Thank you to everyone who joined us for the second webinar in our Customer Webinar series - Using the Active Assembly UI in Percussion CM System - on January 14, 2010.
Attached here is the full recording of the Webinar for those of you who may have missed it, or for those who want to review certain sections or concepts.
Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any other suggestions for topics for our series. Thanks again.
Dana.
Question: can you add HTML in the ephox fields?
Ankit Shah: Yes, you can add HTML through the “Code” tab at the bottom of the ephox field.
Question: why do you have to click update to make ephox open?
Ankit Shah: Webex was interfering with ephox. You will not have to click update to see the ephox functionality.
Question: where is the snippet you just created stored in the folder structure, and what is the content id?
Ankit Shah: The newly created snippet is stored in the same folder as that of the parent item. The content it is an incremental number used by the CMS.
Question: with what version of rhythmyx is this functionality available?
Ankit Shah: Rhythmyx 5.x and higher
Question: Is there a way to know what field you are editing on the popup?
Ankit Shah: The field being edited will be highlighed in the left page of Active Assembly
Question: will you be demoing how to add a new item that includes an image or related content?
Ankit Shah: This was demonstrated at the end of the webinar. This is similar to adding a snippet item with text.
Question: How do you edit the rest of the new item that was just created? (i.e. body field of the new item) Is that done from this screen as well?
Ankit Shah: Yes, you can edit the newly created snippet item by right-clicking on the item from the left pane using the “Edit Item” menu option.
Question: How do we customize the search panel?
Ankit Shah: You can customize the search panel through the workbench by going into the UI Elements Design view > Content Explorer > Searches > Standard > RC Search and adding or removing desired fields.
Question: does it create the new content item in the same folder as the current item?
Ankit Shah: See above answer to question.
Question: Is there anyway to simplify adding multiple items to a slot? We add as many as 15 at once sometimes.
Ankit Shah: Not at this point. You will manually have to add one item at a time inside a given slot.
Question: Will all the extensions and workflow actions work normally when using AA editor?
Ankit Shah: Yes, all extensions and workflow actions should work just as they were from within the Content Explorer.
Question: will other slot macros work with AA, such as simple_slot, slot_wrapped?
Ankit Shah: Yes, these should work as expected in Active Assembly.
Question: How about #initslot() macro?
Ankit Shah: The #initslot() macro can be coded in such a way that would allow AA to work. However, often, the requirements for utilizing an #intislot() macro would preclude the use of AA. For instance, if the #initslot() macro is not displaying the body of a snippet, but instead assembling items with macro specific code, AA would not be appropriate. Care should be taken if looking at implementing this type of functionality.
Question: Can the AA menu site id be based on a session variable so that it would ue the community that you are currently logged into?
Ankit Shah: Several clients will use the PSOSmartPreview configuration which will pass the correct SiteID based on your configuration.
Question: what about required fields? Can you create items that have other required fields (other then title)?
Ankit Shah: Yes, if there are other required fields, Active Assembly will open the Content Editor form and allow you to populate other required fields before the item gets insert into the slot.
Question: I would be interested in getting more info on that workaround for the java and css.
Ankit Shah: “The following code can be used to determind if your javascript/css should be called in the header:
#if(!$sys.activeAssembly) YOUR JAVASCRIPTS AND CSS #end”
Question: When creating a new item from Active Assembly, what happens if there are required metadata fields that cannot entered in a WYSIWYG way?
Ankit Shah: If there are other required fields, Active Assembly will open the Content Editor form and allow you to populate other required fields before the item gets insert into the slot.
Question: Is there a way to hide archived items or draft items from being shown in a slot? Its very confusing when previewing content.
Ankit Shah: In order to hide Draft or Archived items, you would need to modify the Preview Item Filter by adding a new rule (sys_filterByPublishingFlag) and restricting the items which are visible. It should be noted that this will apply to ALL previews in the system, not just Active Assembly, and also could be over-written on an upgrade.
Question: what is the minimum requirement on browser version/type?
Ankit Shah: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safar 3.12+ (Macintosh only)