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[mmjaeger]

Could somebody please explain me how the create weblink in the content section is professionally used - what's the purpose of it.

I'm sorry, but I did't really got it yet.

thanks

[Dean]

where exactly do you mean?

e.g. I use mine where I have different menus for a different template, and then another menu generated from the web-url to go back to the first page (with a different menu)

[JuggoPop]

mmjaeger, on Aug 25 2004, 05:57 PM, said:

Could somebody please explain me how the create weblink in the content section is professionally used - what's the purpose of it.

I'm sorry, but I did't really got it yet.

thanks

say part of your site is not in etomite... like you might have a store running on another site that sells goods for your company... with the weblink you can provide a link in your menu to that page and it will show in your etomite menu...

you can use it for any outside links that need to be in your menu.

also... you can make a link for example like this:

<a href="http://etomite.com/" target="_blank">Link Here</a>

or if you had a weblink setup for http://www.etomite.com/ and it had an id # of 20 (for example) you could just do this anytime you wanted to link to them:

<a href="[~20~]" target="_blank">Link Here</a>

:betterwink:

[Olaf]

I have used the weblinks to implement a 'related info' feature on a page.
The weblinks contain links to other documents on the site or external sites.
They are really easy to maintain in the manager.

[Snuffkin]

It's good for tracking statistics.

[mmjaeger]

JuggoPop, on Aug 26 2004, 04:33 AM, said:

say part of your site is not in etomite... like you might have a store running on another site that sells goods for your company... with the weblink you can provide a link in your menu to that page and it will show in your etomite menu...

you can use it for any outside links that need to be in your menu.

also... you can make a link for example like this:

<a href="http://etomite.com/" target="_blank">Link Here</a>

or if you had a weblink setup for http://www.etomite.com/ and it had an id # of 20 (for example) you could just do this anytime you wanted to link to them:

<a href="[~20~]" target="_blank">Link Here</a>

:betterwink:

let's say I wanted to do a page with some categories of some external links e.g.

Cooking
-- url 1
-- url 2
-- url 3

Photography
-- url 1
-- url 2

Family
-- url 1
-- url 2

how would I best achieve this - are there any snippets already out there that would allow me to do this.

thanks for your input

[JuggoPop]

mmjaeger, on Aug 26 2004, 10:11 AM, said:

let's say I wanted to do a page with some categories of some external links e.g.

Cooking
-- url 1
-- url 2
-- url 3

Photography
-- url 1
-- url 2

Family
-- url 1
-- url 2

how would I best achieve this - are there any snippets already out there that would allow me to do this.

thanks for your input

1. Create weblinks for each url.
2. make a chunck something like this:

<b>Cooking</b><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 1</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 2</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 3</a><br /><br />


<b>Photography</b><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 1</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 2</a><br /><br />

<b>Family</b><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 1</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 2</a><br /><br />

replace ID with the id of the link...
3. call your chunk in a new page.

another way could probably be done with a version of the menubuilder and placing the weblinks in a folder and calling them from there... and there are probably snippets that are good for this as well. I think there is one for link list actually...

with etomite, the options are endless (as are the ways of going about doing it) :betterwink:

[mmjaeger]

JuggoPop, on Aug 26 2004, 04:28 PM, said:

1. Create weblinks for each url.
2. make a chunck something like this:

<b>Cooking</b><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 1</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 2</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 3</a><br /><br />
<b>Photography</b><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 1</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 2</a><br /><br />

<b>Family</b><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 1</a><br />
-- <a href="[~ID~]" target="_blank">url 2</a><br /><br />

replace ID with the id of the link...
3. call your chunk in a new page.

another way could probably be done with a version of the menubuilder and placing the weblinks in a folder and calling them from there... and there are probably snippets that are good for this as well. I think there is one for link list actually...

with etomite, the options are endless (as are the ways of going about doing it)  :betterwink:

Thanks for replying - was wondering whether it could be done dynamiclly - kind of similar to the sitemap for instance.

[JuggoPop]

I'm sure it could by putting them in folder than pull the folder with a snippet like the menubuilder.

[Olaf]

It can be done dynamically, have a look at my etomite site. There is a RelatedLinks snippet that will do just that. No categories or anything, but the main idea is there.

Login to my manager to see the snippet. Login details are on the intro page.

[JuggoPop]

I was thinking about this today and I have a solution for you...
it may not be perfect... but it does work.

see it running here: http://www.juggopop.com/links.php

use the following snippets (attached below):
MenuBuilderList1
MenuBuilderList2

when you set this up do the following:
1. install both snippets.
2. make a new page and make it a folder (save it)
3. note the id for the page you just made.
4. edit the page and add the snippet in as:

[[MenuBuilderList1?id=XXX]]

Replace the XXX with whatever ID you noted in step 3.
5. for each section that you want listed you have to publish a folder as a child to the folder you made in step 2.
6. make web links and put them as childern under the folders you made as section names.

test the page.
works for me... though it needs some css done to make it pretty. :betterwink:

hope this helps... I'll leave this running on my site for a few days in case anyone else wants to look at it.

now remember, I'm not an expert here, and this may be the long way down a short road, but it's the best I can think of off-hand. (as I'm a php newbie... now, alex or rad could probably make it into one short snippet)

 MenuBuilderList1.txt   1.11K   31 downloads
 MenuBuilderList2.txt   1.08K   43 downloads

[mmjaeger]

JuggoPop, on Aug 28 2004, 06:08 AM, said:

I was thinking about this today and I have a solution for you...
it may not be perfect... but it does work.

see it running here: http://www.juggopop.com/links.php

use the following snippets (attached below):
MenuBuilderList1
MenuBuilderList2

when you set this up do the following:
1. install both snippets.
2. make a new page and make it a folder (save it)
3. note the id for the page you just made.
4. edit the page and add the snippet in as:

[[MenuBuilderList1?id=XXX]]

Replace the XXX with whatever ID you noted in step 3.
5. for each section that you want listed you have to publish a folder as a child to the folder you made in step 2.
6. make web links and put them as childern under the folders you made as section names.

test the page.
works for me... though it needs some css done to make it pretty.  :betterwink:

hope this helps... I'll leave this running on my site for a few days in case anyone else wants to look at it.

now remember, I'm not an expert here, and this may be the long way down a short road, but it's the best I can think of off-hand. (as I'm a php newbie... now, alex or rad could probably make it into one short snippet)

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thank you so much - I will certainly give it a try.