Category Archives: Farcry
- August 17, 2011
- FarCry Plugin – Webtop Tools
We’re starting to compile a list of internal tools used when developing a FarCry application. I thought it might be simpler to create a small FarCry plugin to keep them all in the same place, makes it easier to use across multiple projects. The plugin currently contains 2 scripts: FarCry database diff (MySQL only at [...]
- July 31, 2011
- Label vs Title in FarCry
All system content objects (and those custom types which extend “types” or “versions” etc) in FarCry have the “label” and “title” properties. Most of the time the value of these are identical, I find myself typically using the “title” property in formtools as well as any display methods. The question of course is why have [...]
- July 1, 2011
- FarCry Tip – Enable cfc’s in your Railo ProxyPassMatch– also posted in Railo
I ran into an issue today while working on a FarCry project, basically when I opened up the “Related Content” popup from the WYSIWYG editor it was blank. Nothing. Not the usual tabs for Images, File, Flash etc. The Railo logs were empty but Apache was throwing a strange error which I hadn’t seen before: [...]
- July 1, 2011
- FarCry – grouping formtool category items– also posted in ColdFusion
A new project we’re working has the need to categorise each new content object, for this we use the built in FarCry category/keyword formtool. By default the render type is a multi-select tree, I wanted a single select dropdown. Luckily formtools makes this oh so simple. Note that I’ve set the dropdown size to 1 [...]
- June 30, 2011
- FarCry Tip – remove install directory– also posted in ColdFusion
After you install FarCry you must make sure to delete the “install” folder(s) that FarCry leaves behind. Otherwise it’s possible for anyone to access the installer wizard again from your production website, and as it’s the installer they don’t even need to be logged in to cause real havoc. Not good. By default, as of [...]