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Updated Jan 08, 2008
See ZoomFlex at the Boston FLEX Camp
Updated Nov 30, 2007
Straker are pleased to announce that we will be sponsors for this years Boston Flex camp to be held on Friday December 7th. Visit the Zoomflex stand to find out more about ZoomFlex is making it easy... more »
Finding out the pages where an FMS file is used
Updated Nov 29, 2007
A question that comes up commonly is how to find out the pages where a digital asset (a FMS file) is used. There are two ways to retrieve this information: a) Using the ShadoCMS API: Searches... more »
How to lockout a user after failed logins
Updated Nov 29, 2007
By default ShadoCMS 7.7.x onwards does not ship with Login Lockout active, that is, the ability to lock a user out for x amount of minutes after x amount of login attempts. This must be implemented on... more »
Programmatically Indexing Digital Assets in the FMS
Updated Nov 28, 2007
In ShadoCMS 8.0, you can programmatically index the digital assets in the File Management System (FMS) using the Search API. Search in Shado 8 using Lucene 2.2 search engine.Here is sample code on how... more »
Straker looking for 2 new ColdFusion / Flex developers
Updated Nov 23, 2007
Due to a highly successful year and with a number of international projects we are looking for 2 new ColdFusion or Flex developers. The roles are to be based in either Auckland or Sydney and are... more »
Directorate-General for Research (European Commission) Select ShadoCMS
Updated Nov 21, 2007
The Directorate-General for Research (European Commission) has Selected ShadoCMS to power their online research publications which will be delivered in over 20 languages. This site will help visitors... more »
TinyMCE Stylesheet + Style Dropdown explained
Updated Nov 19, 2007
In TinyMCE there are 2 dropdowns, one is the Format dropdown which includes H1, paragraph tags and the like, the other is the Styles dropdown (also known previously as the class dropdown). Now... more »
Straker recruit new Sydney based Sales Manager for the Asia Pacific Region
Updated Oct 20, 2007
Straker are experiencing growth in the Asia Pacific region and have appointed David Sowerby as Sales Manager for this region.David is a highly experienced professional with a Bachelor Degree in... more »
Straker Launches ShadoCMS as a Hosted Service
Updated Oct 20, 2007
Straker Interactive today for the first time is giving customers the choice of accessing the market leading ShadoCMS as a hosted solution. Software as a Service (or SaaS) is one of the fastest growing... more »
Straker Opens For Business In The U.S.
Updated Oct 20, 2007
Increasing demand for marketing enabling web technologies such as Shado, produced by New Zealand company Straker Interactive, has led to the opening of their first US office in San Francisco. "It... more »
Extending the TinyMCE editor in ShadoCMS
Updated Oct 20, 2007
In ShadoCMS 7.6.1 and above, you can customize and extend the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor used for editing container content. When a container is being edited, the addContainer2Page function makes a call... more »
Release Notes for Shado CMS 7.7.1
Updated Oct 20, 2007
The main drivers for ShadoCMS 7.7.1 release are:- Tested for upgrading for clients from Shado 7.6.1- Remote persistance for the SOF- Small bug fixes Upgrading from Shado 7.6.1 The key... more »
ShadoCMS Wins Major Government Tender in Malaysia
Updated Oct 20, 2007
Contract to provide the a Malaysian Government Ministry with Shado Enterprise solution to support public/staff web portal; tender won in conjunction with Data Envelopment Analysis, Straker&##39;s... more »
Grant Strakers Presentation to the Silicon Valley Flex User Group
Updated Oct 20, 2007
Grant Straker, the CEO of Straker Interactive recently spoke at the Silicon Valley Flex Usergroup meeting held at the Adobe offices in San Francisco. The topic of the session was why ZoomFlex... more »
ShadoCMS at Adobe MAX in Chicago
Updated Oct 01, 2007
See the ShadoCMS team at Adobe MAX in Chicago this week at Stand 27 (Next to the Google stand). www.adobe.com/max ... more »
Creating a ShadoCMS Site Map
Updated Sep 26, 2007
This came up today on the mailing list so I thought we should do a quick blog on the subject.The easiest way to create a site map is to use the shado_tree_objects.cfc which lives in shadomx\ui\menus\.... more »
Flex Compiler Segmentation Error on Linux
Updated Sep 18, 2007
Adding a keyword metadata picker for page keywords
Updated Aug 29, 2007
Rather than allowing users to type keywords in free form for a page it is very easy to create a custom control button for page keywords that presents a metadata tree picker. ... more »
Troubleshooting Database Performance Issues with ShadoCMS
Updated Aug 14, 2007
A client recently created a new server and network enviornment and moved their install of ShadoCMS to the new enviornment.The new enviornment consisted of three, load-balanced front-end servers. Each... more »
How do I integrate my existing site templates into ShadoCMS?
Updated Aug 06, 2007
This is a question often asked by developers new to Shado and when someone is first trialling ShadoCMS so we feel it is worthy of a blog entry.
Building Idiot Proof Templates
Updated Jul 30, 2007
This article looks at how to build idiot proof templates. These are templates that have very basic controls and restrict the opportunities for less skilled users to make mistakes when editing... more »
Release Notes for ShadoCMS 7.7
Updated Jul 19, 2007
The main drivers for ShadoCMS 7.7 are:- Improvement of the Shado Central user interface- Addition of commonly requested functionality - Addition of new applications User Interface... more »
Forcing NOF Events To Fire
Updated Jul 18, 2007
Whilst testing we came up against the problem that testing certain NOF events is difficult due to the fact that the criteria for the events to fire are often difficult to reproduce.
Container Note Popup
Updated Jul 16, 2007
This feature has been added to allow content editors to add a note when committing container content. This note gets sent to the publisher so they know what has changed. These notes are also stored... more »
Container Box Styles
Updated Jul 16, 2007
Shado7.7 uses new styles to colour-code the workflow status of a container (Published, Awaiting Publishing, Checked Out, Reedit). Not all of them have changed but the most commone ones i.e. Published... more »
Programmatically adding FMS files
Updated Jul 16, 2007
A question was recently asked on the mailing list on how to programmatically add FMS files in Shado7.0.2. The following code snippet shows how this can be done.<cfscript> //... more »
Recording Searches Done On A Site
Updated Jul 12, 2007
In the reporting in ShadoCMS, there is the ability to report on the searches done using the site&##39;s search capabilities.If you go to: Reporting -> Usage Graphsand select "Search... more »
An Overview of ZoomFlex Framework
Updated Jul 09, 2007
Server-side Debugging in ZoomFlex
Updated Jul 07, 2007
Arnold from Nicetouch recently asked a question on the mailing list regarding debugging a server-side error message in ZoomFlex. Here are a few pointers that may help when you have these types of... more »
ZoomFlex: Using the Flash Video Behaviour
Updated Jul 02, 2007
When creating a SOF Class in the ShadoCMS IDE, you can create properties. While creating a property you can define the property "type". One of the types is "File",... more »
Core Function Name Changes
Updated Jul 02, 2007
To keep ShadoCMS version 7.7 compatible with the up-coming release of ColdFusion8 and the plans to make ShadoCMS compatible with BlueDragon, the following function names have... more »
Screencast: Set up SQuirrel SQL for Apache Derby Database
Updated Jun 22, 2007
The standalone version of ShadoCMS ships with a demo site called "shadozoomdemo". The shadozoomdemo site uses an Apache Derby database to hold its contents.There are occasions when you would... more »
Screencast: Installing SQuirrel SQL Client for Apache Derby
Updated Jun 21, 2007
The ShadoCMS (with ZoomFlex) standalone, integrated version uses Apache Derby database to store the contents of the demo site.SQuirrel SQL is a Java-based SQL client to connect to a wide range of... more »
Creating a Custom User Login with ZoomFlex
Updated Jun 21, 2007
By default the standard ZoomFlex application will use the Shado users class as the class to authenticate users. In many cases developers may want to use a their own users / members table(class) rather... more »
Setting Page SES URL
Updated Jun 21, 2007
In some older ShadoCMS sites the Page search engine safe URL is not present when you run a query on the pages native object. To rectify this open [sitename]/app_templates/objects/native/pages.xml and... more »
Checking the length of content in a container
Updated Jun 21, 2007
There are times when one needs to check the length of the content in a container before it is submitted to the database. This is usually needed when editors inadvertently add a lot more content... more »
ShadoCMS 7.6.1 with ZoomFlex 1.1 Upgrade Build is Released
Updated Jun 21, 2007
ShadoCMS with ZoomFlex build 7.6.1 has been released in February 2007. This release fixes over 30 issues from 7.6. It also provides compelling reasons to upgrade from 7.0.3 including... more »
System Requirements for Installing ShadoCMS 7.6.1
Updated Jun 21, 2007
Here are the system requirements for installing ShadoCMS 7.6.1 Category Requirements Notes ... more »
TinyMCE editor stylesheet issues
Updated Jun 21, 2007
On ShadoCMS 7.6.1, I discovered today that the stylesheet drop-down in Firefox 2.0 did not display any styles. I verified that the stylesheet that was being used was indeed accessible on the... more »
Release Notes for ShadoCMS 7.6.1
Updated Jun 21, 2007
Release Notes for ShadoCMS 7.6
Updated Jun 21, 2007
Setting up Oracle Database for a ShadoCMS Site
Updated Jun 21, 2007
A few clients have inquired about setting up an Oracle database for ShadoCMS. Here is what we usually do. You would need to be familiar with basic Oracle terminology like SID, tablespace, etc.... more »
Features of upcoming ShadoCMS 7.7 - Part 2
Updated Jun 12, 2007
Here is the next round of features we are announcing for ShadoCMS 7.7IDE Remote PersistenceThis is the ability to base a SOF class on a remote database table. So rather than importing remote... more »
Features of upcoming ShadoCMS 7.7 - Part 1
Updated Jun 12, 2007
With the upcoming release of ShadoCMS 7.7 build we will be blogging details on features of the build this week. The build has gone into final testing this week and is due for release on the 6th June... more »
Creating a Multi-Language site on MySQL
Updated Jun 10, 2007
I was having trouble setting up a shadozoomdemo site to displaying Chinese characters using MySQL as the DB platform. The Blog entry here gives a good tip but I (and a few others) still had grief... more »
Resolve County City and organisation of visitors
Updated Apr 22, 2007
I''ve just had to set this up on the Straker site so thought I had better blog it as was only in the release notes of the last build and isn''t in the docs as yet.ShadoCMS gives you the ability to get... more »
Lucene Based Search Engine
Updated Jan 21, 2007
With the upcoming release of Shado 7.6.1 we will be shipping a new and very powerful search application based on the Lucene 2.0 search engine. This article is a quick overview of how lucene... more »
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