Makes sense. I forgot to mention the other custom FU option: overriding setFriendlyURL in your content type. By default it behaves as you've seen (prefix + content type + title), but if you need to do something really funky with FUs that's the place to do it. Copy the default from types.cfc and customise.
Blair On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:37 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Blair, > > Thanks for the repy. > > That is sort of what I did, except I was checking for the news display > page ObjectID in the sidenav if detected, setting the request.navid to > what I needed....but your right, I should have tried setting it in the > webskin itself. Will give that a shot. > > With FU, we already have the site defaulted from "/go/" to "/". The > section of the site called "The Institute" is just a subsection, so I > wouldn't want to make the default FU for the entire site "/the- > institute/" just the news section of /the-institute (does that make > sense?) > > Cheers > Mark > > > > On May 5, 5:06 pm, "Blair McKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are a couple of points here that you will need to deal with > > separately. > > > > The first is the navigation and breadcrumbs. To fake the news items > position > > in the site tree you can pass either pass navid into the page as a url > > parameter, or you can set request.navid before the page header is > included > > in the webskin. This allows you to tell the navigation generation code > what > > the page's parent navigation node is. > > > > I'm not sure if this effects the breadcrumbs too - you may have to > update > > the breadcrumbs tag so that request.navid is passed into it instead of > > stObj.objectid. > > > > The other point is the friendly URL. You have a couple of options. The > > easiest is to change the FU prefix in the FU config from "/go/" to "/" > or > > "/the-institute/" depending on how you have FarCry set up. > > > > Cheers > > Blair > > > > > > > > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:17 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I'm trying sort out an issue with Friendly URLs and dmNews. > > > > > The setup and problem: > > > > > (I'm going to use an example article called "FarCry News Test") > > > > > I want the news content on our site to sit on the following URL: /the- > > > institute/news/farcry-news-test > > > > > The page at /the-institute/news is a dmHTML page with a container that > > > contains the news teaser display rule. > > > > > We don't use /go/ and have a setting in IIRF for each of our root > > > folders (the-institute is one of these). > > > > > By default when we create a news article, e.g. "FarCry News Test" and > > > approve it, it has a FU of /news/farcry-news-test > > > > > The problem with this is that the article is not in the navigation > > > tree so the left hand nav and the breadcrumb both now default back to > > > "Home" (hope that makes sense). > > > > > How can I make FarCry default the FU for news articles from /news/ to > / > > > the-institute/news/ ? > > > > > I know that you can add additional FU details after the article is > > > approved, but I want the default to be /the-institute/news/article > > > title rather than making users come back in and edit the FU. > > > > > I've tried adding an include page that the teaser points to (and > > > passes the ObjectID of the article to display via the URL) but this is > > > messy and also creates other issues (such as having to deal with it > > > again in search result links etc). > > > > > Any pointers? > > > > > Cheers > > > Mark- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
