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Joined: 9/9/2008
Posts: 23
Location: Copenhagem
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Hello
i'm still kinda new to Umbraco and would like some advice on how to approach the following task.
I have to make some categories containing assignments. Some of these assignments can appear in several categories, so some of the assignments can be copied / duplicated from other categories.
The problem with this is maintaining the data... if you copy content, then you have to update it several places. Any solutions on how to avoid this ? Is it at all possible.... the idea is to update content 1 place only, and the 'copies' get updated as well.
I'm looking for a some general idea's that can point me in the right direction. :)
an example could be something like this:
Home
|-------> Categories
....................|--------- > Category 1
....................|.....................|------------> Assignment 1
....................|.....................|------------> Assignment 2
....................|.....................|------------> Assignment 3
....................|----------> Category 2
..........................................|------------> Assignment 1
..........................................|------------> Assignment 4
etc.
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Rank: Umbracoholic
Joined: 9/27/2007
Posts: 1,123
Location: Belgium
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Hi, I'd go for: - Create a new folder to hold all assignments - Add a MultipleContentPicker datatype to the 'Category' doc type. Use property of that datatype to 'pick' the 'Assignment' nodes from the 'Assignment' folder. Here's a post about the multiple node picker made by Lefteris: http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst2585_New-Multiple-Node-Picker-with-StartNode-and-custom-visible-properties-by-Lefteris.aspxHas some download links as well. Hope this helps. Regards, /Dirk
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