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hi i was wondering if someone could help me with this. i've got a newspaper based on the company intranet. now i have been told to create a system where admin can update the infomation without typing in any coding in Dreamweaver, etc. is there anything where i can get hte user to open up a dialogue box and they can type in the information and automatically updates from the previous data.
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08-31-2006 @ 5:17 AM

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can u post some code, so i can have a look at it and tell what exactly you can do?

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ned57

08-31-2006 @ 6:03 AM

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at the moment i aint got no code as i am stuck. i was wondering if there is a code where i can just select a text on the page and then click on edit. sorry i have looked at tutorials but i cant find nothing, if you or someone could just point me to the right direction i would be greaful to you.

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08-31-2006 @ 9:07 AM

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This is the real basic level of ColdFusion work, simply having some dynamic content should'nt be too tricky.

Firstly we need to establish how much you know about coldfusion, have you worked with it before? or any other server side language?

Have you ever worked with Databases? If this is an intranet system then does you server have ColdFusion installed on it?

If you can answer those questions we'll be able to put together some ideas and resources for you to get started.

Thanks,

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08-31-2006 @ 9:09 AM

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that's basic add/edit/delete functionality. what part specifically are you having an issue with?

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ned57

08-31-2006 @ 9:38 AM

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first of all i'll answer ROB:
well i'm very new to coldfusion say about 3 weeks experience (even though i'm good with html). yes i have worked with databases, but i do not want to link this to a database (if that is possible), and the company has coldfusion installed on the intranet. hope thats helpful enough

Now CHARLIE,

great you replied on this forum as i'm trying out your file management tutorial and its kinda what i wanted. i'm just stuck on displaying the lists of files after creating and storing them (see forum as i've sent a message).

i hope you both can help me, as i really appreciate this.

thanks a million

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08-31-2006 @ 9:59 AM

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Great stuff, thanks for answering those questions ned,

Firstly; Welcome to the world of ColdFusion, i'm mildly new to it myself, only been working with it for around 6 months, but its simple enough to pick up and run with, espeicial for the sort of things your looking to achieve at this point in time.

Now, without working with a database things will no doubt become a little tricky, is there any particular reason you dont wish to use a DB? Your only other choice is going to be to store your content into files, which is fine i supose, but most developers will want to work with some form of database structure.

This way you have you 'display' pages which will allow your users to view all the news articles, new and old very quickly, these pages would be generated 'on the fly' from the content stored in that database.

Then all you need is a couple of forms, one which enters data into the database and another which allows users to edit the content.

This is all conceptual on a very basic level, in reality you will more than likely want all sorts of extra little features that allow people to upload and manage images, archive old news articles and even secure it all behind a nice login portal so that only registered users will have access to edit that content.

Let me know a little more about how you would like this experience to work for the user, and what your client expects in the manor of 'features' and we'll be more than happy to help.

Rob

ned57

08-31-2006 @ 10:11 AM

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thanks for the info. the reason why i have been told to do this is because the department taht updates the newspaper has only 1 person who is trained to work with coding etc. so they have asked to make a system where they can just add/edit/delete info from the newsletter and update it without the hassle of opening dramweaver or any other editor.

theres already an archive where the old issues are stored and can be accessed. i've got everything ready its just the updating feature of the pages left to do.

thanks again
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08-31-2006 @ 10:19 AM

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So just to get this straight - you don't want to store data (text etc) in the database ??? you just want to be able to have them open the already existing html page in an online wysiwyg editor, edit the content and save the ammeded file ???

have you looked at fckeditor for this? maybe combine fckeditor with the cffile tag (just a first thought)

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ned57

08-31-2006 @ 10:25 AM