2006, December 21 - 3:50pm — Jeanie
So I created content – a new page about the 7th floor holiday party. I want this to live under social (which it does), but now I think the pics should live under this. It is ok that the pics are tagged with lobby and social room, but I don’t think they should be pages under the lobby/social room categories. In fact, I would argue that it didn’t make sense to have lobby/social room categories unless there is a subject surrounding them (remodeling project, for example). But just because a pic was taken there…doesn’t mean that it should be listed under it.
How do you move all this stuff to live under the 7th floor holiday party page?
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A Mixed Reply
First, thanks for creating new content! There's no need for organization if there's nothing to organize, right? :^)
You're wondering about the function and appropriateness of the categories Location/Lobby & Location/Social Room. That kind of input is so important to our website its discussion should happen on its own page, "Organizing Our Website". If you post those ideas there (either by editing the page or leaving a comment), we'll be able to easily refer back to your insights whenever categories are modified in the future.
As to collecting the party images under the party page you created, that is of course a great idea... for which I don't have a great answer. :^) I'm still learning about the functionality provided this site software and in what ways it may be extended. Would it be right to call what you're looking for some kind of "gallery" functionality? I've now added that to the list of "Online Community Features" we'd like to have.
For now, I've edited the "7th Floor Holiday Party (Dec. 10, 2006)" page you made to list the party image pages using html. You can see how I did it by starting to "Edit" the page and looking at the page "Body". Not a solution for the majority of users, I know, but something to get us by for right now.
Use Categories
Another possiblity is to just use the existing categorization system, though items could not be ordered easily.
By tagging all the images (and maybe your party page), "7th floor holiday party 2006 images", that tag would show up in the categories for people to select, and the listing for that category term would provide a "gallery".
An advantage of that is the "gallery" can be arranged like any categroy term, so it could be places under multiple categories where it might be usefully found (Images, Parties, Floor 7, etc.).
Another possibility is instead of giving the gallery items one very descriptive tag, break the description into multiple tags (much as you've already done to your holiday page). We can then say the "gallery" consists of the pages tagged with the intersection of all the terms ("Floor 7", "Photo", "Party", "Holiday", etc.). (There's information on how to construct compound category links manually for the savvy.)
This all might not make much sense to many, but I wanted to make a note of these ideas anyway.