New Message: You broke my sites!

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Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$141

By: Ian Beatty (beatty at physics.umass.edu)

Greetings.

I now have two "Edit" buttons below the navigation links on all my (many) hosted Manila sites, and only one works. Let me explain.

I long ago realized I needed an easy way for my authors to edit their navigation links, so I stopped using the Manila navigation links section completely (all the sites I host have "<navigator></navigator>" as their navigation XML). Instead, I use the includeMessage macro in the site temlate, and include a message which contains text for the navigation links. With the appropriate parameters to includeMessage, this provides an "Edit" button below the navigation links which takes the user to the message-editing page. Advantage: when that message is rendered into the navigation links, site shortcuts in quotation marks are resolved into links. Very easy!

Unfortunately, I just came home from a trip to find that my site authors are confused by the sudden appearance of a second Edit button. One still works as they expect, going to edit the navigation "message". The second -- UserLand's new addition -- confuses them greatly, having nothing whatsoever to do with their visible navigation links (and a new interface to boot).

So please give me a way to disable this new "feature", preferrably without editing every blasted site individually (we host many). And then a way to re-enable it on a site-by-site basis, so we have the option of adopting it for newly-created sites.

Thanks for listening.

.Ian Beatty

This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.