Hello, It's my first post out here so I am sorry if it is not the right place.
I am an intern working on a Blog in Umbraco and I have used the Blog Starter Kit in order to get started. I have got my own templates but everything else is from the kit.
I have a few problems and they keep me away from handing in a complete assignment.
I need the Users of the blog to be able to crop the images they upload on blog posts. The image cropper property shows up as a 5 pixels thick bar with nothing inside....
The comments I try to put up on different posts don't show up at all (I am using the embedded database) but I will have to switch to the company's database afterwards.
I only have one path of date folders that I can create posts in... I would like to have the other months show up as I create posts for the date of October let's say. However, if I create the folder 'October' myself (after allowing datefolders as children of the main datefolder), I can move it inside and place it at the right place, but the archive on my archive page won't show up the months although the xslt files that contain the macros seem to be ok....
I have been reading all possible google results on these matters and I could not find anything helpful. I have even read that huge Umbraco Users Guide book and still with no help.
*Edit: I am using Umbraco v6.1.5 released on the 2nd of September
Any help would be apreciated. Again, sorry if this is not the right place to post this, I am new to Umbraco and this forum.
The blog starter kit is outdated. It might be better to use uBlogsy.
The Image Cropper has a bug where you first need to save the image after upload before it works. So upload image, save image, open image again and it should work. You could also install DAMP which fixes this issue for new images.
Usually the image cropper datatype is added to the image media type. If you add it to a document type it needs a source image which it can crop. The source image can't be in the RTE, but needs to be an upload datatype. On the image cropper datatype you need to point to the other property. I hope this makes sense :-).
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Hello, It's my first post out here so I am sorry if it is not the right place.
I am an intern working on a Blog in Umbraco and I have used the Blog Starter Kit in order to get started. I have got my own templates but everything else is from the kit.
I have a few problems and they keep me away from handing in a complete assignment.
I need the Users of the blog to be able to crop the images they upload on blog posts. The image cropper property shows up as a 5 pixels thick bar with nothing inside....
The comments I try to put up on different posts don't show up at all (I am using the embedded database) but I will have to switch to the company's database afterwards.
I only have one path of date folders that I can create posts in... I would like to have the other months show up as I create posts for the date of October let's say. However, if I create the folder 'October' myself (after allowing datefolders as children of the main datefolder), I can move it inside and place it at the right place, but the archive on my archive page won't show up the months although the xslt files that contain the macros seem to be ok....
I have been reading all possible google results on these matters and I could not find anything helpful. I have even read that huge Umbraco Users Guide book and still with no help.
*Edit: I am using Umbraco v6.1.5 released on the 2nd of September
Any help would be apreciated. Again, sorry if this is not the right place to post this, I am new to Umbraco and this forum.
The blog starter kit is outdated. It might be better to use uBlogsy.
The Image Cropper has a bug where you first need to save the image after upload before it works. So upload image, save image, open image again and it should work. You could also install DAMP which fixes this issue for new images.
Jeroen
It happens even when I upload first, then save.
I will try out uBlogsy. Thanks for pointing it out for me!
You say upload first then save, but did you try upload first, then save, reopen image to see the crop?
Jeroen
See, here is the problem. Under the tag property there should be the image cropper property. Sorry for not being clear enough.
Usually the image cropper datatype is added to the image media type. If you add it to a document type it needs a source image which it can crop. The source image can't be in the RTE, but needs to be an upload datatype. On the image cropper datatype you need to point to the other property. I hope this makes sense :-).
Jeroen
Just found this YouTube video which might help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVVD60NHMRk
Jeroen
Right, so I have followed the video and set up the cropper in the image media type.
One of the problems is that it won't save any presets I create. Even if I save, they disappear when I navigate away from that window.
Another is that I get this when I manually crop an image and try to save it.
Hmm sorry don't know what the problem is. Maybe you should just try the CropUp package. It's better anyway ;-).
Jeroen
I'll give it a try.
Thanks for the support! :)
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