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bcaplan

20 Jan, 2011 03:27 PM

Hello!

We have run into an issue that I am hoping someone out there can help us with. The issue is regarding a navigation element for a subsection of our rather large website, any and all feedback is most appreciated!

Basically what we want is a way to have an index block index starting at the current page with folder hierarchy, siblings, and also render forward, but ALSO rendering forward for the siblings! So for example I have the following folder structure:

> Parent 1
V Parent 2
     -->Sub 1
          -->File a
          -->File b
          -->File c

     -->Sub 2
          -->File d
          -->File e
          -->File f

     -->Sub 3
          -->File g
          -->File h
          -->File i

Ideally when on File "a" you should see the exact same navigation as when you are on file "g" or "d"... Of course the easy solution is to set the index folder to parent, and that is what we will begrudgingly do, though not if you come to our rescue! The problem with that is that we have say 20 or so, if not more "parent" folders, thus we would end up with unique configuration sets for each folder (even thought the layout are all the same) and then we need to create new asset factories for each folder too, at which point the site is ballooning out of control and there are as many admin type "assets" as there are actual content pages...

Regrettably indexing the parent of the "parent" folders is WAY to large and thus is not practical do able (over 3000 assets to index).

Help! Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance for your time and assistance.

Best,
    Ben

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Charlie Holder on 08 Aug, 2011 02:24 PM

   

   Currently none of the Index Block renderings provide a good way of accessing that set of data from a folder hierarchy. The way you've outlined indexing from a higher parent location and setting that as a choice on the Index Block asset would be how you'd go about getting that data for building your navigation. You're correct that using that type of solution would index far more assets that you'd like/want/need.

   I've added a new idea to our Idea Exchange that I think might help solve that problem. Feel free to vote it up and comment on it so we can get more feedback.

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2. Charlie Holder closed this discussion on 08 Aug, 2011 02:24 PM.

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