Hi,

I'm in the process of deploying Midgard at a moderately sized but
very dynamic site, and I've been quite concerned with one issue:
Can one map topics to pages (or pages to topics) in a automatic, and
transparent, manner?

My problem is this: The major parts of the site will be administrated
by a group of administrators, but then several departments will
administrate their own pages (or subsites). For them (and for us),
the content management part would be great, if you conveniently could
map topics to pages, so that you can browse the topic structure
without having to make an active page which handles all
requests. (Btw, in the current stable version, this doesn't seem
to be possible.)

I would like it to work something like this: When you create a new
topic (named "support" for example), a "virtual" page is also set up,
based on a template (or parent) page of the current topic tree. All
articles added to this topic would then be accesible by very
simple means; as we know which topic we are in right know, one can
simply fetch all articles which have the current topic as parent.

Another approach could be that each page created in the "page
admin" results in a topic, that can then be filled with articles (and
possibly other topics as well, depending on the user privileges).
The page would then "know" which topic id that corresponds to the
current page, so that you won't have to hard-code topics to pages
(this is what I'm doing right know, slightly annoying :)

Whatever the solution, the primary goal would be to facilitate the
creation of large web sites, that contains many types of content, and 
that can be managed by several groups (or individuals).

Are there any functions that would support this proposed behavior in
the upcoming versions, and if not, is there a better way to solve the
problem of connecting content "folders" to actual pages?

Thanks,

// Adam Blomberg


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