Re: [Hypercontent-users] Newbies Questions

[Carl B. <C.P...@hu...>]

Hi Lillian

I'm still evaluating HC2.0 but I've been live with HC 1.4 here for some 
time. I'll do my best to answer your questions. Alex might want to add 
to what I've written later on, but hopefully this will help.

Answers embedded below

Many Thanks
Carl

Liying Miao wrote:

> Hi Experts,
>
> We are trying HC2.0 now to implement a test version of our 
> university’s website. We are still at the stage of understanding more 
> of HC by playing with the sample project, modifying content. I know we 
> can add items under News directory, but when we can’t do certain 
> things like adding a root menu item or changing the navigation to be a 
> drop down list, we are stuck.
>
> I read the Hypercontent 1.4 Manual, and thanks, that was helpful in 
> understanding the building blocks. However, I still don’t know where 
> to start. Here are the questions:
>
> 1. In order to meet our needs, do we modify the definitions in the 
> sample project, or do we need a brand new project built?
>
 From my experience you should always start a new project from scratch. 
Spend some time planning out the structure of your site, how your 
template and navigation will work and getting your dtds correct from the 
start and this will make live much easier in the future.

> 2. If we need to build project from scratch, then,
>
> · Do we create a test-repository folder under 
> C:\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2 (same directory 
> where sample-build and sample-repository exist) and leave webapp 
> folder alone?
>
Yes, you'll need to create the directory for the repository. You don't 
need to do anything with the webapp directory.

> · Do we first create Project Definition, filesystem, under 
> C:\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2.0b2\hypercontent2\repositories\bootstrap\config 
> and projects? How do we define it if we don’t have user.xml, 
> index.xml, index.xsl, projet.xsl, etc created yet?
>
If you login to http://localhost:8080/projects/ as admin.
Add a new project by typing a name in the box and press enter.
Set the mount point, /newproject/ ( will be accessible at 
http://localhost:8080/newproject)
Set the repository path, repositories/project-repository/newproject
login to your new site and you'll see the following directories
config/
workflow/
You will see nothing else since it's not defined in the project 
definition at this point.
In config you will see project-definition.xml where you can now build up 
your project. Adding your XML doctypes, build, publish paths etc...
You can set up permissions in permissions.xml although thats not 
something I've done since HC1.4 used the uPortal group/permissions manager.

> · What source can we borrow for the new project, what need to be 
> modified and recompiled?
>
I'm not too sure what you meant by that, can you clarify

> Thanks so much for helping me get started… slowly…
>
> Lillian Miao
>
> ERP/IT
> Florida A&M University
> (850) 412-7999
>

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