Display certain page of category

[Arthur]

Hello,

I try to have 10 items of the same category on one page.
I want to show the first item of the category in one field and then in an other field the second item etc.
Reason is I want the main menu, which is a database to show as a diagonal.
How can I make the catagory start with showing item number 2 oif 3 of the database?

[S Pittaway]

i wrote a plugin a while ago called xJumpTo which lets you find a certian entry in a category, you might be able to use that -

http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... ht=xjumpto

[Arthur]

Thanks for your reply. I downloaded your plugin and it shows in the plugin section. However, I do not know how to use it.
I added an extra item to the database called "menuitem", which are just numers 1 to 10. Th edatabase is called '"mainmenu"
Do i put something in the textfield like
xjumpto>find text exact:mainmenu>menuitem>1
and how do I get it to display a different parameter of this item (label)

[S Pittaway]

sorry, i just reread you question and i dont think that plugin will help... all that it does is highlight a given item in a category...


If you do a search on "P3rv3rt B3ar" i think he had something which might help... its called pervtalk or somthing silly like that

i have never used it so i cant comment on what its like tho.

[joebob2006]

ok, lemme see if i got what you want right:
you want two categorys on one screen, and when you select an item in one category, it shows details of that item or a specific piece of info for it in the second category.

if thats right then i got you.

in the first category there is a field labled detailscatetory or whatever, set that to the name of the second cateory, done.

if you want details on something more specific lemme know

[Arthur]

Almost joebob,

I want something which can't be done.
Let's say I have a category containing 6 items. If I put it on a screen and give it 1 colum and 6 rows it shows all the items of the category.
Now I don't want to have all thos items straight underneath each other, but in a diagonal
_____1
____2
___3
__4
_5
6

So I thought, lets put 6 category fields on a page, each showing 1 colum and 1 row. I can put those wherever I want. But as you open the page, thay all show the first item of the category, so you get:
_____1
____1
___1
__1
_1
1

While experimentging I noticed that all category fields will show the same item (so if item 3 is selcted thay all show item 3).
So I can't use a category field, but maybe a text field which reeds from the catagory is a possibility

[S Pittaway]

like i said, "P3rv3rt B3ar" has a plugin to do this, i just have not (and probably wont) use it.

[P3rv3rt B3ar]

Yeah, now that i finally figured out what u wanna do... Pittaway is right xPerT does it. Allthough if u wanna try, i would strongly suggest the original or 0.91 version cause later versions have currently probs with that particular functionality... sad thing is though those older versions respond rather slow

I will have eventually new, fast and working version out.

[Arthur]

Thanks, I will let you know when it's ready