Is there a way to have each article open in its own window with unique modules?

For example, I would like an article on Poodles to include a module in the right rail listing all dog articles and another listing the most recent articles we've created. However, I don't want the dog article module to appear with any other articles.

Thanks.

Somehow I thought that the Link Type setting would work for this purpose.

The module is already capable of reading an articleid from the URL, and choosing an existing page from link type DOES append the articleid. The problem is that the link does NOT work as expected - instead in always comes back to the original page and appending the tab name defined in the link type setting.

Could you explain what Link Type is supposed to do?

Thanks.

When you "launch links", you cannot place other modules on the page... it's a blank page apart from the article. This means you can't embellish the page with advertising or other contextual information. The way I described at least gives you one option for placing mother modules in context.

At a pinch you can use multiple copies of the primary module on various sub-sections of the site to allow better variation of contextual info, but you'll need to use multiple copies of the Latest Articles module on the hamepage as well to point to the different sections.

Rob

Scott,

I'm wondering if it's perhaps something you can consider or plan for when you're working on that idea where you separate categories for site structure/navigation/rss versus tags for content?

The end product as you've already said, would be a special module, placed on a sub-page, and linked internally to the primary article module. The sub-page might not even have to be in the menu, but would exist merely to display articles from specified categories. One would use any number of these modules to create a site with rich contextual content and still a single article creation page. Perhaps the LA module would have a section where one could select target display modules for selected categories or something.

There would be a trio of modules:

1. Article creator (current NA module)
2. Article display (new module)
3. Article lists (Current LA module)

The site visitor would normally only ever see the list modules on the site and depending on category, the articles would launch into the target section for that category. I guess the main thing I'm getting at is that the categories would be used for providing the link directives around the site. Those who continue to use categories as they have been in the past would simply not use the special display modules, or just use one.

There are a few modules around that let one create a complex site by linking various modules together across different pages. The core Store does that sort of thing... so a precident is there.

It'd certainly be another distinct point in favour of the module over all others.

Just some idea food

Rob

I still think that the "Link Type" option (or something similar) should work for this purpose. One thing I would like to know though is:

• How does it work?
• What is the main purpose for Link Type?

If you could answer this it would be great.

Thanks!

Scott,

Although I whole-heartedly agree with you on the complexity issue, I feel that this (non-required) option would be a great addition to your module.

So here it goes... Scott would you please consider adding an additional module setting (maybe a Advanced Work-Flow section) with one setting to begin with: "Article Detail Page".?

If this setting is configured (via the URL control with type=T ONLY available) then all article titles would now link to the tabid specified and append all the necessary paramaters to URL - such as ArticleId.

Once again, this can be an "optional" setting, available for advanced users should they need it.

What do you think?