[FM Discuss] Fwd: [civicrm-book] Can't access the chapters

[Michael McAndrew]

Sounds great.

Michael



On 6 Sep 2011, at 10:16, adam <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:

> michael - im looking at this issue today. i think i make a choice in bookipublisher (turned off by default) for keeping every section in a separate dir
>
> eg
>
> introduction/
> -introduction
> -real-world-examples
> -who-is-civicrm
>
> getting-prepared
> -is-civicrm-for-you
>
>
> etcetc
>
> sound ok?
>
> adam
>
>
>
> On 09/04/2011 01:28 PM, Michael McAndrew wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> A week or so ago, we finished our second major update to the CiviCRM book
>> (now family of books).  It was pretty great and we are now settling into a
>> pattern, which I'll blog about at some point soon.
>>
>> In the mean time, we have hit a problem with the published version...
>>
>> When you try to access the set-up chapter of mail, it goes to the set-up
>>> chapter for contribute: http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm/configuring/
>>>
>>
>> This happens because we are repeating chapter names within sections and it
>> hides a substantial amount of our content.
>>
>> I remember that last time we had this problem (when we imported into booki)
>> we solved it by adding a number at the beginning of the chapter.  This
>> worked at the time but the problem with this (which I raised at the time and
>> I think we all agreed it was a problem that needed solving but didn't get to
>> the solution part) is that these numbers will change with each edition,
>> which means we will either get lots of broken urls or have to manually map
>> URLS, neither of which will be much fun.
>>
>> A better solution in our case, now that our book is stable, would be to use
>> the naming convention section/chapter.  This would also be great for
>> usability and for SEO.  The other not as nice but easier solution would be
>> to repeat section titles in each name.  thoughts anyone?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: xavier dutoit<xavier at sydesy.com>
>> Date: 4 September 2011 10:13
>> Subject: [civicrm-book] Can't access the chapters
>> To: civicrm-book at lists.civicrm.org
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When you try to access the set-up chapter of mail, it goes to the
>> set-up chapter for contribute:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm/configuring/
>>
>> It seems that all the set-up chapters points to the same url,
>> obviously no good. On that topic is this possible to put a custom url
>> (rename the url)? having the name of the chapter "set-up" and the url
>> configure is not the best for SEO (and because we publish a lot of
>> these urls directly in the forum)
>>
>> X+
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