Sep 7 2012
The Clarion template from RocketTheme uses a colour square behind the logo to make the C a blue colour. When you change the logo, the blue square remains in the background. You can remove the square by adding the following code to template.css in the templates/rt_clarion/css folder in Joomla:
/* Remove blue box from logo. */
span#logo-color {display: none}
Sep 5 2012
There is no built-in function in Adobe Edge Animate (Preview 7) to create a loop to repeat an animation. This is useful for ads that need to repeat content.
You can create a loop using JavaScript with the following steps:
You can’t preview the looping in Edge Animate, but it does work in a web browser.
Aug 27 2012
You may occasionally run into a situation where you cannot install a template in your Joomla 2.5 site with Upload Package File in the Extension Manager. When this problem occurred in Joomla 1.5, it was easy to fix because all that you had to do was upload your template into the templates folder and then you can set it as your default site theme. In Joomla 2.5, copying the template into this folder isn’t enough because you need to create entries in the database to recognize it.
The stored procedure below will add the appropriate entries to jos_extensions and jos_template_styles in your database. The prefix (jos_) for your tables is probably different so you’ll need to modify the script to match the actual value.
———-[ createtemplate.sql ] ————————————
DELIMITER //
CREATE PROCEDURE CreateTemplate (IN sTemplateName VARCHAR (255))
BEGIN
INSERT INTO jos_extensions (name, type, element, client_id, enabled, access, protected, manifest_cache, params, checked_out, checked_out_time, ordering, state)
VALUES (sTemplateName, ‘template’, sTemplateName, 0, 1, 1, 0, ‘{}’, ‘{}’, 0, ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO jos_template_styles (template, client_id, home, title, params)
VALUES (sTemplateName, 0, 0, sTemplateName, ‘{}’);
END //
DELIMITER ;
———-[ createtemplate.sql ] ————————————
After you run the script, a stored procedure will be created in your database and you can run the following query to install your template:
CALL CreateTemplate (‘my_template’);
where my_template is the name of the template that you are installing.
You can download the SQL script here.
Jul 12 2012
I was getting an “Error 1001: The specified service already exists" when running DFS applications from the Windows Start menu. The first alert to a problem on the server was an e-mail that indicated that the three McGraw-Hill services (McGraw-Hill Construction Company Transfer Queue Processor Version 3.4, McGraw-Hill Construction Project File Transfer Queue Processor Version 3.4, and McGraw-Hill Construction Project Transfer Queue Processor Version 3.4) were not running.
In order to restart these services and fix the Error 1001, you need to open the PDM Server folder which is usually located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Adenium Systems\PDM Server and unregister all services with UnRegisterService.bat. After this is complete, services need to be registered with Windows using RegisterService.bat.
The next step is to start all of the services associated with DFS:
The PDM Notification Processor needs Log On in its properties to be set to an account that can access the vault. The administrator account can be used here.
There is a bug with the shortcuts in the Start menu which breaks services when an app from the PDM folder is run. You should not run apps through the Start menu and either run them directly from the DFS Server folder or pin them to the Taskbar in Windows Server 2008.
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