Channel - Parent & Child
I dont understand the parent & child thing in channels. How do Child Channels work?
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- · Peter
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Nobody?
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Alex T⚜️
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Child channels are displayed as Childs in separate block on parent channel view page.
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Alex T⚜️
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- · Peter
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In reply to Alex T⚜️
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But how are child channels created?
Even in developer I cant find any hidden buttons or menues to make it possible to create a child channel or to organize the channels in parent & child structure.
Or do I misunderstand the idea behind the channelsystem?
I think user generated channel by
#hashtag is a very goog idea. But together I need the possibility to organize and moderate these channels. -
- · Peter
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Please, I need an answer how childchannels are created
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- · Peter
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still open :)
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- · Peter
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still open...
Does anyone use
#channels module with parent & child? Any information is very much appreciated!And Yes --> https://unacms.com/wiki/hashtags-labels-channels is missing an anwser too
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- · Romulus
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In reply to Peter
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When you create a new Space, there’s an autocomplete field called "Parent Space" where you can type and select the desired parent space. As soon as you select a parent, the new Space automatically becomes a Child Space of the one you chose.
This allows you to easily organize spaces into a parent-child hierarchy right at the time of creation.
Channels don’t have a parent-child relationship structure like Spaces do. Only Spaces can be assigned a parent space through the "Parent Space" autocomplete field during creation. Channels are independent by design and work like tags
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- · Peter
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In reply to Romulus
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Thank You @Romulus but I'm talking about channels, parent and child channels
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- · Romulus
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In reply to Peter
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I believe the confusion comes from mixing up Admin Categorization via Labels (which do support parent-child structure in the Forms app) with user-generated Channels via hashtags, which remain flat by design in UNA’s core implementation.
If you're looking to organize hashtags or topics into parent-child groups, one possible workaround is through the Spaces module. You can structure Spaces in a parent-child hierarchy, and then subscribe those Spaces to specific hashtags (Channels). While the Channels themselves remain flat, this would effectively give you a way to group and moderate them within a structured Space-based environment.
In short:
- Labels → Admin-defined hierarchy
- Channels → User-driven, flat hashtags
- Spaces → Can be organized parent-child, and optionally associated with hashtags
Not a perfect native integration but a practical workaround depending on your community structure. https://unacms.com/wiki/hashtags-labels-channels#tags-vs-hashtagschannels-vs-labels-in-una
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- · Peter
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In reply to Romulus
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Thank You very much for this anwser but I mean definitly the channel child and parent thing UNA offers exp. in studio/pages/channels/view-channel or exp. in Channels-submenu the entry top-level
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- · Romulus
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In reply to Peter
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I’m currently studying the problem and will get back to you with a detailed response once I have a complete understanding of it.
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- · Romulus
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In reply to Romulus
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Interesting: https://ci.una.io/docs/service.html#bx_channels-entity_parent But I still don't understand what the two html blocks are for. entity_parent and entity_childs
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- · Peter
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Any news about PARENT and CHILD channels?
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- · Peter
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push :)
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- · Romulus
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It seems like it's a secret that no one wants to explain how the parent channel works. UNA is an interesting software, but the lack of documentation makes it very unpopular compared to other CMSs. You have to read the code to understand what it is used for. Unfortunately, I haven't had time to study the code for this module to understand how it works and what this page block does.
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We've been very satisfied with using Spaces to create a hierarchy for communities. We started off using Channels but the hashtags left too much room for content violations. Spaces has been a great way to create communities and sub-communities. The lone hiccup is the Roles association where we can create roles within Spaces which are independent of User Levels. We're still working through that redundancy.