Saxotech contains many different ways to format text output in an object file. What does this mean exactly? Well, for example, the other day I noticed a page layout was broken on a client's newslist page. The editor had added an iframe tag that was...
Oh, documentation: The first thing that gets cut when timelines shorten, the last things developers want to write, and the first thing we need when picking up a new project or joining a new team. There are always extremes. The minimalist says, "The code IS the...
SERVER SIDE I attended the Saxotech Conference in 2012 and went to a workshop called Effective Template Design. My goal for attending this conference was to find a way to speed up my client's sites. Their code had been written by another developer and my goal...
I try to stay active in the comments sections on Saxotech's wiki. Whenever I learn something new or find something in the docs that didn't work exactly right, I post it in the comments. I appreciate when other developers in the Saxotech/Newscycle community...
Twitter API v1 vs. v1.1 Adding a twitter widget to a site used to be a pretty straightforward task. It involved adding a Twitter provided script, with some javascript that would allow you to customize the look and feel of the widget. It looked something like...
[caption id="attachment_5989" align="alignleft" width="206"] Homepage End Result[/caption] We created a solution a couple of years ago to give a client more control over the content exposed on the homepage. I am sharing it in this blog post in hope that it may spark creative ideas on...
NEWSCYCLE Digital/Saxotech has informed you that you are scheduled for their newest upgrade. From our experience the process usually allows for testing the upgrade in the dev and stage environment before it is pushed live. If you were like me, you would check out your...
Many saxotech tags output a list of objects: newslist, contentlist, links, etc. The object files that create the markup for those tags have a concept of a wrapper object file and item object file. For example, the newlist tag's wrapper file is news.pbo and its...
The Problem While editing an article in the Edit Interface (EI), a user has the ability to attach different types of content through the Internal Links section on the Connections / Statistics tab. While it is easy to attach the items, it isn't quite clear how...
I was researching building a tag cloud for our blog on this site. I had worked with Saxotech on one many moons ago that utilized a stored procedure in the db and the custom query functionality provided via online tags. You can find a version...