Navigation help...

[sturmkatze]

My website portal is here: www.reenactor.net/forums/ I am trying to get TP to work the way I need it to... In fact, I'm what I'm stymied on is navigation... I have done some temporary navigation across top of pages in my WWI area, but it's not what I want, more of temporary solution.

What I'm after
On my website, I have it broken down by time periods (using categories)... Anyway, I would like to make a separate menu for every time period, plus maybe one for general articles. I want these menus to ONLY show up in THAT time period. Within the separate menus, I then need them to point to certain TP article which correspond to pages on my old site.

Anyway, I have tried to do it by making the menu into an article and also as a script box... I tried checking the box that says show only in this category... None is working for me... Arrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhh! Any ideas?
Best, Marsh

[Lord Anubis]

Sounds like most of that would have to be done manually, I probably am wrong, but this is a pretty big task...but making them and categorizing them to suit your needs would be neat, in addition I would love to see the progress f this can be coded using  boards, this would be neat

In addition, I love history

[Smoky]

sounds like you need Sarges mod for the shared forum..


can be found here:

http://www.albwebmaster.com/index.php?board=1.0

but you must register to download.. 

[sturmkatze]

Sounds like most of that would have to be done manually, I probably am wrong, but this is a pretty big task...but making them and categorizing them to suit your needs would be neat, in addition I would love to see the progress f this can be coded using  boards, this would be neat

In addition, I love history

So, there's no way to have it substitute the menus whenever someone changes to a new time period? 

I made the kludgey work-around, but I really just want to make the main menu go away and have a different one in its place. This stuff is really complicated. When it works, it's great!! When it doesn't, I'm banging my head on the keyboard. And converting all my pages over has been a long-winded process. Still have much to do, but the big one, WWII is almost done (at least to the point where my assistants can help). I just need to get this navigation thing straightened out. 

[sturmkatze]

sounds like you need Sarges mod for the shared forum..


can be found here:

http://www.albwebmaster.com/index.php?board=1.0

but you must register to download.. 

Do I need different Forums? I have it broken down nicely there. I've had SMF as a forum for over a year now. I want the TP part to behave this way to navigate my website. Or am I missing something?

[Smoky]

no. you wont need different forums, his mod shows the cats, as a separate forum view. I really do like it for "large forum catagories" and it sounds exactly what you are looking for..

if you need an example, go to his site and take a look around. think you will be very happy with it.. 

and if you can manage, you might be able to leave off the main menu navigation.. it would be perfect..

if it isnt, then post back and let everyone know.. good luck!! 

[sturmkatze]

I am right on the edge of not understanding this. I will try tomorrow... just a little crispy tonight. Also, like I said, I don't understand what you're saying (I'm the village idiot) in how to do this...

I did kind of get frustrated that I can't get the Categories to stay in the order I want... I know how I need it to be, I just don't understand all of this.

Will look in morning and try and figure it out after some caffeine.

[JPDeni]

Forget separate forums. That takes you in a completely different direction than you want to go. I think things can be a whole lot simpler.

Each time frame should be an article category. Then create a block each category, with links to the articles in that category. Set the block to only display when in that category.

I tried checking the box that says show only in this category... None is working for me

What happens when you check the box that says show only in this category?

I can't get the Categories to stay in the order I want

I don't understand. If you make your own block with links, you have complete control.

[Smoky]

that mod jpdeni, makes it "look" as tho it is separate forums.. the thing with the mod is that you can do this with categories, and use different themes with the categories, separating long board index's, and creating a look like he is referring to.. I am testing it out with Sarge.. I had it on my site a while back, and know that it will work.. I know that you can use a block navigation with it, and therefor he wont need to use the main navigation, which he wishes to get rid of in the first place. he could tie an article to each category, that way he gets what he wants as his request would be covered by the mod.. its a slick trick and very good for people that have extra long forums, preventing massive scrolling and stopping users from getting bored or tired of scrolling to hunt the content that they are looking for.. one of the best mods I have really liked..

I'm not pushing him, but if this is what he wants, I think it would be a good thing.. if not he could try it your way.. 

[JPDeni]

It's just that there is no need to add another mod. What he wants to do can be done within TP.

If he wants to use another mod, then we can't help him here, because we only support TP here.