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_kate_
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Jul 22, 2008, 5:39 AM

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Menu Type - Category Can't Post

Since updating CMS builder, I have noticed a new option in the section editors which is "category menu" which you can apparently use to make menus.

Can anyone explain how it works? Thanks!


Dave
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Jul 22, 2008, 10:05 AM

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Re: [AgentBristow] Menu Type - Category [In reply to] Can't Post

Hi AgentBristow,

It's a new menu type that lets you organize records in a tree structure - like you would with categories. It has extra fields that are automatically updated for: depth, breadcrumb, parent category, etc.

Right now it's more of an advanced feature because you'd need to work with those fields directly to generate anything but in future we plan to add "category menus" to the code generator so you can generate <li> lists, and other types of category or tree structured navigation.

Hope that helps.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com


_kate_
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Jul 23, 2008, 7:08 AM

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Re: [Dave] Menu Type - Category [In reply to] Can't Post

Thanks!

On a side note, a potential customer just asked me if the CMS is Search Engine Friendly...? Any info you could supply on that to pass onto my customer would be most appreciated :)


Dave
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Jul 23, 2008, 1:49 PM

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Re: [AgentBristow] Menu Type - Category [In reply to] Can't Post

Yes it is. We automatically add the keywords from the title (or whatever field you like) to the url like this:

news.php?your-news-release-here-123

We use dashes to separate words as this is preferred by search engines and add a number on the end which is preferred by google news to identify a unique page.
See: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=68323

And you can also easily add meta description and meta keyword fields to the CMS (and generated pages) if the client wants to enter those.

If there's any more specific search engine related questions feel free to me know.

Hope that helps!

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

 
 
 


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