I have been saving questions up as I have been going along..so I could minimize my impact on the list...as always I apologize if these seem rudimentary....these are more code strategy questions than anything else I am working on a subsection of a site, a departmentpage which leads in turn to a bunch of sub departments....I would like to have a title and use the abstract to describe the department and then go to the subtopic and get the list of articles in that sub topic. I had a few ideas on doing this...one was to use the topic listings and the description as the department listing and then call the articles up once I link on to the department's listing....but I wasn't sure if that was what the topic fields were intended for.... The other approach (a better way I think) but one I am unsure of how to do without making the query really complicated was to have all of the department titles and abstracts be articles in a parent topic with the department content being subtopics, then when linked going to the subpages and calling the topics there...the only problem is that I can't figure out how to call a parent topic and not get all of the childeren as well.......I need to idot proof it as well so that staff members can create articles and not need to know to set flags or artibutes in the article....(at least that would be ideal...) The other thing I was curious about was how to get the author of an article, again with out incuring a lot of scripting overhead, I see it at the bottom of the midgard main site but I only found an numercial reference to the author in the article table...it seems like it would be adding a lot to jump over to the person field and match up that membership based number with the first and last name..... on both of these I am sure I am missing something...I just need a little nudge.... thanks! kp -- This is The Midgard Project's mailing list. For more information, please visit the project's web site at http://www.midgard-project.org To unsubscribe the list, send an empty email message to address [EMAIL PROTECTED]
