Tutorials & How Tos
The tutorials and how-to section is for all sorts of miscellaneous documentation. Each page should represent a nifty little exercise in its own right, that can be applied to a typical FarCry application.
Exercises
FarCry 5.x.x Tutorials
Tutorials from older FarCry versions. Should still work just fine, but be mindful that there may be more modern techniques available.
- Custom Configs — In Fortress (v5.0+), config definition and storage has been refactored to use a content types and leverage the non-persistent Form Components and the WDDX formtool for capturing config data
- GenericNav as sitemap — Generic Nav can also be used to dynamically build sitemaps for your website.
- How Roles, Groups, Permissions Work under the Webtop — The user / role system in FarCry might seem complicated at first, but it is at least logical. There are many users, each of which can belong to any number of groups.
- List Web Skins — Type webskins are effectively views on a specific class of content type that are not concerned with a specific content item. They're ideal for things like groups of items or abstract views concerning a specific type.
- Object specific permissions — Object specific permissions are permissions that apply to each instance of a type. Navigation is an example of this: you can deny view access to a part of your website simply by changing the permissions for that Navigation item in the site tree.
- Webfeeds — Part of the improved features in FarCry 5.0 is the web feed functionality. This page covers setting up and modifying that functionality.