I agree about removing the alias functionality, but unfortunately we still have clients who use it. Regarding your proposal - the code is in the works at the moment, but will have to go into trunk since there are DB changes involved.
Blair On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Jeff Coughlin <[email protected]>wrote: > 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]<farcry-dev%[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]<farcry-dev%[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]<farcry-dev%[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
