Tuesday, December 31 2002 @ 01:58 PM EST
Contributed by: anonymous
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Hi All-
Love the menu plugin and have decided to use it for a site I run. The client has requested extensive use of subtopics which, thankfully, I was able to add for them with the Menu Plugin.
Under their different main topic areas they have asked to have something similar to this:
Communication >>
-Problems
-Reports
-Bugs
Technical >>
-Problems
-Reports
-Bugs
The problem is that when they try to post a story, and they pull down to their topic area, they find multiple topics labeled Problems, Reports, Bugs and they don't know which one is the one they're supposed to post to. They want to use these names without modifications so the easiest workaround I can think of is to find a way to display Topic_IDs (which have better names) than Topic Names in the Topic Drop Down Menu used in the Story Editor to select which Topic area the story will be published to.
I'm sure this will be a problem for other areas that require this as well. Sadly, I'm "Geeked" but I don't know PHP and I'm hoping somebody can help. Any thoughts?
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Menu Plugin Problem
Authored by: tomw on
Tuesday, December 31 2002 @ 03:52 PM EST
That is one problem with the subtopics implemented in the menu plugin. There are three possible solutions:
1) You have have already rejected the simplest option and that is to include the topic in the sub topic.
2) Modify the menu plugin so that it would drop the topic when it displayed the subtopic (I didn't think about this option when I programmed it or I would have done it.)
3) Modify the submit story and admin submit story pages to display the topic id. The least apealing of the three.
I do not have the time to do any modifications for at least a month.
That is one problem with the subtopics implemented in the menu plugin. There are three possible solutions:
1) You have have already rejected the simplest option and that is to include the topic in the sub topic.
2) Modify the menu plugin so that it would drop the topic when it displayed the subtopic (I didn't think about this option when I programmed it or I would have done it.)
3) Modify the submit story and admin submit story pages to display the topic id. The least apealing of the three.
I do not have the time to do any modifications for at least a month.
TomW