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Hi Mike-
What if I want to add the relationship field and apply it to multiple weblogs each referring back to itself for the relationship? There is only a radio button for relating it to another weblog or to a photo gallery. You’re thoughts?

Josh

Sorry- I didn’t make myself very clear. What I’m trying to do is apply a single Custom field group to multiple weblogs which should look inward for the relationship. For example, I have one custom field group, called “static pages” which I have applied to 4 weblogs, “sectionOne”, “sectionTwo” , “sectionThree”, and “sectionFour.”

There doesn’t appear to be a way to use a single custom field group for all of these, because you have to set up a relationship with a specific weblog, rather than just telling the system to choose the weblog that the field group is applied to.

Does that make sense? Thanks a ton!

Thanks Mike. Not the answer that I was hoping for, but an answer nonetheless. Your tutorials are very helpful. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Hi Mike, thank you for all the fantastic information. I’m always scouring your stuff. :-)

You mentioned a few third party extensions that allow for multiple relationships to one field. I have a client that I’m setting up authors and books as seperate weblogs and relating them but some authors have multiple books and other books have multiple authors. I did some research to find those extensions but wasn’t successful. Do you mind passing along those URLs?

Again, thank you!

I had developed a site with just one level using one entry for page content. Client wanted to created pages on an additional sub level. Thought I was screwed till I found this. In no time I had the relationships setup, made super-minor changes to my templates and bang - works like a charm. Thanks!

Hey, very cool! Thanks! I actually got that client set up already but I’m sure it’ll come up again. I appreciate the info!

Mike, is there a way to indicate the “current” page in the menu when using this approach? Thanks.

Thanks. I’ll give it a try. This method looks promising for my current needs.

This works, except when a link to a parent page is highlighted as active, all child page links are also highlighted. (Not the reverse, though.) Any further thoughts? If I’m on a parent page, I’d like only that link to be active.

Mike - you’re right. I had put the conditional on the li tags rather than on the links themselves, so when the parent list item was marked as active, the children inherited the class. Putting the conditional on the a tag works like a charm. Thanks!

Brian

PS Sorry I missed your training sessions. I would have loved to be there, and I’m glad to hear they were successful.

Actually I would have loved to come to Holland - I used to live in GR and have friends there and in Grand Haven. But another location could work too.

This is a great tutorial. It helped my situation greatly.

I do have an issue that I found odd.

Using url_title_path caused my links to insert the ‘somethingindex.php’ instead of a clean URL. It drove me nuts.

Note - I am not using the default index.php but had to rename it and now am stuck with it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Hi Mike -

I looked at that and no luck.

I did solve this by using the site_url and url_title and it seems to be the best solution for me.

It’s fine as I only use one template page per template group so it’s not too cumbersome.

Thanks and this tutorial is great also - much appreciated for taking the time to share this.

Mike do you think this method could be used with 4 levels? I tried to insert another conditional to nest a UL in under a child page. Can you have a page be a child and a parent?

I hate having to setup seperate workflows and this is working so well for 3 level content but I have 4 levels.

Thanks for all these tutorials. I am currently beginning to learn expression engine and WOW i cant believe how difficult it is to great a basic hierarchy. I’ve been spoiled by my programmers own in house CMS. nevertheless I must keep practicing and testing what approaches work best for me or the client.

Hi Mike, thanks for this, very helpful.
I have one small problem in that my secondary menu items seem to be duplicated to my primary navigation, i’m sure it is something simple as i am no developer just a designer trying to get some sort of easy-to-create menu system.

here’s a snippet:

<div id=“sidebar”>
  <ul>
  {exp:weblog:entries weblog=”{my_weblog}” sort=“asc” offset=“1” dynamic=“off”}
      {if genetic-parent==“0”}             
        <li>
            {title}
                  {reverse_related_entries weblog=”{my_weblog}”}
      {if count==1}<ul>{/if}
                      <li>{title}</li>
                      {if count==total_results}</ul>{/if}
              {/reverse_related_entries}     
                </li>
              {/if}
          {/exp:weblog:entries}
        </ul>

</div> <!—end sidenav—>

As you can see i have used pretty much everything that you had just with some name changes, but the basic structure is the same.

I have had a love/hate relationship with ee for a little while now and your menu system seems to be the best around purely for not having to use modules, plugins etc.
Menus should be easy out of the box!

Thanks again for the code, much appreciated.

Mike

Hi Mike, just to let you know the problem was a typo, thought it was an easy fix, duh!

thanks for your advice, much appreciated

Would this approach allow me to have a breadcrumb nav?

Hi Mike

You mentioned above that it might/could be possible to achieve a 4th level by an embedded template, I tried to use the following and did not get the results I was hoping for

  <ul>
  {exp:weblog:entries weblog=“siklusbisnis” sort=“asc” dynamic=“off”}
  {if parentpage !=“0”} 
        {reverse_related_entries weblog=“siklusbisnis”}
          <li>{title}</li>
        {/reverse_related_entries}
      {/if}

  {/exp:weblog:entries}
  </ul>

Any idea what might be wrong here

Thanks & Regards
Said

Hi Mike

Thanks for your quick response, its working for a 3 level menu like so
Root
  Parent
    Child

and as outlined in this article, but not like so:
Root
  Parent
    Child&Parent; Child
     
Thanks & Regards
Said

Correction to that last entry

Root
  Parent
  Child&Parent; Child

I will take you suggestion and see how I go with it. Thank you very much for the input, very appreciated.

Hope all goes well with your event

Regards
Said