Train-ee.com Free Tutorials http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/ Learn ExpressionEngine Fast with Free Tutorials from Train-ee.com en eeforme@train-ee.com Copyright 2009 2009-11-25T15:51:03+00:00 Reorganized Date Formatting Options http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/reorganized-date-formatting-options/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/reorganized-date-formatting-options/#When:15:51:03Z I posted a Feature Request for this to be changed in the EE Docs, but I know the EE folks are busy so I’m posting a version of the EE date formatting options, reorganized by output rather than alphabetically by letter.

Seconds:

  • %s - seconds (“00” to “59”)
  • %U - seconds since the epoch


Minutes:

  • %i - minutes (“00” to “59”)


Hours:

  • %g - hour, 12-hour format without leading zeros (“1” to “12”)
  • %G - hour, 24-hour format without leading zeros (“0” to “23”)
  • %h - hour, 12-hour format (“01” to “12”)
  • %H - hour, 24-hour format (“00” to “23”)


AM/PM:

  • %a - “am” or “pm”
  • %A - “AM” or “PM”


Day:

  • %d - day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros (“01” to “31”)
  • %D - day of the week, textual, 3 letters (“Fri”)
  • %j - day of the month without leading zeros (“1” to “31”)
  • %l (lowercase ‘L’) - day of the week, textual, long (“Friday”)
  • %w - day of the week, numeric - “0” (Sunday) to “6” (Saturday)
  • %z - day of the year (“0” to “365”)
  • %S - English ordinal suffix, 2 characters; (“th”, “nd”)


Week:

  • %W - ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (“42”: the 42nd week in the year)


Month:

  • %M - month, textual, 3 letters (“Jan”)
  • %F - month, textual, long (“January”)
  • %n - month without leading zeros (“1” to “12”)
  • %m - month with leading zeros (“01” to “12”)
  • %t - number of days in the given month (“28” to “31”)


Year:

  • %y - year, 2 digits (“99”)
  • %Y - year, 4 digits (“1999”)
  • %L - boolean for whether it is a leap year (“0” or “1”)


Other

  • %B - Swatch Internet time
  • %I (capital i) - “1” if Daylight Saving Time, “0” otherwise.
  • %T - Time zone setting of this machine (“MDT”)
  • %Z - time zone offset in seconds (”-43200” to “43200”). The offset for time zones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.
  • %Q - local server time zone offset, in hours and seconds, against GMT (e.g. “+06:00”)
  • %r - RFC 822 formatting (“Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200”)


Common Formats
12/12/09

{entry_date format="%m/%d/%y"} 

January 10, 2010

{entry_date format="%F %j, %Y"} 

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

{entry_date format="%l, %F %j%S, %Y"} 

01/11 at 01:31 PM

{entry_date format='%m/%d'} at {entry_date format='%h:%i %A'} 

 

 

]]> Other 2009-11-25T15:51:03+00:00 Quoting and Planning ExpressionEngine Projects http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/quoting-and-planning-expressionengine-projects/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/quoting-and-planning-expressionengine-projects/#When:15:02:47Z This was the talk I gave at the 2009 ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter Conference covering my process for quoting projects that need to be built on ExpressionEngine, and then how I plan out the builds.  The slides are available as a set on Flickr.

EECI2009 | Michael Boyink from EECI2009 on Vimeo.

]]> The Business Side 2009-11-12T15:02:47+00:00 Approve Link for Comments http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/approve-link-for-comments/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/approve-link-for-comments/#When:13:08:32Z One of the ‘last-straw’ ways to deal with spam in ExpressionEngine is enabling Comment Moderation, wherein each comment submitted to the site has to be approved by an administrator before appearing.  Admins are notified of new comments via email - and that email can contain a “Delete Comment” link using a built-in EE variable.  There is, however, no matching variable for “Approve Comment”. 

This makes the process for approving a new comment harder than deleting - which just shouldn’t be the case.  We’re going to be positive here, right?

Turns out this is pretty easy to get around with the following code snippet.  This would go in your Admin Notification of Comments template which is found under: Admin ›  Specialty Templates ›  Email Notification Templates.

Approve?
PATH TO YOUR CP HERE?S=0&C=edit&M=change_status&comment_id={comment_id}&status=open 

or:

Approve?
http://www.yoursite.com/system/index.php?S=0&C=edit&M=change_status&comment_id={comment_id}&status=open 

When you or your Admin clicks the Approve link they will be taken to the EE Control Panel view of the list of comments for this particular entry.  The nice thing is if the “Approve” link was clicked by mistake the option to close or delete the comment is right there as well.

 

]]> Control Panel 2009-11-03T13:08:32+00:00 Working with Combined Weblogs http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/working-with-combined-weblogs/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/working-with-combined-weblogs/#When:14:45:48Z Have you ever run into a situation where you had content stored in separate ExpressionEngine weblogs, but then wanted to use one weblog:entries loop to pull content from those separate weblogs?  EE lets you pipe in more than one weblog name in the weblog parameter on the weblog entries tag, and I wanted to show a few ways to work with that.

All the code snippets used in the screencast are available at the end of this post.  Enjoy!

 

 

3 Weblogs, 3 Weblog:Entries Tags:

<h1>Colors - Separate</h1>
<font color="red">
<h2>Red</h2>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="red"}
        <li>{title}</li>
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>
</font>

<font color="blue">
<h2>Blue</h2>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="blue"}
        <li>{title}</li>
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>
</font>

<font color="green">
<h2>Green</h2>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="green"}
        <li>{title}</li>
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul>
</font> 


3 Weblogs Piped into 1 Weblog:Entries Tag

<h1>Colors - Mixed</h1>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="red|blue|green"}
        <li><font color="{weblog_short_name}">{title}</font></li>
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul> 


3 Weblogs, 1 Weblog Entries Tag with Pagination

<h1>Colors - Mixed and Paginated</h1>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="red|blue|green" pagination="bottom" limit="3"}
        <li><font color="{weblog_short_name}">{title}</font></li>

        {paginate}
            <p>Page {current_page} of {total_pages} pages {pagination_links}</p>
        {/paginate}

    {/exp:weblog:entries}

</ul> 


3 Weblogs, 1 Weblog:Entries Tag with Per-Weblog Fields

<h1>Colors - Mixed and Pulling Per-Weblog Fields</h1>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="red|blue|green"}
        <font color="{weblog_short_name}">
            <strong>{title}</strong>
            {red_content}
            {blue_content}
            {green_content}
        </font>
        <hr />
    {/exp:weblog:entries}

</ul> 


3 Weblogs, 1 Weblog:Entries Tag with Weblog-Specific Links

<h1>Colors - Mixed with Weblog-Specific Links</h1>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="red|blue|green"}
        <li><a href="{comment_url_title_auto_path}"><font color="{weblog_short_name}">{title}</font></a></li>
    {/exp:weblog:entries}

</ul> 


Example Detail Template for Above Code

<font color="blue">
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="blue"}
    <h2>{title}</h2>
    {blue_content}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</font> 
]]> Quick n Dirty Screencasts 2009-09-19T14:45:48+00:00 Dynamic = Off Explained! http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/dynamic-off-explained/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/dynamic-off-explained/#When:00:18:17Z If you are new to EE the dynamic=“off” parameter can be both tough to understand but also critical in getting EE to work correctly.  I put together this corny little video to try and explain what the parameter does and when you want it on vs. off.  Enjoy!

 

 

]]> Quick n Dirty Screencasts 2009-07-02T00:18:17+00:00 Simple Multifaceted Navigation Using Categories http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/simple-multifaceted-navigation-using-categories/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/simple-multifaceted-navigation-using-categories/#When:14:36:51Z I needed a way to assign two category groups to one weblog, assign entries into categories in each group, and then build navigation based on those category assignments.  However rather than the typical EE way of selecting one category and getting a list of results, I wanted another navigation level where after choosing a category from category group A the site would present a filtered list of categories from group B based on the selection from Group A. 

Does that make sense?  Here…maybe showing is better than telling in this case:

 



If that helped and you want to see how it was done…read on!

So just to recap - in this tutorial I have a weblog containing business names.  The weblog has two category groups assigned to it - one category containing state names and the other business types.  On the site I want to allow users to navigate to a final list of entries in two ways:

  • Select a state
  • Get a list of valid (only those actually containing results) business types for that state
  • Select a business type
  • Get a list of businesses of that type doing business in that state

or

  • Select a business type
  • Get a list of valid states (only those actually containing results) having that business type in them
  • Select a state
  • Get a list of businesses of that type doing business in that state.

ExpressionEngine lets you assign multiple category groups to one weblog - which from a content entry and maintenance point of view gets me where I want to be.  However there is no built-in way of getting the categories to interact with each other as outlined above - where second-level category list is filtered by a choice from a first-level category group. 

I see this as navigation based on a very simplistic faceted classification or what I’ve seen called “multifaceted navigation”.  I’m not sure how far you could push this approach with more than two facets but this should provide a good jumping-off point.

Assumptions

  • Your categories are only one layer deep - no nested subcategories
  • Your category url titles are unique

Setup Requirements
Since this is a more advanced tutorial I’m going to assume you can get through the following without step by step instructions.

  • Weblog named “businesses”. For the purposes of this tutorial I have no additional custom fields assigned - all I’m using is the default title field
  • Two category groups - one for states and one for business types
  • Some categories created within the category groups - again all with unique category_url_titles
  • Knowledge of the category group IDs
  • No other weblog using those category groups
  • A number of entries posted into the weblog and assigned to various combinations of categories
  • The EE Query Module (which is not available in the Core version)
  • The Seg2Cat Extension from Lodewijk Schutte installed

The Index Template
I’ve included the templates used here as a downloadable zip file - but let’s walk through the logic here a template at a time. 

The index template has the following code:

{if segment_2 ==""}
    <h2>Select a State</h2>
        {exp:weblog:categories weblog="businesses" category_group="2" show_empty="no" }
            <a href="/index.php/businesses/in/{category_url_title}/">{category_name}</a>
        {/exp:weblog:categories}

    <h2>or Select a Business Type</h2>
        {exp:weblog:categories weblog="businesses" category_group="4" show_empty="no"}
            <a href="/index.php/businesses/type/{category_url_title}/">{category_name}</a>
        {/exp:weblog:categories}

{if:elseif segment_2=="in"}
    <h2>Business Types in {segment_3_category_name}</h2>
    {embed="businesses/get_categories" from_category_group="4"}

{if:elseif segment_2=="type"}
    <h2>States with {segment_3_category_name} Businesses</h2>
    {embed="businesses/get_categories" from_category_group="2"}
{/if} 

The first clause in the if statement handles the “index” view of the template before any choice has been made.  All I’m doing there is using the standard weblog categories tag to return the top-level choices for each group.  Do note the links that I’m building are not traditional EE category links - I’m rolling my own here.  Businesses is the name of the template group I’m operating out of.  This is the index template, so everything else is virtual.  In the next segment I use either “in” or “type” keywords, then append on the category url title.  Clicking any of these links reloads this template (because there are no actual saved templates with the names of “in” or “type”).

When the template is re-loaded after clicking a top-level category link, one of the next two clauses in the if statement fires, and this is where the Seg2Cat extension kicks in by providing the {segment_3_category_name} variable, which looks at segment 3, sees the category_url_title and returns the category name for it.

Now EE needs to take the selected category, look through the entries in the businesses weblog in that category, and see what categories those entries are assigned to in the other category group.  That happens in the embedded “get_categories” template—and that template is made reusable by passing the ID of the category group we want results from.  Here’s the code in that template:

The Embedded Template

<ul>
{exp:query sql="
    SELECT exp_categories_1.cat_id AS my_cat_id, exp_categories_1.cat_name AS my_cat_name, exp_categories_1.cat_url_title AS my_cat_url_title
    FROM (((exp_categories INNER JOIN exp_category_posts ON exp_categories.cat_id = exp_category_posts.cat_id) 
        INNER JOIN exp_category_posts AS exp_category_posts_1 ON exp_category_posts.entry_id = exp_category_posts_1.entry_id) 
        INNER JOIN exp_categories AS exp_categories_1 ON exp_category_posts_1.cat_id = exp_categories_1.cat_id) 
        INNER JOIN exp_weblog_titles AS exp_weblog_titles_1 ON exp_category_posts.entry_id = exp_weblog_titles_1.entry_id
    WHERE 
        (((exp_categories_1.parent_id)=0) 
        AND ((exp_categories.cat_id)={segment_3_category_id}) 
        AND ((exp_categories_1.group_id)={embed:from_category_group}) 
        AND ((exp_weblog_titles_1.status)='open'))

    GROUP BY exp_categories_1.cat_id, exp_categories_1.cat_name, exp_categories_1.cat_url_title, exp_categories_1.cat_order
    ORDER BY exp_categories_1.cat_order;"}
        <li>
            <a href="/index.php/businesses/list/{segment_3}/{my_cat_url_title}/">{my_cat_name}</a>
        </li>
{/exp:query}
</ul> 

This query essentially:

  • Takes a known category ID
  • Takes a known category group ID
  • Finds entries assigned to the known category ID
  • Makes sure those entries have an “open” status
  • Finds what other categories those entries have been assigned to—from the category group represented by the known category group ID
  • Builds a list of the unique values it finds
  • Creates links that contain url_titles from both categories
  • Orders those results as per the order specified in the Control Panel

Note - for this example I’m not specifying a weblog.  If you need to narrow the results to a specific weblog you can do that by appending onto the queries WHERE clause and specify the weblog ID.  You could also pass that in as an embedded variable if you needed this embedded template to be flexible in what weblog it looked at.

Again the magic happening in this code is provided by the Seg2Cat extension that gives access to a category ID based on the category url title currently being displayed.  The extension comes in handy yet again on the final template - the list template:

The List Template

<h2>{segment_3_category_name} {segment_4_category_name} Businesses</h2>
<ul>
    {exp:weblog:entries weblog="businesses" category="{segment_3_category_id}&{segment_4_category_id}"}
        <li>{title}</li>
    {/exp:weblog:entries}
</ul> 

Seg2Cat is necessary here to get around another limitation of the native weblog:entries tag—in that while it has the category parameter which can find only entries that exist in two categories, it needs category ID’s rather than the more SEO-friendly category_url_titles.  Seg2Cat again steps in to provide the translation of category_url_titles to category IDs - so now I can have URLs like:

/index.php/businesses/list/alabama/big_box_retailer/ 

or

/index.php/businesses/list/big_box_retailer/alabama/ 

...and the weblog:entries tag can still function.  Note also that while these URLs are using category_url_titles they are not using the typical /category/ segment needed when using EE categories.

So there you have it!  While this tutorial is a bit more advanced, what with an extension, embedded template using an embedded variable, segment variables, and conditionals— it all comes together to create a nifty little front-end navigation approach with search-friendly URLs and easy client content maintenance.

 

 

 

]]> Static Content / Dynamic Nav, Advanced Coding 2009-06-23T14:36:51+00:00 Splitting a Site out of an ExpressionEngine Multiple Site Manager Installation http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/splitting-a-site-out-of-an-ee-msm-installation/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/splitting-a-site-out-of-an-ee-msm-installation/#When:19:46:38Z As part of the Building a Church Site Series I’ll be auctioning off a copy of the complete site with proceeds going to charity.  Part of my preparations for that auction are getting the site installed on it’s own hosting account.  No big deal, except for Train-ee.com uses the Multiple Site Manager to run the main site plus the church site and the Small Business Site featured in an earlier series.  There is no automated way to pull a single site out of an MSM installation, so this article will cover the process I went through to do so.

Disclaimer
Methods used in this article directly manipulate the EE database and as such are somewhat risky.  They are best undertaken by people experienced with databases and SQL statements. By no means do this on a live site!  Make a backup or two before proceeding, and do your manipulations on a copy. And - proceed at your own risk.  I or Train-ee.com will not be held responsible for damage inflicted to your site by attempting this work on your own.

The Situation:
OK - so here’s what I had:

  • Three sites total, with the target site being #2
  • A whole bunch of registered user accounts in multiple member groups
  • All templates stored in the database (vs external flat files)
  • Site hosted at EngineHosting (who do, in fact, rock)

Starting Out
I did what anyone in this situation might do - searched the EE Forums to see if anyone else had done this and posted any tips or gotchas.  I came up with this thread which served to lay out my basic workflow:

  • Make a backup of the entire site
  • Download the database locally for manipulation
  • Delete Site #3 entirely
  • Clean out all weblogs, field groups, status groups, member accounts, template groups and templates from Site #1
  • Go through the database and change all site_id’s currently storing Site #2 to store Site #1 instead (effectively moving all EE backend objects from Site #2 to Site #1)
  • Once Site #2 objects have been moved over to Site #1, delete Site #2
  • Once done/successful upload single site to new host

I had a feeling this would make a good article for Train-ee so kept notes during the process.  Below are those notes, prettied up a bit, but still including the stops and starts that I ran into as I felt it was important to note what kind of issues can come up in this type of work.

Loading the Database
I logged into the EngineHosting Control Panel and did a databse backup of Train-ee.com using PHPMySQL.  So far so good.

Once I had the db backup saved locally I fired up my WAMP setup and set about to load the database locally.  Attempting to import the database using the PHPMySQL interface I got a PHP file size limit error.  I’ve run into this before trying to load tables back into the database and found this Staggered MySQL Dump Importer Script named BigDump that works a treat.  I configured that and ran it, but then ran into an error about the database backup containing Extended Inserts.  I went back to the Train-ee hosting control panel and re-ran the export with Complete Inserts only.  I ran BigDump again and the database imported without error.

EE Control Panel
I loaded ExpressionEngine but found that the Control Panel wasn’t loading any styles. I updated paths under Admin / System Preferences to no avail.  I then also noticed that my local EE install was 1.6.6 yet - and worried about bringing in 1.6.7 data to an 1.6.6 install.  I updated ExpressionEngine to 1.6.7 successfully but still had no Control Panel styles.

I found that the Theme Folder Path still wasn’t correct (I looked at the WAMP/EE setup on another system for direction).  I specified a full path for the theme folder starting from C:\ and once I updated the Control Panel styles returned.  I also had to remember to update these same paths in the configuration of the other MSM sites.

Re-arranging the Furniture
I deleted Site #3 using the CP interface - easy peasey there.

I then set about deleting all the objects within Site #1:

  • Weblogs
  • Field Groups
  • Category Groups
  • Custom Status Groups
  • Template Groups
  • Member Groups

Member Accounts
Remember - deleting members also deletes their entries and comments.  This was fine in my case but may not be for you if your site has user-generated content that you wish to move over.

While I was deleting member groups, ExpressionEngine put all the members into Banned group - which you can’t delete.  I still wanted all these accounts gone, so at first started deleting members via the Control Panel.  This only deletes 30 or so at a time, however so I started to wonder if a SQL-based approach might work faster. I turned on Display SQL Queries in hopes of being able to copy and modify the query that EE generates and delete all the members at once, but the queries are relatively complex with ID’s getting specified everywhere so that approach looked too hard.  I ended up just turning the queries back off and used interface controls to delete all member accounts except for my SuperAdmin login.

Database Updates
When you install the MSM Expansion, EE makes use of a Site ID contained in many of the tables.  The value in this field tells EE which site a particular database record is associated with.  The task at hand, then, is to go through the database, find those records that have a site_id of “2”, and change those records to instead have a site_id of “1”.  This effectively moves all backend objects from Site #2 to Site #1.  I recommend doing this table by table, as I ran into a few that I choose not to touch. 

Here is the query statement I used:

UPDATE exp_table_name_here SET exp_table_name_here.site_id = "1"; 

I kept this query in a Notepad document where I could change the table name as needed. 

There are two spots in the EE interface you want to be in during this process - so have two tabs or two browser windows available. Both of these are found under Admin > Utilities > SQL Manager.  The first one you want is the SQL Query Form.  The other one is the Manage Database Tables interface.  Note that you could do this all within PHPMySQL as well, I just chose to stay in ExpressionEngine.

The workflow is:

  • Go through the Manage Database Tables interface one table at a time
  • Look for tables that have data
  • Click the Browse link to take a look at the data
  • If the table has the site_id field (usually it’s one of the first couple of fields) then the update query needs to run on that table
  • Edit the SQL query to use the name of the table you’re looking at
  • Paste that query into the SQL Query Form
  • Click Submit - You should get a message about the number of rows affected

Here’s my list - if a table is mentioned with no notes I ran the query against it.  Tables not mentioned either had no data or no site_id field.  Tables with notes had the data but I chose to leave them alone for reasons indicated:

  • exp_categories
  • exp_category_field_data
  • exp_category_groups
  • exp_comments
  • exp_cp_log
  • exp_field_groups
  • exp_html_buttons
  • exp_member_groups: I left this one alone as I didn’t want to mess up my own login.  I figured appropriate member groups will be deleted when site #2 is deleted.
  • exp_online_users
  • exp_referrers
  • exp_search_log
  • exp_sites - I’m going to leave this one alone as well as I expect it’ll get updated when I delete Site #2
  • exp_specialty_templates - going to leave this one alone assuming deletions will happen here when I delete Site #2
  • exp_stats: I’m also leaving this one alone as it’s not mission critical and I expect it to be updated when I delete Site #2.
  • exp_status_groups
  • exp_template_groups
  • exp_templates
  • exp_upload_prefs
  • exp_weblog_data
  • exp_weblog_fields
  • exp_weblog_titles
  • exp_weblogs

With the database updates all done I went back through the EE Control Panel - and it appeared to have worked.  All template groups, weblogs, posts, field groups, category groups etc that were all previously in Site #2 were now showing in Site #1. I made a few quick posts, saving then deleting them with no error. I then went into the Sites menu and deleted Site #2.

The Rest of the Site
I then moved all ancillary files from server to local - images, JavaScript files, etc. Once these were pulled down I tried to load the site in my browser.  I forgot a couple of plugin files and got an error to that extent.  Once I installed the missing plugins the site loaded and functioned normally.

Success!  At this point the site is running well locally - and I foresee no real issues with loading it up to a new hosting account where it can stand on it’s own feet. 

The Last Step
There’s no real way to “completely uninstall” MSM - the site_id field will remain in the database The last step - to remove the MSM related options from the CP - would be to edit the config.php file to include:

$conf['multiple_sites_enabled'] = "n"; 

(Thanks to the EE Tech Support staff for input on that one).

I’d say this process took roughly 2.5 to 3 hours—and while it’s always a bit unnerving to go muck about at the database level it seemed to come off fairly easily.  If you undertake this process and encounter other issues or gotchas be sure to leave a comment!

]]> Advanced Coding 2009-04-08T19:46:38+00:00 Comment Spam Prevention Extension for ExpressionEngine http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/comment-spam-prevention-extension-for-expressionengine/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/comment-spam-prevention-extension-for-expressionengine/#When:14:51:11Z In a previous screencast I showed how to delete comments in bulk - handy for those times when your site gets alot of spam comments.  What I want to make sure is that you know that there are tools out there to help prevent getting spam in the first place.  In addition to the popular Askimet and Bad Behavior extensions there is also a lesser-known Comment Spam Prevention extension for ExpressionEngine-based sites, and this extension is the feature of this installment in the quick and dirty screencast series.

 




]]> Quick n Dirty Screencasts 2009-04-07T14:51:11+00:00 Adding Tabs in the Control Panel http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/adding-tabs-in-the-control-panel/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/adding-tabs-in-the-control-panel/#When:13:47:37Z In this short screencast I show how to add tabs to the ExpressionEngine Control Panel main navigation.  Adding tabs to Control Panel “hotspots” like the Weblog Administration or Field Group administration can save you some development time. 

 


]]> Control Panel, Quick n Dirty Screencasts 2009-04-02T13:47:37+00:00 Multiselecting Template Groups http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/multiselecting-template-groups/ http://www.train-ee.com/courseware/free-tutorials/comments/multiselecting-template-groups/#When:13:03:41Z This short screencasts shows the multi-select feature on the Templates tab of ExpressionEngine.

 




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