Updated Mar 11, 2010
When working with templates, ShadoCMS makes available a whole bunch of variables. These variables can be used in templates for accomplishing tasks like conditional processing. Here is a list of some... more »
Updated Nov 20, 2008
By default, ShadoCMS sites are set up and coded to use the name of the site in all URLs. This works very well as a default option as it requires almost no webserver and code changes. But there are... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
Using fully-qualified component names is always a good idea. It reduces the risk of incorrectly using a wrong component in case there are multiple components with the same name on a ColdFusion server.... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
Page variables (known as page properties in an earlier life) are very useful in setting up variables that can be inspected by templates at runtime. The inspected values can be then used to change the... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
When users are added to a ShadoCMS site, by default they are not notified that they have been added. However, if you need to notify users by email that they have been added to a ShadoCMS site, you can... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
Often it is very useful to add functionality to a site that allows a user to print a whole section to screen (which can then be printed to a printer) or to a PDF. It is fairly straight-forward to... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
Here is a script that can be added to ColdFusion scheduled tasks to automate indexing of a few or all Lucene search stores.
Updated Mar 10, 2010
The ShadoCMS search uses a few Java libraries to index and retrieve content -- in site tree, digital assets and SOF objects. These Java libraries are dependent on the version of Java that is being... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of a variable indicates its type or intended use.
Updated Mar 11, 2010
Writing tests as you develop code for a ShadoCMS site is the best way to ensure that the code you write works as expected. We recently added information in the documentation section that shows how to... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
Straker releases the new member manager module as the first in a series of module enhancements and new functionality additions over the coming months.
Updated Mar 10, 2010
ShadoCMS v8.5 has been released further solidifying Shado as a leader in the Multilanguage and Rich Internet Application market.
Updated Mar 11, 2010
Here are the system requirements for installing ShadoCMS 8 Category Requirements CPU Windows - Intel® Pentium® II or... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
This article covers how to use decimals in ZoomFlex properties which currently requires a few quick changes to the number control to work correclty. When you create a property of Type... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
This article looks at how you can use custom queries in ZoomFlex to return data from the server-side objects. In the generated ZoomFlex code under the #39;events#39; folder is a... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
Today one of the ZoomFlex users asked this question:In ZoomFlex, what is the best way to retrieve objects from server-side classes based on obj_uuid? Do I have to write my own server-side function... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
In ZoomFlex, the various Delegate classes make calls to server-side methods. Often such calls may involve returning a query from the remote method. There are times (depending on the ColdFusion server... more »
Updated May 08, 2008
When you are developing and extending applications with ZoomFlex, you would need to use debugging to see the results of your changes to the code. As ZoomFlex applications have two components to it --... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
There are times when you want to automatically create a folder in Digital Assets (FMS) manager for each newly added section/page in the site tree. Some implementations of ShadoCMS adopt this as an... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
I just ran into a Flex date gotcha when using Mysql with ZoomFlex. The details are explained on a Ray Camden blog post. To apply the fix to a ZoomFlex site simply change the listing.mxml... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
Updated Mar 10, 2010
A question that comes up commonly is how to find out the pages where a digital asset (a FMS file) is used. There are two ways to retrieve this information: a) Using the ShadoCMS API: Searches... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
In ShadoCMS 8.0, you can programmatically index the digital assets in the File Management System (FMS) using the Search API. Search in Shado 8 using Lucene 2.2 search engine.Here is sample code on how... more »
Updated Mar 11, 2010
In TinyMCE there are 2 dropdowns, one is the Format dropdown which includes H1, paragraph tags and the like, the other is the Styles dropdown (also known previously as the class dropdown). Now... more »
Updated Mar 10, 2010
By default ShadoCMS 7.7.x onwards does not ship with Login Lockout active, that is, the ability to lock a user out for x amount of minutes after x amount of login attempts. This must be implemented on... more »