Thanks Derek,
It sounds like pretty much what I was thinking I would have to do. It
seems like a lot of work and not very user friendly since as they
create new pages they would have to assign the categories to their
pages manually. I was hoping to do it a way where the users wouldn't
have to get into publishing rules. Hmmm. Maybe I can write a little
support table that will manage this for them dynamically based on
categories and nav structure as long as we have consistant naming
conventions. Well I'll reread your post a little more thoroughly.
I'm sure I'll have additional questions. Thanks for the great
response! I'm not real comfortable leveraging the api yet. I pretty
clumsy and I don't every seem to get the result expect. I wish there
was some additional documentation on how to use it just the basics to
get you used to the function calls. Right now I'm alot faster at
querying the data directly but that's not a good idea long term.
Anyway thanks again.
Jaci
On May 25, 6:56 pm, "Derek Westfall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This will take creating a custom publishing rule that will match the
> currently-viewed page to your events. If written correctly, the rule will
> return all events "downstream" from the current page -- ie the rule in a
> container on the Departments page would return all events in all
> departments, and the same rule in a container on the Martial Arts page would
> match Judo or Karate, and the same rule on the Karate page would list only
> those events.
>
> I'm not clear on whether you are going to have the events appear in the site
> tree, or just in the database. I am assuming NOT in the site tree.
>
> Two approaches --
>
> 1) You could do this with categories --
>
> Create a category tree that generally mirrors your site layout.
>
> Event Types by Department
> Martial Arts
> Judo
> Karate
> Track & Field
> Track
> Field
>
> Then go to each page in the Site structure and assign the categories --
> whatever you want to show on that page. In most cases I would assume you
> would only want to pick the matching category type (Judo = Judo), but you
> have the flexibility to add more than one category of events to show.
>
> As part of the editing process, assign categories to your dmEvents.
>
> Your rule could then take request.navid and using the Tree functions get a
> list of all the pages under the current page. Loop over that list and get
> all the assigned categories in those catHTML pages. Once you have a list of
> all the categories, this will get you a list of all events in that list of
> categories:
>
> <cfset objCategories =
> CreateObject("component","#application.packagepath#.farcry.category")>
> <cfset
> qList=objCategories.getData(LCATEGORYIDS=lContentCats,typename="dmEvent",or-d
> erby="publishdate",orderDirection="desc",maxRows="#listfirst(maximumrows,".-"
> )#")>
>
> Then you would loop over that list and append each event to the
> request.aInvocations array as you will see in most of the rules that come
> with farcry.
>
> 2) It would be simpler but less flexible to do the same thing based on
> navigation:
>
> You would extend the dmEvent object, adding a "appearAtNavID" field that
> holds the navID where the event should appear.
>
> Your custom rule would then use the navigation tree functions to return a
> list of nodes beneat the currently-viewed object (request.navid).
>
> You would then do a simple query for all dmEvents with appearAtNavID values
> in the list.
>
> I'm not qualified to speak to permissions issue, but the dmEvent
> appearAtNavID field could use the formTools technology to populate a list of
> possible locations the currently logged-in user can post to.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Derek
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>
> Behalf Of Jaci
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:52 PM
> To: farcry-dev
> Subject: [farcry-dev] Events based on categories?
>
> I'm working on developing the template and corresponding functionality for
> the homepage in FarCry. I work at a college...that information may be
> useful. Here's what I want to do:
>
> I want users to be able to login to farcry (with limited permissions based
> on their ID) and post events which will get put into the events table. I
> then want all events posted by every user to be available to the container
> on the homepage but then when they navigate down to a subpage the events
> listings will limit based on that subsite. So for instance the subpage may
> actually be the athletic deparments subsite so there events would get posted
> to the homepage along with all the other events for the day. but would on
> the athletic department main pages they would get only their events.
>
> Would I do this by creating categories for each "department" and then
> creating containers to hold the events. How do I make the containers
> dynamic based on the page. Can I created a link between a category and a nav
> node? Also can I limit the users to only post their events to their
> category?
>
> Thanks
>
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