21 Comments

• Ivan Pavlović said on mar 7 2011 at 8:45

  Hay Piotr,
  
  is it possible to localize menu items and to show only items localized for the current site culture?

• pszmyd said on mar 7 2011 at 3:04

  @Ivan: It will be in the upcoming release. I'll such possibility from the GUI.

• springy said on mar 8 2011 at 3:05

  Will it (and does the current one) work with the integration branch (including the latest "iteration")?

• pszmyd said on mar 8 2011 at 3:26

  @springy: Yes, I want to make it work wit the latest available Orchard bits.

• Pete Hurst said on mar 9 2011 at 3:38

  Hi, great module (really, many of these features should be core features of Orchard!)
  
  I have a comment regarding "menu item visibility" and other concerns.
  
  I think we have to realise there is often a huge separation between the content of a menu, and the total sitemap of a website. Ideally a breadcrumb should show you where you are located within the sitemap, not just one specific menu.
  
  I think the Orchard Navigation module needs a certain overhaul to delineate these concepts; so there's a general hierarchy defined by each module just as they generate the Admin menu, and this can fed into generating a SiteMap.xml and so forth. Then any number of named menus can be built statically by adding nodes from the hierarchy.
  
  Your module looks like it will address some of these issues but perhaps there are core Orchard problems to solve as well?

• springy said on mar 9 2011 at 6:25

  "@springy: Yes, I want to make it work wit the latest available Orchard bits."
  
  Will it break 1.0 compatibility then? There are some string/LocalizedString changes inside the core navigation module.

• pszmyd said on mar 10 2011 at 2:08

  @springy: I'm aware of the changes, but my goal is to make it work with both versions. The string/LocalizedString stuff is mainly about translating static content, so it won't affect the menu module much. And in places where it would do - I'll do me best not to break compatibility.

• springy said on mar 10 2011 at 1:12

  I don't know whether it's already on the feature list: Will or should the breadcrumb control follow CommonPart-Container nestings so you don't have to add blog posts to the navigation?

• pszmyd said on mar 12 2011 at 12:42

  @springy: Yes, it's already there. Breadcrumbs will follow any containers (lists, blogs, and so on) and show appropriate link to the parent container so adding to the navigation is not necessary.

• Olin said on mar 14 2011 at 9:25

  It look like very amaizing job !!
  
  As Pete said before it should be core features of Orchard !
  
  I'm really excited to look at it :D
  Concerning most viewed pages and other things like that, will you do something ? :)
  
  
  Thanks a lot for your work !

• Olin said on mar 14 2011 at 11:37

  Sorry for double posting, but I have a question :
  
  Will the module work with CulturePicker from Ermakovich ?
  
  because actually, i dont understand how your two module work when they are used at the same time.
  the GetNavigation is from each module are used one after another?
  
  reading source code i think your two modules add things in "main" menu
  
  thanks !
  
  

• pszmyd said on mar 14 2011 at 1:51

  @Olin: Most viewed pages - yes - this will be achievable by recently viewed widget with choosing "per-site" view counter.
  
  About how the menu works. Basically the whole menu system consists of 2 types of objects: INavigationProvider and INavigationManager. The second one fetches all instances of the first, merges their GetNavigation outputs. Next, this data is used to fill the menu-rendering shape.
  
  My module overrides the default INavigationProvider for main menu to build hierarchy (the default one returns only flat list...). So if the CulturePicker module also contains the INavigationProvider implementation - outputs of both will get merged.
  
  And btw - merging items happens level-by-level and takes into account the menu item names.
  
  HTH

• springy said on mar 15 2011 at 2:50

  "merging items happens level-by-level and takes into account the menu item names"
  
  With menu item names you mean the (translated) caption? If I create a module which adds to the settings admin menu and my translation agency will translate "settings" to something different than the Orchard team already did then I'll end up with 2 settings menus inside the dashboard.

• pszmyd said on mar 15 2011 at 4:37

  @springy: I don't exactly remember - have to look in the code, but I'm pretty sure it takes the default value for the translated string, passed at creation time.

• Olin said on mar 16 2011 at 9:31

  Hello pszmyd !
  How are you ?
  
  Have you a date for the next release ? I'm really excited to test it and to use it on my orchard website !

• pszmyd said on mar 16 2011 at 2:33

  @Olin: In couple of days. I was busy creating a layouting platform for Orchard which I needed for work (I'll announce that tomorrow, too)...

• Olin said on mar 17 2011 at 10:44

  Arfff ^^
  
  Hope that it will be Released this week end !
  Thanks again for your job on orchard!!

• Olin said on mar 21 2011 at 10:42

  Have you some great news for us ? :)
  
  PS: why you website is sometime offline (are you hosting yout website at home?^^)

• pszmyd said on mar 21 2011 at 8:07

  Hi!
  
  I'm now working hard on it (had to focus on other work for last days/weeks...).
  Site runs on a ded server:) I had some issues with disks (one of them was down and had to replace it), unfortunately the box doesn't support hot-swapping:/
  
  Cheers

• jkresner said on mar 24 2011 at 4:36

  Hi, I noticed after installing the module, checking the box "Add to main menu" when you create new content no longer works. Though it's easy to manually create menu items to get around the problem, it would be cool if this got fixed in your next release. Thanks for the great module!

• Olin said on mar 28 2011 at 8:23

  Hello again !!
  How are you ? And what about your new module ? I really need it that's why i'm waiting and arrasing you :)
  Have you a release date ?
  Today ? :p
  
  Waiting your response ! :)

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