Hi all,

I'm new to Umbraco and have been attempting to get to grips with the concepts without a set of focussed documentation. I have managed to get to the stage where I am happy enough with the basics but now require a slightly more complicated structure. Hopefully someone here can advise:

I am developing a site that will offer information on health products. The page will be divided into 3 parts:
Left = product list (hyperlinks)
Right = ailments (hyperlinks)
Centre = information about either product or ailment.

I have created the products and ailments document types and templates.

What I now require is to cross reference products with ailments (and vice versa) so that when a visitor clicks a product in the left, a list of related ailments that the product may help with appear in the right.
Alternatively if a user clicks an ailment in the right, a list of products that may help with that ailment may appear in the left.

How would this linking of product to ailment typically be performed by a content manager and how would I set up Umbraco to offer this? Would I have to go the usercontrol route?

Apologies for the long post but I hope that my query is clear.

Thanks,
Sean

Sean,

Another though, and this is a simplistic option.

Due to the structure of xml, and the hierarchical structure, you could have a simple document type (reference) that is a single content picker (referenced node). By creating the reference doc type below the ailment or product. You could then just run the child nodes.

You would not have to do both, as the reference could be achieved from one set, using reverse logic. IE, a macro to list the child nodes pulling the related (ailment) content, and a macro to find the parent nodes (products) where the child nodes (relation pointing to the ailment) match the current node (ailment)

I think I made that sound confusing, but, you have a few options to consider.

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