Links? Basic Howto?

[RobG-4]

I got Farcry up and running and it seems pretty cool.  I have yet to
find any good, useful documentation other than Jeff Coughlin's videos.
They're nice, but only touch on the power of this thing.

I'm trying to figure out how to setup Links.  The videos make no mention
of it, and all the documentation I've found is marked as "not available"
(offline for revamping).

What I've done is setup a navigation tab called Forum, the point of
which is to basically redirect to a new URL for a web forum I setup
elsewhere.

Under that tab (in the Sites area of the Admin section), I created a
Link and gave it the appropriate URL.  When I Preview it, it works
great.  But when I go to the actual site and refresh, then click Forum,
it says Page Not Found.  And it's no wonder... the URL is wrong.  The
proper friendly url should be whatever.com/go/forum/support-forum but
the actual url is coming out as whatever.com/go/support-forum.  I've
cleared my cache and everything (Firefox 2) but it hasn't helped.

In addition, how does it work when you add multiple content items to a
tab?  I.e. let's say I have an "About" tab and under it I might have
"about us" and another might be "contact us" and a third might be "map."
  How do you get to those pages?

I need to get this thing figured out quickly.  I have an appt on
Thursday to present it to my client.  I know it's what they need and
want, but it'll look a lot better if I know what I'm doing. :)

Thanks!

Rob


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[Josen Ruiseco]

RobG-4 wrote:

I got Farcry up and running and it seems pretty cool.  I have yet to
find any good, useful documentation other than Jeff Coughlin's videos.
They're nice, but only touch on the power of this thing.

I'm trying to figure out how to setup Links.  The videos make no mention
of it, and all the documentation I've found is marked as "not available"
(offline for revamping).

What I've done is setup a navigation tab called Forum, the point of
which is to basically redirect to a new URL for a web forum I setup
elsewhere.

Under that tab (in the Sites area of the Admin section), I created a
Link and gave it the appropriate URL.  When I Preview it, it works
great.  But when I go to the actual site and refresh, then click Forum,
it says Page Not Found.  And it's no wonder... the URL is wrong.  The
proper friendly url should be whatever.com/go/forum/support-forum but
the actual url is coming out as whatever.com/go/support-forum.  I've
cleared my cache and everything (Firefox 2) but it hasn't helped.

In addition, how does it work when you add multiple content items to a
tab?  I.e. let's say I have an "About" tab and under it I might have
"about us" and another might be "contact us" and a third might be "map."
  How do you get to those pages?

I need to get this thing figured out quickly.  I have an appt on
Thursday to present it to my client.  I know it's what they need and
want, but it'll look a lot better if I know what I'm doing. :)

Rob,

Welcome! You are correct in acknowledging that FarCry is powerful. The challenging part is getting immersed far enough that you can actually tap into the power.

I had the exact same question as you do in terms of "how do I get to the child links of a nav node?"

There is a way. However, it seems that the more conventional way (after reading, coding, watching, etc.) is to have a single nav node for every html page. In instances where the parent node should not actually have a page, you simply do a redirect from that node to a child node's page.

As far as your forum url problem, it seems to me that you may want to use an include page that does the redirect to the exact url rather than trying to rely on your object's output of the friendly url.

The FarCry board traffic has been painfully slow for the past couple of weeks. I have questions that have gone unanswered, and held back some questions until the traffic picks up again.

If I am around and I can help you, I will do so.

Regards,

Josen

[RobG-4]

Thanks for the offer of help!

I have a question for you... regarding your Include idea... where do
you put the file to be included (what directory)?  Is there a naming
convention to follow, or does the file have to be "registered" in the
system?  I ask because I tried it and couldn't get the file to show up
in the drop-down... maybe I put it in the wrong spot.

Thanks!

Rob


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[modius]

On Sep 3, 8:47 am, RobG <sled...@...> wrote:
> I got Farcry up and running and it seems pretty cool.  I have yet to
> find any good, useful documentation other than Jeff Coughlin's videos.
> They're nice, but only touch on the power of this thing.

You might try:
http://docs.farcrycms.org/

> I'm trying to figure out how to setup Links.  The videos make no mention
> of it, and all the documentation I've found is marked as "not available"
> (offline for revamping).

Can you provide a link?  I'll remove these references so other folks
are not confused.

> What I've done is setup a navigation tab called Forum, the point of
> which is to basically redirect to a new URL for a web forum I setup
> elsewhere.
>
> Under that tab (in the Sites area of the Admin section), I created a
> Link and gave it the appropriate URL.  When I Preview it, it works
> great.  But when I go to the actual site and refresh, then click Forum,
> it says Page Not Found.  And it's no wonder... the URL is wrong.  The
> proper friendly url should be whatever.com/go/forum/support-forum but
> the actual url is coming out as whatever.com/go/support-forum.  I've
> cleared my cache and everything (Firefox 2) but it hasn't helped.

This looks like a bug. Perhaps the firendly url for your content item
has not been correctly registered.  Does this always happen or just
this once?  What version of farcrycms plugin are you using?

> In addition, how does it work when you add multiple content items to a
> tab?  I.e. let's say I have an "About" tab and under it I might have
> "about us" and another might be "contact us" and a third might be "map."
>   How do you get to those pages?

You need to create a navigation folder for each point in the menu.  A
good rule of thumb is to have a navigation folder for every page of
content (including links).  You only use multiple content items under
a single folder for things like multi-page feature articles.

> I need to get this thing figured out quickly.  I have an appt on
> Thursday to present it to my client.  I know it's what they need and
> want, but it'll look a lot better if I know what I'm doing. :)

Try building out some content with the quick site builder under:
Content > Content Utilities.  Always a good utility for demos.

Hope that helps,

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/


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[modius]

On Sep 3, 12:03 pm, Josen Ruiseco <josen.ruis...@...>
wrote:
> The FarCry board traffic has been painfully slow for the past couple of
> weeks. I have questions that have gone unanswered, and held back some
> questions until the traffic picks up again.

Mat's had twins, I've been in New Zealand and everyone else is holding
the fort here at Daemon :)

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/


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[Josen Ruiseco]

modius wrote:

On Sep 3, 12:03 pm, Josen Ruiseco <[e-mail]>
wrote:
> The FarCry board traffic has been painfully slow for the past couple of
> weeks. I have questions that have gone unanswered, and held back some
> questions until the traffic picks up again.

Mat's had twins, I've been in New Zealand and everyone else is holding
the fort here at Daemon :)

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/

Congratulations to Mat!

Glad you're back. I hope you were able to relax while gone.

Please know that my comment was not critical.

Regards,

Josen

[RobG-4]

modius wrote:

> This looks like a bug. Perhaps the firendly url for your content item
> has not been correctly registered.  Does this always happen or just
> this once?  What version of farcrycms plugin are you using?

I concluded that something was messed up, so I wiped out the entire
project and recreated it, since it's still in its infancy.  That
corrected those strange problems.

BTW, a quick aside... if you click on the Home link included in the
Mollio project and delete it, effectively deleting the whole site, an
error is thrown in that left frame from that point on, and I could find
no way to bring anything back.  That's why I wiped it all out and
started over. ;)

> You need to create a navigation folder for each point in the menu.  A
> good rule of thumb is to have a navigation folder for every page of
> content (including links).  You only use multiple content items under
> a single folder for things like multi-page feature articles.

Okay, so if I put a Nav folder in place and then a Link below it,
clicking on that Nav folder (i.e. "forum" ) will take me to my link?
I'll give that a try now.

> Try building out some content with the quick site builder under:
> Content > Content Utilities.  Always a good utility for demos.

That's how I setup the new version... I like that site builder, it's
pretty slick.

Rob

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