I am helping a client pull together a custom information center using Cornerstone custom pages.
I have found the custom pages tool to be fairly clunky and buggy, but good enough to accomplish what I need out of it.
I am pulling the information into html/css/js on a development server here first, and then migrating them to the custom pages. Works OK.
I was wondering if there are any other capabilities or functions in Cornerstone that I might be overlooking that could help the process.
Any ideas?
The safelisted tags page is your source of truth. You’ll be amazed at what you can’t do.
Quite honestly, we tried building custom pages for a couple projects and after a point we pretty much had to just give up and accept that Cornerstone wasn’t going to let us do what we wanted it to do. But that’s Cornerstone.
And don’t get me started on the editor. By the end of it I was doing the coding in Dreamweaver and just copying it into the Cornerstone HTML widget when I was done. Because that widget was a nightmare to work in.
And then there was the auto timeout, which would regularly kick me out of the system while I was in the middle of actively working on a page and in no way idle.
What I’m getting at is, you might want to reconsider.
I appreciate the advice and safelist link. Have been trying to keep project expectations manageable knowing I would run into snags, and have uncovered some ridiculous bugs along the way.
But so far it is workable enough that I think I can deliver, but also feel like “there has to be a better way, right?”