Farcry

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Farcry

• Not just a game anymore

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What is Farcry?

• Farcry is a Content Management System (CMS)
• It is designed to separate the jobs of site
  creation/design from content population (allows
  site owners to manage their own content and
  programmers to focus on code)

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Who uses Farcry?

• Many people!
• Anyone who wants to have control over their own
  content and regularly change content will want to
  use Farcry
• Each site can take a divide and conquer approach
  (i.e. different jobs within the site news,
  events, pages, site admin, etc)

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What is Farcry Good For?

• Sites with lots of changing content
• Sites with news or events pages
• Sites with many contributors
• Sites wanting to automate things such as RSS feed
  generation

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What is Farcry NOT Good For?

• Application based sites if there are too many
  applications being integrated into Farcry, it
  could end up being more tedious than a normal
  CFML site
• Flash sites it is possible to run an entire
  flash frontend on Farcrys backend (not without
  custom programming)

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Installing Farcry

• We need the following
• A database
• A data source in CF Administrator
• An IIS/Apache site set up WITH a virtual
  directory mapped to the Farcry admin
• A web browser
• Demo

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How to navigate the webtop

• The webtop is the admin section of Farcry.
• There are several tabs by default
• Overview
• Site
• Content
• Admin
• Reporting
• Security

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Webtop Overview Tab

• The overview tab provides an overview of items
  that might require your attention
• Shows content items pending approval, in draft or
  items up for review.
• Also where you manage your profile

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Webtop Site Tab

• This is where the structure of your site is
  stored.
• Tree layout to visualize and preserve
  parent/child relationships
• Folders are Navigation Nodes (These are the links
  for your site nav)
• Pages are content items associated with the
  navigation node

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Webtop Content Tab

• Contains all other types of content
• Media Libraries
• News Items
• Events
• Contains a different way to view your site tree
• Contains utilities for use with content (i.e. RSS
  Generator)

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Webtop Admin Tab

• Contains tools to manage the site
• Config Files
• Verity
• COAPI Management
• Contains other tools useful for rebuilding tree
  structures (beware)

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Webtop Reporting Tab

• Various reports on browsing and searching history
• Similar to Log File reporting
• Can be turned off to increase speed

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Webtop Security Tab

• Allows you to manage Users, Groups and Group
  Policies
• Group Policies are a powerful way to limit access
  to certain types of content or certain nodes of
  the tree

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Code Structure

• Core vs. Project
• Anything built into Farcry is in the core
• Anything customizable is in the project

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Project File Structure

• config project specific application variables
• customadmin extensions of the webtop
• includedObj include files go here (They are
  stand-alone applications that can be plugged
  into Farcry)
• packages custom types and rules go here,
  including CFCs and all files included by CFCs

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Project File Structure (contd)

• system further system configuations (dmConfig
  and dmCron)
• webskin display templates for various content
  types (re-skinning a site involves creating new
  display templates and plugging them in)
• www web root. Images, files, xml, etc all go
  here. Images and files directories are used in
  the image/file libraries.

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Extending Webtop (Custom Type)

• Lets say you have a need for something that is
  not built into Farcry, such as a photo gallery.
  What do you do?
• - Go through custom types and install photo
  gallery.

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Resources

• Website http//www.farcrycms.org
• Downloads available on Downloads page
• Community support links are also available on
  this site.
• Wiki and bug tracker links available on website
  as well.
• Wiki http//docs.farcrycms.org/confluence/
• Bugs http//bugs.farcrycms.org/secure/Dashboard.j
  spa

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Resources (contd)

• Mailing lists (farcry-dev, farcry-user,
  farcry-beta, farcry-de)
• farcry-dev is probably the most active of all the
  lists http//groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev/
  

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Questions?

• Feel free to contact me with questions or
  concerns or visit my blog
• Jake Churchill
• 402-408-3733 x103
• jake_at_cfwebtools.com
• http//jake.cfwebtools.com