Category Archives: Farcry
- June 9, 2009
- Setting application variables in FarCry– also posted in ColdFusion
I just thought I’d write up some quick thoughts on setting application scoped variables in FarCry as it occured to me that it could be a little confusing to non-FarCry developers. It doesn’t really matter which framework you use, you can theoretically set you application variables anywhere you want, but ideally you want to follow [...]
- May 29, 2009
- Setting the sort order for custom admin items in FarCry– also posted in ColdFusion
I’ve wanted to be able to control the sort order of menu and menuitems in the customadmin.xml (or equivalent) file for quite a while but hadn’t found how to do it. Only today did I find the ability, I believe it’s a FarCry 5+ feature which was why I didn’t see it before. The answer [...]
- May 28, 2009
- Changing the sort order of FarCry categories/keywords– also posted in ColdFusion
Categorising content with keywords (or “tags”) is a well known concept these days and it’s good to know that FarCry has had this ability long before it became cool! I’m using categories to group content for a custom type but I needed to allow the editors to sort these categories and not rely on the [...]
- May 28, 2009
- Setting a “Label” property tip for FarCry 5– also posted in ColdFusion
Quick tip which might fix some problems for people as it did for me today. I had a custom object for a calendar where the main title was “EventTitle”. Now as you may know FarCry uses the “label” and “title” property from types.cfc by default. As I wasn’t using this default property my label value [...]
- December 4, 2008
- How to do a case-sensitive test of your codebase– also posted in ColdFusion
Cross platform development and/or hosting makes for interesting times. Making sure that your entire codebase and configuration are compatible and work in different operating environments is obviously paramount to a successful project, particularly if you are “releasing” a product to the public either open source or commercially. At Lynch Consulting all of our production servers [...]