Hi
I am in the process of creating an intranet portal type site using Content
Management Server 2002 Sp1a.

At this time I have a channel under "/Channels/" called "StaffIntranet".

I have no problems accessing this channel via http://localhost/StaffIntranet
(i have set it up in IIS too).

Through development I came across the problem of not being able to add a new
posting to a channel that doesnt have any existing postings (new channels).

I decided to create a custom channel rendering script for the
"StaffIntranet" channel and sub-channels to use when site editors want to
add new postings to a new channel (one that doesnt have any existing
postings). It is just a bare bones page at the moment with a web author
control placed on it (how the Help documentation tells you to create one).

The problem I am encountering is that when a user accesses a channel without
an explicit page name the script shows up.
e.g. http://localhost/StaffIntranet will show the channel rendering script
(there are postings in this channel)
but http://localhost/StaffIntranet/default.htm will show the default.htm
page and content.

From what I understood in the help documentation the channel rendering
script would only show up when there isnt any pages in the channel.
There is a setting in the Publishing tab of the channels properties under
the Channel Rendering section called "Default Page".
I have tried setting it to be blank (or first page) or an excplicit posting
name (that exists), neither option changes the results.

Is this behaviour by design?
Do I have to add some custom code to my channel rendering script that
detects if there are any postings in the current channel then redirect to
the first one if there is?
Have I done something really funky and stupid?

Any help is appreciated
Graham

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Hi Graham,

My understanding is that you have to manually code the requested behavior,
otherwise it just shows the channel rendering script. The setting that you
describe, "Default Page", is accessible through the Channel object as
Channel.DefaultPostingName:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...nel_Members.asp

You could use the Channel.DefaultPostingName value and the Postings
collection to code the behavior.

Cheers, Jonathan

"Graham" <enlighten@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I am in the process of creating an intranet portal type site using Content
> Management Server 2002 Sp1a.
>
> At this time I have a channel under "/Channels/" called "StaffIntranet".
>
> I have no problems accessing this channel via
> http://localhost/StaffIntranet (i have set it up in IIS too).
>
> Through development I came across the problem of not being able to add a
> new posting to a channel that doesnt have any existing postings (new
> channels).
>
> I decided to create a custom channel rendering script for the
> "StaffIntranet" channel and sub-channels to use when site editors want to
> add new postings to a new channel (one that doesnt have any existing
> postings). It is just a bare bones page at the moment with a web author
> control placed on it (how the Help documentation tells you to create one).
>
> The problem I am encountering is that when a user accesses a channel
> without an explicit page name the script shows up.
> e.g. http://localhost/StaffIntranet will show the channel rendering script
> (there are postings in this channel)
> but http://localhost/StaffIntranet/default.htm will show the default.htm
> page and content.
>
> From what I understood in the help documentation the channel rendering
> script would only show up when there isnt any pages in the channel.
> There is a setting in the Publishing tab of the channels properties under
> the Channel Rendering section called "Default Page".
> I have tried setting it to be blank (or first page) or an excplicit
> posting name (that exists), neither option changes the results.
>
> Is this behaviour by design?
> Do I have to add some custom code to my channel rendering script that
> detects if there are any postings in the current channel then redirect to
> the first one if there is?
> Have I done something really funky and stupid?
>
> Any help is appreciated
> Graham
>
>
>

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