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RedDot & 301 Redirects: How to manage 301’s within your RedDot CMS projects

By Kim Dezen ⋅ February 15, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

The use of 301 Redirects within your RedDot CMS projects will help you to maintain current search rankings for an existing site, particularly if the site structure has gone under the knife!

Two RedDot API RenderTags for OpenText CMS developers

By Markus Giesen ⋅ February 14, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

When using the RedDot Query Language (RQL) to customize and improve your RedDot
project usability you often need the Template Guid or Name for your scripts.

Two undocumented Render Tags to get template information

<%!! Context:CurrentPage.Template.Name !!%>
<%!! Context:CurrentPage.Template.Id !!%>

Keep in mind,…

An undocumented RenderTag to enhance your RedDot CMS usability

By Markus Giesen ⋅ February 10, 2011 ⋅ 10 comments

RedDot CMS usability by showing your authors the page status. If your authors publish and nothing happens, this is four out of five times the reason why.

RQL in a nutshell

By Markus Giesen ⋅ February 1, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

RQL is the abbreviation of “RedDot Query Language”. RQL is the programming interface for the Open Text Management Server. Almost all actions that can be executed via the normal frontend (SmartTree, SmartEdit, Server Manager) can also be executed via the interface RQL.

How to convert OpenText CMS date values

By Markus Giesen ⋅ January 28, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

There are several ways of converting a RedDot CMS date into a readable format.
Kim has previously posted solutions for VB here. So here is another collection of solutions, based on comments in several programming languages like RQL, VB.NET, Javascript, PHP and…

RedDot and Usability: How to make your RedDot CMS projects easier to use for authors

By Kim Dezen ⋅ January 13, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

CMS projects that are simple and easy to use not only reduce the amount of time required for content changes, they will also minimize possibilities of content entry mistakes and/or inconsistencies across site pages.

1 Quick RedDot CMS SmartTree Preview Trick

By Markus Giesen ⋅ January 12, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Shift + Click on Preview Page only shows the current CMS “Page” in OpenText Web Content Management’s SmartTree

3 Quick tips for OpenText Web Content Management or RedDot CMS

By Markus Giesen ⋅ December 16, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Three simple tricks & tips for authors and site builder of the OpenText Web Content Management system

How to incorporate SEO best practises within RedDot CMS projects

By Kim Dezen ⋅ December 15, 2010 ⋅ 9 comments

Implementing SEO best practises within your CMS projects will help your site to gain exposure by enabling search engine web crawlers to effectively explore and index site pages. Unfortunately there isn’t any fancy plugins or in-built functionality within RedDot that will automatically optimise your site. But don’t worry, making your site ‘SEO Friendly’ is relatively straight forward and easy to do!

How to remove the embedded OpenText comment/header from html content

By Morgan Ritchings ⋅ December 7, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

How to obscure your cms version info on published html, for increased security(obscurity) and cleaner code!

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