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I'm a .net developer trying to assist a non-profit in implementing a CMS so they can maintain their own web presence. I’ve downloaded and installed Umbraco in a hosted environment, I’ve added the Creative Web Site package, and, opened up the system to them to begin to work on their site.
I’ve now been inundated with questions because numerous issues have popped up. I’m now trying to answer their questions and have been searching for answers. In doing so, I’ve tried to do my homework, but, I can’t find the information I need.
What issues am I trying to solve? Here’s an example:
If I setup a “Gallery” node, and then add “Gallery” pages, the content in the gallery pages are not summarized on the “Gallery” node root. Isn’t this supposed to be automatic? If not, how do I add the “Macro” to the “Gallery” root that does the summary? I see this in the “Macro” area of the developer section in the admin, but, I can’t figure out how to add the right macro to the page. I can’t seem to figure out how to change the page to pull macros, etc., etc., etc. It seems every where I turn there are options, but, nothing that explains how to pull the options together.
Frustrated and trying to help others…
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Hi Bernie! If I understand you correctly your final question is how to add a macro to a page? In the rich text editor when you edit a page there should be a yellow button (  ) but I guess you've found that one already... When you click this button a dialog will appear from where you can select and insert your macro from a drop-down box. Can't find the macro in the drop down?If that's the case it's probably not marked for use from within the editor, go to Developer >> Macros and select your macro and control that the check box "Use in editor" is selected and make sure to save the macro everytime you make any changes... When it comes to one single space for all basic information I guess that the books section on umbraco.org is a good place to start... // ; ) Kalle
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Kalpa,
Thanks for your reply. Knowing how to setup a macro to be displayed in the dropdown is very helpful. On the page I was working with, there were no macros listed which was confusing. Unfortunatly, this hasn't corrected the issue.
After I posted, I continued to dig around the back end trying to piece together the components of the system. That led me to the templates. Looking at the code in the template which is used to create the Gallery List Page I can see where a particular macro is setup in the markup of the template which, I believe, is used to create the list of gallery pages when the page renders.
Since the macro appears in the markup, my guess is it should be executing when the page is requsted in the browser. So, I've narrowed my question down to two things:
1. I have zero experience with XSLT. How do I verify that the XSLT is getting called?
2. Is there something I need to do with the Creative Web Package that enables this functionality?
Thanks for your assistance.
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