René Pronk

Faster deployment with SetSiteSecurity

When deploying Smartsite in a production environment, configuring security is one of those complex tasks that can take a lot of time. It unfortunately happens quiet often that webmasters are granting too much access rights to NT users on the server, either because the webmaster is under pressure to put the site in production or because the webmaster is unaware of which rights should be granted to each NT user. To simplify this task we're releasing a new tool with iXperion 1.2 called SetSiteSecurity....

A note on backwards compatibility

In this article I discuss two types of backwards compatibility: Sxml backwards compatibility and API backwards compatibility. Sxml backwards compatibility means that for any Sxml code you write, if it works on version x , it will also work on version x + 1 . That not only includes macro and viper definitions but also the operations they perform and the values they return given a certain input. API backwards compatibility means that for any .Net code you write (regardless of the language you...

field vs rawfield

Here's an interesting question I got twice recently so I thought I'd share it with you. Create an AWP item with this content: Body field: Logic field: We set the output decoding to off to get the best results here. I won't go into output decoding here, that's worth a blog post on its own. Note that in case 1 and 2 the Sqlquery macro is used but it applies to all ResultSet macros, like Xlinks, Parent, Siblings and Sitemap and others. Case 3 and 4 apply to the itemdata viper. Now what happens...

Chart sneakpreview

Hi everyone, my name is René Pronk, I've been a developer on the Smartsite core development team for 2 3 years and I've been asked to write some things about upcoming technology in Smartsite iXperion. This week I'll start off with a sneak preview of our Chart macro. Note that this is a sneak preview and things may or may not change considerably before the final release. The Chart macro will be introduced together with the new version of SMI somewhere in 2009. To start off with the boring stuff: licensing....