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

My problem with Structure setting getting erased has become even worse. I’ve managed to start building the site by going back to settings and resetting them every time I needed to. The pages listed in the Structure tab would stay there once I got them to appear.

But now along with the settings every thing on the Structure page has gone. I’m getting the “getting started” message as if nothing has been published even though I’ve previously created many different top level pages (some as listings with a few entries in them).

Of course all of those entries still show up in the edit tab, they haven’t gone anywhere, but Structure can’t see them or format their URLs since the settings to manage my weblogs won’t stick.

Now I’m to the point where I can’t really do any more work until I’ve got Structure running properly as it’s so integral to how the site is built.

This is the second site in two days that development has been crippled on due to Structure not working properly (two different issues). It’s getting quite frustrating. I’d really appreciate some help if possible because I really want to use Structure for these sites.

@benek if you don’t mind me asking who is your hosting provider. I know I had an issue like what your talking about using a different CMS on a “certain” shared hosting account. Maybe that is the problem?

Just to expand on the previous person’s issues with empty <li>s being outputted. If I use this tag:

{exp:structure:nav_sub exclude_status="No Navigation" show_level_classes="no" }

I get the following HTML

<ul id="nav-sub">
    <li><a href="/page_url/">Title text</a></li>
    <li><a href="/page_url/">Title text</a></li>
    <li><a href="/page_url/">Title text</a></li>
    <li class="last"><a href="/page_url/">Title text</a></li>
</ul>

<li class="here last"><a href="/"></li>
<li class="here last"><a href="/"></li>
<li class="here last"><a href="/"></li>
<li class="here last"><a href="/"></li>
<li class="here last"><a href="/"></li>

If I add the start_from attribute then those empty <li>s go away.

The start_from didn’t work for us, but putting an extra pipe at the end did fix it:

exclude_status="no_sub_nav|"

@benek if you don’t mind me asking who is your hosting provider. I know I had an issue like what your talking about using a different CMS on a “certain” shared hosting account. Maybe that is the problem?

The first site (with the disappearing Extension Manager after Structure install) is on a Media Temple grid server. The second site (where Structure refuses to save settings) I’m not sure about because I don’t manage the hosting, but it’s not a crappy shared host.

Just to keep everyone in the loop: we’re working with the few people having issues and it’s looking to be localized to environment issues and we can’t replicate any of the issues. They don’t seem to be part of overall bugs so far.

I’ve used Structure before and wouldn’t do an EE site without it now. I’m installing it on a new site today and run into a problem I don’t recall having the first few times I used it. My problem is that ext.structure_ext.php seems to be breaking the extension manager. As soon as I upload that file I cannot access my extension manager at all - it just returns a completely blank page. If I delete the file, the problem goes away and extension manager works fine. So of course this issue doesn’t allow me to install Structure or use any other extensions if it’s installed. What’s going on? Am I doing something wrong in the installation process?

This issue has been resolved thanks to help from rockthenroll. The PHP version was set to 4 instead of 5. Upgraded PHP and problem fixed. Thanks.

For those playing long at home and so everyone knows the software isn’t buggy:

@Adam D. - Settings not sticking: Issue was the CP tab that had been added. The tab was created after submitting the settings form, so it was passing P=admin_settings_submit which meant every time the Structure tab was loaded it ran a function to erase all settings.

@benek - Blank/broken extension page: PHP5+ is required and the environment only has 4.4.8

@benek - Settings not sticking: same issue as @Adam D. above

Thanks man you’ve been more than helpful! 😊

Hi, Is it possible to use categories with Structure?

As Structure uses the URL if I add /category/houses to the end it just doesn’t work. Am I missing something?

Thanks

@Traverse Structure uses absolute URLs, so you can not add additional segments or work with categories in that way.

@rockthenroll is it possible to remove this class=”sub-level-0” from the sub-nav tag?

Nevermind figured it out from a few posts above this one. Oh and the new sitemap tag is freaking awesome.

New version 1.2.6: nav_sub bug fix

http://www.ngenworks.com/software/ee/structure

I’m using the latest version of Structure and I’m trying for the life of me to figure out how to create a drop-down navigation. I just keep running into deadends - for example, I can get a second level to show but now the third or forth level because I have to be in that navigation. Any work around?

Thanks bjs