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[Deb]

Hi,

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I am trying the Mollio C & F templates. The left nav in C and the right nav in F shows up fine in the preview pages inside the Etomite (and in my Dreamweaver admin but when I assign a page to it (for example the default Etomite CMS page) the navs don't show up. I've tried setting several pages to these 2 templates and no left nav anywhere. I have *not* altered the css file at all *yet!*

Another question: are the Mollio templates dependent upon any other templates that come w/the new Etomite? Reason I ask is that I would prefer to delete all templates not in use in order to save server space & my sanity as if I delete them, I don't have to look at such a long list in the templates area. I much prefer only having the templates in use in this area. I thought maybe that's why I had the original problem w/the Mollio templates as in the original install I did delete all but a very few templates and thought maybe I couldn't see the Mollio navs because they were dependent on other css files or templates. I deleted the whole thing and started over and the problem still exists. I know that sounds strange but I'm grasping at straws for why these navs don't show up.

Thanks for all help!

[lloyd_borrett]

G'day Deb,

That's the way I coded the Mollio Secondary Navigation snippet when I first did it. In that version I decided I just provide the secondary menu when you're down in a page within a section. If you're at the top level, nothing is output.

Try it out. Create a few folders and documents using the Mollio template and then navigate around them and see what happens.

When I came to actually use the Mollio type C template as the basis for one of my own projects, I decided that the secondary navigation menu behaviour wasn't appropriate, so I created a new version which you can see in action at www.scubadoctor.com.au. Again, navigate around the structure and down some levels to see how it works.

Problem is, I've customised my new snippet a bit, and changed the CSS within the Mollio template to support my changes. So I'm not sure what would happen if you tried to use the new version of my snippet with the original Mollio template.

I'd need to find the time to package up those changes for you.

You don't need any of the other templates. You can delete anything in the templates directory that isn't under mollio. Though if you still have some pages pointing to the new-e template, such as those in the repository, I'd leave them until you change those documents to use the Mollio template.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

[Deb]

Way cool! I've done what you suggested and added some folders & pages and the nav shows up exactly like I want it to on the secondary pages. EXCELLENT DESIGN, Lloyd! Now I can use the area on the home page for other stuff which is also cool because I really didn't want a secondary nav showing up there!

Thank you so much!

[lloyd_borrett]

No problems Deb.

Actually I didn't like that way of operation, which is whu I created a different version of the secondary navigation snippet for The Scuba Doctor web site. Unfortunately that server crashed this moring a about 6am as we were starting this discussion, so you haven't been able to look at what I've done there. And now at 11pm my time, it's still down. I'm not very happy about that , as you can imagine.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

[Deb]

lloyd_borrett, on May 5 2006, 07:59 AM, said:

No problems Deb.

Actually I didn't like that way of operation, which is whu I created a different version of the secondary navigation snippet for The Scuba Doctor web site. Unfortunately that server crashed this moring a about 6am as we were starting this discussion, so you haven't been able to look at what I've done there. And now at 11pm my time, it's still down. I'm not very happy about that , as you can imagine.

Ohhhhhhhh, now you've REALLY got me curious! I have to seeeeeeeeee this other way! I hope your server cooperates SOON!

[lloyd_borrett]

G'day,

The server was down and out for 36 hours. When it came back, everything on this account was gone. The hosting company had a disk crash, were unable to rebuild the RAID array, and then found that the backups had problems too. My account was one of the ones that couldn't be recovered.

Because the hosting company had been so great with recovering stuff from backups in the past, I'd got complacement and hadn't started my own backup regime on this new account. (I won't make that mistake again.)

So I had to start over again, uploading files, resinstalling Etomite and rebuilding the web site. I had copies of all of the files. Plus, as I edit the content on my local system, and then cut and paste it into the server database, I also had copies of all of the document content, snippets, chunks etc.

But it has still taken me 4 days to rebuild the Etomite database by recreating the documents, snippets, chunks, web links etc.

It's now back on-line at www.scubadoctor.com.au.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.

[Dean]

Ouch!

For cases like this, I use the script mySQLDumper (dont get confused with the eto snippet )
Within about 4 mins, I backed up an entire mySQL Server, and then just FTP'ed down the targz files

[lloyd_borrett]

G'day,

See Mollio Secondary Menu snippet for an updated version of the secondary menu snippet.

Best Regards, Lloyd Borrett.