Re: [Hypercontent-users] HC 2 problems

[Alex V. <av...@co...>]

Hi Carl,
	I've embedded responses below.

On Jun 27, 2005, at 11:42 AM, Carl Barrow wrote:

> Hi Alex
>
> I now have time to take more of a look at HyperContent 2.   I have 
> migrated a couple of projects from 1.4 without any problem and that 
> seems fine.  I have had a few problems initially, all listed bellow.
>
> Build/Publish/Preview just doesn't seems to work. No files are output 
> even though the paths are all set correctly.  I am running HC2 locally 
> and building onto a file server, I wouldn't have though that would 
> make any difference.

For Build and Publish, click the "more details" link once the process 
is complete to see a report of what has been updated.  Try wiping out 
the contents of the target directory to guarantee a full build.  You 
can also set force="true" in the build and/or publish workflow script 
(under /config/workflow/) to force all files to be output (instead of 
comparing dates).  Preview doesn't exist in the old sense . . . 
previewing is dynamically done through the "View" tab, or by accessing 
the web pages via the built-in web server.  The preview filesystem, if 
carried over in your project definition, is ignored.

>
> When I'm editing content I don't get a save option on xml until I move 
> to spell check and back.

You can use the process changes icon in the XML editor to submit the 
form, which refreshes the screen, also causing the dialog to appear.

>
> When I want to add a new page element, I make the selection from a 
> dropdown box but I can't get an editor up until I move to spell check 
> and back.

Once again, the process changes icon will submit the form and refresh 
the screen.

Should we put the "Process Changes" button back to make it more clear?

>
> I get an error when I click my imported sitemap.xml  ( full error 
> pasted at the end)

The error seems to indicate a null XSL parameter value.  On first 
glance, I would suggest you check that you have the "abs-server-base" 
properly set in hypercontent.properties, and check earlier in the log 
for any stack traces that might not appear to be related (but may very 
well be).  Maybe send along the relevant "xml-doc" tag with its outputs 
from your project definition.

>
> Navigation isn't shown in view mode ( I presume because of the sitemap 
> error)

I would guess so as well.

>
> I always get a download box when I click to edit a dtd

This is a browser setting; the "View" pane is loading the dtd, and the 
browser doesn't recognize the content type.  To enable a plain text 
view of DTDs in your project, add the following pipeline to 
/config/pipelines.xml in your repository, but make sure the "binding" 
attribute is set to the identical string as your resource-directory 
"path" attribute for DTDs

<pipeline basedir="/d/" binding="/dtd/*" content-type="text/plain"/>

>
> Advanced meta data doesn't appear when I click the link.

Are you running the beta2 release?  It works for me . . .

>
> I would have really liked to have seem a collapseable structure as 
> there was in HC 1.4

This is certainly possible, but not something we'll probably do here 
any time soon.  I'll be happy to give you pointers on adding that as a 
custom screen, though. It's pretty simple to add custom screens, and 
you don't have to change any of the core code.

-Alex

>
> Many Thanks
> Carl