OpenACS Getting Started Guide

Roberto Mello (rmello@fslc.usu.edu)

This is a guide to help you get started with OpenACS. This is not a complete guide to OpenACS and its modules... it would be too long. For detailed documentation on a module, refer to the www/doc directory in the OpenACS distribution. This guide assumes you have a working installation of OpenACS.

This is the February 2001 revision of the documentation.


Table of Contents
1. Thinking about your web service
2. OpenACS Basics
2.1. Admin pages are your friends
2.2. Content Sections
2.3. User Groups
3. Look and feel
3.1. Editing ad_header and ad_footer
3.2. Customized ADP tags
3.3. Templates
3.4. ArsDigita Templating System (ATS)
4. Backups tips from Don Baccus
4.1. The Strategy
4.2. The “vacuum analyze” command
4.3. Sample Tcl script
5. Intranet Getting Started Guide
6. Acknowledgements