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    Posted by Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties posts: 3665 United States

    > I am currently preparing to launch a site based on TikiWiki. I could really benefit from having subcategories in the file gallery.
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    > This is for a site that is based around providing assistance to University of North Carolina at Greensboro students. I'd like to have a nested style deal where you could go something like "Syllabi>English>204>Syllabus1.doc" or something of that natureif that makes sense.
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    > I wouldn't mind attempting to hack it if someone could give me a starting point. :-)

    Personally, I'd use wiki pages + categories to do this — I wouldn't mess with adding .DOC files at all. Just use the wiki, that's what its there for.

    Tiki's category feature has complete support for subcategories.

    HTH,



    -Rick
    -My Tiki Blog: Help, Hints, and Hacks

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    Posted by tckepley posts: 5

    > Personally, I'd use wiki pages + categories to do this — I wouldn't mess with adding .DOC files at all. Just use the wiki, that's what its there for.
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    > Tiki's category feature has complete support for subcategories.


    Well, the problem is that the files professors distribute are generally in powerpoint, word or PDF format. It would be a pain for users to transpose the files to tikiwiki format.

    The idea of the site is to have a Wiki that tell what classes professors offer, what the professors are like, their contact info and then have galleries featuring files for each of the professors (be it old tests, notes, study guides etc...)


    Now if you're saying to simply use the wiki pages as file galleries, that may work. Just attaching files to individual pages. That's certainly an idea, but would require heavy moderating to ensure a good uniformity.

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