Hi All,

I’m a newbie to umbraco. Could someone please enlighten me on the following?

- How can we send mails in umbraco? Each time a new content is created can I send a mail?
I would ideally want to use my own mail format and text for it.

- How do I programmatically perform a search operation on the contents?

Many Thnks
Mifla

In the backend you can choose "Notifications" in the right click menu. This let's you set a bunch of notifications on a item.

Dave

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Regarding searching... there are a few choices, depending on your needs.

The easiest to use is XSLTsearch, which you can get from the package repository and at http://www.percipientstudios.com/xsltsearch.aspx. Full docs, very customizable. Great for sites under a few thousand pages. Does not search PDFs or Office documents.

If you need more, you'll need the Lucene-based search. John has done great work to add features and explain how to use it. Read all about it at http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst5079p3_Getting-search-to-work--why-is-it-so-freakin-hard.aspx.

There's also a new integration with a Microsoft search tool that Kenny is explaining at http://www.kenny.no/archive/2008/9/25/microsoft-search-server-express-2008-and-umbraco/

So you've got options! Isn't umbraco great?!?

cheers,
doug.

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MVP 2007-2009 - Percipient Studios

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for all the information, I appreciate it a lot.

Actually with respect to search what I was looking at is something like what is explained below,

- I have a content called ‘Course’
- Within this there are child nodes like ‘course1’.’course2’ etc…
- Below each of these students who register for each course are added.

I actually want to be able to populate the courses in a dropdown, so that when someone selects a particular course the relevant students who are registered for this course is displayed in a grid.

What’s the best possible way by which I may achieve this?

Many Thanks,
Mifla

Of course, others may have other options.

I think it's even possible to do this completely using templates/xslt.

Create an xslt to list all 'Course' nodes (Add add them to a dropdown). Create macro that references that xslt. Add macro to desired template (Most probably the template for 'Courses' node)

Add some javascript to act on a selectedIndexChanged event... that takes you to the 'Course' node page. As a 'Course' page is associated with a template (assumption), add another macro (referencing yet another xslt) that lists all 'Student' nodes in a grid.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
/Dirk

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level 1 & 2 certified - umbraco MVP 2008/2009 - umbraco blog at netaddicts.be - working on an integrated forum4umbraco

Hi,

Thanks a lot for all the information, im trying to acheive the same by using nodes. I keep on getting this error. I serched the forum,but the answers i found didnt wrk out. Would appreciate if some1 cld help me out on this.



My Code



could someone pls show me the way to get the properties of a document by the way of code?i have tried many samples,but of no avail,they have been returning no properties at all.

i have also tried to get the xml out put of a document,it returns an emty string,but i checked the non-public properties of the doucment i can see the xml,its just that this method doesnt seem to be returning it. Am i missing something?i hve a tight deadline this week , i need to get these resolved. would apprecite if some1 cld kindly answre my queries.



Thnks
Mifla