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

Could you point me to the bit in the docs you’re referring to? Because I’ve been reading the docs and I have created a test hierarchy.

Great module, this is exactly what I was still missing in EE. the pages module by itself didnt quite cut it. Thanks!

@frenzal it’s short, but here’s what it says:

The nav_sub tag is intended for sub-navigation and will show up to two levels of <ul>s at a time. It dynamically shows pages at the same level and jumps to a child’s level if it has children itself. The logic is for a very specific use and at this time does not include attributes to control it’s output. The tag will automatically add class=”here” to the current page’s <li>

Right now, that’s how it works and isn’t customizable.

I want to add this to a current site that has most of their pages set up using “Pages”. Since we have to uninstall the Pages Module to run this, could anyone tell me what happens to those previously created “Pages” pages?

I’m not positive, but I think it deletes all the references to those URL aliases, which means they could no longer be found at those arbitrary instances. You would have to resave those entries once Structure is installed to assign the URLs.

Am i blind or is it impossible to turn structure of for certain weblogs, I only want to use structure for my static content weblog. Events and news shouldn’t appear in structure nor should they really have a structure tab. If I leave the structure field empty it automatically fills in the url_title, is there a way round this?

@frenzal currently Structure writes URLs and manages ALL entries no matter what. A future release may change this or allow it to be turned off.

I’d put in a vote for that feature too as well as support for the MSM.

If you really want that feature the native Pages module does this. The main idea of this module is to bring those listing type entries into the same hierarchy as “static” ones. I can still see some advantages of allowing some to not be tracked by Structure, but the basics are - that’s the idea, especially for something like events.

If you really want that feature the native Pages module does this.

Are you referring to being able to turn Structure off for certain weblogs or to the MSM support?

The problem I see with the native Pages module that Structure solves is that Pages isn’t very non-techy savvy user-friendly. The user has to know which URI to enter and they don’t get the hierarchical view which also helps visualise how the site is structured. Or have I been using the Pages module wrong, and there is an easy way for users to do this?

Good point. There are definitely other advantages too, so I shouldn’t be so broad 😊 I was mostly talking about seperating content, like events, from the res tof the site content.

Were those entries created before installing Structure? The problem is most likely that they don’t have Structure data associated with them. It creates an alias/url for EVERY entry, so one’s created before probably don’t have the correct data associated with them yet. If that’s the case go in and resave that entry and it should work.

I tried re-saving, to no avail: I still get the “Error” text.

Any news about this issue with the “Error” text? I’m having this issue as well.

Great module – thanks for providing.

@spcejunk he ended up using something else because of another issue not Structure related. I need more details to help debug. Did you check your PHP version? Is Pages uninstalled? PM me a login ad I’ll try to look at it tomorrow. I would definitely backup your DB and not use this in a production environment if you’re running into that issue. opuszine had a definite bug in that install and I don’t want it to happen to yours as well. I can’t recreate any of what happened though.

Were those entries created before installing Structure? The problem is most likely that they don’t have Structure data associated with them. It creates an alias/url for EVERY entry, so one’s created before probably don’t have the correct data associated with them yet. If that’s the case go in and resave that entry and it should work.

I tried re-saving, to no avail: I still get the “Error” text.

Any news about this issue with the “Error” text? I’m having this issue as well. Great module – thanks for providing.

Hi rockthenroll, I work with spcejunk.

So, to be sure, this module is or is not MSM friendly? The “ERROR” message that is being produced, when moving pages within the Structure module, seems to be because of the AJAX request. Structure is installed on an MSM installation.

Thanks!