• Link to files in navigation menu
• Does CMS offer a calendar plugin?
• How do I request a site or account?
• What is cache and how does TYPO3 use it?
• Can I edit HTML directly?
• Can I insert Javascript or other code?
• How to spell TYPO3 correctly
• What is a template?
• About TYPO3 drafts (versioning)
• How can I e-mail a link to a file in TYPO3?
• Who else uses TYPO3?

For a link to surface in a navigation menu, it must exist as a page in TYPO3. Yet, there is no page type that allows selection of a file from the Filelist module. Can we link to files?

While this action is not recommended, there is a work-around to allow links to files in the navigation menu.

This is not recommended because navigation menus tend to give visitors the feeling that the links will take them to other parts of the site, not prompt them to download a file or automatically open a program. For example, see the opinions on navigation links to PDF files from authors using a different CMS program. Remember that if a PDF file opens in a browser window, a visitor no longer sees the site's navigation menu and must use the back button to return to your site.

If you choose to disregard recommendations, you can still create a Link to External URL page and in the URL field, insert the path to the file as shown below.

NDSU-IT offers the NDSU Event Calendar (http://www.ndsu.edu/eventcalendar) to meet the university's central calendaring needs.

As of this writing (January 2009) a plugin to display the event calendar within a CMS page is not available. At the time the event calendar is able to export events to external sources, such a plugin may be considered for inclusion in CMS.

To request a site in CMS, complete the site request form.

To request an account, follow the directions as posted on the request an account page.

See the clear cache article.

In short, no.

In a July 2006 e-mail from Marc Wallman, Director of IT Infrastructure Services in ITS,

"All editing features should be workable through TYPO3's rich text editor without modifying HTML. If something doesn't seem to be working right on that front, please [contact ITS]. Additionally, in the new web paradigm working with HTML should be reserved for web designers to ensure uniformity in the look and feel of web pages."

In short, no.

The basis for this answer is the previously mentioned HTML statement.

In most cases, an alternative solution to Javascript is available. See Scripts for more information and examples.

File types including PHP, INC, HTM, HTML, DHTML, SHTML, PL and CGI may not be stored in the TYPO3 file manager. Use of such files conflicts with the paradigm where Web developers maintain programming code to ensure security and uniformity in look and feel of pages. If you have need to use such files because a particular functionality is not already provided by TYPO3, CMS may not be the appropriate host location for your application.

Just as you have a proper name and like it to be spelled correctly, TYPO3 has a proper name and proper spelling. I (Jill) have seen some creative spellings, including Type 03 and typo 3.

The correct spelling of TYPO3 is TYPO3. A generally accepted abbreviation is T3.

To draw comparisons, writing TYPO3 as "Typo3" or "TYPO" is like writing "Ndsu" or Blackboard as "Black."

The TYPO3 organization has published a style document on spelling TYPO3.

In lieu of a detailed explanation of what TYPO3 draft/workspace/versioning is all about, here is a link to the official documentation. Hopefully I (Jill) can translate this to a less technical, more friendly, version soon.

typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_inside/4.2.0/view/2/7/

While TYPO3 does allow file upload and link-to-file capabilities, the suggested method for sending file links is to create a page in TYPO3 with a link to the file and send an e-mail with a link to that page.

For example,

1. Use the Filelist module to upload the file
2. Create a page or edit an existing page to include a brief explanation of what the file is for
3. Insert a link to the file
4. In e-mail references to download the file, include the URL for the page instead of the file

This method will allow you to update the file and provide a note to visitors that the file was updated on date mm/dd/yy to include some new details (if applicable), to tell them that a special program is required to open the file (if applicable), and to keep the URL short for e-mail purposes.

Don't forget to test the link before you click send!

At NDSU

• Bison Connection - http://www.ndsu.edu/bisonconnection
• Department of English - http://www.ndsu.edu/english
• Information Technology Services - http://www.ndsu.edu/its
• IT Security Conference - http://www.ndsu.edu/itsecurity
• Memorial Union - http://www.ndsu.edu/mu
• Vice President of Information Technology - http://www.ndsu.edu/vpit
• Vice President of University Relations - http://www.ndsu.edu/vpur

(a small selection of 120+ sites using TYPO3)

Other .EDUs

• University of Arizona UITS - http://ccit.web.arizona.edu
• University of Michigan-Dearborn (home page, secondary pages, ITS) - http://www.umd.umich.edu , http://www.its.umd.umich.edu
• University of Hawai'i at Manoa (School of Architecture) - http://www.arch.hawaii.edu
• University of Rhode Island (Department of Natural Resources) - http://www.nrs.uri.edu
• Otis College of Art and Design - http://www.otis.edu
• Walla Walla College (home page, secondary pages) - http://www.wwc.edu
• College of Saint Elizabeth (home page, secondary pages) - http://www.cse.edu
• Maysville Community & Technical College - http://www.maysville.kctcs.edu