Re: [Hypercontent-users] [Fwd: Needed help using Hypercontent]

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

Hi Michael,
	I'll respond to your question via e-mail, since that is the preferred 
mechanism amongst hypercontent users, although I noticed your post on 
the forums as well.

The directions in the Read Me tell you how to port an existing project 
into HC2; since you're starting from scratch, the main thing you need 
to do is create the repository definition under /projects/.  Once 
you're able to access your repository via its mount point, you have 
your blank slate. A directory called "/config/" is automatically 
created with blank project definition, groups and permissions files, as 
well as copies of the workflow scripts found in the bootstrap project.  
A directory called "/workflow-data/" is also created, which you can 
ignore; this is where HC2 stores various workflow related data such as 
batch tasks, work queues, etc.  You don't need to upload a repository 
zip since you're not converting an existing project.

The place you start defining your file structure, XSL transformations 
and such is in the file "/config/project-definition.xml", which when 
you begin is simply an empty document.  This document is 
backwards-compatible with the format documented in the v1.4 manual 
starting at

http://hypercontent.sourceforge.net/docs/manual/develop/project-def.html

There are new things you can do in this file that are not expressed in 
the 1.4 documentation, such as specify files with "**" patterns (e.g. 
/**/index.xml indicates an index page in any directory at any level) 
and add output elements to resource-directories (e.g. to auto-create an 
HTML page to display an image with metadata and navigation, or to 
output multiple resized versions of an image). But for the most part 
you'll find the v1.4 documentation a good starting point for 
understanding what this file does.

I've been promising a release candidate for a while now, which will 
include a couple more sample projects which are simpler and and show 
off some of the newer features.  This release is planned for the very 
near future, I've just been very busy with our internal migration to 
HC2 the last few weeks, handling bug fixes and GUI tweaks based on user 
feedback, all of which will make the final product more polished.  Our 
HC2 server handled about 40,000 requests during business hours 
yesterday, and our users, who had been using the 1.x series for up to 2 
years, are very happy with intuitiveness and performance of the new 
system.  Of course we're only about 15% migrated, so the work goes on . 
. .

Cheers,
	Alex


On Oct 18, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Carl Barrow wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> By way of this email I have forwarded your email to the HyperContent 
> mailing list, which you should join as it is very useful 
> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=101745. There is usually one of 
> us around to help answer your questions and there is some very good 
> info on there already.
>
> Unfortunately I am about to leave work for the evening,  Alex might be 
> able to send a response later today. If not I will get back to you 
> tomorrow.
>
> Many Thanks
> Carl
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Needed help using Hypercontent
> Date: 	Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:10:13 -0400
> From: 	michael ayodele <mic...@gm...>
> To: 	por...@hu...
>
>
>
> Hi I have been trying to use hypercontent and as you say it can be a 
> very daunting task. I have been trying to follow the sample website 
> that comes with hypercontent to see how the system works. However it 
> is quite overwhelming. So I am trying to build a simple website of my 
> own following the directions in the readme file. I am stuck now on the 
> step that says to create a project-definition.xml file and uploading a 
> repository zip. What does my repository zip contain?, what is its 
> structure? I sort of understand we are suppose to create our websites 
> by changing XML content, using XSL into HTML. But how does it all fit 
> together, what am I supposed to provide and what does hypercontent 
> take care of for me. If you help me get started I would really 
> apreciate, there does not seem to be a lot of documentation available
> Michael Ayodele
> Software Engineering Graduate Student
> Florida A&M University
>
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