Dear Alan,

It is beginning to sink in...can this really be true!?

I uploaded the Imenu module, which is basically a link list. But the problem is that I do not know where I might possibly link to. I would like to be able to link to a page where my articles within a certin WF-section, or Section are displayed, but is there such a page? I am not aware of one. I can get a list of article titles, but not their text. Perhaps this is where tinyD wfchannels comes in?

Perhaps I should rename several WF-sections modules (is it possible to have more than one?) and then rename each of the names of my categories? Even then there would be no page dislaying some articles, just a list of articles.

What is the advantage of the XOOPS way of doing things? I am kind of lost. Why would anyone not want to have content menus? Is it for when one has a big site? Perhaps I am just not used to having sites big enough. Do other users have sites so big that they would not want to link their content from the front menu?

Tim

Since WF-Sections comes the closest, I have tried posting a long explanation of a feature request on the WF-Sections Forum.

Tim

Dear Alan-A,

Quote:

I have used a variety of Movable Type, Nucleus, b2 Evolution, Wordpress, Textpattern and Drupal and I have played with Mambo server. Off-line I have used Homepage Builder and seen Dreamweaver. All of these Content Management Systems let the user display, that most common of homepage layouts: some content in categories with a menu.

I find it difficult to think of a more basic CMS task than this.

Most of the above CMS are blogs. Blogs were originally for diaries or "logs". So they might have been forgiven for being weak on organising content, on being a "content management system." One might worry whether the blogs (diaries, web logs) might only be able to display "news". BUT all of the blog software packages can display categories with menu-items. But XOOPS can not? It is XOOPS that can only display News?

Surely there has got to be a simple way of displaying a content menu?

My client has input a lot of data to XOOPS. I am not sure what to say.

Tim

Okay, so I created the sections in WFsections all over again and moved one of the articles manually.

It is true that there is a rather nice menu now displayed on the left hand side of the main page.

But when I click on a link in the menu of WFsections, instead of getting that section, I get the whole list of wfsections.

I am thinking of blog categories such as in Movable Type, or any blog for that matter.

Or even the sort of functionality supplied by the old offline programs such as Dreamweaver or Homepage builder.

All I am after is the ability to diplay some content, in categories, which is selected and displayed when you click a link.

My site by the way
http://nihonbunka.com/kouryuu/html/modules/news/

Tim

WFsections seems to be very powerful, a sort of XOOPS within XOOPS.

The person I am supervising already has 15 articles in "Sections." Will i need to write them all again to get them in WFsections? Oops. WFSections and Sections seem to be totally seperate.

Tim

Dear JdSeymour,

Thank you very much for your quick response. It is very kind of you.

Used as I am however, to web sites with conent and menus, I am really surprised that it is necessary to upload a special extra module to get some menu arranged content on the main web page.

Another problem is that conent uploaded to the "sections" module does not come with any form of WYSIWYG editor (unlike news).

Is this really the way that XOOPs site managers add content to their sites? Is there no way of having a menu to the categories in the news section?

I will upload wf-sections now. By the way, the ownly one I could see on the modules download page was the "tweakes MF-Sections with pdf support"
http://family.dreamgearweb.com/content/modules/wfdownloads/singlefile.php?cid=2&lid=1

Tim

I am having difficulty doing the obvious too .

I have some content (also tourism related). I would like to put the content on my site, with a menu of categories and perhaps some subcategories. (Restaurants, Hotels, Places to Shop, Nature -> Parks).

I tried adding the content in the sections module but the sections are displayed in a seperate area of the site and categories (the section names) are not added to the navigation menu om the left hand side, nor are the section contents displayed in the central column of the homepage. Indeed when I click sections there is a default heading saying "Here you can find some cool articles that are not presented on the homepage." Why should sections not be displayed on the homepage? There seems to be no "block" for sections, so I can not ask it to be displayed in the middle (or anywhere else). I am surprised the sections are displayed at all!

So I gave up on Sections....

I try putting the content as news articles but again news categories are not shown in the main menu. And anyway "news" seems like a strange thing to main site content.

I am not sure what wf-sections or smart-sections.

But in't there built-in was of displaying some content accessible with a side menu? I am used to blogs, and this is the basic layout of a blog (some content, some categories, a side menu).

Do people normally use "News" or "Sections" to post content to their web sites?

(Is there a menu control area, with a list of checkboxes for which items one includes? The main left hand menu seems to be full of XOOPS module names, even though I don't really want them there. For example I might want the ocassional poll on the right, and I have selected polls to be on the right, but why is there a menu link to polls on the left? I did not mean to ask it to be there. )

Sorry to be so stupid. There must be an easy way of doing this.

Tim

What can people use the points for, please?

Me too. Does this exist?

I am a Moodle-user.

First of all, as far as I know Moodle is used in considerably more than 200 institutions.

A quick Moodle plug. Currently there are 958 sites from 72 countries who have registered. It is near the top of freshmeat rankings(just behind things like Apache) and towards the top of the google ranks alonside the two major commercial systems, Caroline and Atutor are rather further down. The MIT project has yet to come into fruition. It is translated into about 40 languages, and has an active (posted in the last month) user group of1353. These users are teachers, and generally teachers are forcing a lot of their students to use Moodle too! We teachers have a captive member base!

But like you say, it is a system/plaform too, and a lot of the functionality doubles up with Xoops.

Here are some of the weakness of Moodle.
1) Moodle does not have a way of reorganising those courses into functional groups for each user (no "my-moodle")
2) Moodle does not have a file management system like that of MyDMS, Typo3 or various other CMS which can manage files. I hear that AWF and Xayara can do this sort of thing. How about Xoops?
3) There is no Wiki type module in Moodle.
4) Moodle is not all that good at making an attractive multi function, easily maintainable website. It makes a lot of courses, with modules that plug into the course homepages. There is a plugin to allow moodle and the postnuke member database to speak to each other. Perhaps that sort of link could be made with Xoops.

I would really like to see more portal type CMS (Xoops type CMS) functionality in Moodle.