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ACREG Champions Training
21 – 25 November 2005, Johannesburg, South Africa Location: Torque IT House, 5 Mellis Avenue, Mellis Park, Rivonia web: http://www.torque-it.com/
Agenda:
Day 1
Understanding How to approach web projects with AA
- The ACREG walk-through: following content through on its journey from backend input form to front-end public web page.
- The ActionApps approach to content management and site design: The idea and the model it gives us.
- Mapping out the relationship between the installation, the slice, the fields, the items, the views and the public website pages.
- Factoring this into website planning and development
- Finding your installation, setting up a simple slice.
Day 2
Getting a comprehensive understanding of How to configure fields appropriately for a range of different content and how to create easy to use input forms – building website back-end
- Data model planning
- Content classification - Categories, related items
- Making data input easy – input control types and features walk-through
- Improving item manager, using stored searches
- Extending input form functionality with JavaScript
- CSV data import
Day 3
Understanding Design templates - building website front-end
- Including Views through SSI
- Creating basic views
- Using {} syntax, using aliases
- Modifying template behaviour through URL parameters
- View types walk-through
Day 4
User management, content searching, content Sharing – from many writers to many readers
- User management, permissions, profiles
- Creating Search Forms
- Content sharing
- News Feeding
- Creating anonymous forms
- Using the Discussions feature
Day 5
Taking Care of the Installation
- System requirements for ActionApps
- Upgrading to new versions of AA as they are released
- Trouble shooting common problems
- Backup and recovery
- Moving on – getting support from the AA Development Community
- Participating in the AA Development Project
Useful Links
ActionApps Documenatation
Software Downloads and setup
Firefox Web Browser (free)
A popular and fast web browser suitable for ActionApps backend Local download Original: download
UltraEdit (evaluation)
A popular text editor with syntax highlighting and FTP/SFTP support Local: download Original: download Please don't install any dictionaries:
To create a new ftp account, click on File -> Ftp -> Open from FTP -> Accounts. See the UltraEdit account setup screenshot.
Two panels Norton Commander style file manager with FTP and SCP plugins. Local: download Original: download
To create a new ftp account, click on Right -> Change Drive -> FTP Client. See the Salamander account setup screenshot.
NVU html editor
Free WYSIWYG HTML editor Local: download Original: download
shtml page design resources
One true page layout
