Auto redirect to a sub-item.

Thursday 22 June 2006 2:40:52 pm

Hi Rémy-Christophe,

I don't think this can be achieved easily if you intend to keep the common ezpublish content access process. I mean accessing a content via his uri or node id. (content/view/full/189)
So instead of phisically redirecting your visitor to the sub article, you should try to display the article detail when people access to the folder by for example, retrieving the last article published under the current node.

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Friday 23 June 2006 12:55:49 pm

Hi Rémy-Christophe

I'm using Kristof's extension to try to achieve something like this already. You could set all folders to redirect to their first child node, but in my case it's not every folder I want to do that. It's not finished yet, but the idea for the site I am working on is:

1. Install redirect operators
2. Edit 'Folder' class and add a new checkbox called 'redirect_first_child'
3. Override Folder template and add code that looks checks the tickbox and redirects if it is ticked, something like this:

{if $node.data_map.redirect_first_child.content}
{redirectrelative( $node.children[0].url_alias|ezurl )}
{/if}

Note: I'm still working on this so that code may not be quite right, but hopefully it should give you enough to go on. If you want every folder to behave like this, then simply use the redirectrelative in an override template.

Good luck
Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk

Saturday 24 June 2006 10:40:17 am

@ Philipp: I do now :-)

As I suspected my late-night code was buggy - I should know better than to write code in a forum post without trying it first ;) ...also $node.children.0 doesn't return the correct node because it doesn't take account of the order I have set for that folder. (Is that a bug?) So... here's what is working:

{if $node.object.data_map.redirect_first_child.content}
	{def $children = fetch( content, list, hash( parent_node_id, $node.node_id, sort_by, $node.sort_array ) )}
	{redirectrelative( $children.0.url_alias|ezurl('no') )}
	{undef $children}
{/if}

...and a sneak preview of it in action:

http://new.coinet.org.uk/

(Click on 'About Us' in the dropdowns.)

Have fun :-)
Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk

Saturday 24 June 2006 11:50:08 am

Hi Philipp

There is no need to touch the ez internals at all, just install Kristof's excellent 'Redirect Operators' extension, available here:

http://ez.no/community/contribs/template_plugins/redirect_operators

Edit: Sorry, my mistake, I'm getting my extensions in a muddle and miscrediting them! RedirectOperators is by Esben Visfeldt. :-S

Good luck
Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk

Saturday 24 June 2006 12:52:04 pm

Yes, you do have add a new class attribute to the folder class to give the 'redirect to first child' behaviour an on/off switch on a folder by folder basis. In your admin site:

1. go to Setup - Classes - Content - Folder, which on a default ez installation is something like this: http://example.com/admin/class/view/1
2. edit the class
3. at the bottom there is a dropdown, select 'Checkbox', click 'Add Attribute'
4. enter name: Redirect First Child, identifier: redirect_first_child, and the only tickbox that needs to be ticked is 'disable translation'
5. at the bottom, click ok.
6. go back to the content tree and edit your folder - there should now be an extra tickbox at the bottom you can tick, which is what the template code then looks for when deciding whether to redirect to the node's first child or not.

...and you should be done. For more reading on content classes, I suggest:

http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/concepts_and_basics/content_management/the_content_class

Matthew

http://carroll.org.uk