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WebsiteBaker Support (2.8.x) => Templates, Menus & Design => Topic started by: varjak on June 30, 2008, 03:50:09 AM

Title: Can WB build dynamic menus from pages with multiple parents?
Post by: varjak on June 30, 2008, 03:50:09 AM

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a CMS solution that will allow us to maintain a collection of online documents, each a separate page.

The main requirement we have is that each of these documents could exist within a number of different categories (or sub menus - e.g. one document may exist in the scientists and americans and women section). So I need to be able to somehow tag these documents as belonging to a number of different parent menus and the menus dynamically reflect any changes to the document archive (additions/deletions and changes in categories).

It seems fairly straightforward requirement for a DB driven CMS to do but I've looked around the forums and at the modules available and can't find anything that confirms WB will do it.

Can you help please..

Thanks

Title: Re: Can WB build dynamic menus from pages with multiple parents?
Post by: kweitzel on June 30, 2008, 01:31:25 PM

in General that is not possible with WB. There might be a workaround, but you would need coding in the template. There is the menulink option which you could use. But you will need to extensivly maniputlate the menuoutput to make it work the way you want it.

cheers

Klaus

Title: Re: Can WB build dynamic menus from pages with multiple parents?
Post by: sparkdigital on August 06, 2008, 11:29:36 AM

This is the one thing that I really really miss in wb - I'll ask in the mod request section to see if anyone wants to take it on.

Konrad

Title: Re: Can WB build dynamic menus from pages with multiple parents?
Post by: kweitzel on August 06, 2008, 06:45:30 PM

you could achieve this with the menu link, which you can link to internal and/or external resources. Which means, you can link to a page with a different parent ...

cheers

Klaus

Title: Re: Can WB build dynamic menus from pages with multiple parents?
Post by: sparkdigital on August 06, 2008, 09:42:26 PM

Hi Klaus, thanks for your reply - I'm going in depth a bit more here:

https://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,10645.msg63060.html#msg63060 (https://forum.WebsiteBaker.org/index.php/topic,10645.msg63060.html#msg63060)

Thanks,

Konrad