James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> Hey! Looks like you found a recipe (criteria settings) that works for
> jobs.
> http://www.kernel-panic.org/jobs/
Yep, got that working the way I wanted, Thanks Tracy. I wish that
SmartFolders allowed you to store thing under them like a real
directory, instead of having to put them inside a "real" directory and
then hide it, to get what I want.
> 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.
Expiration might work. Most of the job listing come to one of the
people listed in contacts, in various formats. I find it easiest to
just cut and paste and do minimal editing for display. Regular users
never post jobs that I'm aware of.
> 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.
Yeah, it was looking crowded, and the existance of a directory and a
smart directory for jobs was confusing.
> 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, ..
Yep, the Wiki section is exactly why I set it to 1.
> ==> 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>)
I agree.
> ==> 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.
I agree with that choice.
> Thus, I've made several changes. All are reversible, so let me know if
> anyone objects to something.
When I looked I noticed another page that might be able to benefit
from a smartfolder page. User Contributed Files is complex, with a lot
of links back to users home directories. If we are successful at
creating a book report template, maybe something can be done to create
a special User_contributed_file object that will be automtically found
by another "smartfolder".
Just my $.02 worth.
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