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12 years 11 months ago - 12 years 11 months ago #119367 by tali
hi i need your help finding a way to do this or recommend on a module that does the following:
i know that you can display a list of specific items or a list of specific categories but not both in the same list but my client wants to display a dynamic list of titles(links) side by side to both categories and items pages.
for example let say we have 2 different categories A and B each with 2 different items.1 and 2
the client could choose to display in this module a "mixed" list.
a title(link) to category A page ,and beneath it a title(link) to specific item(article page) from category B item 2 (article page) etc'.....


how can it be done?

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12 years 11 months ago #119368 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: mixed titles of items and categories in 1 module?
Hello tali,

The only way I can think of it is to create a new menu with aliases to categories but this will
alter your URL structure.

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12 years 11 months ago #119369 by tali
thank you Krikor
i will use that idea!

but what do yo mean by

this will alter your URL structure.


is it bad?

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12 years 10 months ago #119370 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: mixed titles of items and categories in 1 module?
For categories no provided you use an alias menu item.
Items however will have their own url and not the default /category/item/id-title structure.

This means they will be indexed with a different URL and once you unpublish them you will get a lot of 404 errors. If you use a menu solution, do not unpublish your items instead move them to another (hidden) menu.

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12 years 10 months ago #119371 by tali
just to say its working great thanks a lot
i have a menu model which has its own menu with menu items and when you want to change
the titles/links you just change the items in the menu admin page.

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12 years 10 months ago #119372 by Krikor Boghossian
Replied by Krikor Boghossian on topic Re: mixed titles of items and categories in 1 module?
You 're welcome Tali.

Nice to hear that it worked

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