Concrete 5 - Functionality (limitations?)
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We just recently published our new sitehttp://www.olex.org/ which is built on C5.
Unfortunately we couldn't't get the system to dynamically adjust the galleries and site maps, linkage, list-view etc., when adding or removing a project. Right now, we have to link everything by hand.
Ideally, one should be able to check box something like "this project belongs to section websites page 1" or websites page 2 etc., when adding a project.
In effect, the site maps, the 2. language version as well as the list-view and complete linkage within the site, should dynamically adjust to what has been done.
My question is if there is a way to implement this functionality in to the Concrete5 CMS. Developers told us that is can not be accomplished with C5 due to certain limitations.
Any help, answers or links to sample websites would be very much appreciated since we actually love continue working with C5.
Thanks!
Unfortunately we couldn't't get the system to dynamically adjust the galleries and site maps, linkage, list-view etc., when adding or removing a project. Right now, we have to link everything by hand.
Ideally, one should be able to check box something like "this project belongs to section websites page 1" or websites page 2 etc., when adding a project.
In effect, the site maps, the 2. language version as well as the list-view and complete linkage within the site, should dynamically adjust to what has been done.
My question is if there is a way to implement this functionality in to the Concrete5 CMS. Developers told us that is can not be accomplished with C5 due to certain limitations.
Any help, answers or links to sample websites would be very much appreciated since we actually love continue working with C5.
Thanks!
totally can do that if you use page attributes right.
Thanks for your reply!
Sorry, but I'm not sure if I understand correctly.
By "totally can do that..." are your referring to the site map issue or my post in general?
Alex
Sorry, but I'm not sure if I understand correctly.
By "totally can do that..." are your referring to the site map issue or my post in general?
Alex
well I'm not sure I fully understand how your developers used concrete5 to build your site, and it is certainly a powerful tool that can be used in many different ways.... however... at a glance.. if I understand your question..
I might have defined some custom attributes for the page type "case study" (or whatever these detail pages are). In those files I would have defined a thumbnail type, and several checkboxes that match to your categories. When you add a new case study you would upload the thumbnail for it through page properties, and you would simply choose which areas of the site you wanted it to appear on by using those check boxes... meanwhile those areas would use the page list block to return thumbnails, but only for case studies with the checkbox on for their category.
this is all pretty basic concrete5 stuff for a developer who has spent some time poking around, it's not a hack or even involving single pages... in fact, this is how our own themes and add-on library work here to a great extent.
Hope that helps..
nice looking site btw.
I might have defined some custom attributes for the page type "case study" (or whatever these detail pages are). In those files I would have defined a thumbnail type, and several checkboxes that match to your categories. When you add a new case study you would upload the thumbnail for it through page properties, and you would simply choose which areas of the site you wanted it to appear on by using those check boxes... meanwhile those areas would use the page list block to return thumbnails, but only for case studies with the checkbox on for their category.
this is all pretty basic concrete5 stuff for a developer who has spent some time poking around, it's not a hack or even involving single pages... in fact, this is how our own themes and add-on library work here to a great extent.
Hope that helps..
nice looking site btw.
Thank's a lot for your help - I really appreciate it!
We love working with C5 because it's so nicely designed and hopefully we can get all those things to work...:)
All the best.
We love working with C5 because it's so nicely designed and hopefully we can get all those things to work...:)
All the best.
The sitemap page might be better suited with a single-page that does a xsl transformation on the generated sitemap that sits at the root of your web server(if you have that enabled).
You should also be able to set your view for your login page so it matches the rest of the site. This can be accomplished by editing site_theme_paths.php in config to be:
$v = View::GetInstance();
$v->setThemeByPath('/login','olex'); if your theme was named olex :)
I think the page list also just received pagnation upgrades which might even make the whole portfolio thing even easier to do.