28 Jun 2013
Troubleshooting a Blank Google Analytics Dashboard Install
If an analytics package creates only an empty manager node, the installation likely finished only partially and the account or connector setup still needs review.
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28 Jun 2013
Sending Daily Reminder Emails with Cron in Evolution CMS
Reminder emails do not require taking the whole site offline — they require a controlled batch process with sane limits and a cron schedule.
27 Jun 2013
Planning a Company Account Area in Evolution CMS
A company account area is easiest to build when registration, moderation, profile editing, media uploads, and reporting are treated as separate responsibilities from the start.
27 Jun 2013
Designing a Federated Search Across Multiple Agency Sites
A “global” search across several travel sites is not just one snippet call — it is a federated search problem that needs a source strategy, normalization, and ranking rules.
26 Jun 2013
Troubleshooting getUserDocGroups in Evolution CMS
If a documented API example does not work in your build, check the runtime context and the exact user/document scope before assuming the function is broken globally.
26 Jun 2013
Fixing Resource Creation Permissions in a Restricted Manager Role
If a manager can edit existing resources but cannot create children inside a container, the issue is usually the resource policy type, not the role rank alone.
25 Jun 2013
Limiting AjaxSearch Results to a Selected Category
If AjaxSearch falls back to the whole site when a category has no direct keyword hits, the category constraint needs to stay part of the query even in the empty-result path.
23 Jun 2013
Centering a Watermark in EvoGallery
Watermarks are easy when the position presets match your design, but centered overlays require understanding how the gallery tool interprets placement codes.
22 Jun 2013
Adding a Preview Image to Blog Listing Cards in Evolution CMS
A blog listing becomes easier to scan once each post has a dedicated preview image strategy instead of relying only on text.
21 Jun 2013
Choosing the Right System Event for Region Switching
If a region switch is driven by URL parameters, the best event is the one that sees the request early enough to store the choice before page-specific logic depends on it.
21 Jun 2013
Creating Resources from eForm Data with docBuilder
Turning a form submission into a new resource becomes much easier when the field-to-document mapping is declared in one readable array.
20 Jun 2013
Using antispam and Captcha with JotX
If antispam seems to “do nothing”, verify what fields it actually injects and whether your template or theme is hiding them.
19 Jun 2013
Counting Only Visible Children with ChildCounter
If a menu counter should ignore hidden resources, include the hidemenu condition in the document query instead of counting every child indiscriminately.
18 Jun 2013
Building Dependent Filters in Evolution CMS
Dependent filters are easiest to reason about when each selection narrows the available values for the next step instead of trying to solve everything in one giant query.
17 Jun 2013
Using MODX API Functions from an External PHP File
If an external PHP script needs MODX or Evolution CMS functions, bootstrap the CMS first instead of trying to call API helpers in isolation.
16 Jun 2013
Preserving the Manual Order of documents in Ditto
If you pass a manual list of resource IDs into Ditto, you often need to keep that custom order instead of letting default sorting rearrange the results.
16 Jun 2013
Combining autoFilter with request-Based Ditto Sorting and Pagination
When autoFilter and request-based Ditto parameters collide, the clean fix is to separate filtering from sorting concerns instead of trying to force one cached call to do everything.
16 Jun 2013
Tracking Resource Views in a TV and Sorting Ditto by That Value
If you want “most viewed” listings in Evolution CMS, one practical approach is to store hits in a TV and sort the output by that saved value later.
16 Jun 2013
Working with Checkbox Inputs in eForm
Checkboxes in eForm need explicit handling because an unchecked box sends nothing, while a checked one sends a value that still must pass validation.
12 Jun 2013
Wrapping Every Three Ditto Items for a Carousel Layout
Carousel markup usually needs grouped output, so treat every third Ditto item as a boundary for opening and closing the wrapper block.