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air-ship
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Jun 25, 2008, 1:41 PM
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Hi guys.
I'm perplexed! I've just discovered that AM2 cannot publish to a custom uploads directory as in AM1. I assumed this feature was still intact and chose AM specifically for its publishing flexibility.
I'm faced with a big, serious problem now. I need to be able to use that old feature of publishing into a custom uploads directory. My client expects it and I've sold the CMS on the back of this feature as well as others. The site is almost finished and is a culmination of three solid weeks development. I can't downgrade to AM1!
Can you advise me how to get out of this hole please. I notice you refer various people to changelog or ask them to watch this space. In understand why but that's not a solution to a problem.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't pursue something like this. Problem is, I may have to shelve the hole CMS aspect of an area of the site. Pretty serious stuff.
May I add that AM2 is a stunning upgrade with maximum flexibility. I'm just shocked and stunned that a feature many of us relied on is gone.
I look forward to your views and solution.
Rees.
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Donna
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Jun 25, 2008, 1:48 PM
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Hi there!
Just out of curiousity -- what are you planning on doing with the custom uploads directory? It's possible that we can come up with a solution that will work for you in some other way. :)
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air-ship
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Jun 25, 2008, 3:34 PM
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Hi Donna,
I need to upload pictures (jpegs, gifs, pngs etc.), zip archives, excel, word, swf etc. These all have to be protected by our webmaster. He is using session based system to protect the directory for uploads and the publish directory. From memory you could set the publish and uploads directories as the same same folder. This is the way we want to do it.
is this enough info Donna. Incidentally, this is only pertinent to one category.
Rees.
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Jake
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Jun 26, 2008, 11:56 AM
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Hi Rees,
If all of your uploads are destined for one category, would it be acceptable to just set the upload directory settings so that they point to a location within this category's published file directory?
Other than that, the only way to really swing this would be to upload files externally to the software and then link to them when creating the article, or to request custom programming from us to add this feature for you.
Let us know if you have any other questions!
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air-ship
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Jun 26, 2008, 1:05 PM
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Ouch Jake. Not the answer I was looking for.
No, there are many different uploads from different categories.
My client is uploading content, not me or my development team. I can't expect them to start sftp'ing and then link to every file manually. This defeats the object of a CMS.
It looks like you've got me cornered on the custom programming angle. I'm very unhappy about that. It still maintain that this feature existed in AM1 and by rights, should still be there. I'm not a happy bunny. 
So, please offer me some options and let's see where can go with it. Incidentally, this is very, very urgent now.
I haven't forgotten about the the blog feature Jake. I still need to schedule it in.
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Rees.
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air-ship
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Jun 30, 2008, 2:14 AM
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Hi Jake,
Did anyone in your team receive my response about this problem in AM2? I'm still waiting for a reply about a fix / solution.
Kind regards,
Rees.
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Jake
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Jun 30, 2008, 12:12 PM
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Hi Rees,
It looks like our consulting team has been in touch with you about this. Was there anything else apart from the custom upload feature that you wanted to discuss?
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Dave
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Jun 30, 2008, 1:31 PM
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Hi Rees,
The problem is AM2 supports multiple categories, so because an article can be in multiple categories there's no way to determine which folder to store uploads in.
Feel free to email me directly at dave@interactivetools.com.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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air-ship
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Jun 30, 2008, 1:38 PM
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Hi Dave / Jake,
Thanks for your replies. I had a telcon with Ross about this earlier. He thinks he may have a custom solution for this.
Such a simple AM1 feature has now become a major issue.
Cheers,
Rees.
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carminejg3
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Jul 8, 2008, 4:34 PM
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I agree that this becomes a problem. I am testing artman2 again with my current artman1 and I noticed this as well.
I have only one category which needs to be published into another section so its not that big of a problem, but I do think that the flexibility of putting files wherever you need them was a much bigger plus, then posting to multiple categories, due to the fact they would become dup content. same article in 2 or more categories unless the index page simply points to the articles main location.
Anyway I'm sure there was good reason in interactive doing this with artman2, they are a very talented group
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air-ship
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Jul 9, 2008, 1:27 AM
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I agree about the AM team being a talented group and AM2 is awesome!!! On the whole, support is spot on.
It is a big hole in AM2 though and it needs to be addressed in future releases.
They have quoted me $400 to add in a customs uploads publishing feature. This would come out of my pocket rather than my clients. I sold this functionality to them knowing it was there in AM1.
I wonder whether another option would be to purchase an additional install of AM2 and mirror all the menus etc. then use server level redirects to move back to the original install of the site. This way you could have a different uploads folder (with session based / htaccess protection). A lot of work and extra cost if you have 40+ categories like I have. Just a thought.
Cheers,
Rees.
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Jul 9, 2008, 7:12 AM
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$400 is a bit steep I wonder if their is anyone else that needs this feature to split the cost with you. I'm still using artman 1 and am testing artman2 again. Everything came over quiet well except for any publishing to different folders or locations. So I'm trying to see how much work is involved in the move and the benefits to it. I just noticed that i could setup a publishing rule to publish the articles i want into different locations, But I'm running into some form of publishing error using the same pub id.
So i have to look into this. My real concern is the renaming of some of the articles that where in the root directory. I would have preferred that they got moved but kept their name, instead of naming the folder the old filename and sticking the index.shtml on the file. Since we could have set up a permin. redirect pointing to the file that might have had a seo name to it.
So i wonder if thats an option to have them be called the original name. This causes a problem when you have to check + articles.
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