New Module: Structure - Uses entries to create a page hierarchy for static and listing pages

i wanted to have some nav links work without structure interfering.. my client wanted a link on the nav, but wanted it pointing to some other page on the site.

this is common, i think, having two (or more) items in different parts of the nav, pointing to the same page. anyway, I added a short-cut field in the DB and in the structure tab under strucutre URI. Then i modified nav_main to use that shortcut if it exists, and completely ignore the uri. not super pretty, but solved my problem.

can you post your fixed version of nav_main when it’s done?

thanks!

I need to do that exact thing. I definitely forgot about that as one of my to-do items. It seems like i’m having to hack a bit too much to get this module to do my bidding… we’ll see.

I’ll postup the nav_main fix when i resolve the last issue. No prob!

I am having a problem with the add page link not updating after I move an entry from one weblog to another. Anyone know what the problem is?

I am having a problem with the add page link not updating after I move an entry from one weblog to another. Anyone know what the problem is?

i’ve found that whenever i’ve had a problem i just delete the offending entries and re-create them using structure.

It looks like i’m going to have to abandon Structure for this project. I have too many exceptions to make it worth my time. I can’t control the output of the navigation with any parameters, without first hacking those controls into the module.

Hopefully i’ll be able to return to this module in the future, but for now – back to the Pages – Nested Menu plugin by Mark Huot.

Okay out of desperation i’m trying one last time – now with the Structure Children plugin. I can’t seem to get the jquery for control panel to work though – do i need to set jquery UI to anything?

EDIT: Got it. I had the server path, it needed the absolute path. Back in business. We’ll see how this goes.

New problem. Somehow all my Structure URIs have been rewritten with “home”. I can’t change them – they keep writing back. Any ideas?

@colinbird something to help with pages that link to other section, but don’t actually live under a certain area is in the works for the next major version. Not sure when though.

@Jack something is very wrong with your install if that’s happening. Do you know what steps you took before that happened?

I think it happened when i was playing with reordering top level navigation. Is that a possible side effect of the aforementioned “don’t mess with top level nav”?

Side note, i now have modified the Structure Children plugin to take a new case, “li” to strip out the <ul> tags to let me add in other hard-coded items, as well as modify the “nav_main” function posted earlier to only show “open” status pages to allow for a split navigation hierarchy. Both good ideas for future release!

No reordering the top nav shouldn’t effect it. See if creating new pages does the same or if they’re uneffected. What other modules do you have installed?

No other modules are installed. I renamed a previous entry, “home” to “/”, could that have done it? I wiped all the entries and created new ones and they’re all fine.

I would like to figure out what caused it though before i turn the site over to my client. I’m close to a full build using Structure, which is great because this afternoon I almost bailed.

Changing to “/” shouldn’t have done that. We’d have to setup a test to confirm though. I traveling the rest of the week and won’t be able to for a while.

You can’t change the settings? They keep defaulting to “home”? Sounds like you may have found a bug.

Yeah i even rewrote the database files and they came back. Very bizzare. The only way to fix it was to delete the entries and add them back in again. Luckily it was only greek copy so no big deal.

@Jack glad you got it fixed. Let me know if it pops up again and try to track steps. Thanks!