I am excited to share that StAlbertGazette.com, a site I have been working on for the past year, has won three awards from the Local Media Association. I was part of a team of three people who worked very hard to accomplish the site look...
Set up in the EI The first thing to do is to set up a self-serve section under Taxonomy (Admin -> Taxonomy). You can list all of the different pages here, each page needs its own unique taxonomy ID. In this example, I created a root...
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...
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...
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...
We have all done it. Ok, maybe not all of us, but I have done it… yesterday. Start with a pbs:newslist tag only to find that you need a variable that doesn't exist in news.pbo (in my case, <%TotalCount%>). The solution for this, would be...