Tuesday 21 July 2009 7:26:25 am
@ Dave Smith: Thank you for your posting. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve my problem. Following the article, I have already renamed plain_site to tscm and plain_site_admin to tscm_admin at the beginning. I have fully adapted the site.ini.append.php files in the siteaccesses and in the site override. The design directory also has been renamed from plain_site to tscm, and the VarDir = var/tcsm (to make sure, I deleted var/plain_site, so the system has created var/tscm). The problem is that the system somewhere doesn't seem to be aware that plain_site has become tscm and plain_site_admin has become tscm_admin. In the article, there is a part "Creating the welcome page". The last point, "Creating and using a custom template", doesn't work. I follow all the points mentioned there, but the override gets simply not created. This is because in the New override dialog, I can only choose between plain_site and plain_site_admin, which no longer exist. So perhaps I would better start with creating the siteaccesses tscm and tscm_admin from scratch, instead of renaming plain_site and plain_site_admin? @ Gaetano: "Producing high quality documentation is a full time job, and as such is costly." How strange that other huge open source projects, who have no income from basic, silver, gold, and even platinium very expensive commercial licences, manage to write excellent documentation. Their managers, especially their marketeers, must come from another business school than those of eZ Systems. I was able to use such systems to their full extent without ever have had to ask one question in their communities, only with the documentation. So I must not be that stupid. After all what I have already done and mentioned in my previous posting, I don't think one can state that I am too lazy to try to find out by myself. I am now just missing some piece of the giant puzzle that eZ Publish is. I want to setup a new site. The siteaccesses and the site override are OK, and so is the design. My only question is: how do I go on now to create my first web page? It may be something very simple that I am just overlooking; can somebody please give me a hint into the right direction? Besides: why not just modify somewhat the article in the old documentation, which was about eZ Publish 3.5, so that it works for the current stable version (and at the same time, put the missing pictures again online)? "but we are trying to improve it." Trying doesn't help, please just do it. And I'm afraid that, now that I don't know how to go on with eZ Publish, if I have to wait until there is better documentation online, I will already have a long beard. "In the real true spirit of open source you are welcome to contribute back your improvements!" The chicken and egg problem. I am rewriting parts of the documentation, so I can better understand them. Rewriting them so they offer a better usability for everyone would take much more time. Yet, once I will have to spend less time in order to find out how eZ Publish works, if there is still no good documentation on this site, I will do so, as I don't want so many other people to have to spend so much time on learning eZ Publish. Isn't it sad that so many people start with eZ Publish, then abandon it, just because there is no one useable tutorial about getting started with it?
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