Searched high and low and didn't find anything to convert MPN to XOOPS. Seems like there are plenty of scripts to convert other CMSes but not MPN which I find odd since XOOPS is based on it. Thanks in advance.

I am trying to do exactly this and I see that this thread is pretty old. So I am wondering if this is now possible.

My situation:
Most all news categories are viewable by all including anonymous. But I would like a category in News with minutes from the core group's meeting that is not public.

Thanks.

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Didn't mean to suggest this stuff is easy at all. In fact I have a long way to go to working in OOP. Really glad there seems to be a lot of independent module development. How old is XOOPS now? Unfortunantly none that I have found really does exacly what I want it to.

Getting the hang of XOOPS a little more as I poke around code. Here's a slightly revised question and not sure if there is something out there already or if I need to hack the Sections module or if it would be better to make a new module.

Let's pretend inside Sections I have:
Section A
- Article A1
- Article A2
Section B
- Article B1
- Article B2
Section C
- Article B1
- Article B2

I think it would be pretty cool to have a separate Block display some form of how the Sections are structured, where as default there might be a block with Section Names hyperlinked to a specified Article. If you click on the Section A link then it will expand a list below it displaying Articles A1 and A2. Ideally I'd also like to be able to set the items in the menu as visable or not which only means whether or not it will display in this block. So if I wanted I could have it show:
Section A
Section C
and omit Section B (as well as having the same level of control for the articles beneath each Section).

What this also means is being able to tag an Article to each section so when you click on a Section Name it pulls up a default page with content (or does nothing if no Article is associated).

Does this make sense or am I thinking about XOOPS all wrong?
Thanks.

PS - I am a native English speaker and I would love to help the XOOP movement but at the moment you guys are all way above me programming-wise. However, I can offer writing and editting skills which I think XOOPS needs a lot of seeing as how documentation is pretty lacking. Who do I talk to about this?

Thanks a lot DobePhat. Nice community support here. Didn't see a WF-Channel module. Same as WF-FAQ?

And here I thought I'd have to get my hands dirty and make a module of my own. :)

Other threads I came across:
iMenu & MultiMenu
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17052&forum=20#forumpost71945
Cjay
https://xoops.org/search.php?query=Cjay&action=results

Sorry if this is documented somewhere but I couldn't find it anywhere when I searched "submenu."

Here's is an example of what I would like to do:
Articles:
- About Us (id.1)
- Contact (id.2)
- Mission (id.3)

In a Custom Block I would have a hard link to Article id.1 (About Us) as well a few other bulleted main items. Only when About Us is in focus, (being read, not sure the term) do the two sub bullets Articles id.2 and 3 show up underneath it. So can logic be placed into a Custom Block to display only when certain Articles are being read? Is this a template level hack?

AND

If I understand correctly, currently the blocks can be set to specifically show when certain modules are in use. BUT can blocks be further customized to display only when reading certain articles?

Thanks. Looking forward to adding useful documentation to the Wiki once I understand this stuff more.