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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

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CMS Made Simple 1.6: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

CMS Made Simple is a an open source content management system that allows rapid website development in a fraction of the normal time, avoiding hours of coding by providing modules and 3rd Party add-ons. With this book in hand you will be able to harness the power of this modular and extendable content management system at your fingertips.This guide for CMS Made Simple is based on practical and working solutions allowing you to understand how this powerful and simple application can support you in your daily work. The workshop helps you create engaging, effective, and easy-to-use CMS websites for businesses, clubs, or organizations.This is a step- by-step case study, aimed at helping you build a complete professional website with CMS Made Simple. You can take a ready-to-use template or implement your own custom design, enrich the website with features like a photo gallery, an e-commerce solution with PayPal checkout, and forms of any complexity or popular JQuery effects and finish it off by optimizing it for search engines. The useful HTML and CSS code snippets are optimized and can be easily adapted for your own projects. Chapter by chapter you will put yourself in the role of web designer, developer, administrator, and business manager, thus learning every aspect needed for building rich websites that are very simple to manage.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
CMS Made Simple 1.6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Time for action - creating new fields


Support staff should be able to answer to the support tickets and store their names to each answer as well. Let's create the new fields that will contain this information.

  1. 1. In the admin console, click on Content | Calguys Feedback Module, and select the Fields tab.

  2. 2. Click on Add a new field, which contains the names of the support staff as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 3. Click on Submit.

  2. 4. Then, add another field that will contain the answer text from the support staff, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. 5. Click on Submit.

  2. 6. In the admin console, open an existing ticket (Content | Calguys Feedback Module) for edit and find both custom fields at the edit screen.

What just happened?

You have added two custom fields. From now you can enter an answer to the ticket in the admin console as if you were a support staff. The answer will appear on the website when the detail view template is customized properly. This will be described later in this...