Hiding/unhiding pages from site visitors.

[James Keasley]

Hi,

I am currently working on a site using farcry, and one of the client's
requirements
is that they should be able to hide or reveal sections or pages on the
site from
site visitors.

To clarify, they don't want site visitors to be presented with a link
to the hidden pages,
or for a login screen to be presented to them if they try and get to
the page directly.

Instead, the page should just appear not to be there, unless you are in
the admin system. They don't want to have to send the actual content of
the page back to draft to achieve this either.

Is it possible to toggle the visibility of pages or sections in this
way, and, if so, how?

If this isn't currently supported in farcry, how tricky do you think it
would be to implement?

Thanks in advance for any help.

James K

[Gallo, Paul]

If it's any better - they only have to send the dmNavigation object that
the page resides in back to draft (not the dmHTML page itself). It's
only a one-click operation to send it live again :D

If you went the route of adding a new attribute to dmNavigation
specifying if it should be hidden, you could have to send to draft,
edit, send live... which is much more work.

Is there a reason they would rather not use the draft/live feature?

Paul Gallo

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[James Keasley]

Mainly because it appears that they have been sending the content back
to draft rather than the navigation item.

Hopefully this should be acceptable to them though.

[Andrew Mercer]

Nav nodes can have view access to anoymous revoked and will then be prompted to login is they try and access a page.

You will have to do some checking when adding links to a site so they are only displayed if the user is a memeber of a group than has access to that node.

Is this what you are after?

[Martin Orth]

Hallo liebe Mitglieder der Gruppe farcry-dev,

FarCryCMS ist eine der innovativsten und aktuellsten Open Source
CMS-Lösungen auf der Basis von Adobe ColdFusion MX. Wenn sich jemand von
Euch mit Farcry beschäftigt bzw. sich in naher Zukunft damit beschäftigen
möchte, empfehle ich Ihm oder Ihr den Besuch von www.farcrycms.de. Die
Viedeo-Tutorials ermöglichen hoffentlich einen schnellen Einstieg in die
neue Materie und nach Absprache mit Geoff Bowers von Daemon gibt es jetzt
auch eine deutschsprachige Mailingliste zu Farcry. siehe
http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-de

Mit kölschen Grüßen

Martin Orth

[Geoff Bowers]

Martin,

Can you send me through some text in german for the Community Support page?
http://www.farcrycms.org/go/support/community-support

I'll add the new mailing list to the page :)

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

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[Martin Orth]

>
> Martin,
>
> Can you send me through some text in german for the Community Support
> page?
> http://www.farcrycms.org/go/support/community-support

Here it is:

* farcry-de
* farcry-de ist die deutschsprachige Mailingliste zu Problemen/Lösungen mit
dem ColdFusion CMS Farcry.
* To join the mailing list, go to:
http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-de/about

> I'll add the new mailing list to the page :)
>
> -- geoff
> http://www.daemon.com.au/

Do you have any new markting documents about Farcry? At the moment I am
translating the old V2.3 technology whitepaper into german. (Most of the
content is up to date.) It would also be nice to have the graphics of this
document and the new logo as a psd or png file. Simple send me what's
available.

[James Keasley]

Unfortunately that is specifically what they do not want, the page
should not appear at all, and its relevant navigation link should be
hidden from users browsing the site.

They want to hide pages more as a way of removing content temporarily
from the site without having to go through the whole
draft->approve->publish process, rather than to restrict access only to
certain logged in users.

thanks for the response though.

James K

[Geoff Bowers]

I'm not sure I understand what's being asked here.. for an admin sending
an entire branch to draft is a one step process.. as is sending it back
live again. I'm not sure how much simpler such a process could get..

ok.. maybe half a step but we haven't worked that out yet ;)

Are they clicking on the navigation folder or on the underlying draft
content items? Using the folder affects all the content underneath.

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

[James Keasley]

I suspect that they may be clicking on the content items, rather than
the navigation nodes.

The trouble is that the wording in the spec differs from the process
that Farcry uses to hide pages, so it is convincing the client that the
farcry method is actually what they are asking for, despite the fact
that the mothod differs from that described in the oriinal supplier's
documentation.