Darren,
Thanks for your response. This has been my main concern about Midgard and a
commercial system E-grail from Guiworks - http://guiworks.com - that I'm
looking into. Both systems work in the same manner & I was hoping that
there would be a way to ad this feature.
Thanks,
Corbin Harris
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>From: Darren Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [midgard] creating links/lost
>Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000, 6:46 PM
>
> Hi Corbin-
>
> I think that the short answer is no...having just read the first thread you
> posted to the list, I recall that you are a dreamweaver user. I use
> dreamweaver myself, and I think I see your angle on this. Let me see if I
> understand you correctly.
>
> You want to highlight a bit of text in the content that you are typing into
the
> midgard interface, and have a dropdown box that lists all the pages on the
> site. When you select one page from the box, the link is automatically
> created. Is that correct?
>
> If so, then the answer is probably no. Typing the anchor tag is by far
simpler
> than writing whatever code you would have to write to make midgard's admin
site
> act like a wysiwyg editor. Midgard's administrative tools are simply a set of
> web pages, which allow you to relate bits of code together into a coherent
> website. Those bits of code might be php or html, but they all have to be
> inserted into the midgard database, which means typing them into the admin
> website, or cutting and pasting from applications like dreamweaver. That's a
> manual process, but there are things you can to do speed it up.
>
> My recommendation to you is similar to what I'm doing- Prototype the look of
> your site in dreamweaver, where you can use it's conveniences to speed that
> process. Then drop the components of that template (header, navigation bar
> footer, etc) into Midgard, using its style administration tools. After that,
> you can start to stick content into the style you've created using midgard's
> other tools, plus the appropriate php code to make it function like your
bosses
> want it to.
>
> Best of luck...
>
> Darren Petersen
> Gresham OR
>
>
> Corbin Harris wrote:
>
>> I posted a question to see if it's possible to create a link within Midgard
>> by highlighting the text within the content & then have a dropdown menue
>> with the page id's to select for the link. I'm not sure I was able to
>> follow some of the responses,so if someone could repost on this feasiblity
>> with javascript or PHP I would appreciate it.
>> Thanks,
>> Corbin Harris
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