Please find the screenshots of the site as per the above problem!

PS. Any idea how I can embed an ID into each li when I’m generating the navigation for the above problem?

I am DESPERATE! Please can someone help me.

I have a Category called “news” to list the all the news articles. I want to be able to link the news articles to a detail page but I cannot get the subcategory I have created called “detail” to pull the relevant news article using something like below:

mysite.com/index.php/news/detail/article_title

The article title isn’t changing what content is displayed in the “detail” page.

This step or an alternative to getting this to work within Pages is crucial for me.

sorry it’s late and this might be totally wrong and not make a lot of sense at the same time - but I use the pages code to generate the news page intoduction text, but don’t actually use the pages module for the list of articles on the news page and detail page. I use regular ee code for those.
The ‘make dynamic function’, basically is a way of making editing information easier:
for example, on Pages, you can see: “news (5 entries)”
clicking on ‘news’, would let the user edit the ‘static’ part of the news page, ie the introduction content. Clicking on (5 entries) would pull up the edit page of ee with all those entries (a huge convenience for not so savvy clients).
users would publish new news via the regular publish tab and selecting the news weblog.
You shouldn’t get carried away with Pages and forget the power of the regular weblog tag - kapeesh?...

Thanks Iain.

I see. That makes better sense now.

So Pages doesn’t work like conventional templates, which means that here isn’t a chance of “site.com/index.php/news/detail/dynamic_newsitem1”.

I find mixing the two a bit problematic when using it in such a scenario as you descibed. I would need to maintain two different menu’s, one for conventional weblog categories and another for Pages. Just worries me a bit doing it that way. If there isn’t another way I guess I don’t have a choice at this stage.

Pages shouldn’t be used for complex sites in my opinion then. But I love this module :-(

Anyway thanks for the info.

I would use the url site.com/index.php/news_detail/dynamic_newsitemx linked from the list of entries on /news.

Your news items presumably would need to have their own categry group though anyway right? Are you assigning the same category group as your pages to your news weblog?

as for navigation i use a dirty method. I create a configured Page called NAV on the top level with a custom template - usually includes/NAV. Because my top level nav items are always hard coded and i make use of page=“x” within the menu, the NAV page won’t display on the menu as a page…

I then drop the menu/NAV template into any template i want using the embed tag.
EDIT: You might not want to take my word for gospel on this module, I’m just explaining the way I do it, probably one of many possible.

What’s happened to Mark? He hasn’t replied to any posts here recently.

Can anyone help me?

@stinhambo

for a menu as simple as what your screenshots look like - 4 menu items, would it not be easier just to hardcode the submenu in an include?

refer to the post above for the problems with your home page navigation,  i should have said

“then drop the menu/NAV template into any template(including the home page) using the embed tag.”

With the home page issue, normally home pages use a different template from internal content pages(right?), so why not use a normal {exp:weblog:entries entry_id=“x”... for inserting the content from the ‘home’ page into the template.
In my opinion, a home page should only have a small area of static, editable content, and the rest of the page is produced dynamically by what’s been added recently, or featured etc etc..

hope this helps.

Yes I am using a different template, weblog and custom field group but I have associated it with the ‘Pages Module’ category called ‘Home’.

It is still a mystery as to why the template doesn’t pick up

Yet it does if I click on ‘Home’ in the category tree.

How the hell do I get the home category to come up if I type in the url directly without the /index.php/etc/etc?

Also I still get my static content weblog coming up if I hover over ‘Edit’

UPDATE:

I hardcoded this into my homepage index -

and it works a treat

I’d still like a fix for my problem as I might in the future have text links and the pages module could auto generate new navigation items if the client created a new category then published new content…

This problem also means that I can’t use

on my homepage.

@Iain

Thanks for that info. Have hard coded the top level menus so that will work fine for me. If only the Pages module tags worked throughout the system…

The embed doesn’t parse for some reason on normal pages. Maybe because I’m using the wrong url for the embed. It does work when called from one of the Pages pages. I am using:

Thoughts?

@stinhambo

another way of getting around the index page problem is by putting a redirect script into the index page that points to a static page called home or whatever. Here’s some php code to do it. You will need to have php parsing enabled on your index template.

Hope this helps.

Is that how everyone else does it with the pages module?

you could always use an include instead of an embed, that’s one way:

if you have the nav generator on your list of pages, hit the ‘view’ link to get the Pages url. Make sure you enable php though.
see screenshots attached.

EDIT: suppose i should post the code in NAV too,

And a screenshot of how admin users see the Pages, and a shot of how they are configured too.

So am I write in thinking that I have to -

[list]
* Create a weblog called ‘pages’ for example
* Use this as the basis for all my pages (basically use it to store the page title)
* Create multiple templates to drag in content from other weblogs
* Go to each page on the category tree and assign their respective templates assign the ‘pages’ weblog to all

I’ve just edited my post above to include a screenshot of my ‘cofigure pages’ setup and the code i use to generate the navigation accross the site.

Cheers iain! I think we need more practical examples like that to demonstrate how it can or should be done with this module.

Oh and thank you too Kenny!

yeah, i was about to start typing a long walkthrough that didn’t make much sense,
 
there’s also this and this straight from the horses mouth (so to speak).

Iain.

Yeah I got that tutorial but it doesn’t say any more than your great wiki entry to be honest.

What you and Kenny have posted is far more valuable

Now if anyone wanted to do a screencast. I’d do one myself if I knew what I was doing here. But when I do!