Breadcrumb Navigation With Render Tags

For taming the beast that Open Text so frankly called ‘Web Solutions Management Server’ we have some pretty nice tools available since version 7.5 – Render Tags are a quick and sufficient option to create navigation elements like the breadcrumb navigation shown here.

Duplicate content publishing – SEO and Open Text Web Solutions

Avoid duplicate content by publishing content twice and trick the PageBuilder by pretending to have referenced pages instead of linked ones.

Export RedDot CMS content to Excel

How to get a quick overview of all pages of a content class (and their content elements) by exporting the instances, gathering them into one file and importing this with Excel.

Using Excel as a database source

Why not let editors who don’t work often with RedDot but daily with Excel edit their data in the environment they are used to – and let RedDot do the work? All you need is half an hour of preparation.

Web Development Tips For Web Solutions Management Server (previously RedDot CMS)

One(!) of my current projects is about to have some web development done prior to being built in Web Solutions Management Server (previously RedDot CMS) which has started me thinking about some of the lessons I have learnt through this process previously. Passing these tips on to whomever is doing the web development, whether it be yourself, a colleague or an outside agency should make your job a lot easier!

The One True Container – Part III

The Return of the King – Include Container

What is the solution? Taking the process that led us from “copy and paste” to “header and footer” to its logical conclusion – “one include container” to contain all common code. How do…

The One True Container – Part II

The Two Towers – Header and Footer

What I have tended to see “in the wild” (and how my first project went) was what I call “header and footer” base templates. Basically the process is the same as for “copy and…

The One True Container – RedDot CMS Tutorial – Part I

One Container to rule them all, One Container to find them,
One Container to bring them all and in the templates bind them
In the CMS of OpenTextRedDot where the Content lies

Prologue

Ok, first up – a warning and some history. This is a…

Whitepaper List

As mentioned previously, it’s probably a good idea to keep track of any RedDot related whitepapers that appear on other sites as every piece of information is valuable.

Enterprise Search – Tips and ideas on how to search your site. Written by…

Taming Logfiles

In recent RedDot releases^* a little defect (#25320) is found which prevents you from automatically deleting Log-Files being older than n days. As I don’t want to kill all log files at once (keeping evidence always comes in handy for administrators), I…