Chapter 10. Advanced Topics

Table of Contents

Write the Requirements and Design Specs
Add the new package to CVS
OpenACS Edit This Page Templates
Adding Comments
Admin Pages
Categories
Profile your code
Prepare the package for distribution.
Distributing upgrades of your package
Notifications
Hierarchical data
Using .vuh files for pretty URLs
Laying out a page with CSS instead of tables
Sending HTML email from your application
Basic Caching
Scheduled Procedures
Enabling WYSIWYG
Adding in parameters for your package
Writing upgrade scripts
Connect to a second database
Future Topics

by Joel Aufrecht

OpenACS docs are written by the named authors, and may be edited by OpenACS documentation staff.

This tutorial covers topics which are not essential to creating a minimal working package. Each section can be used independently of all of the others; all sections assume that you've completed the basic tutorial.