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ACR got Google Maps view support
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 | Opensource, Web | Comments
We have recently put inside the ACR svn the support for the GMap view, this means that now you will be able to display both static and dynamic google maps by using ACR.
Using MapView is as simple as specifying the location to display and set map as the view of the slice.
ACR Slice Preview support, remote disk, Comment and File views.
Monday, June 29th, 2009 | Opensource, Web | Comments
Latest version of ACR, our opensource cms for turbogears, got some new interesting features:
Now each view can have a “preview mode” which shows a minimized version of the slice to which is binded. For example you can show in your home page a short version of a news linking to the complete one, or you can show the thumbnail of an image and link to the full version. This can be quite useful in some situations and can be triggered by setting preview=1 inside a slice group. Each slice inside the group will render in preview mode.
Also the Remote Disk feature has been implemented and can be accessed as /rdisk. Inside this file manager you will be able to upload any file which can be referred and used inside you web page. The File View itself has been implemented to permit to quickly link to files and serve them, it will show images or videos or it will provide a link to download files of unknown types.
Also cloned from our iJamix project now ACR has a Comment view, which permits to insert a comments thread inside any page.
ACR TurboGears2 CMS
Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | Web | Comments
We recently developed a CMF as a base for some sites for some of our client, facing the fact that actually there are really few CMS and CMF developed in turbogears we decided to release it opensource so that it can be useful to other people.
ACR (Advanced Content Repository) it is more a developer oriented CMS than an end-user oriented one, we actually used it already as the base for 3 of our sites currently under development and we found the content-slice-view separation quite powerful, but also quite hard for our users to face with. This can be worked around by implementing alternative administration tools specific for the site domain, but ACR also has a few quick tools like HTML Node editor and HTML content editor built inside which might suffice in most cases.
ACR is free software under GPL license and If you want to give it a try you can find it as usual on labs at http://labs.axant.it/acr
Using Elixir with TG2
Monday, May 4th, 2009 | Software Development, Web | Comments
I had to spend some time to permit to a project of ours to use Elixir inside TG2. Maybe someone with more experience than me might have a better answer, but I have been able to make Elixir work this way:
First of all I had to make Elixir use my TG2 metadata and session by adding to each model file that has a class inheriting from elixir.Entity this line:
from project_name.model import metadata as __metadata__, DBSession as __session__
Then I had to switch to model __init__.py and add elixir.setup_all() to init_model function just after DBSession.configure. This is really important as makes Elixir create all the SQLAlchemy tables and without this you won’t see anything happen for your elixir based models.
Also we can now import inside your model scope every elixir.Entity inherited class like we usually do for DeclarativeBase children.
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