Neil Schneider wrote:
> Tracy R Reed wrote:
>> Neil Schneider wrote:
>>> Any suggestions or instructions? I don't want to spend a day
>>> figuring
>>> out plone well enough to add this feature.
>> Yes indeed. Move /jobs to some other name, create a smart folder
>> called
>> jobs to take its place. Go into the folder and you will see a criteria
>> tab. Go into that tab and you can select what portal types you want to
>> show up in that smart folder. By default "News Item" is among the
>> choices. Although we may want to make a special content type called
>> "Job
>> Listing". Which reminds me, I need to finish that little book report
>> customization thing and while I'm at it I can make a Job Listing one
>> also. Then we can have a smart folder for each and get them
>> automatically linked into the right place as soon as they are
>> published
>> in the creators home directory.
> 
> OK, I did a little rearanging on the web site. Created a smartfolder
> for jobs, hid some of the folders that don't need to be visible to the
> general public. Admins need to know that there are folders hidden from
> view, and that you need to look at the Contents tab to see them all. I
> think the left side looks a little cleaner now.
> 
> Take a look and tell what you think.


Hey! Looks like you found a recipe (criteria settings) that works for jobs.
  http://www.kernel-panic.org/jobs/

Future: maybe a custom type "jobposting" can be derived from a standard
page. Conceivably could add expiration to the criteria. Then the poster
would have to be sure to enter something -- or a custom create/edit form
(template) could require an expiration, to take it one level more
complicated.

I have tried deriving custom types and got a little ways into it, but no
  success so far.

The clean look is an improvement, but I have a couple of
questions/suggestions.

I guess the major cleanup step comes from making the leftside navigation
menu into a current-level contents only and a navigation depth of 1. I
point this out for others who may not remember what the old one looked
like.

That "1" navigation setting _seems_ to produce always a single entry
only, rather than any sub-entries.

==> MyOp: that's a bit too clean.

You can turn the sub-entries back on by changing nav-depth to 0 (no
limit) or 2 to show current+1sub

==> I have set it to 2 for your consideration. That brings (eg) jobs
into view. It looks about right to me, now, but some may think it needs
paring back to somewhere in-between?

An unwanted  side-effect is to list every wiki page when you're in the
wiki section, ..

==> MyOp: leftside nav should show only container objects not individual
pages (generally -- allow FrontPage <since I can't figure out how to
hide it, anyway>)

==> so I also disabled inclusion of wiki pages from the Displayed
content types (again on the nav-settings page). Likewise excluded images
(there was one image from something I posted).

==> I also changed the properties on Deleted Web Pages to set the
Exclude from navigation, to keep that off the (public) wiki nav-menu.

Thus, I've made several changes. All are reversible, so let me know if
anyone objects to something.

Regards,
..jim

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