I am wondering whether it is possible to have a summary of each article in a particular category, rather than the full text, using the site catalog. This would make it easier to read and most of all find specific articles without having to scroll a long way down to just see what articles have been added.

Thanks for any help

Well - its used for a mixed sorta thing - if you check out my site http://supersquirrels.clan.su/, and click on the Nut Marks you may understand. It's named Nutmarks - as this is where we want members to put up links to other websites they recommend or if they have read something on that site which they think is funny or interesting or useful.

It's kinda like mini-articles, but mainly driven for providing links. We want to be able to categorise them into different sections as well. The first two posts up are actually more like articles than the actual site information so I suppose Publisher would be a better choice. Here, would you just need to type in the main section and the module would automatically produce a summary, with a link to the whole text?

Also, while we're on the topic of categories etc. - we are planning to have a profile page of all members of our group/website. However, I am unsure on the best way to categorise them and what module would be most appropriate. I'd rather not have the main page of this section as a categories menu - I want to have a summary of the admins there, and below them options to go to the other sections for each website group.

I suppose I could do that using site catalog? And just editing the main page - above the categories section - to get a constant bit where the admin profiles could be put. Is the custom ad board any good for this?

Thanks again

If you use Publisher there are two fields when adding an entry - brief description and full text. The brief description is displayed on the main page of the catalog or category, and if you click on the entry's title it will take you to the page with the full text.

As far as I understand you want to use one of the modules to display the list of members. And you want admins to be listed on the main page of this module and have the links to other groups below. Right? Just want to check first whether I have got the idea.

Yes, that's right. This way everyone is quickly able to see the admin profiles. Below that, I'm thinking of a line or box that separates the admin profiles with a category list of the other members - we have two groups u see - checked and our own custom group. Within those categories the members are maybe split into 4 groups - like A-F, G-L, M-S, T-Z, depending on whether it looks better like this or if we are able to arrange the new profile entries in alphabetical order.

And if possible, (idea struck me last night), we could have a brief descriptions of three of the latest members to have joined up below this - maybe in three columns, one row?

Really, what I'm after is the best way of doing this, and also the easiest way. Should I choose a module or create new pages with links to them - but that would take a while I think...?

Anyhow thanks very much for your help.

Besides you can use informers to display in a separate block the list of admins (Create Informer - select Users - Additional options - List of user group IDs), you can do this on any page of your site.

1. Go to Control Panel -> File Catalog -> Categories management.
2. Press "New category" and create two separate categories - e.g. Downloads1 and Downloads2.
3. Go to Main -> Customize Design -> Site Menu. You'll see something like this