Today let’s take a look at a way of leveraging the CMSUserWebAPI in order to serve custom content to registered users on your site. The basic premise is quite simple: check for certain user roles in a loop, and conditionally pull content into a widget. For the sake of argument, we’ll assume you’re already versed [...]
Today, I am announcing the release of two new plugins for dotCMS, available now. The reason I am announcing them together is because the macro relies on the viewtool, but the viewtool has applications beyond the macro, so I didn’t feel that it was right to make it one big plugin. Also, the viewtool is [...]
The more applications I build in dotCMS, the more I find myself trying to accomplish them with just Velocity coding. This saves me from having to create a plugin and make sure it is maintained through my systems. However, lately I have needed to write a lot of Form Handling with dotCMS. Not your basic, [...]
In dotCMS, user accounts serve one of two functions: to control access to the front end, or the back end. User interaction with the back end is fairly straight forward, given roles. Set up a role, tie it to the tabs a user needs, and poof. On the front end though, if you want to [...]
