Article Menu in -> left

[TheLemming]

Hi,
I'm pretty new to phpwcms - and I think it's great - the whole system works really nice and pretty easy. I was just wondering if it's possible to include the article menu in the template of "left" - so I don't have to create the articles over and again with the menu.

many thanks in advance

TL

[pepe]

Have you tried the Replacement Tag:

{NAV_TABLE_COLUMN}

in the left field of the template???

[TheLemming]

yes, I have this tag, too

but this one only shows categories (for me)
I would like to display articles, too

you can see the result here:

http://www.lemmi.at is the homepage
http://www.lemmi.at/index.php?id=8,0,0,1,0,0 is a page without specifically integrated article menu

I would like a display of articles on the left side - as it's an easy way to implement a good navigation to articles on one topic.

[pepe]

Hi the Lemming,


1. Normally the categorie is only the "container" for an article

2. The navigation shows only your categories!


So:

Put each article into his own container (category) and you will have, what you want
That's the way, to use this system


Most sites, you will find here, are made this way.

[TheLemming]

Hi Pepe,
ah I see - I was wondering why I could create more articles within one container - therefore I created more in one or two categories.

thanks a lot for the comment
I think I'll use your advice and create one category per article.

have a nice weekend mate.

[brans]

you could also do the following:

create a template with:

{LEFT} where your navigation is supposed to appear (this is for VERY small sites only!) and then just add a sitemap and style it the way you like in each article.

[tomoh]

Hallo TheLemming!

You´re in the same thoughts as I am. Have a number of articles within a category and show them in a menu. This is because I don´t want any user to have adminrights and be able to mess around with the layout, templets and so on. Just letting them create/edit articles. I´ve solved it this way: The left menu is mainmenu showing the excisting categorys like {NAV_TABLE_COLUMN}. 1 templet for each category that has an alias like "sub1". In the main-section of the templet I use the {TEASER:alias} replacement tag with a css-class to it . Each category has the "top article count" set to -1. The result of this is a indexlike first page with a menu in the top with links to all articles in category "sub1". Next category has an alias "sub2" and so on.....
It work´s great in my way of getting a clean way of navigation without users have to be admin!

Greatings
Tomoh

[update]

Hello Lemming

for me it worked like this:

try to invent a new "content_everywhere" (e.g. MY_ARTICLE_LIST), define it to appear at the left (right or anywhere you want) side.
In your article you insert a new content part <Content Part "Artikelmenü"> and tell it to show up in MY_ARTICLE_LIST...
More elegant: new template for the specific category...

The result will be a list appearing on each page (article) of those articles contained in that cat......

Greetings
Claus