I have an existing blog/news site that runs on BE.net 2.6 and i would like to migrate it to Orchard. Right now i am testing the migration locally. I exported the BE.net posts as Blog ML and imported into Orchard. Two rubs - one) Orchard does not pick up the tags in BE and instead see the categories (of which there are only 3) as the tags and two) my excerpts in BE do not appear in Orchard after import. My excerpts typically have short text and an image and i want to be able to show those in the page that lists all the posts. But i do not want the image to appear in the details page. I found the fork of Blog ML that should allow tags to be brought corectly except when using that version the Blog ML options in the dashboard are not present.
You can see the live site (running BE 2.6) here http://nomorecocktails.com. I'd like the listing of posts to appear the same way with the excerpt and image in orchard. And if you can help figure out how to get the tags in too. I'd rather not have to go back through and edit the posts in orchard to ad the tags.
Thanks for any help.
I am the author of the BlogML Module. I have had a few reports of BlogEngine.net exports not going in to Orchard correctly, inparticular the Tags...
The people whole reported the initial problem did soem investigation for me and found that the Tags actually dont appear in the export file, i.e. the BlogEngine export does not export the Tags.
Could you please verify this for me? If this is not the case, please reply and I will contact you to get hold of your BlogML file and test the import locally.
The excerpts do not appear in Orchard because the BlogML module was built to only interface with the defautl implementation of the Orchard Blog module. This decision need to be changed. I think Excepts should be going in to the system, and will built it in to the module that will superseed the BlogML module. (https://orchardimportexport.codeplex.com/)
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Is there any way to bind wiki article to my customized page.
For example, I have developed new page with pageID "PO309999".
Then I have created new Wiki Article with articleID "PO_30_99_99".
But when I click on Help for my page
There is no article to show in this view.
I have looked for this in Documentation and don't understand what is missing.
The answer is Yes to creating a wiki article linked to a custom pages (you can do it for generic inquiries too). We have many configured this way.
I created my first wiki article linked to a GI (should be same for custom page) by doing the following:
Make sure your custom page or GI is in the sitemap
Create the wiki article using the name of the page as you have done ("PO_30_99_99" for example). I also set the wiki article name to the same name as the sitemap entry title - but not required.
The wiki should now be linked to the new article.
You might want to try these steps over again by deleting the article you are having trouble with and trying again to make sure the correct references are auto generated by Acumatica. This could be a problem if you created the wiki article before your sitemap entry existed.
As Needed: The person that does our articles sometimes goes into SQL to changes some values to get things to work (could be old habits as the wiki packaging was improved over previous versions). You can do this via export of the article, modify the xml, and re-import if needed without going into sql. This assumes you want to keep your current article. Otherwise should be able to in the UI.
I have created portlets for liferay and prepare couple of pages. Now I want to create installation script, which create pages definition in customer liferay server. I know that pages export/import is possible using LAR file, but this could be done only manualy, or using remote publishing which i am not able to do.
I was searching on net and found ddm tool. Which should be able to do that. Unfortunately i'm not able to get it work as it export only web content, blogs, wikis, etc, but not pages with portlets. It is probably because one of the condition is "Every Template must be assigned to a Structure. Don't create any templates on the Liferay server which does not have a structure connected to it.
". But how can I assign page to structure ? Cant find anything.
Or is there any other option for automatic page creation, which could be used ?
In case you created a custom theme, you can easily use the "resources importer" to create an entire site via the "sitemap.json" file (define pages: choose layout, assign portlets to the columns, ...). You can also export existing content as xml from the current instance and import them via the theme. Same thing for web content structures and templates.
for more details: https://dev.liferay.com/develop/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/6-1/importing-resources-with-your-themes
Unfortunately theme is produced by another supplier, so this solution isn't suitable for me.
at the end i find working solution which consist of following steps:
create plugin hook
in hook setup upgrade process
in the upgrade process create pages with appropriate layout, friendlyUrl, etc. All these is possible to do using liferay api
Don't have enough reputation, so at least two links
https://www.liferay.com/de/web/james.falkner/blog/-/blogs/7cogs-is-dead-long-live-7cogs-
https://github.com/azzazzel/liferay-official-plugins/tree/master/hooks/sevencogs-hook/docroot/WEB-INF/src/com/liferay/sevencogs/hook/upgrade
I am creating a custom module for "latest news" type of functionality. I have been following the docs on the Orchard website (http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Getting-Started-with-Modules-Part-1) and despite following this tutorial I cannot see the widget show up when I click on the "widgets" from the admin in order to assign it to a layer.
I am able to enable/disable the module and it appears to be working correctly on this page, but it doesn't show up on the Widgets section of the admin.
I have spent hours trying to find any answers, but haven't been able to so I'm reaching out here in hopes someone can offer some advice. How do I get my custom module to show up under Widgets? All I have done at this point is followed along with the tutorial they have on their website.
You need to create a ContentType that - as #devqon stated - has the CommonPart and WidgetPart attached, and it's stereotype is set to "Widget".
Have look at Orchard Doc's tutorial on writing a widget.
I'm quite new in liferay and this must have been a very basic question.
Can we make site templates deployable as standalone component like themes? If yes how can we do this? Any help or content explains how to do this will be great.
Thanks
You can export and import site templates - they'll not be deployed like themes, but you can carry them from one portal to another. Check the cogs-icon in the top-right of the Site Template configuration screen in Control-Panel and you'll find the Export/Import Actions. The individual SiteTemplate's Action button also has an Export option available.
Another option is to get familiar with Liferay's API (learn ServiceBuilder for understanding the concepts) and examine the sourcecode. A good starting point is the ancient 7cogs sample code (not all will compile as-is, this article is for an older version, but the principles will help you to understand). Also note that the article links a second follow-up article. Everything in Liferay is done through the API and you can literally automate everything - you'll "just" have to find the proper API and use it.
Site templates can be deployed in a plugin via the use of Liferay's Resources Importer.
See: https://dev.liferay.com/develop/learning-paths/themes/-/knowledge_base/6-2/importing-resources-for-your-theme for more information.
You can probably find some some examples here: https://www.liferay.com/marketplace/-/mp/category/15828894
In my "Articles" resource in the manager I have a table that shows all my posts. There I see: publish date/Post Title/Author/Comments and Tags.
I wish to have also a specific template variable to be displayed into this table.
Do you know, if there is a way to do that?
(I am happy for every hint, because "Articles" doesn't offer categories,so I need to create this option by template variables.)
By the way, do you know why there is no active forum for ModX questions? It is very difficult to get feedback or help for this content management system.
First of all, articles is discontinued. I just setup a blog and I used collections for it.
Next: forums.modx.com is a good place, twitter is fast if you add the #MODX hashtag to your question. Best option: Link on twitter to your question in MODX forums :)
Now on your main question: there is no option in articles to modify the view in the backend. If you use collections, it's easy and even described in the official docs: https://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/collections
As you can see on the image, you can have images (and all kind of TVs) in the overview. Collections can display all kind of TVs
As Articles and Collections is just another way to present resources inside the backend, it's 100% compatible. So you can change from articles to collections quite easily.