hide a folder and use it for latest news

Tuesday 27 February 2007 5:12:43 am

Hi

If your customer should never see a full news article, you can set the news folder to hidden and add a 'ignore_visibility' parameter to the fetch function for the latest news.

If your news listing displays just the intro of the news articles so your customer needs to be able to see the full news article, I would just exclude this news folder from the main menu. Easiest way would be to check for the node id in the loop where the menu entries are created. If the node id is the same as the node id of the news folder, don't display anything.

Claudia

Friday 09 March 2007 8:59:18 am

hi,
thanks for you help.I finally solve my problem.As Claudia suggested to me,I excluded the "news" folder in the loop where menu entries are created. To do his, I just edit the menu.ini.append.php file,in the excluded section:
[Excluded]
Node[]
Node[]=92

where 92 is the number of the "news" node.

Note that i'm using the dynamic top rollover menu.After that,I also edit the file dynamic_double_top_rollover.tpl (<Siteroot>\extension\dynamicdoubletopmenu\design\base\templates\menu) so that it doesn't display excluded items.I just comment lines which did it.

That's all.

Thanks again for your help.

Thursday 26 April 2007 11:37:53 pm

Hi Ndjientcheu

I tried your [exclude] method with a flat_left menu and couldn't get it to work. Can you give any more detail?

thanks
Paul Bolger

Paul Bolger