Although I am not fully understanding exactly what you are doing I would ask this question....
Are you able to explain what event (automatic or otherwise) indicates that something is "current" ? I can see you are not wanting to have the user perform an action that does this - so I am wondering how (otherwise) something becomes "current". Which then leads me to say, "If you are able to identify the state in which an object becomes current, then it should be possible to either automate this (date rollover, most recently added object, etc.) or at least automate a state change across multiple objects by the user performing an action". I dont know if that helps you solve the problem - but it is how I would be looking at it. Regards, Gary [PS - and a rule can do anything you want - not just display a list of titles or teasers. The "rule" is how items are selected and what type of object they are, then you select a "display" method when you deploy an instance of the rule (in which you can display anything about the objects provided by the "rule"). Although it would be VERY manual, you could possibly use a Handpicked Rule to have them select the "current" sections.] On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:00:28 -0500, Jaci Chesnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is exactly what I'm trying to do... > > I have three sections to my site. > > The first is regular pages that people would just go in and > modify/update the content of the individual page. > > Then I have another section that is an archive of articles that are > posted through the dmNews type which I have extended to include a step > in the plp where the user can associate the object to a specific issue > and where they also need to be associated with a specific category > (Departments, Columns, Articles, News). These all work fine. > > The last section of the navigation of the site is the current section. > With in this section I actually list out dynamically all of the sub > sections. Each of these subsection need to associate to the current > release of the related sub section of each category in the archive. > There will only be one page for each subsection. It is not as simple as > a publishing rule because I don't want to make a list I want to display > the body of a specific object that is the current one for any specific > subcategory...also it needs to be subject to the publishing date > specified on the newsobject. It can't just be an extra column that flags > it as current because as months progress old ones would still be set to > current unless the user goes in and deselects them as current. > > Does this help clarify what I'm trying to do? > > I just can't seem to figure out a way to make this whole archive/current > thing easy for our users. > > Jaci > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff > Coughlin > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 12:31 PM > To: FarCry Developers > Subject: [farcry-dev] Re: Custom SQL Table > > Jaci Chesnes wrote: > > Table would look something like this. > > > > NavNodeID1 NewsObjecteId43 > > NavNodeID2 NewsObjecteId56 > > NavNodeID3 NewsObjecteId32 > > NavNodeID4 NewsObjecteId18 > > NavNodeID5 NewsObjecteId21 > > > > In other words I know that you can assign a navNode to point to a > > specific page somewhere else in the tree, but if I wanted to make this > > > process dynamic but in reverse. Instead of creating a node and > > assigning it to point to an existing page, they would be creating the > > page as a news type and assign it to an existing navnode. > > You may be trying to make it more difficult than it has to be. > > There are a few ways to do this. I am assuming that the Nav nodes > already exist and you just want new dmNews objects to point to them. > > If this is the case you can use the built-in feature called > "Categories". This will also allow you to relate the news item to > multiple nav nodes if you wish. > > Otherwise you could extend the dmNews object. Add a PLP step that > allows you to do whatever you want. Like maybe create a field (say > "relatedNavID") and allow the user to choose from a populated list of > existing nav nodes. There are probably a hundred other ways you can get > > Farcry to do what you intend by extending the dmNews object. > > If neither of these seem to be your solution perhaps you could give an > excplicit example of what you're trying to do. (i.e. I am assuming you > want the person to create a dmNews object and assign / relate it to a > single (or multiple) dmNavigation object. I would consider using the > already built-in "Categories" feature.) However, I'm still not sure > "exactly" what you're trying to do. The good thing is that most custom > things (beyond what exists in dmNews) should be able to be accomplished > by extending the dmNews object. > > -Jeff C. > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > --- > You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > --- You are currently subscribed to farcry-dev as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
