You'd think, but no...not supported by TownNews...I shoulda mentioned that!

Wanted to take a sec to say thanks to all you guys for sharing your tips and tricks. It's made things a bit more understandable, and it's at least nice to know I'm on the right track and not missing something. Much appreciated!

TownNews: you all have built a great CMS with TERRIBLE documentation -- that's not cool in a commercial product, and I hope you're working on fixing that.

We had what for us was a major surge of traffic at the beginning of the month. Hit 3-4x more concurrents than I've ever seen and 10-12x our average. Never had a hiccup. From what I've seen TN does a pretty good job caching. Actually a bigger issue is when you need to live update stuff -- getting around the cache is a PITA.

The UTL language is simple, and looks the same for flex as for zen -- reminds me a bit of django templating language actually.

How the various levels of templates, components, modules and the like work together is pretty opaque and seems significantly different from the way it works in Zen (at least the Zen site detailed in those videos).

I'm having to go all the way to original 'construct.utl' call and then trace the component and macro calls all the way down, and that's before I can get any actual work done.

For people starting from Zen and moving to Flex based sites, it's probably intuitive, but for me it's amazingly frustrating.

We've been repurposing an unused flag to allow collection assets to be used in our centerpiece block. We just use it as one of the criteria: asset has flag "centerpiece or xxxxx" and is type x, y, or z. May or may not work for you, and would be cleaner to have centerpiece flag available.

Kevin...

Thanks for the tip. I hope never to need it, but if I do, that's what I'll try.

...Aidian

Christine,

I was trying to batch export a couple of dozen photos. There was a problem with the sizing on them and I needed to run them through Photoshop to give them a different aspect ratio.