First Request for a Blog at Work
I got my first request for a business blog at work today. It was pretty cool to be able to say: "Sure, there's an officially supported blog template in Domino 7, let me set it up for you." This was my first exposure to the Blue Rinsed version of Dominoblog, and it was just as easy to get started as I expected it to be. 15 minutes later, my users could create content and have blog-style comments to their proverbial hearts' content. Sweet.
I have just one wish. Call it a feature request, maybe. I wish there was a "simple" mode for the blog. The system has a great deal of power and flexibility, even in this stripped down version. I am going to hide a fair amount of that from the users, though, because they really don't want or need it, and it could potentially confuse them. There's an "admin" role in the ACL, but I can't tell what it does, if anything. I *wanted* it to hide all the configuration settings from my "author" users, and that's what I'll make it do (the beauty of Domino - I can make it behave however I like). I wish there was a "simple" or "author" mode built in.
Note: I spent all of 15 minutes looking at the blog template, so I may very well have missed a LOT of things. If there's already a way to get the advanced functionality away from the average user, somebody please smack me upside the head and drop the knowledge on me.
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I got one up and running on a test R6 server. I learned on the podcast that it would run on R6. There sure are a lot of bells and whistles. I plan on foolin' with it some more.
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