Is there any possibility that this could be solved at another level -
site architecture or design?

On Sep 17, 11:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm hoping someone might know an easy way to solve the problem I have
> with Symbolic links and the nav tree.
>
> What I want to do is - when I have a symbolic link to a nav item, I
> want any sub navigation for the linked nav item to appear in the
> navigation tree on the site.
>
> So for example I have a site structure like:
>
> Root
>         Home
>                 Students
>                         Course Information
>                         Student Services
>                         Etc
> Utility
>         Courses
>                 Search for a course
> Industry Sectors
>
> Etc
>
> On "Home/Students/Course Information" I set a redirect to "Utility/
> Courses"
>
> I have used a modified copy of genericNav.cfm so that it doesn't
> redirect symbolic links, so clicking Home/Students/Course Information
> you stay in the Students node (e.g. URL stays correct, breadcrumbs
> stay correct etc), but you only get the HTML page content from Utility/
> Courses.
>
> That all works fine, except what I now need it to do is - when you
> click Home/Students/Course Information the side navigation would list
> the nav items from Utility/Course.
>
> So you would end up with:
>
> Root
>         Home
>                 Students
>                         Course Information
>                                 Search for a course
> Industry Sectors
>                         Student Services
>                         Etc
> Utility
>         Courses
>                 Search for a course
> Industry Sectors
>
> Can anyone suggest an easy way to make this work?  I do realise that I
> could also setup dummy nav items under Course Information and use
> symbolic links for each one to point back to Utility/Courses, but the
> above is only an example and I actually have about 30 - 40 occurrences
> of the above on the site.  That would mean anytime one of these was
> updated or a new nav node was needed I would have to remember
> everywhere that pointed back to that section of the site.....just
> asking for problems.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Cheers
> Mark


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