Emile, can you elaborate more on your suggestion? I don't totally get what you are saying. Perhaps an example or relation graph?
Thanks, Curtney On Friday 13 August 2004 05:25 pm, Emile wrote: > 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
