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MEKAEEL
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Oct 23, 2006, 3:48 PM

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hey guys,

I know how to make my subcategories appear in one level only, but after the upgrade something is not right with me. Let me make my problem into an example so it will be understood better.

Let's say I have this main menu:

* Politics
- US
--North
--South
- Europe
-- France
-- Spain
* Social
* Sports
* Misc

Now I changed my all my publishing options to show one level for all categories. But when I view an article in one of the subcategories (say North under US politics) for some reason all other subcategories in politics gets displayed as well. Like this:

* Politics
- US
--North
--South
- Europe
-- France
-- Spain
* Social
* Sports
* Misc

while I only want to show this (given I'm reading an article in soccer):

* Politics
- US
--North
--South
- Europe
* Social
* Sports
* Misc

Is there something I'm missing?

mekaeel


(This post was edited by MEKAEEL on Oct 23, 2006, 4:00 PM)


MEKAEEL
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Oct 23, 2006, 4:19 PM

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Re: [MEKAEEL] displaying one level subcategories issue [In reply to] Can't Post
I did change the options of Global Menu (default menu) and Category Menus (current category highlighted) to show only the parent category and 1 level sub and such, but to no vail :(


UPDATE:

seems I know what's the problem, I'll check it out and be back with the result Laugh I have so many categories and articles to publish to know the result.


(This post was edited by MEKAEEL on Oct 23, 2006, 4:25 PM)


MEKAEEL
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Oct 23, 2006, 4:44 PM

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nope I tried everything possible but it seems this can not be done in AM2, I played a lot with the Custom Menu Format but I could not get it as I wanted, or rather as it was in AM 1.41.

I do hope I'm wrong though.


Theo
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Oct 23, 2006, 5:28 PM

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nope I tried everything possible but it seems this can not be done in AM2, I played a lot with the Custom Menu Format but I could not get it as I wanted, or rather as it was in AM 1.41.

I do hope I'm wrong though.

Mekaeel, what subcategory style were you using in Artman 1 that you can't use now? I could be mistaken, but I've just tinkered around with all the Artman 1 styles and it appeared that all five styles could be done with Artman 2...

The style that appears closest to what you were describing is "One Level".


Theo Wiersma
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(This post was edited by Theo on Oct 23, 2006, 5:29 PM)


Dave
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Oct 23, 2006, 5:37 PM

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Re: [MEKAEEL] displaying one level subcategories issue [In reply to] Can't Post
I'm not sure if this is the problem, but just in case...

There was two menu formats in ArtMan1 that were removed from ArtMan2. Here's how to reproduce them using a Custom Menu Format.

Selected Branch Only - Only show parents and subcategories of the selected category

- Show [0] level(s) of subcategories from root
- Show [1] level(s) of subcategories below selected category
- Show [parents only] above selected category
- [Show] selected category


Subcategories Only - Only show subcategories of the selected category

- Show [0] level(s) of subcategories from root
- Show [1] level(s) of subcategories below selected category
- Show [nothing] above selected category
- [Hide] selected category

Hope that helps, if not - let us know and we'll keep trying! :)

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com
 


MEKAEEL
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Oct 23, 2006, 5:47 PM

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Hello Theo and Dave,

I was using one level.

But the one level in AM 1 gave me a different result than AM2, which I wanted.

again just to explain my problem better:

Sports
- Soccer
----US
----Brazil
- Basketball
---- Chicago
---- Seattle

In AM1 when I highlighted Brazil under Soccer the menu looked like this:

Sports
- Soccer
----US
----Brazil
- Basketball

which is good!

But now in AM2, it's looking like this:

Sports
- Soccer
----US
----Brazil
- Basketball
---- Chicago
---- Seattle

It's showing all subcategories of other sections that are not chosen as well.

This is really annoying because I have sooooo many categories and subcategories. When I view short articles the page goes all the way down for the menu only Unsure.

I hope that explains it better Tongue

and I tried Dave's suggestions but unfortunately they did not work Frown

mekaeel


(This post was edited by MEKAEEL on Oct 23, 2006, 5:55 PM)


Theo
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Oct 24, 2006, 4:25 PM

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Mekaeel,

Thanks very much for posting your detailed notes, it helped a lot in tracking this down.

We'll have this fixed in 2.01.


Theo Wiersma
Project Manager