[Update: Here's some convoluted explanation of what I changed the other day. I had this waiting in 'preview' mode until I squished a few remaining bugs.]
I'm in deep today. Possibly I caused some problems as I made a lot of changes. Here's the summary:
[create] is now slightly different, but probably you won't notice. I had neglected the 'alphabetical' and 'numeric' page types because we don't really use them on this site - but I need those page types for building other kinds of sites with this system. Alphabetical pages are now fully integrated, and I should be finished with numeric pages by the end of today.
An alphabetical page behaves like a regular page except that when posting, instead of a field below the textarea box for a 'summary headline:' you see a field labeld 'alphabetize by:'. Whatever you type in there will be used as a key for alphabetizing (but not displayed anywhere in normal - non [edit] - viewing.) Depending on which way the direction of the page is set, this means that your posts will be ordered by the 'alphabetize by:' key in either a -> z or z > a order. The window ('number of posts to display on the page') works the same way.
For example, you could build an address book type page using an alphabetical page. Each entry would be one post. Each post would contain the person's name, address, phone numbers, email, etc... and then in the 'alphabetize by:' field you could put the last name followed by the first name. To add to the address book page you just make a post to the page. When you view the page it will always list all posts in alphabetical order (by lastname, or if there are duplicate last names, by the full name.) No matter what order you make the posts, they will always appear alphabetized by whatever key you supply.
Numeric pages are exactly the same except that instead of 'alphabetize by:' field there is 'numeric order by:' field. Of course this works the same, except you supply a number and not a text string.
Chronological, alphabetical, and numeric pages can each be presented through any of the page templates. (This was not true before.) So you could make an alphabetical page that is a slide show. And you can swich back and forth between them.
Probably these changes aren't of too much use to anyone here, but they make everything much more consistent from a theoretical stand point.
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I'm in deep today. Possibly I caused some problems as I made a lot of changes. Here's the summary:
[create] is now slightly different, but probably you won't notice. I had neglected the 'alphabetical' and 'numeric' page types because we don't really use them on this site - but I need those page types for building other kinds of sites with this system. Alphabetical pages are now fully integrated, and I should be finished with numeric pages by the end of today.
An alphabetical page behaves like a regular page except that when posting, instead of a field below the textarea box for a 'summary headline:' you see a field labeld 'alphabetize by:'. Whatever you type in there will be used as a key for alphabetizing (but not displayed anywhere in normal - non [edit] - viewing.) Depending on which way the direction of the page is set, this means that your posts will be ordered by the 'alphabetize by:' key in either a -> z or z > a order. The window ('number of posts to display on the page') works the same way.
For example, you could build an address book type page using an alphabetical page. Each entry would be one post. Each post would contain the person's name, address, phone numbers, email, etc... and then in the 'alphabetize by:' field you could put the last name followed by the first name. To add to the address book page you just make a post to the page. When you view the page it will always list all posts in alphabetical order (by lastname, or if there are duplicate last names, by the full name.) No matter what order you make the posts, they will always appear alphabetized by whatever key you supply.
Numeric pages are exactly the same except that instead of 'alphabetize by:' field there is 'numeric order by:' field. Of course this works the same, except you supply a number and not a text string.
Chronological, alphabetical, and numeric pages can each be presented through any of the page templates. (This was not true before.) So you could make an alphabetical page that is a slide show. And you can swich back and forth between them.
Probably these changes aren't of too much use to anyone here, but they make everything much more consistent from a theoretical stand point.
- jim 12-04-2001 7:53 pm