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Publishing multiple sites on a single instance of umbraco

I am looking to setup a parallel site to one already that already uses umbraco for its content management system. The new site would share admins, templates, macros, and media resources, but not any content. If I setup multiple host headers pointing to the same directory with an umbraco install, how can I switch the top node (home vs h...

Using DateAdd in umbraco xslt to display next year's date

I'm trying to display the date for a year from now in an xslt file using umbraco like so: <xsl:variable name="now" select="umbraco.library:CurrentDate()"/> <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:DateAdd($now, 'year', 1)"/> The value-of tag outputs today's date. How can I get the DateAdd to add a year to the current date? ...

Creating a custom error page in Umbraco CMS

I'm working on a client site who is using Umbraco as a CMS. I need to create a custom 404 error page. I've tried doing it in the IIS config but umbraco overrides that. Does anyone know how to create a custom 404 error page in Umbraco? Is there a way to create a custom error page for runtime errors? ...

404 page that displays requested page

I recently migrated a website to a new CMS (Umbraco). A lot of the links have changed, but they can be easily corrected by searching for patters in the url, so I would like to write something that will redirect to the correct page if the old one is not found. That part isn't a problem. How can I obtain the requested URL after the brows...

Building a multi-level menu for umbraco using XSLT

Hi. I'm trying to build a multi-level dropdrown CSS menu for a website I'm doing on the umbraco content management system. I need to build it to have the following structure: <ul id="nav"> <li><a href="..">Page #1</a></li> <li> <a href="..">Page #2</a> <ul> <li><a href="..">Subpage #1</a></li> <li><a href="..">...

Assigning hostnames in umbraco

Hi. I'm setting up af multi lingual page with the umbraco cms. I have a content structure that looks like this: Content da danish subpage 1 danish subpage 2 en english subpage 1 english subpage 2 I would like the routing to be something like: http://mysite.dk should go to http://mysite.dk/da/danish subpage 1 http://mysite.d...

Setting start node in a umbraco website

Hi. I have this content structure for a multi language site. Content Danish Forside Om os English Frontpage About Us When I start the website it automatically starts in the Danish-node, but I want it to start in "Forside", and as for the english part of the side I want it to start in the node "Frontpage". The nodes "Danish" a...

CMS similar to Umbraco but in PHP?

Is there a PHP CMS that works the same way as the .NET CMS Umbraco? Ie. All data output comes as XML and is transformed with xslt. And you as a developer have more or less total freedom to create any structure and output as you wish. Reason for asking: Working primarily on OS X / Mac and I'm not very experienced with .NET and the Micro...

In Umbraco, how do a set a page or package to default?

I am new to Umbraco.. I installed Runway, then I installed the creative be package. http://localhost/home.aspx takes me to the crative website, whereas http://localhost/ me to the Runway site. How do I change this? ...

Having trouble implementing multilinqual umbraco 3.0

hello I can not implement the multilingual umbraco 3.0, I tried to follow the instructions on umbraco.org, but I was not able to resolve the problem. Please help me, you can tell me step by step what to do? in clear and simple? No I am very practical umbraco are only 6 months working with umbraco.grazie hello ...

Umbraco Yay or Nay?

I'm looking more towards CMS's as I'd like my clients to be able to be as self sufficient as possible. Anyhow, I'm just starting to evaluate and will update this with my conclusions. However, since I'm starting with evaluating Umbraco first, I'd like to get a consensus. I have no preference for C# or Vb.Net. so I'm open to either. ...

Folders in umbraco 4

Is there a way to simply create folders in umbraco 4 for the purpose of organizing content? I've searched forums and did not find a reasonable answer. ...

Document Types in Umbraco 4

How do I get an existing Document Type to show up in the Create dialogue of Umbraco 4. I installed the BlogForUmbraco4_1.0.0 package, which I realize tries to install as the primary site, but it also installs all of the necessary Document Types, including Blog, and BlogPost. Why are they not an option when creating a new item within ...

Prevent TinyMCE from converting linebreaks

I want to prevent TinyMCE from converting linebreaks (pasted from notepad for example) into <br>'s. Thats because I want to post code snippets inside <pre> tags, and I don't want to have <br>'s in there. I already tried several TinyMCE settings in the config without success: force_p_newlines : false, force_br_newlines : false, remove_l...

Should I use Umbraco for this?

I have a requirement to setup a website that allows users, user blogs, a forum and is flexible enough to add other features via .net. I'm just about to evaluate Umbraco, but for another website that's clearly up the CMS alley, however the aforementioned project needs faster turnaround. ...

How to install extended latin A and B on umbraco

I must install extended latin A and B on umbraco but don't know how. Any advice? ...

HOW TO: Umbraco 4.0 with Microsoft SQL Server 2000

We have a server that is running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and would like to setup Umbraco 4.0. I tried the web install, but it choked on the MS SQL 2005 Express install. So I next tried the manual installation of MS SQL 2005 Express, which choked also with an error indicating that there was incompatibility issue because we already have ...

Usercontrol not posting back in IE.

I am using Umbraco CMS to create a new site. I have added a .NET user control for the contact form. However, when clicking submit the page doesn't postback in IE, but it is working in FF. I can't think of why this is the case. I've tried to take all validation controls off and the problem remains. Any suggestions would be great. ...

problem with my menu

hi is andrea from rome I created a macro for my menu on the left and it is ok I would use the same macros for the menu to the right without creating another, help me, there can, What should I do? thanks so much <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE xsl:Stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]> <xsl:stylesheet versio...

mojoPortal OR Umbraco?

I have been look around for Free/Open Source ASP.NET CMS / Portal systems for a while now, and have seived it down to two different ones. Umbraco - http://umbraco.org mojoPortal - http://www.mojoportal.com Both look excellent and have different appealing features, but I am looking for people who have used both and which one you went w...