I'm Always in the Kitchen at Parties

My daughter Lauren had a get-to-gether with some of her friends at the weekend. The theme was Halloween. Hopefully they liked the food :-)

SECRET: Don't tell anyone about Community Manager.NET CMS name change

Apparently, Community Manager.NET is going to have a new name. The new name will be "ElcomCMS".

Don't tell anyone, because it hasn't been announced officially yet ;-)

Elcom CMS: Changing Related Articles Heading Text with jQuery

jQuery is included as a javascript library within the Elcom CMS.
It is very easy to learn and use, and extremely powerful, allowing you to customise existing functionality and add your own custom functionality.

As a small example, you can change the default Related Articles heading text simply by including the following jQuery script in your PostCustomJavaScript.js file:

// Change default heading text of Related Articles display.
// Here we are changing the default "Related Articles" to "Related Items"
$(function(){
    $('.relatedItems h2').html('Related Items').css('display','inline');
});


Elcom CMS Dynamic Widget API: Returned Fields

The Dynamic Widget API gives you more granular control over the output and display of a dynamic widget. Elcom have it documented here, but it doesn't include a list of the fields that are returned.

To help you out, here are a list of all fields returned by the API. Population of the fields is dependent on what content type you have selected in the Dynamic Widget setup.

AccessCount
AdditionalInfo
AllowOnlineRegistration
ArticleId
BriefDescription
Category
CreatedDateTime
EditDateTime
EndDate
EndDateTime
EventLocationCountry
EventLocationState
EventLocationSuburb
FaqAccess
FileDuration
FileId
FilmedOn
FolderId
GoogleTrackParameters
GroupArticleAccessRecordsExist
HasAccess
Heading
HeadingDate
LargeThumbnailAltText
LargeThumbnailUrl
Path
ProductId
PublicName
PublishedDate
RegistrationAvailable
RegistrationStatus
RelatedArticlesExist
ResultId
ResultType
SortDummyValue
StartDate
StoreAddressLine1
StoreAddressLine2
StoreCountry
StoreEmail
StoreFax
StorePostcode
StoreState
StoreSuburb
StoreTelephone
TaxonomyTagAboveHeading
TaxonomyTagbelowHeading
TrainingCompetencyElementid
UrlId
UrlName
UserFriendlyUrl
WidgetThumbnailUrl
WidgetThumnailAltText

Elcom CMS Developer Site

Elcom have a new developer website for their CommunityManager.NET Content Management System. The site consists of a knowledge base, blog and documentation.

There is not a lot of information in the KB at this time, but I'm sure it will evolve over time. The best bit is the documentation site which has a lot of information about the various modules and how they are used. I would still like to see more examples of what the various modules can do, but this is a great start - although a little late to the game.