I think this makes sense....I was so set on another way to do it now I have
to back my noggin out and look at it as you suggest....the layout is the
same from page to page just the content changes so......
hmmm...mutter, mutter....thanks
KP
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From: Carilda Thomas [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [midgard] This may be a longshot...
Ken Pooley wrote:
> This may be a long shot but I will give it a try....
>
> I have an part of site set up so that the subtopics of a page are tied to
> the child topics/descriptions in a content area...that way the editorial
> staff can add and subtract topics at will....the link to the subpage is
> tied to the topic title and everything (pretty simple if you list_topicS
> and not list_topic)...the automation breaks down though because I then
have
> to go in and add subpages in the host admin....is there a quick and dirty
> way to correlate content subtopics with the creation of subpages in the
> host section? If there isn't a quick way does anyone have opinions about
> how it might be done in a long and arduous way...rewrite the add topic
> button to check the host defs and add if not there? Is there a compelling
> reason why I would not want to do this that I am missing? I wouldn't do
it
> everywhere just in places where I want the content creators to have more
> control over the breakdown of their content.....
I may be a bit confused on what you are trying to do, but it seems that you
should be able to do it by making the page associated with the -- let's
call
it a sub-root topic -- the topic to which you want to add subtopics --
thingy
-- an active page.
Put some code-init logic into the page to decide what topic or subtopic is
being viewed -- this is simple if the depth is only 2 (topic and set of
subtopics) -- a little more complicated (walking the "up" until you reach
the
"sub-root topic") if the depth is greater.
Then, recode the page display to do different things according to where in
the
subtree you are.
Since you didn't mention anything about the layout being different for the
subtopics, why would you want to create a different page? Is there
something
on the site that is dependent on the existence of particular pages
corresponding to particular topics?
the cat
>
>
> kp
>
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