Creating Category Menus

7 posts by 2 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: May 27, 2009   (RSS)

By HDLLC - May 20, 2009

I think I am missing something - and could use a little prod in the right direction. Been using CMS Builder for some time now - but have a project that is a little different and would benefit from a less linear approach. I could really use a category structure. Been into it a bit, and kind of see how it works - but can't get rolling. I need a primer of sorts.

To be clear - I'm looking to move from a site with about 5-10 main pages to a site with 5 main sections, and 5-20 pages within each section such as this:

Section A
- section listing 1
- page 1
- page 2
- page 3

Section B
- section listing 1
- page 1
- page 2
- page 3
- section listing 2
- page 1
- page 2
- page 3

Section C
- section listing 1
- page 1
- page 2
- page 3

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

--Jeff

Re: [HDLLC] Creating Category Menus

By ross - May 21, 2009

Hi Jeff

Thanks for posting!

What you'll want to do is check out this forum thread:


http://www.interactivetools.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=64259#64259


It has a bunch of details on setting up categories. Give that a read through and see where that gets you.

Thanks!
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Re: [ross] Creating Category Menus

By HDLLC - May 21, 2009

Hi Ross-

I knew I was missing something... I searched a bit and this thread appears to be what I was looking for.

Thanks a ton!

--Jeff

Re: [ross] Creating Category Menus

By HDLLC - May 21, 2009

Hi Ross-

Well, I've had some time to read through this, and it doesn't appear to address what I am looking for.

That link shows a pretty linear approach... (think that is the right word)...

What I am looking for is being able to create three main sections of a site.
Within each section would be multi-record editors.

Like, for a school, for example:

District Level
High School
Junior High
Elementary

Within District, have:
- Board meeting schedules

- Board minutes from meetings

- Agendas

- Policies

- Forms
-- Forms for students
---Medical
---free lunch
---Sports

--Forms for teachers
---application
---vacation requests
---physical forms
---W4 forms

Is there a good way I can put these into sections like this, with the sub categories being able to house multiple records?

Thanks!

--Jeff

Re: [HDLLC] Creating Category Menus

By ross - May 25, 2009

Hi Jeff

It sounds like you are on the right track with this one. What you'll do is setup two sections. One will be a category menu section and the other will be a multi list section.

Have you tried setting up the categories in a category menu section? it will let you create them all in that structure you have there with the top level categories and the sub categories.

In the other section, you'll setup a drop down menu that pulls it's options from the category menu section, and then any other fields you need.

Does that make sense so far? Get that setup and then let me know. it should all start making sense at that point, but we can go into more detail if you like :).
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Re: [HDLLC] Creating Category Menus

By ross - May 27, 2009

Hi Jeff

Yes. You setup one section for the category menu and then another section for the "articles" in each category.

In the "articles" section, you'll have a drop down with all your categories so you can choose which one it's in.

At the end of the day, you'll be able to have multiple lists on your site even though it's only two different sections.

Let me know what you think :).
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