</font>
		+	\|}

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 and mapping to a tab are explained here:
-First create new content topics:
+===Example: Creating an 'About' page===
-. While logged in as admin account: Click on 'Global Settings' in the menu
+First create new content topic:
-Repeat these steps for addition topics except replace step (4):
+# While logged in as admin account: Click on 'Global Settings' in the menu
-. At 'Content Type' select 'my_page_content' from the drop down,
+If you were to create multiple topic of the same kind (not really applicable to an 'About' page), then you would repeat these steps for addition topics except replace step (4):
-   leave 'New Content Type' blank
 Images are uploaded to cchost_files/images (replace cchost_files with the name of the
@@ Line 30: / Line 31: @@
 [img=/cchost_files/images/my_image.gif][/img]
 Next create a new content page:
@@ Line 40: / Line 37: @@
 #  Click on 'Manage Page Content'
 #  Click on 'Create a New Page'
-#  At 'Content Type' select "my_page_content"
+#  At 'Content Type' select "about"
-#  Enter a page title like "My Page" (without the quotes)
+#  Enter a page title like "About" (without the quotes)
 #  Click on 'Submit' - this should take you back to the 'Manage Page Content' screen
 #  Click on 'view' next to your new page to preview the page (Note the URL in your browser)
@@ Line 56: / Line 53: @@
 HINT: entering a full URL in a tab causes a re-direct (extra round trip to your server). To
-prevent this in Step (6) enter "/viewfile/my-page" without the quotes and
+prevent this in Step (6) enter "/viewfile/about" without the quotes.
 ==Topic Format Commands==