FULL XML WEBSITE V3 CUSTOMIZATION BY TRIWORKS DISCUSSION!

Hello everyone,

This thread is dedicated to the superb FULL XML Website item created by Triworks.net focusing on any problems you’ve encountered and/or customization enquiries.

Hopefully everyone will be able to post their enquiries here as well as the “SOLUTION” for this specific item. Then perhaps Triworks can look into this thread and compile a more detailed manual for the item based on the discussion we’re having here.

I’ll start off with my first enquiry.

1) Is it possible to customize the navigation menu to different location such as middle, or to the right?

2) Is it possible to disable the “hide” feature of the navigation?

3) If I would like to create a unique navigation of my own and disable the default navigation provided by the item, how do I disable the navigation as well as get the “link” of each button/section so i can place it into my own navigation button?

That’s it for me now, hope Triworks can come into this thread and answer any questions we might have on the item.

Best regards, Josh

i purchased the V2 template (i only have flash and it would seem that customization of it is very limited, i would even go as far to say that the template had been made in a way to make it difficult to amend. i have not been able to use the template as intended as i only wanted part of it. but one thing wont work without another.

(maybe this is all due to my limited skills).

i would have purchased the individual components that are on sale but i thought it was a better deal to get all in one go, not the case as the time it would take to seperate them is really not worth it.

you win some you loose some.

JFXIW

Thank you for creating this thread in the forums. You didn’t specify the version and I see that some of the questions are about v1, v2 and v3. These three files are different as explained in http://www.flashden.net/forums/thread/full-xml-website-v2-vs-v3/3387.

Is it possible to customize the navigation menu to different location such as middle, or to the right?

Yes it is possible. Everything is possible in flash but, each version as its own limitations. We are creating modules for the different modules and adding a configuration file to each one of the modules; so that each one of these modules knows on what template are they being included on or if they are being used alone. As you can imagine implementing a configuration like changing the navigation menu we would have to upgrade all modules to deal with the new menu positions, and you would have to configure each module to the same configuration as the template, otherwise the contents would be overlapped. Though we are starting to add this configuration files to the modules and to the new template coming soon, but it will take some time until everything is ready.

Is it possible to disable the “hide” feature of the navigation?

Yes, it is. We will add this feature to the wish list, but how do you see it? Click to open and click to close? Because like in the above answer if the menu is always open, all modules (pages) would be overlapped by it, or we create a configuration file on every module to set it to menu open state (It will take time).

If I would like to create a unique navigation of my own and disable the default navigation provided by the item, how do I disable the navigation as well as get the “link” of each button/section so i can place it into my own navigation button?

If you really want to create your own navigation, then I guess you don’t need the template at all. You can build your own navigation and call the external SWF modules we already included on the template.

link from the logo on the initial welcome page to navigate to another page internally.

I’m not sure about what version are you referring to, but none of our templates have a logo on any other place then at the homepage. But if you included a logo any other place then check the function that is being called from the navigation “homepage” button, you should use the same.

How do you create language links to change the language content of the site?

That’s a huge step. And I don’t really believe that is going to be developed very soon. The easiest way to do it might be creating a splash page with a language selection menu and duplicate the template in two separate versions for each language. Your language menu would then link to the correct language version.

How do you create links on the html pages to link to other pages internally?

It is possible but it won’t be developed for this version.

I hope we covered most of the questions you guys have for us. We would like you all to know that we are working very hard to keep up with all requests and checking the forums and product descriptions regularly and though we might not always reply we are taking notes and working on most requests.

link from the logo on the initial welcome page to navigate to another page internally.

I’m not sure about what version are you referring to, but none of our templates have a logo on any other place then at the homepage. But if you included a logo any other place then check the function that is being called from the navigation “homepage” button, you should use the same.

Hi Triworks,

thanks for responding. I am referring to the logo on the homepage & wanted to know how I can create a link that directs the user to the second page or to a different menu node. I don’t want to take the user back to the home page but rather direct the user from the homepage to another page. Is there some type of function I can add to the logo_mc that will communicate with the main.xml?

Anybody have any luck adapting one module to their existing flash file? I was trying to utilize the news module for a site that called for that but was developed entirely beyond that. I can load the external swf but getting it to work beyond that has proven to be a problem. it loads in fine, but the problem is more than three news posts show up and the click to large format no longer works. Anybody have any success doing something similar to this?