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Hello all, I'm trying to build a control where users can insert 'n' amount of download links into an area on a page. I have this at the moment: <img src ="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1653/testwe4.png" /> I was wondering if it is possible to make the macro edit window extend depending on the number of downloads requried and add appropriate boxes for this. How would I go about implementing this idea? Thanks.
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hey michael,
why don't you create a documenttype with two properties ('label' of type string and 'url' also of type string). then use the autoform to let your users create objects of this type.
regards, bernd
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Sorry I think I got mixed up in the original post. I only want authors of content to be able to do this and not general users of the site.
They could use this tab to quickly add downloads in a styled box in the page.
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Consider having a <strong>document type</strong> for <em>downloads</em> and an <strong>XSLT</strong> for displaying it. Thus, you create a holder page that has the <em>downloads</em> as child nodes under that which will render through the XSLT. The only thing to consider when doing it this way is coding navigation to ignore the download document type. Hope this helps. Case
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Thanks for the suggestion.
I don't really like this method with separate document types because the node list would get quite crowded if there are a lot of download files to go through. This would be on all of my pages as well (approximately 18 pages).
I'm thinking of just having a fixed amount of 8 boxes in a macro / custom control if there aren't any other elegant solutions to the problem.
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Micheal, What I did was to create a download library in the media section with different folders mapping to different categories. You can see it <a href="http://www.ins-innovation.com/site-tools/downloads.aspx">here </a> although currently there is nothing there but you can see the principle. The page is built using xslt that lists everything below download library node in media including files Regards Ismail
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Mayby you can use <a href="http://www.cpalm.dk/blog/2006/08/15/multiplemediapickerviasource.aspx">MultipleMediaPickerViaSource</a> But you can only selected files from one media folder. I gues, your best solution would be to make a "Multi media picker" like the <a href="http://rtk-design.dk/1050.aspx">Multi Content Picker</a> I can't find the description for the "Multi Content Picker" :-( Regards/Christian <a href="http://www.cpalm.dk">http://www.cpalm.dk</a>
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MultipleMediaPickerViaSource looks pretty good, I think I can live with only being able to pick out images from a single folder - in some cases it would be ideal.
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MultipleMediaPickerViaSource looks pretty good, I think I can live with only being able to pick out images from a single folder - in some cases it would be ideal.
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