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Jul 22, 2002, 6:28 PM
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Re: [nigelparry] Features questions (URGENT)
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Hi Nigel,
Sorry for the delay. If you (or anyone else) ever have any urgent issues please feel free to call. We do our best to stay on top of the forum but it sometimes jumps ahead of us! That said, here we go:
Archive Lists by Author - This isn't built in, but the search engine does let you search the spare fields, so searching for an authors name would display a list of all the articles that contained that authors name in the spare field or content. Users could type in the name manually or you could do it with a link like so: /exec/search.cgi?search=1&keyword=joe
list of the various includes - There a few main types of includes that you can have displayed with the pages, they are: top N article headlines, top N article headlines from a specific category, search box, and the category list. These are laid out in the /templates/ folder under directories of the same name(s), eg: search, headlines, etc.
dynamic sections - the only dynamic section is the search engine. Everything else is published as static HTML files when the database is updated so as to incur the minimum amount of load on your web server. When articles are added only the minimum amount of files necessary are "re-published", not everything. However, when you update the templates and want to republish everything there is an admin button to do that.
graphical Previous/Next links - you can use images for the next and last links if you like. For category indexes this template is found in /templates/index/default.html. Near the bottom you'll see some code like this:
<!-- templatecell : next -->
<a href="$next_url$">next >></a>
<!-- /templatecell : next -->
this block of HTML or "cell" (maybe even "templatecell" <grin>) is displayed when the next button is needed. Just add the code for your image in there and you're ready to go. $next_url$ is automatically replaced with the appropriate value when the page is generated.
Archiving directory structure - There is no archiving currently, it is a feature that is currently in development and expected shortly (under a week). When it arrives older articles will be able to be put in a seperate data file and browsed with a dynamic viewer. For published articles they are all put in the publish directory you specify during installation.
Category Limit - There is no set limit to how many categories you could create, you could have hundreds and hundreds if you wanted.
subcategories - Yes, it can be done (see this thread), but it isn't automatic and does require you tweaking the templates yourself. It's setup this way to give you maximum control over subcategory layout and category layout. You can actually customize the templates to have it appear that you have several different "groups" of categories that aren't related and other interesting things. See the subcategory thread for more info.
category publish dirs - no, unfortunately you cannot specify the publish directory on a per category basis. You can have the indexes publish to one directory and the articles pages to another though. People with membership sites have done this as I understand.
multiple installs - Yes, multiple installations would operate completely independent of each other. Just make sure they each have their own data and publish folders (which would be the default). You do need a license for each installation though. There are discounts up to 50% when you buy multiple licenses though. See the order page for more details.
Hope that helps!
Dave
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
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