Here’s another pretty cool example site. This one has a very unique menu which is a combination of javascript and CSS. The navigation class for this was quite complex.
The dmNavigation object was extended to allow node specific styling (which is how we achieved the ability to move the sub-menu around wherever [...]

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This is an example of an execute function for a custom rule that is used for a custom type. This sorts the itesm by category. Now, here’s what’s really cool…
<cfset staffCategories = “#application.factory.oTree.getDescendants(application.factory.oCategory.getCategoryIDByName(’Staff’))#”>
This line gets all sub categories under Staff. This is used for the sorting. If the user wants to [...]

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I thought I’d start posting some example farcry sites as a way to demo some thing that can be done. Here’s the first example…
Hope Center
This site is really pretty simple but looks pretty good (IMHO). It makes strong use of containers and flash objects as well as a custom display method for the [...]

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A brief discussion of logging in and out in Farcry. Farcry handles redirection beautifully (in my opinion). This is important when using a custom login page and/or members only section. If a user clicks on a link that is part of your member’s only section, you display the login form. But, [...]

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This is post number three for today in a series I like to call “Farcry is AWESOME!” I previously explained how to set up Branch Specific Permissions in the site tree. You can view that post at http://jake.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm/2007/4/20/Site-Tree-Branch-Specific-Permission. Then I discussed setting up a members only section of a site so a [...]

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I’ve had a request recently to create a members only section in a farcry site that I developed. I knew this capability was already in farcry, but I had no idea how to do it. So, for anyone else trying to accomplish this, here’s what I did…
First, copy the Anonymous policy group and [...]

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So, you’ve got a farcry site up and running and are pretty proud of yourself. That’s great. Now, your client comes to you and says they want a more complicated group policy set up. The default in farcry is to have Contributors, Publishers and Site Administrators. Contributors get access to create [...]

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