Mark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted it that when you click the menu option you stay within "I am > a trainee" section but get the content from the employer section. > But what actually happens is you are redirected to the "I am an > employer" section of the site.
The symbolic link effectively swaps the request.navid for the symbolic link folder. This leads gneric nav and associated code to build content based on the folder you are pointing to. > Users could get lost very quickly > doing this (I have the same issue in other areas of the site) This is a common information architecture issue. People would argue (myself included) that having the same content in multiple locations of the site is more confusing than redirecting the user to the correct location for that content. You should be enforcing a specific IA for the site, and educating users as to how content is distributed. By clearly indicating where you are in the site with breadcrumbs and clear page identity confusion is greatly reduced. Links from other areas are really useful for directing users to the appropriate location in your IA -- you might indicate on teh symbolic link that it is going to move them to another part of the site visually. But then again, that's all opinion -- your experience with actual users may vary depending on your content, design, and your audiences activity in the site. > I clearly have misunderstood how symbolic links work. > > I realise I could use an include, but this makes updating the content a > bit more difficult (and anything that complicates updating content for > the users isn't desirable) > > Is this the way symbolic links are suppose to work or do I have > something broken in my install? Can you suggest a better way to handle > this? It might be possible to alter the default way symbolic links work to get the children of the symbolic link, and retain the current request.navid. The current behaviour really reflects daemon's default approach to this type of IA problem, and is not necessarily an unsurmountable technical hurdle. Hopefully that helps a little ;) -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
