Couple of questions for first site

First of all, Flexicontent is quite the excellent component. I'm VERY impressed and I've at least tinkered with most of them.

I'm strongly considering using it as a large archival storage/information site for a fairly well known company. Everything about Flexicontent seems rock solid to me "so far". Are there any known issues that I should consider before using it on a production... although mainly back office site? It will have approximately 500-1000 pages with a lot of files (mostly PDFS)... possibly several file fields with multiple files per field.

Also, can you tell me if there's an advantage of using "Flexicontent" menu links as opposed to native Joomla? (I know at least having one is recommended). Just for reasons of backward compatibility, I like the idea of using Joomla links but not the end of the world if I can't. I don't really need the "alpha" row of links in my blog views if that's the primary reason.

Thanks!

Hi,
Thanks for you message and first of all, welcome on board
Concerning the figures you give me, there's no problems in terms or performance (especially with the today upcoming beta5).
The biggest site I've running with flexi contains 20.000 articles, 1000 categories (that the most sensible point) and 30.000 payed subscribers. I runs of course on a dedicated server, but not especially powerful.
Concerning menu links, I'm not sure to understand your question correctly but If you wish the component to work properly it's HIGHLY recommended to create FLEXIcontent's menu link instead of standard article links.

To strip out the alpha rows of links, there's a simple parameter in the categories


Cheers,
Emmanuel.

Definitely on board. Drank the flexi-Koolaide

Thanks for the answers. That is encouraging. I doubt we're going to approach those kinds of numbers, except maybe the large amounts of files. I agree... I think a dedicated server will probably help us...although we might try on a cheap server at first because I don't think this site is meant to get a whole lot of action.

As far as the menu items, I simply mean using Joomla's normal way of linking... as in choosing a new menu item and then Articles->Article Layout vs. Flexicontent->Single Item. At least on the front end, the effect seems to be the same and all custom fields appear either way. Also I notice even with the normal Joomla link, the url gets routed to com_flexicontent (instead of com_content).

The only reason I would want to choose the "Joomla" method is if for "some" reason, we ever needed to uninstall Flexicontent (god forbid!), that at least the menu links and the Joomla Article text would be in place. Really not a major concern. It sounds like you are saying menu items should always be made with the latter method I think... so that's what I'll do.

Just a small issue using this method : Your hits will be counted TWICE (as there is a redirect)
Cheers,
Emmanuel.

Well, maybe a performance hit as well with the redirect. I'll stick with Flexicontent links. Thanks again.