Photo Gallery Forums

The new link feature is nice... how can a link be suppressed from showing up in a list of galleries.

For example... I have added a link under the Mountaineering section call 'Colorado Centennial Peak Log'

However when I click on 'Mountaineering' the link shows up in the list of galleries under Mountaineering... and appears to be a gallery of it's own.

In addition... is there a way to format the link name in the menu so it is intuitive to the user that it is a link and not another folder or gallery?

alexhenes wrote:The new link feature is nice... how can a link be suppressed from showing up in a list of galleries.

Did you add a number before the folder name? A gallery will only display in the menu if you have a number in front of the folder name "6.foldername", so you must have added a number in front of "Colorado Centennial Peak Log".

However when I click on 'Mountaineering' the link shows up in the list of galleries under Mountaineering... and appears to be a gallery of it's own.

It is definitely redirecting to another link:
http://test.merelyafleshwound.com/conte ... henes.html

In addition... is there a way to format the link name in the menu so it is intuitive to the user that it is a link and not another folder or gallery?

You have full control of the label. Why not write [checklist.html] or something? I could add a small icon for links that open in new windows, which might help ...

Cool... something to distinguish a link from a regular folder or gallery would be great.

This is where I would like to suppress links from showing up....

Here is a better picture of what is happening...
Also...

In the Kayaking section of www.merelyafleshwound.com there is a section called 'Kayaking Stories' which contains 2 links. When a user clicks on 'Kayaking Stories' they get a screen with an image & title for each of the 2 links. However clicking on these yields a blank screen with a title. In this case the 'Kayaking Stories' folder in the mega menu should not be clickable... only the 2 links below it.

First of all, let me just remark that it is a bug that the links dont work properly when displaying in the folders list on the page. I didn't think that far to be honest ... They should work the same as in the menu when clicked basically.

Basically you want an option to choose if links should display in the folder list or not then?

alexhenes wrote:Also...

In the Kayaking section of http://www.merelyafleshwound.com there is a section called 'Kayaking Stories' which contains 2 links. When a user clicks on 'Kayaking Stories' they get a screen with an image & title for each of the 2 links. However clicking on these yields a blank screen with a title. In this case the 'Kayaking Stories' folder in the mega menu should not be clickable... only the 2 links below it.

If the links are fixed to work in the folders list section, would it not be acceptable to allow the 'kayaking stories' to be clicked? It would be slightly disturbing for the visitor if suddenly one link in the menu isnt clickable, and to me it seems nice to see a overview page of the links if that is in fact what I want to click instead of the links directly in the menu.

I do have a few things to fix for links in the the folders listing though ... Thanks for the heads-up.

It would be nice to suppress links from showing up in lists of folders/galleries. I think it is confusing for the user to think they are opening a gallery and have a new tab open.

I am not sure the best solution for a folder that contains multiple links. Would having an 'overview' page that lists the links in the folder cause issues with suppression?

Ok, first of all, we launched an update V0.8 which fixes the bugs with LINK in the sidebar (mobile) menu, and also makes them work correctly in the page listing:
viewtopic.php?f=51&t=8448

I didn't add any "suppression" yet, because I am not 100% sure it is needed now that the links are working correctly.

alexhenes wrote:It would be nice to suppress links from showing up in lists of folders/galleries. I think it is confusing for the user to think they are opening a gallery and have a new tab open.

To be honest, if you are using external links in the menu already, I don't see how that is any less confusing that listing the external links in a parent page. Besides, if you have a category (as I think you had) with child page links, what happens if they click that category ... will there be nothing inside, if all the links are suppressed? Personally, I didn't mind clicking your parent category as have it list all the links ... I quickly understand the idea if the links open in new windows with unrelated data anyway, and there is no way around that.

Just for quick reference, there are some MENU settings that I will have to document once X3 is more mature. For any page, you can modify the menu item for the page, by adding any of the following modifiers to the menu: settings for the page.

thanks!