Structure Module: Children with different weblog possible?
Development and Programming
I may have the wrong idea about Structure (and EE in general), but it seems like Structure doesn’t allow pages to have child pages which use a different weblog to the parent (except for listings pages). So, for instance, if I had a top-level page called “Press” based on a “press” weblog, I couldn’t have a child of that page called “Meet our press officer” using a “meet-press” weblog.
The reason I’d want a weblog for each page is that I want a custom edit-page for each.
To me this is pretty fundamental for a CMS, but I haven’t seen any mention of the problem in this forum. Am I being stupid?
Seems like no-one has an opinion on this :(
I’ll pull the plug on Structure then, since it looks like it doesn’t allow a child to have a different edit-page from its parent. I would love it if someone could tell me different!
To be more succinct: Is there no way Structure can ask you what kind of page you want to create when you click “Add page”? Adding a page with the exact same fieldgroup as its parent is, well, kind of useless, right?
To be more succinct: Is there no way Structure can ask you what *kind* of page you want to create when you click “Add page”? Adding a page with the exact same fieldgroup as its parent is, well, kind of useless, right?
Please keep Structure support requests on the official Structure thread, it’s pretty tough to keep an eye on the whole EE forum looking for questions. HOWEVER, you absolutely CAN have children pages with different weblogs as their parent. Just use the Publish tab, pick your weblog, and then in that entry’s Structure tab just pick the parent desired.
Structure 2.0 will have a slick weblog picker so this all takes place in the main admin view.
Hope that helps!
Oh fantastic, glad to hear there’s a way to do it. I’ll try to hack the Structure module so that when you click on Add Page it asks you what weblog you want to base your page on. Going through the publish menu seems to go against the whole idea of Structure.
Anyway thanks Jack, really appreciate your help.
PS Sorry for posting a new topic. That’s the way forums normally work for me, and that official thread is bulging at the seams!