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| How to create new alias function? (1773) |
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If you find no alias function is good enough for you, you can write your own. function. The alias functions are stored in include/item.php3 file and its names begins with f_ (but we can name it as g_* or such, as well) and they are three letters long (just like f_a()). All you hav... |
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| Which parameters can I use with slice.php3 (1767) |
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The slice.php3 is the main script used to display items from database. The alternative for this script is view.php3.
The main ussage of slice.php3 script is to include it into some .shtml file by the SSI include command - like:
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| How to import big exported slice&data? (2106) |
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We have slice data and structure exported to AA.XML file and we want to import it back to the AA. The problem is, that the AA.XML file is 24 MB.
The solution:
The problem could be in PHP setting. Here's what I had to change in php.ini file to get it going:
1. p... |
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| How to use aliases (1703) |
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The output generated by AA is controlled by aliases. The aliases are 10
letters long words defined on 'Admin' -> 'Fields' -> 'Edit' page. Aliases
are obviously expanded to the content of some database field or its
modification (like How to use aliases alias). For modification of behavior... |
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| two level menu view (2076) |
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This example uses 1 view, 3 categories, and 2 levels of constants. The
catgories are not important but maybe you like to use them so I left them in
there.
The view below manages a two level side bar menu. It highlights the branch
you are in and the (sub)item you have selected. Exam... |
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| How are mutual related links propogated? (2051) |
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When you update an item that includes a mutual related link it will update
the matching relation field ID in the related slice. Make sure both slices are
using the exact same ID and that the input
Insert is set to "Item IDs".... |
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| Designing nice search results (2052) |
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On you index view...
Include _#ID_COUNT (number of found items) in the Top HTML and _#ITEMINDX
(index of item within view) in front of each result item.
Also make sure the HTML code for "No item found" message says something that
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| What is the value of a check box input? (2041) |
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It depends on Fields - Edit -> Insert' setting. If you set it to
'Text', then the value is stored exactly, how it is send by form checkbox (which
means 'on' or nothing). However, default and suggested setting is
'Boolean', which means '0... |
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| Alerts/Mailman Integration (2009) |
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From Mitra (mitra[at]earth.path.net):
I am using alerts/mailman integration, - its one of the most painful AA admin procedures, basically you have to create an alert that goes to a mailman group. Here are the steps (note that I've SIMPLIFIED it, removing sub-steps).
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| How to create a simple email alert module (2005) |
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This a tutorial for creating a simple alert module and subscription form,
similar to the Sandbox subscription demo at http://actionapps.org/reader_mngmt/sandbox_subscribe.shtml.
The alert is for all new items in a slic... |
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| How do I create a Reader Mamagement logout function? (2004) |
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If you realy think you need a logout, you have to create a
special directory and Logout page under the restricted area of your
website. I've set up a littleexample here http://marek.greennet.org.uk/protect/... |
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| How to show integers but not show 0? (1809) |
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In this example, we are trying to only show alias for page numbers
(_#NM_PAGES) when it is greater than zero.
The field input has Validate: Number, so it generates a zero when
left blank. To not show the alias and label when zero,
use:
{switch({_#NM_PAGES})^0... |
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| What are the plans for the FAQs? (1807) |
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Next suggested steps for the upgrading the FAQ:
Fix old links within fulltext.
Categorize and fix grammer in all articles
Get popular collections view working (uses related items) and ask key users to submit their favorite collections.
Add more... |
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| When are hits counted? (1806) |
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The hit is counted in this cases:
1) with slice.php3 - if you will display an item with x=24425
url parameter - if you will display an item with
sh_itm=42567a8736342562782abe782c - if you will use banner url
parameter (banner=2-38)... |
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| What paramater substitution is done in f_v (1674) |
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f_v takes a parameter on which certain substitution is done.
_#this is replaced by the content of the field we are working on, typically this is the long id of the item being referenced. If there are multiple id's they are strung together seperated by "-" which is what view.ph... |
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| How do I make it view just a single item? (1741) |
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Create a Full-Text view by going to Admin->Views and selecting "Full
Text" and clicking "New". Then you can specify cmd[5]=i-5-1a2b3c4d
in the URL or include statement. You can also use cmd[5]=x-5-934 where 934 is short _id... |
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| What is a Static View and how do I use it (1739) |
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Static Views are a bit like macros, they are not related to a specific item
or slice, but can be used where the same content, or parameterised content is
needed on many pages.
It is a view that only has one format - the 'Odd Row' format. It does not lookup
the values for any... |
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| What are Views good for? (1745) |
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Views are useful when you want functionality a little bit different from the
standard Index, or Full-Text views. You can use them to customize sorting,
or pick certain ite... |
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| How to setup Cross server networking (CSN) (1750) |
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CSN is a feature which allows item exchange between two servers.
Developers note: The implementation is based on Moritz Both's specification:
http://plus.aldebaran.de/apc-aa/csn.html
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| How to use Site Module (1680) |
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Site Module
Current APC ActionApps are very good
for creation of small or not so complex database driven sites. It
was not so easy to create complex websites with many cooperating
slices and views, so far. The “site module” is the answer
for those, who... |
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| Which parameters can I use with view.php3 (1766) |
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The only required parameter to view.php3 script is number of view
to show. This parameter is given by vid url variable. All
remaining parameters are optional.
Each optional view parameter begins with cmd[x],
where x is view number in w... |
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| What are the Parameters of the Alias Functions (1768) |
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When we setting up aliases for database field on se_fields.php3 page, we sometimes need to change the behavior of alias in som way or we need to pass some parameter for alias handling function such as f_f. The Parameters field is the right place, how to do it. The list of parameters for each al... |
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| How to make item url shorter? (1765) |
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Why are slice IDs and item IDs so long? Would it be possible to make them shorter?
The 32-digits hexadecimal IDs are quite standard in MySQL/PHP - see uniqid() and md5() functions. These identifiers are intended to be unique worldwide so that each item has an unique ID ... |
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| How does a user retrieve a forgotten password from reader managment? (1656) |
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1) Go to /apc-aa/misc/forgotten_pwd.php3 (may vary
depending
where AA is installed)
2) Enter either the username or email address
3) Check the email you will receive in case the user has been found and it's you
4) Visit the url in the email - in fact it's the same... |
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| What is Reader Management? (1657) |
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Reader Management is a special kind of slice that is designed to contain data about subscribed "readers" (aka public web site users). A Reader Management slice can be used to send automated email alerts of new AA items, personalize page views, send bulk target emails, and generally act as a conta... |
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| How "No item found" message in view definition works? (1658) |
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In view you can specify "No item found" message, which is displayed if
view (due to its current conditions) do not find an item to display.You can
enter there:
nothing - standard "no
item found" message is displayed (this setting is historical)
any tex... |
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| How do I set mapping on RSS import (1659) |
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For most feeds you won't need to map them, unless you want the feed to go to Active rather than Hold bin.
To set the mapping, first create the feed in AA->RSS Feeds, then click on the feed and click Map. (or go to it directly from the AA->Mapping page.
If all you want to do i... |
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| Alerts Admin (1682) |
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THIS ITEM IS COMPLETELY DEPRECATED. A COMPLETELY NEW ALERTS DESIGN IS DESCRIBED IN THE NEW DOCUMENTATION ALSO SEE READER MANAGEMENT DOCUMENTION AND DEMOS FOR USEFUL ALERTS DEM... |
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| Discussions as message boards (1683) |
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If you have one slice item with many discussion items, it may be used as a message board.
You can make AA send all new discussion items posted to this particular item to an email address. If the address is a mailinglist, you can use the discussion as a message board.
You need to:
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| Alerts step by step walkthrough (1684) |
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THIS ITEM IS COMPLETELY DEPRECATED. A COMPLETELY NEW ALERTS DESIGN IS DESCRIBED IN THE NEW DOCUMENTATION. ALSO SEE READER MANAGEMENT DOCUMENTION AND DEMOS FOR USEFUL ALERTS DE... |
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| AA Alerts (1688) |
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THIS ITEM IS COMPLETELY DEPRECATED. A COMPLETELY NEW ALERTS DESIGN IS DESCRIBED IN THE NEW DOCUMENTATION. ALSO SEE READER MANAGEMENT DOCUMENTION AND DEMOS FOR USEFUL ALERTS D... |
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| What are the hosting requirements for APC-AA? (1660) |
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Requirements for ActionApps Unix Hosting
Strongly prefer Apache
Ability to create crontab (but this only needs to be done once, so could
be done by the hoster).
PHP version 4.3+, safe mode turned off, with
mail function e... |
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| How do I upload files into a slice (1695) |
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First, your System Administrator has to setup the apc-aa, see below
Then edit one of the fields, e.g. SliceAdmin-Fields-ImageURL-Edit
Set the type to "File upload" and use the Wizard to set the file type to for ex... |
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| File Manager (1698) |
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The File Manager enables Slice Administrators to modify their web pages on-line
in the AA Control Panel. It appears only when an superadmin sets so in Slice
Settings. The File Manager settings are hidden to anybody except superadmins.
See ... |
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| How should I return errors (1661) |
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Error returns in AA are not consistent, there is a general, low priority, task to clean up the code as we work on it.
In general use the $err array to return errors.
Some specific examples follow, please add others here.
Each of the functions: insert_fnc_xxx sets for exa... |
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| How can I manipulate images (e.g. create thumbnails) (1662) |
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In Slice admin interface form for configuring fields there is an input box
for parameters of insert function. For field with insert function "File = uploaded
file",
you can set these parameters:
type of file : maximum image width : m... |
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| Create new Wizard (1701) |
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The wizard is available to AA Administrators only. It enables to
create a new slice
copy its views from a source slice / template
copy constants used by it to new constant groups
add new user with Slice Editor (Item Manager) or Slice Admin... |
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| How to integrate APC-AA with email (1663) |
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There are several places where APC-AA sends mail, and it can be confusing,
especially since it is really easy to configure them wrongly so they don't work,
and little help for figuring out why. Lets consider 4 cases. The Bugs and Weaknesses
of each method are shown because they may ... |
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| Searchform extensions (1707) |
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How to search in multiple slices
The searchform may be extended to seach for items in several
slices at once. This is done by adding the slices[] parameter, e.g.
<input type=hidden name="slices[0]"... |
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| Hierarchical constants (1711) |
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What are hierarchical constants? Imagine some keywords allowing to quickly
find items of interest --- you have a top-level keyword Country, a first-level
keyword United Kingdom and a second-level keyword Leeds. The support has three parts: Editing of the constants and choosing them in t... |
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| How do Tagged IDs work (1665) |
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The concept of Tagged IDS is simple - when we store an id in a field, we sometimes want to say something about it. the idea came from the directional/bidirectional links which in fact are not stored like that, but are used internally to store one or two uni-directional links.
A tagged id consis... |
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| How do I link to fulltext if, and only if, there is some fulltext (1718) |
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This is a common request, and unneccessarily complicated, (suggestion to developers - create a function like f_b might be created at some point to do this more easily, or just add an "Else" field to f_b)
Create a dummy field which will never have any text in it, mark it as Not... |
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| Is it possible to add new users from public website? (1666) |
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In AA v2.6 or current CVS is introduced Reader Management slice and Auth Module. Users for Auth are stored in slice and each user is in fact slice item. So, you can create standard anonymous posting form into the "Reader manager" slice to allow user subscribtions.
You can set the form to put new u... |
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| Protecting sensitive data against reading (1667) |
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With the concept of Reader management slices introduced it is important that
some data are not accessible for reading. This is achieved by setting a reading
password for slices containing sensitive data. If you fill the field "Reading
Password" in Slice Settings, you m... |
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| POST to .shtml (1668) |
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A work-around allowing to use the POST method for sending form data to a .shtml page is in the post2shtml.php3 file. See the comments in this file.... |
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| How to refill conditions on searchform? (1723) |
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The script fillform.php3 allows to easily refill condition variables as well. If you have some search form using the conds[] array,
you may call fillform.php3?fillConds= 1 to create JavaScript, which will automaticall... |
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| How to edit items in public website? (1724) |
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You have prepared a public anonymous posting form and want to use it to edit items as well. How to do it?There is a script fillform.php3 with associated JavaScript utilities in include/fillformutils.php3. Th... |
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| How to debug Action Apps code and sites? (1669) |
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Here are some hints on debugging APC-AA,
Run the same query appending: ?errcheck=1&nocache=1errcheck=1 will activate checks in a few places to make sure assumptions the code is making are valid. Sometimes this helps. It also occasional generates false warnings, especially about tr... |
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| What coding standards should I follow (1670) |
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The coding standards are documented in doc/coding.html
We are moving to use phpDoc, the manual for this is at
http://phpdoc.org/docs/HTMLf... |
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| How to edit items non-anonymous from a website (1671) |
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If you want to be able to go into the admin interface to edit an item, you can now put the alias
_#EDITITEM, into a view, the user will be asked to login, there are other ways to edit items anonymously.
After editing the item, the user will be returned to the page they were viewing.
The user ... |
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| How do I update my APC-AA installation to the latest version? (1728) |
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This FAQ assumes you did the original installation from CVS (see Installation of ActionApps Doc )
First, check that you really want to update. There is usually a stable release and a developer release. The instructions below will updat... |
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| How to use images in a slice ? (1672) |
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Using this method, you can, in the "add item" form, use an image from an existing URL or upload an image to use it.
1) in the ActionApps main menu, choose "Slice Admin" option
2) In the list of fields, there will be a field called "Image URL"
3) Edit the properties of the field...
a. Change i... |
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| How to use Live checkbox (Auto Update Checkbox)? (1679) |
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If you are using highlight field for displaying items on homepage and you want to allow people to be able to switch the highlight on and of quickly, then Live checkbox is the solution for you. It allows you to display checkbox directly in Item Manager, so users just check or uncheck in there. The... |
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| Field Types and Alias Functions (1681) |
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You can find a description of each Field Type and of each Alias Function in the Admin Interface (Slice Admin / Fields / Edit) by clicking on the Param Wizard link at the left of the select box.
A complete list of all
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| How to push/pull data into/from database (1685) |
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External SQL query should look like:
SELECT * FROM item, content
WHERE item.id = content.item_id // to join the tables
AND item.id = 'hey67s[o0-78z._d' // 16 characters long packed id
// see util... |
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| How can I let users with the 'author' permission edit their own items? (1686) |
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The 'posted_by......' field must be recorded for each submitted item.
So, it should be a required field in 'Admin->Fields' . It does not have to
be 'Shown', just 'Required'.
If this is done, only items that a user has permission to edit will be visible in the item manager for them.
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| How to create new module? (1687) |
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What is a module?
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You probably know slices - a part of database with its admin interface
which is able to manipulate with items/articles. The slices are very
configurable, so it can hold news or events as well as database of
links, organizations or members. Slices are great... |
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| Using remote or remotec to display APC-AA on another web server (1690) |
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Michael wrote a perl script called 'remote',( in apc-aa/misc/remote/remote)
'remote' could be useful to groups running action-application
servers, by expanding the number of groups that will want to have slices. Imagine a nonprofit wants to start using the apps for their news page, but does not ... |
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| Language files with Mini Gettext (1691) |
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(c) Jakub Adámek, Econnect, January 2003
Since January 17 2003 AA is using the mini-gettext language environment. The
language files are in the directory include/lang/.
Each file is connected with one language and a series of PHP scripts. At run-time,
yo... |
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| What tools are available for importing data (1692) |
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There are a number of tools for importing, each has different advantages and disadvantages and each needs configuring to specific requirements.
apc-aa/misc/file2slice/importer.php3: Is highly configurable, and can perform functions on the data, however its complex and requires some PHP knowledge ... |
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| Where can I read about developing APC-AA applications (1693) |
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Here are some links you may find useful and interesting:
Detailed, fictional, case studies of uses of apc-aa:
* http://www.apc.org/actionapps/english/general/uses.html (in english)
* http://www.apc.org/actionapps/espanol/general/uses.html (in spanish)
If you are an APC member, I _stron... |
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| How does file upload work (1694) |
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All configuration options are in config.php3:
define("IMG_UPLOAD_MAX_SIZE", "400000"); # max size of file in picture uploading
define("IMG_UPLOAD_URL", "http://work.ecn.cz/img_upload/");
define("IMG_UPLOAD_PATH", "/data/www/htdocs/work.ecn.cz/img_upload/");
define("IMG_UPLOAD_TYPE", "image/*")... |
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| How do I setup my installation for file uploads (1696) |
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Create a directory under which a sub-directory will be created for each slice,
either create that under one of your sites, or create it somewhere else and
create an alias in httpd.conf to point at it. Make sure this directory is
"rwxrwxr-- nobody.nobody"
Edit apc-aa/include/config.php... |
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| File Manager Administration (1697) |
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New settings in config.php3
# mkdir perms, set by variable because constants don't work with octal values
$FILEMAN_MODE_DIR = 0770;
# create file perms
$FILEMAN_MODE_FILE = 0664;
define("FILEMAN_BASE_DIR","/www/apc-aa/wizard/");
defin... |
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| Rich Text Editor icons (1700) |
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The Rich Text Editor is a powerful editor allowing to copy content from web pages by copy-and-paste.
Most of the icons used to format your text are self-explained. On the first row in the right half there are icons for table creation and manipulation.
The rightmost icon on the first font swit... |
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| Password-protected public editing (1702) |
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Items posted from a public website may be protected by a password. Suppose you have a field with ID "password.......x" (just like password.......1) in your slice and this field is visible on the public posting page. The user fills in the password when creating a new... |
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| Jump module (1704) |
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Jump is a simple module with simple behavior. It jumps inside the AA control
panel onto a page to which you otherwise need to go over several links. For
example if you often edit a particular constants group (e.g. "Country"),
you must use "Slice Admin" / "Fi... |
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| How do I create an RSS feed from a slice (1705) |
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Setup your slice as normal, got to Slice Admin -> Views -> type:RSS News.
You can edit the feed to more precisely pick what you want for each item. Use the _#RSS_* aliases to refine it.
The URL of the RSS feed should be at /apc-aa/view.php3?vid=xx
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| Field Triggers (1706) |
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If you want to add functionality to the Add / Edit item page, you can use JavaScript
code. This may be useful in many cases. JavaScript is executed on the client
computer and works in most web browsers, e.g. Internet Explorer and Netscape
on PC / Mac. There are many enhancements which... |
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| Rich Text Editor (1708) |
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To use the Rich Text Editor choose the Field Type "Rich Edit Text Area". It is a powerful editor allowing to work WYSIWYG. Currently it is running on Windows only. For more details see the Wizard with help near the Field Type select box. ... |
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| How can I look at the database with Perl? (1709) |
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Sure - here is a little example that shows how to write a little Perl program to execute and return a SQL string.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# this script demonstrates how to use perl to look at the
# mysql database for a slice.
# This particular script looks some of the attributes of a slice's f... |
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| How do I get rid of the "?" by each input field (1710) |
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The ? only shows if their is a URL in the morehelp field. This is setup automatically to be http://aa.ecn.cz/aa/doc/help.html.
You can remove it on fields individually via Admin->Fields->anyfield -> More help and deleting the text which is there.
If you are too lazy to do this on... |
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| Can I run APC-AA with IIS and Windows (1712) |
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IIS is not a supported platform for APC-AA or at least it is not tested on this platform. There were some limitations in IIS v4.0 (I'm not sure, how it is in v5.0), which makes AA half-usable. There was a problem of not passing url parameters
to a script, which is included by SSI include into an sh... |
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| Which strings exactly are removed from Views? (1713) |
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There was changed behavior of string removing in AA v2.6. Now we use much easier steps:
unalias (expand) whole text (replace aliases and any other AA expressions)
remove all specified remove strings
Following worked in AA v2.4 and less, so now is OBSOLETE
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| Where is the HTML (1714) |
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The HTML for a typical APC-AA site can come from many places which can confuse
people used to doing all their HTML in a single place.
Location
What to put there
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| How to create a Calendar (1715) |
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The AA now enable to create a Calendar. Events lasting for several days are supported, repeating events are not supported.
Usually three parts of a calendar view are needed. First, a table showing the days and perhaps some caption of events which happen. This is prepared by the calendar v... |
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| How do I fix a corrupt database (1717) |
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The action apps software uses the mysql database engine to store its data. The mysql database system is very very reliable.
If the server is interrupted in the middle of a transaction, it can corrupt the database. For example, the servers at SangoNet had a power
failure, and one of the ... |
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| Can I call apc-aa item-manager from other php3 code (1719) |
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There are several recent (Mar 2002) changes to make it easier to call apc-aa modules, especially the item manager, from php code.
Sample code to call admin/index.php3 (item manager) from outside.
file: apc-aa/sample/itemmanager.php3
(this need to stay same level of folder with apc-aa/admin/ ... |
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| How do I create my own validation function (1720) |
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You can create your own usr_validate.php3 with a user validation function in it (sorry at this point there can only be one for an apc-aa installation, we'll fix that later, if you need it to validate multiple fields you can make it switch based on the field name).
Here is a sample validation func... |
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| I have limited access to my box, how do I access PHPLIB (1721) |
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If you are unable to edit php.ini, then you won't be able to change the include path to point at PHPLIB, in this case edit the APC-AA/include/config.php3 to add the following lines.
# PHPlib directory if not on include path
$_PHPLIB["libdir"] = "/www/mysite/phplib/php/";
Change the site to p... |
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| Cron - how to automatically run tasks on given time? (1726) |
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The script cron.php3 -
similar to Unix cron - is able to run PHP scripts on given time.
If you want to send e-mail notifications if some condition is satisfied or if
you want to exchange items between slices regularly, you will find it
useful.
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| Can I run APC-AA on two web servers accessing a common database (1730) |
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Yes - this works fine,
You need to setup config.php3 correctly,
Assuming you want the same data to appear on both, then
the key variables seem to be.
AA_INSTAL_URL which can either point to one location, or different locations for each server such as http://www1.yyy.com and http://ww... |
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| How to import lots of data into a slice? (1731) |
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The script /misc/file2slice/importer.php3 contains a function importer, which can import a CSV (comma-separated-values) file into your slice.
The data file should contain field names (any names, not from AA) on the first line, separated by your chosen separator. The next lines contain the... |
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| What are the wizards for parameter generation, and how do I use them (1734) |
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The parameter wizard helps you to design parametres when setting input type of function aliases.
It describes the input type / function and all parametres. Under each input box is a description, left of the box is the type of the parameter value. It allows you to set each parameter individually, ... |
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| How do I link a Index view to show the items in a Full Text view (1740) |
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The right alias is _#ITEM_ID#.
For example, to show an item in a full text view, the view.php3 script should
get the parameters like:
vid=110&cmd[110]=i-110-2548e4b7ae7b8874ee4a4bf
( the 'i' command to view.php3 script takes as argument unpacked (long)... |
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| How do I select a sub-set of items from a view (1676) |
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To select just a sub-set of the items, specify a Condition, or set of conditions,
you can then parameterise that in the include statement or URL. So for example,
if you set Condition 1 to "Category" and "LIKE" then you
can specify a parameter of "cmd[5]=c-1-Ne... |
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| How do I sort items within a View? (1677) |
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You can sort items by specifying in the definition of the view (Admin->Views
then select an existing View or click New) which fields to sort by, and wether
to sort ascending or descending. The primary sort is the main ordering, and
the secondary sorts within this. So for example yo... |
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| How do I include this View in a HTML page? (1743) |
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<!--#include virtual="/aa/view.php3?vid=5"-->
Will embed view number 5 into your page. The view knows which slice it applies
to, so this can be embedded in an Index or Full Text View.
View.php3 will take parameters either in the "include&q... |
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| How do I create a Index of some items (1678) |
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You have to be the slice administrator, then from the standard admin page select
Admin -> Views, then you select "Item Listing" and click New.
The first few items are the same as for creating Index views (see the manual).
You can then specify how to sort it... |
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| How do I setup discussions? (1746) |
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AA v2.0.0 supports discussions. The example, how the dicussions could look
is on:
http://aa.ecn.cz/template/news.shtml?x=39124
Discussions are quite configurable (through views and aliases). Discussions
can be easily managed in Item Manager -... |
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| How can I set mapping on Manual feeding. (1747) |
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At this point there is a bug that mapping is only available when Automatic feeding is enabled. For now the workaround is:
set automatical feeding between the slices (Admin -> Content Pooling -> Inner Node Feeding)
set field mapping (Admin -> Content Pooling -> Mapping)
disable automatical feedi... |
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| How do feed items from one slice to another (1748) |
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There are two feeding methods - authomatical and manual. Automatical feeding
works only for new/updated item. By manual feeding it is possible to feed any
selected item to another slice (if you have permission to do so).
Manual feeding
In Item Manager select the it... |
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| Feeding: How to access the id field in a parent (1749) |
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Note this is a complex question, with a complex answer I don't quite understand, but it seemed important enough to put here until someone rewrites it!
On 26 Oct 2001 at 16:27, John Hall wrote:
> Here's a question from rabble.ca, reviving a thread started on this
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| How to edit a file and check it back into the distribution (1752) |
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To edit a file, you should work on a copy of the full APC-AA distribution, make changes and then check back the changed files
To check out the whole of apc-aa into some directory or other, you need to do it differently from the standard installation instructions if you plan on editing file... |
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| If I am a developer, how can I contribute? (1753) |
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If you are a developer and are interested in the ActionApps, we want your help. You can either offer to help our team directly or you can work on your own modules and release them under the GPL. Either way, you should check in with us on current developments and plans. Visit the ActionApps developer... |
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| Are APC ActionApps open source? (1754) |
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Yes, the ActionApps are licensed under the GNU General Public License. This means you can install the software for free on your own server. It also means you can make modifications or upgrades. These modifications can either be submitted for integration back into the main Action Application code or ... |
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| How can my APC network help me use APC ActionApps? (1755) |
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APC members in general, provide the following assistance in using ActionApps. This assistance can include:
Hosting and maintenance of your ActionApps
Content sharing with like minded organizations
Consultation on setting up an application
Training your staff in using it
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| Who will read my information? (1756) |
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Your information is posted on an Internet Web site, where any Internet user can read it who learns about its address (unless you use ActionApps for internal purposes in a Web site, where readers access is password protected). The advantage of using ActionApps is that posted only once, your informati... |
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| Can the APC ActionApps infect my computer with viruses? (1757) |
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No. ActionApps use only HTML (web) files, which cannot contain viruses. If an item in somebody’s application contains a link to a downloadable file (word document, excel sheet, image or sound files, etc.), those files my be infected just as any other file of those kinds, which are downloadable from ... |
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| Do I need special computer qualifications to use the APC ActionApps? (1758) |
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No. You can handle every aspect of the work by using a Web browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer), and simply copy and paste (or type) text. When setting or changing the layout of your application, an html (Web editor) expert is needed, but your APC provider can give you the necessary assistance.
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| Can the APC ActionApps work in my language? (1759) |
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Yes. It is the responsibility of your local APC service provider to create local language versions of the applications. The software is specifically designed to flexible language management.... |
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| Is my information protected? (1760) |
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The information you post on the WWW using AA is equally secure as it is without it. Permissions of the users of ActionApps are individually defined, and unless you give your password out, or you choose a too trivial password that is easy to guess, your items are only available (for republishing) to ... |
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| I want to feed highlighted items from several slices to the front page. (1761) |
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There is solution for 'Internal feeding':
It could be done using field 'Mapping' ('Slice Admin -> Mapping').
One of the possibilities there is to select '-- Value --' for a field. The 'Value' is not ony static text, but you can use any AA alias construct there (just like: ... |
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| How do I view just highlighted items on a page. (1762) |
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If you want to put highlighted items on a page, you should create a view.
In the view, one of the conditions is that highlight is not ''
(note there is a bug so that once you've set the condition to '' if you try and edit this view, you will need to reset the condition to '' before you hit... |
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| How to set the off-line filling up? (1763) |
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The offline filling currently works only in IE with Java support (there are some problems with Netscape and file manipulation permissions).
All files used for off-line filling are stored in /mics/offline2slice directory. All of them should be copied to local computer, where you want to us... |
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| How to display archive (expired items)? (1764) |
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Expired items are normaly not visible on the public website.
However is it usefull to sometimes show expired items such as for
archives. There are two easy steps to show expired items in a view:
Make sure display of expired items is permitted
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| How to setup searchform? (1769) |
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It is possible to create searchform manually in HTML. There is no possibility
to create it automaticaly as it is known from AA v1.2., yet. Special possibilities
for searching in multiple slice at once, searching in discussions, choosing
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| What is the parent category? (1770) |
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The APC AA has a Two Layer category system:
1) One set of broad categories set at the network level
These are useful so that people can 'browse' and find the information they
are looking for without a specialized understanding of the content area.
2) Totally flexible page-spec... |
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| Constants and Categories (1771) |
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Some fields have a predefined set of possible values --- a constant group.
These are usually shown in a select box, multiple check / radio boxes etc. Edit them in Slice Admin -- Fields -- Constants -- Edit / New.
Categories
are constants with some special properties. The constant ta... |
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| How to link parent item? (1772) |
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Add
<a href="/apc-aa/go.php3?sh_itm=_#ITEM_ID#&type=fed">fed from</a>
or such link to your index (or fulltext) design (Admin -> Design -> Index -> Odd Rows). This will point to fulltext of parent item or to the fulltext of the same item,... |
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| How to create an aa in an alternate language? (1776) |
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If you want to translate the ActionApps to another language, you can look at:
newer versions: look in include/lang/ [add more details]
Older versions:
include/en_common_lang.php3
- this is the file with language constants definions wh... |
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| How to create a new Action Aplication (1778) |
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The applications in v1.5+ can be created quite easy.
Choose a slice and create the set of fields you want to have in the new application.
For these fields change the default values, help texts, names, priorities,
aliases, etc. in the admin interface ... |
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| How to contact the developers (1779) |
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The Action Applications were developed by the Association for Progressive Communications, http://www.apc.org/. They are released as open source and there is a project set up at SourceForge. The Action Applications SourceForge page can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/apc-aa/. ... |
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| Error: setup.php3 just recycles the same page (1780) |
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If hitting "Init" on the setup.php3 page just comes back to the same page, then its probably because your php.ini file contains "register_globals = Off"set this to On and restart Apache.
See the manual section 3.7 for instructions.... |
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| Is there a manual available? (1781) |
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Yes, there is. It is currently available in English and will shortly be available in Spanish. Visit our downloads section to get your own copy to print out, or read it online. ... |
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| Where do I go for user support? (1782) |
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Only the service provider providing your ActionApps can support the service. This is likely to be an APC member. The APC itself cannot directly support individual ActionApps users. ... |
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| How much do ActionApps cost? (1783) |
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Different APC providers offer different services based on ActionApps. So prices vary. For specifics, please ask your APC provider. ... |
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| What specific ActionApps are available? (1784) |
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Different APC providers offer different services based on the ActionApps platform. In general, most APC providers can offer a solution for publishing events, news, action alerts, press releases, contact lists, and similar articles/listings. For specifics, ask your APC provider. ... |
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| How do I get ActionApps? (1785) |
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ActionApps are offered as site plug-in services by individual members of the Association for Progressive Communications (APC). The APC itself does not offer ActionApps services directly. To find an APC provider near you, go to Get Acti... |
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| Who can I create a Content Pool with? (1786) |
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You can create a content pool with any number of partner sites. All of your partners must be subscribing to ActionApps with the same APC provider. ... |
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| What's the benefit of Content Pooling? (1787) |
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There are two general kinds of benefits:
Content - Pooling can give you access to a fresh stream of content for
your site (in the form of your partners' articles); and
Publicity - Pooling can help you get your own content out to new audiences
(whenever you... |
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| What is Content Pooling? (1788) |
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Content Pooling lets you exchange articles with any number of partner
sites. You can create a pool with any number of partners. With Pooling, you
always retain complete control: you can withold any item from your pool; and you
can reject any item made available to you. ... |
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| What can ActionApps do for my organization? (1789) |
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ActionApps empower anyone to publish online, saving you the money you'd
normally spend on web specialists (or training). ActionApps also make your team
more efficient—since the people who create your group's information can publish
it online themselves. Finally, ActionApps' Content Pooling tec... |
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| What are ActionApps? (1790) |
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ActionApps are publishing tools that plug into websites. With ActionApps,
publishing news and information online is as easy as filling in online forms.
Their unique Content Pooling technology enables organizations to exchange
articles between their sites. For more details, see ... |
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| Error: Access denied for user: 'aadbuser@xxxx' (1791) |
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Warning: Access denied for
user: 'aadbuser@xxxxx' (Using password: YES) in
/usr/local/web/phplib/db_mysql.inc on line 73 Database error:
pconnect(xanadu.cyborganic.org, aa-user, $Password) failed. MySQL Error: 0 ()
Please contact foobar@somewhere.com and report ... |
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