I thought the new fandango sidebar should be configurable per page? So why in pages can I only set one sidebar, whatever I set on the homepage is mirrored throughout... On categories, records, everywhere.

I dont get it actually, seems on this site the sidebar is different/configurable across the pages app for different pages. How come mine isnt?

Correction, it isnt. One sidebar per database, for main/category/record pages. Any plans to change that, because that isnt really that functional. ?

 

 

Dont use database pages for displaying the content. Build seperate Pages and use blocks to show  the content you wish. That is what is adviced

Ok, makes sense, except if I have 50 categories for a DB, do i need 50 pages? One for each category list? Or I can make one dynamic page? Many thanks!

Using blocks and feeds you can put any content from any db in one page . You are only limited with the size of the page ( width and height )

So i can make one page in pages. And have it serve 50 URLs/categorys?

What I mean is you can have one page and put any number of blocks that are fed from any database or application

For example a front page can be build to display records from news db, documents db, topics from a forum, new messages and a Facebook feed 

And what about records? They share the same sidebar as the database homepage, i would need a separate page for all records? Really, seems a bit of a task and rather counter intuitive to using a DB if I am to make all pages manually.

EDIT

On second look that isnt even possible. All records share the same sidebar as the DB homepage. That is fixed, unless im missing something. That is pretty poor, my HP needs far different content to a record page.

16 minutes ago, ABGenc said:

What I mean is you can have one page and put any number of blocks that are fed from any database or application

For example a front page can be build to display records from news db, documents db, topics from a forum, new messages and a Facebook feed 

Yeah, i get that. But that is not the problem I have. I have 50 categorys, and you are suggesting to make 50 pages, just so i can have a unique sidebar from homepage or records. But then I cant split sidebar from homepage and records, so seems little point anyway. Basically, the system is flawed. I see no solution so the sidebar can be unique across a pages database, homepage, categories and records. I expected more after reading how great the sidebar was improved in 4. Frankly, it is missing basic function. Who wants the sameside bar on all pages, not most I bet.

36 minutes ago, DealTrakr said:

 Who wants the sameside bar on all pages, not most I bet.

It makes sense as a default and an ever changing sidebar can be rather confusing. 
But having the option to override it per database view would certainly be useful and the forum has exactly that option. It was also suggested since the first betas I believe. 

A typical problem with the current approach is that you want to give users access to the database categories through the categories block, but that block will then even appear on the category page itself, showing the same thing twice. 

Thank you for the reply. So there is no way around it that you know of?

No. 

But blocks can react to the view they are used on. For example: database filters will only appear on a listing view, not on the record view, because there is nothing to filter there. 

OK, so i could potentially only use custom blocks, coded to work on specific pages to work around this do you think?

Probably. I haven’t looked at the code to see how this is done. 

Cheers, appreciate the help.