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mateo
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Jan 10, 2008, 11:00 AM
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CMS Builder is SO close to what I need for my clients. Unfortunately, almost every client wants a blog. CMS Builder is missing the three most important features of a blog: comments, an RSS feed, and categories.
I would use this with every client if the blog had those features. Any chance that these are on the coming soon list?
Mateo
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Dave
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Jan 10, 2008, 11:28 AM
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Mateo,
Thanks for your feedback. Why don't we see if we can work together and make it do those things.
We can do RSS (it's just another "list viewer"), I've been waiting for someone to ask about comments so we could add that, and categories - we have an upgrade in the works that adds some basic functionality for this.
Tell me more about how you'd like the categories to work. Could the client add/remove as many categories as they wanted? Would something like "tags" work better? Do you have an example blog site you could link us to so we can see what it should look like?
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mateo
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Jan 10, 2008, 11:36 AM
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If you were able to make the "list" field options editable by the user, that would solve the categories issue AND make the other uses for the "list" field better as well.
Tags are definitely an option as well. I'm used to categories from the current blog options like Wordpress etc, but either would be a great improvement.
As for comments, this is actually my real deal breaker. I could make do for now without categories, but blogs are great tools because they create community and encourage reader interaction, so without comments a blog to me is just a news section..
Of course with comments, you'll have to have a way to erase inappropriate comments..
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Dave
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Jan 10, 2008, 3:49 PM
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Ok, I'll put comments on the list for the next version v1.08 and get chopping on it. :)
We're just about to release v1.07 (just in final testing) and it has a neat new feature where you can load list options from another table. So, for example, you could have a pulldown of all the users in the system, or all the categories from a category table, etc. Without having to manually re-enter them.
I don't know if that's exactly what you're looking for, but it may be one route to go. Hopefully we'll have that new release out tonight. We'll post in the forum when we do.
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Toledoh
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Jan 13, 2008, 6:47 PM
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Hi There,
A couple of newsletters ago you had a link to http://js-kit.com/comments/ maybe this would work for you?
If it does, let me know 'cause I'm itchy to use them myself but haven't had the opportunity.
Cheers,
Tim
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steve_e
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Mar 19, 2008, 8:09 AM
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Hi -
Can you tell me what the progress on comments is?
I don't know if I've misunderstood what you were discussing here, but what I was hoping for is the ability to set up a section where someone with regular or admin access to CMS Builder can post an initial suggestion or query, and then others (site members etc) who don't have that access can post responses via text box/name/date.
Is that what you were thinking of, and is that yet available? ;)
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Dave
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Mar 19, 2008, 2:57 PM
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So basically just like blog comments?
We were planning that feature, but it looks like it slipped through the cracks and didn't quite make it in. I'll move it up on the list. When do you need it by?
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steve_e
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Mar 19, 2008, 3:05 PM
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Ooh, about three quarters of an hour? :-)
I'm hoping to have my site finished by end of March, so if you had it available by then that would be excellent!
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Dave
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Mar 19, 2008, 3:33 PM
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Ok, that might be tight but we'll give it a shot. If it turns out we're too slow other options would be to use a hosted solution like http://js-kit.com/comments/ or to integrate a free comment script (that's what we do something for Article Manager users).
I'll post on this thread when I have some news! :)
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
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steve_e
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Mar 19, 2008, 3:38 PM
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Does AM have that feature already then Dave? I actually have AM2 installed on the site as well, but I haven't started using it yet, as CMS is doing everything I currently need (apart from this...).
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Dave
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Mar 19, 2008, 3:43 PM
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No, we've used this one in the past: http://scriptsmill.com/comments.html
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steve_e
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Mar 20, 2008, 7:16 AM
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Thanks for the link Dave.
Um - in case you don't get to creating this feature in CMS in time, can I ask a question about these two 3rd party scripts?
If you set up a section to use this with, how is the third party script going to 'attach' a series of comments to a particular record in a multi-page section? Is that going to be straightforward? I'd have thought it would be necessary to insert into the MySQL table to get this to happen.
I'm not that good with MySQL and PHP though so I may be talking through my hat. 
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Dave
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Mar 20, 2008, 10:40 AM
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I actually haven't work with that particular script, but I've made some before. Typically how they work is you have some unique identifier for each page and the program uses that to know which comments are associated with which records.
So you might have an identifier of "tableName-recordNumber" which could be "news-3" for record 3 in the news section.
So you probably have a hidden field you create with that and then a PHP include or something like that to include the comments.
It probably has it's own mysql table and manages that itself. You might just want to give that script a try in advance to cover your bases. I know the consulting guys here can install it pretty quick so I don't think it's that hard to setup.
Hope that helps! :)
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Thomas
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Apr 7, 2008, 8:17 PM
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HI,
I am just about to launch my CMS site and comments would be really good right about now. Do you know if this might be added any time soon?
Yours hopefully
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Dave
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Apr 8, 2008, 9:22 AM
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Hi Thomas,
It's one of our top priorities but we don't have an estimated completion date yet. So it could be a while longer.
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