It's not a bug. This is the way the feature was designed many years ago (FarCry 1?). What it does is deceiving and mis-labled (it confuses every one of my clients. They end up going and creating all these confusing aliases. In my opinion ALIASES SHOULD ONLY BE USED BY DEVELOPERS AND CAN ONLY BE SEEN BY SYSADMIN ROLES - sorry for the strong emphasis there :) ). It isn't redirecting the user anywhere. All it does is brings in the child element's content into the calling nav node's location. Confusing? You bet. But it does have it's place (although very rare and IMO pointless). Imagine this: you have multiple sitelets all under the same home tree (something one of my clients did once). Each sitelet wants to have an "about us page" but they want to share the same content. This is the only scenario I've ever come across where I've used this feature. Personally, I think it should be pulled, but it's been in there for ages.
So... I modified the current web project I'm working on for a client to add a new redirect feature in dmNavigation. Now what the person does is select from a library picker (ftType="uuid") and the page gets redirected. It works really well and the client loves it (it just "makes sense" to them because it does it "the FarCry way" - something they're already used to. They find it very intuitive). I've also added a few extra features. I made the proposal to Daemon and they liked it, but so far I don't think it has gone anywhere. So for the moment my client is using a hacked tree.cfc in core (since that file can't be extended - I have a bug for that in the bug tracker). If you want to read more about my proposed changes (and trust me, it works really well so far in the one project I'm using it on) then check out this suggestion page I made and tell Daemon your thoughts (note: currently I've only added options 2 and 3 to my client's website since that's all they really needed): http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCDEV50/Nav+Node+Mod+Screen+Changes -- Jeff Coughlin Web Application Developer http://jeffcoughlin.com On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Blair McKenzie wrote: > I believe it should be setting the redirecting navigation node as the page's > apparent location. If that isn't happening I would say it's a bug. > > Blair > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Michael Sharman <[email protected]> wrote: > I was wondering if the logic behind "redirecting" to an existing > navigation node has changed recently. > > My understanding is that I may have an "About" page in my primary > navigation, but I also have a utility navigation area (in the footer > for example). In this footer nav I want to link to the existing > "About" on the footer nav node in farcry. > > I thought it would behave as if I actually clicked the primary "About" > link, what's happening though is it's loading the correct page but > with the navigation of /footer/about instead of simply /about. This > seems incorrect and not good for SEO. > > Can anyone shed some light on the "official" workflow for dmNavigation > redirects? > > Thanks > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry > > > -- > You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. > To post, email: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] > For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev > -------------------------------- > Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry -- You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry
