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Tenth CMSc user day
The tenth CMSc user day was held in Almere on the 29-the of October. The new portal and webshop for www.aletta.nu by the Ontwikkelfabriek, CMSc en Single Sign on at the NAi, the CMSc newsletter at het Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei, and the comparison between CMSc, Hippo and Drupal. The next CMSc user day will take place on December 15 at the Kennisnet office in Zoetermeer
Admin Guide updated
For CMSc administrators and developers: the Admin Guide has two small updates, in chapter 9.6 and 9.7. They might be interesting for technical users. Check out the Documentation page.
Ninth CMSc user day
After two years of CMSc user days the location of the ninth user day was again the NAi in Rotterdam. Main topics of the day were the new website for the NFK in the CMSc version 1.6 and the launch of WO2Online. Click here to download the presentation of the user day. Next to this strong points and weaknesses were discussed. Main focus of the new 1.7 release will be usability, such as a light version of the editors. The user day was closed of with an MMBase technology meeting and a sunny diner at Cafe Coenen. The next CMSc day is Tuesday September 29 in Almere.
E-commerce with CMSc and Ketjing Webshop
Download the Factsheet of Ketjing in Dutch
In the Netherlands, e-commerce expenses increased with 28%. And what do you do? Do you have plans to increase your e-commerce program? But you don't like to buy heavy e-commerce software? Webshop Ketjing might be a solution, because it is an addition to CMS Container and also based on open source. More information on Ketjing can be found at the specific website.
See Webshop Ketjing in action
Watch 2 Adobe Flash movies of the frontend and backend of Ketjing being demonstrated.
Visit the demo of Ketjing.
New Release 1.4.15
A new stable release of CMS Container has arrived. More information can be found at the download section. New WARs can be found at the 1.4.15
directory. New features and bugfixes for this version can be found in Jira, login with guest/guest.
Release Highlights
- Update of MMBase to version 1.8.7-20090103
- Error in URL search screen fixed
- Moving items to trash did not remove them properly from live
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many more...see complete list in Jira
Eight CMSc user day
Thursday December 11 2008, the eighth CMSc user day was held at L1 in Maastricht (NL). Next to the usual topics like status and releases (see presentation and status update), CMSc presentations were given by Pepijn Lemmens www.maakonsland.nl and Marieke van de Heuvel www.butterflyworks.org . These websites provide nice examples of CMSc website with a crisp concept, and a fresh look and feel. I the presentation of http://portal.rdmc.ou.nl Robin Vanspauwen showed the CMSc portal build by the Open University.
Non-CMSc presentations were given by Johannes Verelst (EO), Rob de Bruin (Kennisnet), Lucas Vroemen (L1) en Michiel Meeuwissen (Dynasol). The day ended with drinks in an authentic Limburgse pub.
Seventh CMSc user day
On the 30-th of September 2008, the seventh CMSc User Day (see program) was held at the KNMI in De Bilt, NL. Presentation on user experience with the CMSc where given bij Almere (A. Heuzer), NFK (Y. Ravenstein) and Henk van Dijk (KNMI). During the rest of the afternoon the 1.5 release and the upcoming 1.6 release were discussed. The next CMSc user day will be combined with the yearly MMEvent and held at December 11, 2008 at the L1 office in Maastricht, NL.
New Release: 1.4.10
A new stable release of CMS Container has arrived. More information can be found at the download section. New WARs can be found at the 1.4.10
directory. New features and bugfixes for this version can be found in Jira, login with guest/guest.
Release Highlights
- MMBase upgraded to 1.8.6-20080927. (also upgrade your project to this version is your are using this CMSc version)
- Content channel portlet allows changing sorting mode in the view
- RSS Feed now fully complies to the RFC822 standard: better date formatting
- RSS Feed ignored the "Max age (in days)" field, fixed.
- Uploading big files caused an error, fixed.
- Changing content does not cause a mass publication of related items anymore (if RSS Feeds are used).
New Release: 1.4.9
A new stable release of CMS Container has arrived. More information can be found at the download section. New WARs can be found at the 1.4.9
directory. New features and bugfixes for this version can be found in Jira, login with guest/guest.
Release Highlights
- MMBase upgraded to 1.8.6-20080719. (also upgrade your project to this version is your are using this CMSc version)
- Ordering of content elements in Edit Wizards on posrel fixed
- Gallery portlet now sorts images in view properly
- Dynamic Form portlet better handles whitespaces in input fields
- Fixed ordering on expire date field in portlet views
New Release: 1.4.8
A new stable release of CMS Container has arrived. More information can be found at the download section. New WARs can be found at the 1.4.8
directory. New features and bugfixes for this version can be found in Jira, login with guest/guest.
Release Highlights
- fixes to the Alias module: now grouped aliases can be published
- chief editors can delete pages again (same as in CMSc 1.1 - 1.3.)
- some Firefox 3 fixes
CMSc at the CMS 2008 congres
Also this year, the CMS 2008 conference attracted lots of visitors. Erwin Blom from the Crowds (and of course from the VPRO) and Vincent Evers were the key note speakers of the conference. All content management systems were present: GX, Hippo, Tridion, Roxen, SiteCore, etc. etc. Finalist promoted the CMS Container both with the CMSc booth and the combi presentation with Butterfly Works (download presentation). The OneLaptopPerChild (OLPC) with the CMSc Learning about Living website attracted a lot of attention.
New Release: 1.4.7
A new stable release of CMS Container has arrived. More information can be found at the download section. Also a new demo-database is made; it can be found at the 1.4.7 directory. New features and bugfixes for this version can be found in Jira, login with guest/guest.
Fifth CMSc User Day
On Tuesday 23-th March 2008 the fifth CMSc user day took place at Finalist at Rotterdam (see presentation). In the morning frontend developers had an opportunity to train their skills in working with the CMSc layout, views and stylesheets. In the afternoon the 1.4 release (see release notes) was presented with a demo of the Personal Pages in the website of the National Comitee in rememberance of May 4 and 5. The personal pages is the first module that uses the new community module in the CMSc. The roadmap for the new releases will be centered around the newsletter module, which is also based on the community module, and improved asset management. The user day closed with a presentation by Jon-Paul Sistermans on www.ikbouwmijnhuisinalmere.nl and the possibilities of Flex/Flash in the CMSc by Diederick Lawson.
PISA / PIGA-coupling for almere.nl
For the city of Almere, Finalist is working on the migration of the WIAB based website almere.nl to the CMS Container. Important aspect of this project is the implementation of a interface between the local government PISA Product Catalogue and the CMS Container for the website almere.nl. The PISA Product catalogue is based on the PIGA Product catalogue of the city of Amsterdam. Visitors of de website almere.nl will be able to see the PIGA content being displayed in the graphic design of the website. The new almere.nl will be released in spring 2008.
Database
For using the Demo-warfiles of the CMSc, you can use the pre-filled databases. They give you an occupied demo site with a portlet and template setup. The databases can be found at http://www.cmscontainer.org/files/ and look in the appropriate directory. The latest development builds can use the 1.4 database.
New Release 1.3.6
A new stable release of CMS Container has arrived. More information can be found at the download section.
Fourth CMSc user day
On December 6-th 2007 the fourth CMSc user day took place at Kennisnet in Zoetermeer. The CMSc user day was combined with the annual MMBase Event. The main topics of the day were the release notes for version 1.3 and the upcoming 1.4 release which will contain: community-module, html-newsletter, forum, and myPage. See also the program of the meeting. In the afternoon the floor was to:
- Jacobjob Koster of Finalist with an introduction to the CMSc (see presentations)
- Rob de Bruin of Kennisnet on their plans with Copacobana (see presentation)
- Henk Hangyi on the architecture principles that have been designed for MMBase
- André van Toly with a presention of the new MMBase Component Framework
- Freek Punt of Finalist with presentation on the technical concepts behind the CMSc (see presentation)
- Emer Beamer of Butterfly Works on their experience with the CMS Container (see presentation)
Admin Guide released
We have written an Admin Guide that features information about the technical details of the CMSc. It explains how the following features work: User Management, System Properties, Layouts, Views, Style sheets, Portlet Definitions and other Administrator functions as the new Admin Dashboard. Please take a look at the document if you are interested. You can find the Admin Guide at the Support section.
Lucas Vroemen presents L1's steps into open source at the European Broadcast Union
The regional broadcaster L1 started to use the CMSc as its open source content managent system in the beginning of 2007. At the "Open Source Software for media professionals"-conference at the European Broadcast Union, Lucas Vroemen presented L1's next steps. For broadcasters publishing live content through multiple channels means a big challenge for their radio and tv automation systems. The ideal situation being one application that enables the editors to manage content, audio streams and tv streams. In collaboration with the Hoge School Zuyd in Heerlen (NL) a research project was carried out to compare different automation systems for radio stations and how these systems on the long run could be integrated with the CMSc. For more information on the outcomes of this research visit www.lucasvroemen.nl.
Updated Installation Guide
The installation guide is updated to version 1.2. Some improvements are:
- Corrected login/password information on database
- Prerequisites section: made better distinction between optional and non-optional packages
- MySQL my.cnf differences made bold
- Updated Sun packages version information
- Updated context file information
- Made Apache HTTP server section optional
- Added mod_proxy information
Second CMSc user day
On June the 26-th 2007 the second CMSc user day toke place at the community of Almere. The plans for the Web 2.0 functionality like community, html-newsletter, forum, and myPages were presented and the upcoming 1.3 release was discussed. See also the program of the meeting. After a city tour through the modern and impressive architecture of Almere, the floor was to Jules Janssen of the regional broadcasting company of L1 and Jon Paul Sistermans to present their experience with the CMSc. The main conclusion of Jules was that the CMSc works fine, but still has some rough edges which need to be adressed. E.g. in the present release it is not possible to show articles without their title. Download the presentation of L1.The next meeting is on September 25, 2007 in Nijmegen. It was decided that next meeting everybody is invited to join the entire meeting.
Third CMSc user day
On September the 25-th 2007 the third CMSc user day took place at the community of Nijmegen. The main topics of the day were the new 1.3 release, the new drag-and-drop functionality for portlets, and the planning of the Web 2.0 functionality like community, html-newsletter, forum, and myPage. See also the program of the meeting. In the afternoon the floor was to Pepijn Lemmens of the NAi and Marc van Kollenburg of Nijmegen to present their experience with the CMSc. The next meeting is on December 6, 2007 at Kennisnet in Zoetermeer.
Nijmegen and L1 @ Content Management Systems 2007
Wednesday May 23, 2007 two presentations on the CMS Container were given at the Content Management Systems 2007. The first presentation covered the implementation of the Nijmegen website in the CMS Container. The presentation was given by Sandra Bronkhorst, projectmanager. The presentation can be downloaded here (PDF, 260 kb). The second presentation was given by Lucas Vroemen on the use of the CMS Container within L1. The presentation kan be downloaded here (PDF, 1700 kb). Unfortunately only a Dutch version is available.
First CMSc user day
On April the 24-th 2007 the first CMS Container user day toke place at the NAi (Dutch Architecture Institute). 
User days give a platform to the users of the CMS Container to talk about their experiences, fix plans for upcoming releases, and discuss new functionality. The main topics were: release planning, the new online platform www.cmscontainer.org and the new logo for the CMS Container. See also the program of the meeting. Due to the sunny weather Coenen was a perfect place to finish the meeting and drink a toast on the future. The next meeting is on June 26, 2007 at Almere
New layout online!
This site has been updated to the new CMS Container layout. Including the new CMS Container logo!
Hard at work on current projects
The first two websites created with the CMS Container are live!
Nijmegen and L1 are happy with their new online environment. However, we are not sitting on our hands, the new websites for the Netherlands architecture institute (NAi) and the 4th and 5th of May will be launched soon.