Forum OpenACS CMS: Re: Work on CMS features for OpenACS

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Posted by Jun Yamog on
What Dave has stated above is already existing and running.  Although I wish I can get some help to move it foward.

Here is how one of the UI looks like

http://66.250.57.130:9080/1ic/

You are free to register and try out the site.

This is the public site that it builds.

http://66.250.57.130:9080/site/

(The template is a bit screwy, the top gray nav are the 2ndary navs, Left Nav are the main nav, no link to home page)

There are 3 packages:

BCMS (Basic CMS) - the tcl service package that Dave is describing above.
BCDS (Basic Content Delivery System) - the one that serves the content and merges content with the template
BCMS UI Wizard - a UI package

Anyway I was able to put a little time on it a few days ago, so I am now cleaning out the API.  What I hope to achieve is to have a UI BCMS package to just setup (an admin page perhaps) its folder that it wants to manage in the CR.  And give a context like say public, intranet, etc.  Have a BCDS package serve the folder that is setup for it serve and its context.  So a single instance of OpenACS can have different CMS UI and managing different CR folders or the same folders.  Also different BCDS serving the CR folders.

I still consider the code as alpha or pre alpha, but the client of Musea is happy and running it on production for a couple of months now.

Right now I will be cleaning out the API, taking really long since my day job is not OpenACS.  After that I will make another UI package.  Any help would be appreciated especially on the high level direction/design.  I am looking at hiring some help so I can move things forward.

A bit more info here:

https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=51959