Re: Links? Basic Howto?

RobG-4 wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I got Farcry up and running and it seems pretty cool.  I have yet to 
> find any good, useful documentation other than Jeff Coughlin's videos. 
> They're nice, but only touch on the power of this thing.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to setup Links.  The videos make no mention 
> of it, and all the documentation I've found is marked as "not available" 
> (offline for revamping).
> 
> What I've done is setup a navigation tab called Forum, the point of 
> which is to basically redirect to a new URL for a web forum I setup 
> elsewhere.
> 
> Under that tab (in the Sites area of the Admin section), I created a 
> Link and gave it the appropriate URL.  When I Preview it, it works 
> great.  But when I go to the actual site and refresh, then click Forum, 
> it says Page Not Found.  And it's no wonder... the URL is wrong.  The 
> proper friendly url should be whatever.com/go/forum/support-forum but 
> the actual url is coming out as whatever.com/go/support-forum.  I've 
> cleared my cache and everything (Firefox 2) but it hasn't helped.
> 
> In addition, how does it work when you add multiple content items to a 
> tab?  I.e. let's say I have an "About" tab and under it I might have 
> "about us" and another might be "contact us" and a third might be "map." 
>   How do you get to those pages?
> 
> I need to get this thing figured out quickly.  I have an appt on 
> Thursday to present it to my client.  I know it's what they need and 
> want, but it'll look a lot better if I know what I'm doing. :)
> 
> 
> 

Rob, 

Welcome! You are correct in acknowledging that FarCry is powerful. The
challenging part is getting immersed far enough that you can actually tap
into the power. 

I had the exact same question as you do in terms of "how do I get to the
child links of a nav node?"

There is a way. However, it seems that the more conventional way (after
reading, coding, watching, etc.) is to have a single nav node for every html
page. In instances where the parent node should not actually have a page,
you simply do a redirect from that node to a child node's page.

As far as your forum url problem, it seems to me that you may want to use an
include page that does the redirect to the exact url rather than trying to
rely on your object's output of the friendly url.

The FarCry board traffic has been painfully slow for the past couple of
weeks. I have questions that have gone unanswered, and held back some
questions until the traffic picks up again. 

If I am around and I can help you, I will do so.

Regards,

Josen
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