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Two free RedDot CMS plugins – CMS User Chat & Batch Publish
Open Lounge™ for RedDot CMS
A collaboration tool or simply – a chat – for your RedDot CMS editors.
Easy to Use: The user interface of Open Lounge™ is self-explanatory. Its main function is to allow users to see who else is signed in RedDot and provides them with an instant messaging service.
Reliable and safe: Open Lounge™ puts barely any load on your RedDot CMS server. Its main processing happens on the client side.
Open Lounge™ does not use any third party messaging server nor does it use peer to peer protocol. It only uses channels already opened to signed-in users on the RedDot CMS server. If your RedDot CMS server is confined behind a firewall, Open Lounge™ behaves as a good citizen should and no information packet is sent across the wall.
Installation is a breeze: No special run-time or application is required for Open Lounge™ to run.
And the installation is that of the easy, standard issue RedDot CMS plug-in routine.
You can consult your OpenText/RedDot CMS manual if you are not familiar with the few steps involved in installing a plug-in.
The following is the gist of it:
- Download the plug-in zip folder.
- Unzip the folder and make sure you uncheck the “read-only” property that is applied to the folder by default.
- move the folder into your CMSaspPlugIns folder on your CMS server.
- Access the Plug-in Management Interface via Server Manager and import Open Lounge™.
- Log in CMS users can access Open Lounge™ from Server Manager main node, SmartTree main node, Administer Project Structure node and “Action Menu” in SmartEdit when a page is opened.
Voila! You will have a fairly sophisticated yet light-weight business collabration plug-in running in your CMS in no time!
source & download: http://www.byteweaver.com/content/open-lounge-reddot-cms
Have fun trying this and leave your comments below.
And definitely big kudos to Henry Lu aka Javahand – Keep up the good work!
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About the author:
Markus Giesen is a Solutions Architect and RedDot CMS Consultant, formerly based in Germany. Travelling around the world to find and offer solutions for a better world (in a very web based meaning). He just found a way to do this as part of a Melbourne based online consultant house. On this blog Markus shares his personal (not his employers) thoughts and opinions on CMS and web development. In his spare time you will find him reading, snowboarding or travelling. Also, you should follow him on Twitter! 
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My tip to batch publish without this plugin: Use a container for grouping all desired pages.
First: search by content class all your needed pages.
Second: select them from the clipboard and link to a container in a dummy page (I prefer an unlinked page so it’s not visited)
Third: select the container and in your context menu, at the end, you’ll see “publish pages”!
Last: empty your dummy container and publish the dummy page.
My (enhanced) tip to batch publish without this plugin: Use a container for grouping all desired pages.
First: search by content class all your needed pages. Or many searches you need for publish in one batch process.
Second: select all them from the clipboard and link to a container in a dummy page (I prefer an unlinked page so it’s not visited)
Third: select the container and in your context menu, at the end, you’ll see “publish pages”!
Last: publish the dummy page and empty your dummy container. Publish again your repaired dummy page or erase it.
Good job Henry! Good to see your name again, what a great job you did for our company as a consultant. I’m still looking for a fulltimer for NYC so, if you think of anyone….