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I’m trying to set up a corporate electronic style guide with a similar hierarchy to the Chicago Manual of Style, but I’m having trouble thinking of how to structure the data in ExpressionEngine (or even if EE is the right choice for this kind of project).

Here’s the CMOS table of contents page as an example: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch05/ch05_toc.html I’m imagining I’ll want to design a sort of OS X–style “column view” to let people drill down to the specific entry they’re after.

How should I store the structure in EE? Categories? Something else? I want this to be as simple to implement and as easy to update as possible.

Thoughts?

I just asked a question that relates to this in some ways.  I used parent and child categories to organize my data—with the category_archive tag to output it in a nice outline styled format.

And on the backend, categories would likely make maintaining your data easier as well. There’s some interesting fieldtypes to help manage large category groups in the Control Panel… in my case I used Lonely Cat and JP Category Select looked interesting too.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Another option
http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/gwcode-categories

Good luck1