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Hello all,

Here is my problem:
When you have a folder with a mixed content, sub folders and images, you can't display images of that folder in mobile (you can but you have to know the URL!!)
This is something I already reported at the early stage of X3 but I still think this is a problem. At this time, the answer was to not create folder with mixed sud folder and images.

Since I move from X2 to X3, when the first beta of X3 came out, I tried to convert my HUGE folder hierarchy. But the process was too painful, so I stick with X2. Then, Karl made the wonderful X2toX3 script. I converted my content and switch to X3 very easily but still my content contains lots of "mixed" folders.

I think, mobile menu should allow the user to do exactly the same as the standard menu.
One idea to do it is, when you click/touch a menu item where the page context has the galley module enabled then the mobile menu must load the page as well as expand the menu item !?

Do you guy's think this is a problem? Am-I the only one with this kind of "mixed" folders?
Anyhow, love to see a new feature soon to correct this behavior.

There are very valid reasons to why it works like it does:

1. First of all, "mobile" menu is for TOUCH devices. It does not support mouse HOVER, which is required by the standard menu to offer such functionality that you are referring to. Instead, touch menus require a CLICK. In this case of the mobile menu, click needs to open the CHILD folders ... It would be incredibly frustrating for a visitor if a click both expanded the submenu, AND loaded the page. At minimum, very misleading. This is how all multi-level mobile menu's work.

2. Personally, I have never seen a website page which contains BOTH albums and images that makes any sense for the visitor. If I arrive on a page, I see a bunch of images, how would it be intuitive to understand that some of the images link to images, while some of the images link to other pages? There is no such way to categorize photos at flickr or any other similar web app. The only app which allows such, is your local desktop explorer, but a website is meant for your visitors ...

3. If you REALLY want your visitors to access the PARENT page directly from the mobile menu (although they can clearly access all child pages directly from the menu), then you could select page -> menu -> hide children mobile. This way, only the parent page is visible and clickable from the mobile menu, and you will force the visitor to access images and child folders from within that page. This solution offers what you are looking for, and why offer multiple access methods to the same links? That is a general principle of modern web design functionality.

Perhaps you have a link to the page with mixed content? I really can't see how this is beneficial in any way for the visitor, who always creates a "mind map" of your website when they first access it.

Generally, this is a logical-technical limitation, related to mobile/touch devices, and not native to X3. It can be resolved in #3.

Well ok, I didn't look very deeply to all the settings X3 offers yet!
And you're right, the "hide children mobile" is something that might do the trick for me.

Another quick question, does custom sorting in panel will be taken into account in X3 front end?

Again thanks very much for the support!!

gaitt wrote:Another quick question, does custom sorting in panel will be taken into account in X3 front end?

Yes, that's basically what it's for. But you need to go to the page's gallery settings, and select custom sort for it to follow the custom sort set in the panel.