[Sputnik-list] Re: Blueprint

[Andre Carregal]

On Feb 8, 2008 3:08 AM, Yuri Takhteyev <yuri at sims.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> I've been divided between two methods of adding a node to a menu:  (1)
> have a page that lists nodes or (2) specifying in the node what page
> it belongs to.  Right now I use  (1) for the first two levels and (2)
> for the third.  The under-documented "category" field selects which
> menu item would be selected when this node is display.  E.g.,
> http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/Bug_Reports shows with "Problems"
> menu item selected.  The problem with this second approach is that it
> doesn't allow you to specify the order of the items.  It's not a
> problem right now since I only use it for the third-level items which
> don't actually show up in the menu, but attaching second-level items
> to the menu this way would create a problem with deciding in what
> order they should go.

I don't mind the current solution, but why not use a selection menu
for the "category" field? It should be feasible to offer something
like a navigation tree there, no?

André