@Wayne I would certainly not use target containers (TC) over NavMgr in most, all or even many cases. In fact we almost always use NavMgr these days because it's more intuitive for implementation leading to fewer implementation issues, and it's more intuitive to the authors who need to see it every day. The best reason to use NavMgr though is that it is the primary means of navigation in v10 SmartEdit.
Having said that, if you already have a functional TC site I would certainly not give it up to arbitrarily use NavMgr. For smaller sites, or where the navigation is not particularly complicated, a TC model is just as easy to manage and will execute (build/view/publish) faster than a NavMgr equivalent. You can't argue that, because NavMgr adds dozens of levels of additional processing before, during and after the construction (build-phase) of each page, so whatever price you pay for TC you pay more for NavMgr. The key is not to wreck yout advantage by using NavMgr anyway to do procedural code in the template, cause then you pay for both! The sum up is this, TC is a perfectly valid implementation model with 2 drawbacks: it's a bit limited in what you can do and it's a bit hard to explain to authors. If you don't need something it can't do and you don't have gumby authors you should have a fine time with TC. Before NavMgr we had nothing else and the sky didn't fall in. HTH. Regards, Richard Hauer ==================== 5 Limes Pty Limited www.5Limes.com.au On Sep 18, 12:39 am, Wayne Bouwmeester <wayne.bouwmees...@gmail.com> wrote: > @Richard > I find your perspective intriguing, considering your posts through the > years show you really know your stuff an implementer. > > Are you saying that you would try to use target containers over > NavManager in most if not all cases? Or is that just with more simple > projects where you don't get into deep navigation issues? Do you base > this decision mainly on efficiency of publishing? > > I find that clients have a hard time understanding how target > containers and/or nested lists work, so going with NavManager makes > the project easier to maintain for them. Plus you get the navigation > index that you can do a lot with. > > Wayne. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to reddot-cms-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to reddot-cms-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
