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Article Manager 2.1 - Emulate AM 1.41 Install Option ??

 
 


HDBC
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Nov 20, 2006, 8:13 PM

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Hi Guys (and Donna!)

I have to say that there are a lot of great things in AM 2 that I'm looking forward to mastering... but in all honesty the new "power" has more than doubled my development time for the simple jobs I used to be able to crank out with Article Manager 1. I find myself needing to do way too many changes to the database structure as well as templates to accomplish the things I used to take advantage such as Article Types, Menu Structures, etc....

Is it possible for you to have an alternate template and database structure already setup that emulates AM 1.4 ?? I have to admit that being a "low cost provider" type of guy who is using Article Manager for small businesses and non-profits I'm hard pressed to justify the amount of time it takes to configure AM2...

I know it'll become "second nature" in the future, but it still seems that we might have sacrificed a bit of the "quick and simple" aspects of AM1 that made it a great tool for price sensitive small businesses in exchange for the robust and incredibley flexible capabilities of AM2... which make it a fantastic starting point for really custom development but consequently drive up development time (and costs).

My perfect mix of features would be:
AM 1.4 plus...
- resizing of images/thumbnailing
- publish to multiple categories

Thanks for all your hard work and understanding.

Eric


Dave
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Nov 21, 2006, 1:06 PM

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Re: [HDBC] Article Manager 2.1 - Emulate AM 1.41 Install Option ?? [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks for your feedback, Eric!

One thing you can do, is keep a copy of your data files once you configure artman the way you like, then you can instantly get back to that state when you start new projects. Our consulting guys actually do that, they have a stripped down template set that they start with to speed things up.

And we're currently working on multi category articles (that's planned for the next release).

If you have any suggestions on how you'd we could make them simpler we'd love to hear them. We've been constantly making little adjustments to the interface, default templates, etc to make things easier and simpler (and faster) based on user feedback.

If there's a new placeholder, feature, default template setup, etc that would make your life easier... Let us know, maybe we can add it.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
 


HDBC
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Nov 21, 2006, 3:04 PM

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Re: [Dave] Article Manager 2.1 - Emulate AM 1.41 Install Option ?? [In reply to] Can't Post
Thanks for the reply Dave.

Things like "publish summary only" could easily be added to the templates and database and simply be hidden (in the DB) so that it doesn't overly-complicate the user interface for folks that don't want it, but still be "one-click" away for those folks who do. I do have a standard set of templates I build 1.0 installations off of, but so much of 2.0 requires changes to publishing rules and db entries that it's just not as simple.


Dave
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Nov 21, 2006, 3:51 PM

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Re: [HDBC] Article Manager 2.1 - Emulate AM 1.41 Install Option ?? [In reply to] Can't Post
Ok well hopefully once you get one working set of templates you can use that over and over again. And you can bet we'll keep looking on ways to simply things. Thanks for the feedback.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com