Hello Seblodders ;-)
Question/Idea:
Just curious how to create an Auto-Menu module of Categories incl. their articles. In other words, a sort of "navigation tree" module. Preferribly with 1 seblod module and a respective list template. The first result could be a UL/LI list, that is uncollapsed on page load. A second variant is to have an accordion type menu, that reveals the article titles/items on click on the category name. But how to output and generate an article list grouped by its categories.
I doubt, that it is possible by simple backend configuration and setting parameters etc.
So, any valuable thoughts and suggestions are much appreciated.
Purpose & Benefit:
Less struggling with J! Backend and tedious manual MenuItem creation. The end-user should concentrate on content creation.
Example menu structure & module display!:
Category 1 (CatTitle could be simple Text; Accordion-trigger; Link to category list; Link to Cat-description)
-- Article1 (Link to article full view)
-- Article2
-- Article3
-- ...
Category 2
-- Article21
-- Article22
-- ...
Category 3
-- Article31
-- Article32
-- ...
Thanks in advance!
PS: Maybe I am thinking too complicated… and there is a much simpler way too deal with the J! category tree… and display the included Seblod items?! Since Seblod does not come with "typical" modules for that purpose, my first thought was a list template. Please, correct me if I am wrong. Any other ideas are also appreciated.
EDIT: I noticed, that it is also possible to use J! core module "Articles Category". As far as you don´t need extra fields. For MENU usage it gives category and article titles. AND also Category grouping! Which is nice, but it would need an override to output Category name only once, not for every article... The article's links seem to be the same as in Seblod, which is also very cool. But the link to a category and all Seblod articles is not possible (obviously). This is the domain of the Seblod module + list template.