Hello SB, I thought it might be worthwhile clarifying a few points in your post before trying to answer some of the questions you have. NOTE: the post is a little lengthy.
> Is there no way to create a navigation / menu system Depends what you mean by "create". FarCry allows you to add any arbitrarily complex hiercharchical navigation system directly from the Admin console and each navigation node can have multiple content objects. Most of this is just point, click, fill in forms, save. There are custom tags available (and no - not all the tutorials are written yet so you may have to browse some samples and code) to display the menu items in a "default" format and drill down the navigation. If what you want is a more complex navigation then yes, you will have to have experience in CFMX to create the templates that know how to interpret the navigation tree for your purposes. For example, if you dont like the FarCry tag for displaying a site map - then you will have to write your own (which means you will have to worry about children and descendants, etc.). OR If you want the navigation to be driven from a Flash movie - again, you will have to write your own so you can pass the navigation over to the Flash movie. > The basic > navigation that is mentioned in the developers guide is not > sufficient. Firstly, the developers guide may be out of date. I dont think it has been updated since the earlier releases. Since then, the sample site template that your FarCry instance is generated from has changed as well. Secondly, we would need more detail on what it is you are actually trying to do and then we may be able to fast-track you to the custom tags or provide some snippets of code you can work with (which would both help you avoid having to work out the customisation yourself as well as getting you an answer quicker). What you want to do may be doable in a few lines by calling custom tags. Or maybe someone on the list will write you a custom tag to do what you want. The beauty of FarCry being "Open Source" is that we are all extending it together. So the more detail we have of what you want the more likely it is that someone will jump in and say "Hey, I have done that - here, use this" or "I was planning to do that, I will knock something up for us both". > > Any help on this would be appreciated. You will get lots on this list. Give us lots of detail about what it is you need help with - even if you want to break it down into multiple posts. > Is Farcry only for experienced cfmx > programmers? NO - and YES. I think it is important to remember that the CMS itself is (mostly) separate from your templates. At present it appears as though you are having some challenges with getting the menu/navigation to work as you want it to. But you will find that if all you want is a "normal" hierarchical menu that displays static content.... FarCry is an absolutely simple and easy to use solution. If you want more complexity, you will also find the same thing - but your CFMX skills will have to be more refined. For the more experienced CFMX programmer, it means they are freed up to concentrate on the details of the application itself rather than the CMS. I hope some of the above helps and that we will hear from you again soon with some of the details of what you want to do. In the meantime, also make sure you check out everything on the farcry.daemon.com.au site. Even if you dont think it applies to what you are trying to do you may find that someone has explained other aspects of FarCry that are relevant to you now. Regards, Gary Menzel --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MXDU2004 + Macromedia DevCon AsiaPac + Sydney, Australia http://www.mxdu.com/ + 24-25 February, 2004
