Listing Sections and Sub-Sections together

[jmedinger]

Hi

Is it possible to mod a template so that Actinic will display the sub sections below the section you're viewing aswell?

i.e.

Section Name
- Sub Section 1
- Sub Section 2
- Sub Section 3
- Sub Section 4

Normal layout allows you to view all sub sections on the section you're in as

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3
Section 4 Section 5 Section 6

And I am trying to achieve the following

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3
- sub 1 - sub 1 - sub 1
- sub 2 - sub 2 - sub 2

Section 4 Section 5 Section 6
- sub 1 - sub 1 - sub 1
- sub 2 - sub 2 - sub 2

Any ideas - I've got a couple of my own but they're a bit long winded atm!

Jos

[I-CC]

The advanced user guide provides details of how to produce a list of sections and there sub-sections, so you might be able to use this with some additional coding of the scripts, i.e. code to add in a <BR> after every third sub-section maybe..

[jmedinger]

OK

Thanks for that

I'll scour the AUG tomorrow and see what I come up with

Jos

[jmedinger]

Hi there

Tried the AUG method and I've got it working to list all the site sections and sub sections HOWEVER - it always does these from the root of the site.

The effect I'm trying to achieve is one which displays the sections and sub sections *only below* that which you're currently viewing.

Mabe my first graphical representation wasn't accurate...

I'd like to produce this

Section 1
Section 2
- Section 2a
- Section 2b
- Section 2c <----
- Section 2c1
- Section 2c2
- Section 2c2a
- Section 2c2b
- Section 2c3
Section 3
Section 4

The arrowed section is the one that I want to display the child sections below it - not a complete section list - just what is below that.

In the SectionLine template, there is an NQV of 'NETQUOTEVAR:SECTIONNAME'
Might there also be one for sub sections too? - just hoping!

Jos

[cdicken]

Jos

I am afraid to say I really cannot work out any method of laying out section links in the way you describe. There is no way of including links to the subsections for a section, within the section link template for that section.

All I have advised people to do before is to hard-code the links for the subsections into the section link layout template for the section. It's not a very flexible solution though.

[jmedinger]

Chris

I *think I've worked a way around this...

I've added

NETQUOTEVAR:CHILDSECTIONS_RAW

into the HEAD TAGS of Act_Primary
and then also included in the head tags, the Javascript code from the AUG which defines how to "Create a Section List (With Sub-Sections) in 2 Columns" (page 38)

Finally, I've added the modified call script of

!!<<script language=Javascript1.1>document.write(SectionList(child_sections)) </script>>!!

to the description of the subsections to be displayed.

This currently outputs as (on the correct page) as this
(NB - mild adult content on site)

This is exactly how I want it *BUT* as yo can see, for some reason, the same level sections are being displayed beneath each sub section rather than their child sections being shown

This has got me vexed now!

Any ideas?

Jos

[cdicken]

I think your question has been answered in http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=8452