Hi Curtney wouldn't this work well as a "generic", whereby you have 2 objects - content and display, the display being configuarble to a certain number of characters or so, numbered and displayed in a given order, pointing to a section of content contained in the content object. One would simply set the number of characters (rounded to nearest word), set the content to a field and display on a page.
... just a thought ... regards Emile ----- Original Message ----- From: "Curtney Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 7:30 AM Subject: Re: Article Paging > > Rob, I like the idea of two different object types. Having one object to > represent the publication and another object to represent its pages would > make for a cleaner solution. > > Thanks for replying, > > Curtney > > On Friday 13 August 2004 01:03 am, Rob Vermeulen wrote: > > Hi Curtney, > > > > Your plan sounds like a good solution to accomplish what you want. > > Personally i would consider to use 2 different object types. One article > > object type, and an (Article) item object type. > > I this way you can easily find out which articles you have without > > confusing them with the items. > > It also makes it more strict that you can relate articles with e.g. your > > portal or with a magazine, and that you cannot publish only article items. > > > > But both solutions would do the job. > > > > success, Rob Vermeulen > > > > Curtney Jacobs wrote: > > > Greetings! > > > > > > I am trying to implement a paging (Page 1, Page 2, ...) scheme for > > > articles/publications that span more than one page. This kind of paging > > > scheme can be seen on javaworld, java.net, etc. or any site that publish > > > articles. I would like to know how this can be done using mmbase tags. > > > > > > My initial plan was to have each page be an object and relate these > > > objects > > > together. For example, a news object can be related to other news > > > objects via > > > posrel. When displaying a news item A, I can test for the presents of > > > related > > > news items (pages) to news Item A. Subsequently, displaying the > > > appropriate > > > links. > > > > > > Is the above a plausible solution or is there a more simpler way to this? > > > > > > > > > _Curtney > > > >
