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rangothonline-gmail - 3/12/2012 8:27:14 AM

Web Parts for Free Version Question

I tried a search on these forums and in the help but the only thing I could find was the feature matrix: http://www.kentico.com/Download-Demo/Free-CMS-for-ASP-NET/Kentico_6_editions

Now, for the most part that is pretty self-explanatory however I have a few questions...

There is no direct listing of what the feature matrix maps to for web parts. I was using the "Send Message" web part during development as a simple "Contact Me" feature. This is apparently considered a private messaging feature and thus not allowed in the free version. However I do not wish to enable user to user private messaging, just "anyone on the page" to me.

1.) Is there a better web part to achieve this that is usable in the free version?
2.) Is there a list of WEB PARTS(not the feature matrix) that are/are not available in the free version?
3.) Is there the possibility of a future license for people who have small pages but want all the features?

I ask the last one because I am a ASP developer and Kentico was recommended to me by someone who actually uses it in a corporate environment. I certainly appreciate the ability to use such a detailed and customization toolset for free, and obviously accept any limitations that may come with that, but it would be nice to perhaps have a 100-500$ (step below small business) license for personal users.

Anyway, thank you again and I will continue experimenting with different web parts but a simple listing like the feature matrix would be helpful.

-Mark

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kentico_janh - 3/12/2012 9:03:45 AM

RE:Web Parts for Free Version Question

Hello,

1) We have an On-line form web part for this type of functionality (it is represent by BizForm feature in feature matrix you have posted). For more information, please follow the link below to our documentation:
http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?bizforms_module_overview.htm

2) Regrettably, we don't have such a list of web parts availability for a free license, but if you open the Module section in our documentation, you can find avaiable web parts for every single module from feature matrix.

3) I'm not aware of it, but as a ASP developer, you can create any functionality you want, because Kentico is a standard .NET application :)

Best regards,
Jan Hermann

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rangothonline-gmail - 3/12/2012 9:36:07 AM

RE:Web Parts for Free Version Question

Thank you,

As you were typing up the response I did find the BizForm functionality and began creating a form to achieve the same task as the standard "Send Message" feature.

I am having some formatting issues with the size of the button being smaller than my button text, but I'm pretty sure I can figure that out eventually.

Yea, the API feature is fairly robust. It is interesting that one could simply create the features not allowed in the free version, thus routing around the intended effect. I still think it would be better to have all web parts available but limit their usage and general scope, much as is done with the number of pages, etc when using the free version.

Either way though it's a excellent platform and the support response has been great, especially as one of your free customers, running a website that will probably never see more than 1000 hits! I would gladly pay something within reason to have full features but ability to use all functions. Only you guys have the numbers of how many people would fall into my category though.

Anyway, thank you again!

Kentico Support

kentico_janh - 3/12/2012 10:11:43 AM

RE:Web Parts for Free Version Question

Hello,

The size of that button is probably defined in a site's css stylesheet. The class name of this button is FormButton, so you can play with its size as you want to, through the css definition:

.FormButton {
width: 120px;
height: 30px;
}

Regarding to the feature limitations in the free version - I have no power to change our licensing policy and there is probably a good reason, why we have the current one, because I can imagine, that I will be able to develop a whole complex site with a few pages, which will hide/show their contents according to postbacks, query string parameters etc., so then the number of pages limitation would be useless and I will have a whole Kentico EMS toll for free.

Best regards,
Jan Hermann