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

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.