Referencing vrs Connecting a page. Red Dot 7.5

[galactic]

Any comments would be appreciated.

I am working on a site with lots of folders in it. all of the folders
have index.html pages in them. When red dot users "connect an existing
page" (that is named index) on a related link, at publishing it
produces an error that reads something like "can't find the ___
directory, publishing to the root directory". Then it overwrites the
home index page!! I started recommending the users use "Reference a
Page" instead.

My question is : Can I stop Red Dot from publishing to the root
directory if there is such an error? Is what's happening the fact the
connecting an existing page is altering the structure somehow, and
referencing a page does not? What are the major differences between
the two?

I tried using authorization packages to stop the ability to connect to
existing pages from the module, but it takes out referencing a page as
well.

Thank you for any insight.

-galactic

[Arsalan]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but from my limited Reddot experience, my guess is that you'll need to create separate publication packages for each directory. That way all the pages along with respective index.html pages will be published inside their own folder and won't overwrite other files.

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From: galactic <ctr_wp...@salemstate.edu>
To: RedDot CMS Users <reddot-c...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 10:44:52 AM
Subject: Referencing vrs Connecting a page. Red Dot 7.5

[Tiffany]

Arsalan is right, use multiple publication packages, and the index
will become the index of each new folder in your structure.
Connect Existing will publish NEW pages.
If you want the page to publish to one spot, and then link to that
original page, then you need to reference the page not connect
existing.

On Nov 2, 12:03 pm, Arsalan <ajam...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong but from my limited Reddot experience, my guess is that you'll need to create separate publication packages for each directory. That way all the pages along with respective index.html pages will be published inside their own folder and won't overwrite other files.
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> From: galactic <ctr_wphill...@salemstate.edu>

[galactic]

Thanks for your input. Yes I am using multiple publication packages
allready. Some users mistakenly have been connecting existing instead
of referencing sub pages. When publishing related pages, It's like Red
Dot can't find the folder of the publication package and just dumps it
into the root directory.

I do think you answered my question though, Connect Existing should be
only used for new pages, not pages somewhere else in the structure
right? Unfortunately I don't see a way to keep people from using this
instead of referencing a page, there doesn't seem to be a way with
authorization packages. If you know of a way, please pass it on.

Thanks!

-galactic

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[ed.kapu...@gmail.com]

I had a similar problem years ago.

I named the site index page "index" and have the rest of the subfolder
indexes being published as "default.asp".

I then told the web server to serve index over default.

Of course, this doesn't mean that one default can't be published over
another though, in which case, you may want to take a look at this:
http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/duplicate-content-publishing-seo-and-open-text-web-solutions

Ed

[galactic]

Ed,

That's what I thought was happening, and now it's clear. Thank you so
much for the link, which was very insightfull. My douplication days
are over!

-galactic

On Nov 3, 9:51 am, "ed.kapuscin...@gmail.com"

<ed.kapuscin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a similar problem years ago.
>
> I named the site index page "index" and have the rest of the subfolder
> indexes being published as "default.asp".
>
> I then told the web server to serve index over default.
>
> Of course, this doesn't mean that one default can't be published over

> another though, in which case, you may want to take a look at this:http://www.reddotcmsblog.com/duplicate-content-publishing-seo-and-ope...

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[ed.kapu...@gmail.com]

Glad to help!