Rank: Newbie
Joined: 9/16/2006
Posts: 2
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Hi there,
I've just started playing with Umbraco, what a cool piece of kit!
I've installed the Wizard plugin and I now have a basic site with news that looks good.
My next step is to add a portfolio and a blog. So, my site will have the following:
- News Items
- Portfolio Items
- Blog Postings
Rather than creating document types, templates and xslt files for each of these, I wandered if I could use a single mechanism for them all? On a data level, they all hold similar information:
- A heading/name
- Some teaser html
- The main body html
- A teaser image that appears when the items are listed (optional)
- tags
So I figure I could have one DocumentType called "List" and another called "List Item" ?
But where to go from here? Do I have to then go on to create a template, a macro, xslt for each type? Is there an easier way to do this?
Many thanks
Tobin
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Rank: Newbie
Joined: 9/16/2006
Posts: 2
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Ok, I sorted this out myself. For anyone who's interested, here's the approach I've taken. The benefits of this approach are that you can use *ONE* macro, XSLT file & Document Type to maintain and display lots of types of information. The types I'm using are:
- News Items
- Blog Entries
- Work Portfolio Entries
- Product & Service descriptions
1. Create 2 new document types called List and List Item.
2. Add a new text property to List Item doc type called "ItemType". In your content you later set this to blog, news, portfolio, service etc.
3. Create your "DisplayList" macro, with a parameter "ItemType", using a DisplayList.xslt file.
4. In the XSLT, you can filter your select to match items of a particular type.
This declares the parameter...
<xsl:variable name="category" select="/macro/listCategory"/>
Then this fetches list items of a particular category...
<xsl:for-each select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::node[@level=1]/descendant::node[@nodeTypeAlias = 'wwList']/child::data[@alias='listCategory' and text()=$category]/parent::node/node">
I basically adapted the code from the Wizard Generators news items, and just made it more flexible.
Calling the macro looks like this....
<?UMBRACO_MACRO macroAlias="DisplayNews" numberOfItems="3" listCategory="portfolio" showImage="false" showTitle="true" showTease="true" showDate="false"/>
The end result is that I can have many types of thing all displayed using the same template but not all in the same list.
Cheers
Tobin
Tobin
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