cmsms 2 struggles

[sumpson]

Hi everyone,

I've decided to create my new project with CMSMS 2 for the first time, but am strugling with finding ways to achieve what for me was easy to achieve in previous versions.

What I would have hoped to see in this CMSMS 2- was an easy way to add content to pages:

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{content_group_start}
    {content_image block="block-contentimg"}
    {content block="block-title" oneline="true"}
    {content block="block-content"}
{content_group_end}

Then with the press of a + button in the contentpage you add these fields as many times as you wish. This is an option which would make CMSMS allot more flexible and easy to me for almost every project.

Anyway, for this project I have some questions on how to achieve some things and hope people here are willing to help.

I am working on rebuilding this website http://atelierbockwegeneekels.nl/specia ... opdrachten

It should be easy to update by the client. (it seems global content is not easily editible for clients anymore? looks like they have to get into coding)
The focus should be on SEO.

What I want to achieve for the page linked above is an image link to a page with a gallery. I can not use the Gallery because it is hard to make it a true page with new title/description/content and also problems creating (very) pretty urls. I come to think maybe this would be the best solution: using the page image in a menu and make the client copy the {Gallery dir='subgallery'}
However asking the client to first upload the image in imagemanager and then selecting it from a dropdown would not be ideal- GBFilePicker does not work in CMSMS2 right? (never did for pageimage actually afaik) I also need the filepicker for page content so hope someone can give a tip on what to do best.

I have been starting off at http://preview.studio5211.nl/abee/ you can see desired result at http://preview.studio5211.nl/abee/old/
I'm changing the default Simplex template and the slider seemed ideal for my purpose, however it seems impossible to add the navigation dots- im doing everything as mentioned on http://www.sequencejs.com/documentation/ but can not get the .seq-pagination to work, maybe someone has tips for this?


Thanks for taking the time to read my post, I hope you are willing to help.

Regards,

Philippe

[velden]

A quick answer to one question:

GBFilePicker alternative: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/viewtopi ... =7&t=73485 (not tested myself!)

[sumpson]

Thanks allot! That's allot of help with a quick respond

Is there any way I could use a page_dump kind of function for cmsms2? I think this would solve all my current problems.

[sumpson]

Slider pagination fix; in the sequencejs.com doc it says ".seq-pagination" however, the class should be ".sequence-pagination" (maybe this is from an older version? )

found in: jquery.sequence-min.js

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e(o.settings.preloader).remove();o.nextButton=o._renderUiElements(o.settings.nextButton,".sequence-next");o.prevButton=o._renderUiElements(o.settings.prevButton,".sequence-prev");o.pauseButton=o._renderUiElements(o.settings.pauseButton,".sequence-pause");o.pagination=o._renderUiElements(o.settings.pagination,"[b].sequence-pagination[/b]");o.nextButton!==undefined&&o.nextButton!==!1&&o.settings.showNextButtonOnInit===!0&&o.nextButton.show();o.prevButton!==undefined&&o.prevButton!==!1&&o.settings.showPrevButtonOnInit===!0&&o.prevButton.show();o.pauseButton!==undefined&&o.pauseButton!==!1&&o.settings.showPauseButtonOnInit===!0&&o.pauseButton.show();if(o.settings.pauseIcon!==!1){o.pauseIcon=o._renderUiElements(o.settings.pauseIcon,".sequence-pause-icon");