Great work Jeff, it would be nice to have those options default in FarCry Core.
Jørgen~ On 3. juni 2010, at 04.38, Jeff Coughlin 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] >> 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 > > -- 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
