Could you use something based on the childlinks rule, but instead of using the navid of the current page (e.g. Homes, Businesses or Schools) to generate the child links use #application.navid.utility#
Chris.
Tim Lucas wrote:
I have a contributor adding 50+ nodes and I want to be able to reuse entire branches in different parts of the site, whilst having the content appear as if it was actually in that part of the tree (for breadcrumbs, sitemaps etc).
A simplified example:
- Home -- Services --- For Homes --- For Businesses --- For Schools - Utility -- Services --- Cleaning --- Drying --- Shopping
I want all the nodes under Utility/Services to appear under Homes, Business and Schools.
The major problem is that, in farcry, content is linked to using its objectid and if you were to just use objectids (no FURLS) you'd need to create (and keeping in sync) an objectid for each sim'd node, or pass a whole lotta data through the URL.
The only way I can envisage this to work is to use FURLS and have the sim'd nodes map to index.cfm?objectid=xxx&fromsimnode=xxx
I'd need to write my own FURL creation script and have breadcrumb and navigation aware of the fromsimnode url variable.
Oh another idea. Maybe it would be acceptable to just autogenerate the construction of simlinks for all the subnodes. Extend the nav node type and when a simlink is created it creates subranches mimicking the sim'd original structure but those subranches being simlinks themselves. Still have a problem with maintenance though.
If I haven't lost you yet, any advice?
-- tim
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