rkgneuschulSuggestions needed.
I run a site for a NFP where Editors can, from time to time, upload various cyclically updated files. The files always use standardised file name formats such as "How to do XXXX - 2011" or "Setting up a new XXXX - 2011"
So in almost all cases the body of the file name is consistently the same but the difference from version to version is the date: this is an ideal situation for using regular file masks.
We use Link Categories together with a Widget and Widget Logic to build a conditional side menu listing of the relevant files: in other words we do NOT list all files on all pages or posts, we only list the relevant files alongside the appropriate pages or posts.
The upload process is easy to manage; as is the widget-based menu building process; however it still requires that somebody assigns the file to the correct Category Link, and that's where the process can sometimes go wrong - people forget to add the link, or else they assign the file to the wrong category.
I'd like to automate that Category Link building process so that new files are automatically added to the correct existing Category Links using a conditional file mask.
Can anyone suggest a way of doing that? I have searched through the Plugins directory but can't seem to find anything which does this - however not finding anything may only mean that I'm not using the right search terms.
It is of course also possible that using a Widget and Widget Logic to build a conditional menu listing of files in this way is not the most efficient method; if anyone has a better idea for creating conditional menu listings of files then I'd like to hear it.
Otherwise does anyone here have any ideas for automating the link category processes?
Thanks.
