Re: Links? Basic Howto?

On Sep 3, 8:47 am, RobG <[email protected]> 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.

You might try:
http://docs.farcrycms.org/

> 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).

Can you provide a link?  I'll remove these references so other folks
are not confused.

> 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.

This looks like a bug. Perhaps the firendly url for your content item
has not been correctly registered.  Does this always happen or just
this once?  What version of farcrycms plugin are you using?

> 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?

You need to create a navigation folder for each point in the menu.  A
good rule of thumb is to have a navigation folder for every page of
content (including links).  You only use multiple content items under
a single folder for things like multi-page feature articles.

> 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. :)

Try building out some content with the quick site builder under:
Content > Content Utilities.  Always a good utility for demos.

Hope that helps,

-- geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/


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