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    Josh Tambunga Reply #1, 15 years, 9 months ago
    This is an auto-generated topic for FAQ Manager 2.0-beta1 by josht.

    Brief Description:
    Lets you add/remove and sort your FAQ's from within the Revo manager.
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      Zaigham (aka zi) Reply #2, 15 years, 9 months ago
      Any screenshots?
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        Ryan Thrash Reply #3, 15 years, 9 months ago
        Does this support multiple categories and templates for each index list, question and answer?
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          nklsf Reply #4, 15 years, 8 months ago
          i downloaded and installed it, but there is really so little documentation.. there seems to be a way of templating, but it’s not documented.. any experiences anyone?
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            nklsf Reply #5, 15 years, 8 months ago
            Well, i just tested a bit.

            you can make templates using the placeholders [[+question]] and [[+answer]]. Seems obvious, but was not documented...

            <h3 class="faq_question"><a href="#">[[+question]]</a></h3>
<div class="faq_answer"> [[+answer]]</div>


            Then you call it like this

            [[faqMan? 
 &set=`1`
 &tpl=`la_faq_tpl`]]


            Now that would make this addon pretty great for my uses, but i realized there is a character limit for the questions. Which makes it useless for me! Why is that?
            Any chance for a quick update?

            Anyhow thanks for this addition to the MODx-family.
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              BobRay Reply #6, 15 years, 8 months ago
              FWIW, EZfaq has no limit on either questions or answers, although the templating options are much more limited and I’m not crazy about how the JS is implemented.
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                Josh Tambunga Reply #7, 15 years, 8 months ago
                GAH! Completely forgot this thread was generated... I’ll actually keep up with it now. smiley

                Quote from: zi at Dec 06, 2010, 01:35 PM

                Any screenshots?
                Not yet, but I’ll get some up soon.


                Quote from: rthrash at Dec 07, 2010, 12:30 PM

                Does this support multiple categories and templates for each index list, question and answer?
                Multiple categories: yes
                Templates are chosen when you call it, so they aren’t assigned to a specific list, but can be chosen as you call each different set of FAQ’s.


                Quote from: nklsf at Jan 12, 2011, 07:03 AM

                i downloaded and installed it, but there is really so little documentation.. there seems to be a way of templating, but it’s not documented.. any experiences anyone?
                For the templating, you have it exactly right.
                The limit on questions had been fixed I just forgot to push it to the repo and update the addon on here. It is capped at 255 chars right for questions, and answers don’t have a hard cap.
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                  nklsf Reply #8, 15 years, 8 months ago
                  It is capped at 255 chars right for questions, and answers don’t have a hard cap.

                  just a short question, why are you capping it in first place? i know it might be a rare occasion, but by having a cap you influence the way people put up there questions...
                  is it a performance issue?
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                    Josh Tambunga Reply #9, 15 years, 8 months ago
                    Quote from: nklsf at Jan 13, 2011, 03:45 AM

                    just a short question, why are you capping it in first place? i know it might be a rare occasion, but by having a cap you influence the way people put up there questions...
                    is it a performance issue?

                    I was thinking performance issues originally, I like trying to have my database fields just big enough to hold my data. The site I had originally written this for had their questions max out at about 150 chars, but if needed this could certainly be changed.
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                      nklsf Reply #10, 15 years, 8 months ago
                      If you ask me, when putting this up for everyone to use you should have unlimited (or maybe 1000?) characters space; just to include all different use cases.

                      If you like look at our FAQ-Page

                      http://lehmannaudio.com/service/faq.html#headphone_amps

                      We started out by putting up our Questions, but for example the 2nd one in "Headphone Amps" just came in as a question from one of our customers clients. You see it’s getting quite into detail there, so they need some space to clarify the exact problem in question. (344 Chars) And actually we like the idea of collecting the "real-world"-questions in our faqs.

                      What do you think?