A few starter questions

[felixSchl]

Hello,

I am a Cmsms user for about 3 hours now and I must say it looks very promising so far. It feels quite different from other CMS systems but in a positive way.

Distant goal is to create a library of documents. However, there are a few things I could use some help with.

Things I would like to know how to do, but couldn't find out myself:

• Categorizing content: I am using the catalogue module at the moment, just wondering what the general opinion is on using that.
• Custom content types: I would like to add custom fields to my pages, such as "contributers" or "author(actual book author)". Valid values should be stored in a table so you can choose from those values in a multi select field when adding a document to the library.
• Custom queries: I guess this goes hand in hand with the one above. Custom queries for custom fields. It would be nice to search for "contributers", "authors" etc.
• Multi-language support: Don't feel obliged to answer this one, after hours of googling I gave up hope that there is sophisticated solution out there. Right?

I hope I explained my problems well and can get some help from you guys.

I am running the latest version of cmsms btw, version 1.9.4.1.

Cheers,
Felix

[Wishbone]

For your custom content question, try installing the AdvancedContent module. It lets you create radio buttons, dropdowns, etc. that the content editor fills out when editing content.