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I need to make a list of bulleted items for each article in a category.  I want to keep the articles separate so they expire on their own and the list item is removed automatically.  As of now it works with the base install but the list items are too far apart.

Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this given the base install or a new component?

Thanks

I need more information on this to understand what you have done and why it doesn't work. If you could provide screen prints and description of the menu items you created, it would go a long ways to understanding your question.

Keep in mind, forum questions are not always answered the day they are asked. This is only your second question and it was just asked this morning. Your first post was a very vague question asked only last night:


I think waiting a day is not unreasonable and certainly does not warrant your third post!


The more you dig into the resources available here - using the Help environment and the FAQs and the Search - the better able you will be to help yourself.

If you need help, please ask! But, it is appreciated if you will kindly be friendly and respect the fact that volunteers are giving their time freely to help you. 

If your question is not answered, it is likely because of the way that you asked it. So, work on posing your questions in an intelligent way. Try being more descriptive with what you are hoping to accomplish. Describe in detail what you have tried, what happened as a result and what you tried to do to resolve it on your own. The more initiative you take, the more likely a volunteer will stop at your question and give you some of their time. Screen prints, links, error messages all help flush out the detail needed to answer someone's question and show the kind of initiative that encourages response.

With respect,
Amy

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I guess my problem was trying to figure out which menu type to select.  There is plenty of documentation about the options that are available when editing/creating a menu item.  However, there doesn't seem to be much technical documentation about the menu item types (even in 1.0.x documentation) and how they render the content area of the page.

My scenario:
I have 5 articles (in one category) which just contain one line of text that links to a PDF doc.  I want to be able to click the a menu item and have it open a page containing all the articles (in one specific category) in an unordered list format.  I tried Category List Layout menu type and it creates a list of the articles as a link to open the article then I would need to click the text to open the PDF doc (which is an unnecessary number of step).

I hear you on the list layout - I really do not like it, myself.

• This seems so obvious, I am guessing you have already considered it, but, why not create a single article, create a list of links to you PDFs, and link to that article as a menu item?
• Another idea with a category blog is to create 5 leading, 0 intro/0 columns, and 0 links and hide the article title (right side/parameters).
• Here's a "trick" you might use some time, if not today. Create a menu using external link menu types that link to each of your articles. Then, in your menu module, specify a position that you do not include in your template - ex. FakePosition. Then, create an article and put the following statement into your article. It is a plugin that loads the module position name FakePosition. It will display your menu - which is a list - and you can style it, as desired.

If none of that makes any sense, we can keep working at it!
Amy

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{loadposition fakeposition}

Also, why not use docman to manage the pdfs?

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Option one is easy but then I cannot use the document expiration date to expire a link.
Option two this would work as well but the list items end up being very far apart do to the table code.
I'll have to try option three.



With DOCman there is no expiration and I cannot link directly to a category of documents.  You either link to the whole repository or nothing.

You can link to a category.  It may not be elegant (and I haven't really tested out the new beta) but you can always do a url link to a category.

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