We are developing a website that requires us to link a member to a specified event or meeting. We are using the built in members from Umbraco to store all the membership data - these are either locations/business or a single individual.
The events are created as umbraco nodes.
What is the best way to link these two things togther?
I have not used Umbraco before, all my sites have been 100% bespoke database driven and I know how to do this by linking tables together in SQL.
Would I need to create a table in the Umbraco database to store this or could it be done in XML - which I guess is the same thing, only a different file format. If it is required to use another table or file, how would one go about popuating this on the post back.
I can usually figure most things out, so I am not necessarily looking for a working code example, but some pointers would be useful.
If you have umbraco.tv, there's also a few videos on Relations, including one that explains the exact feature you are looking for (Event signup with relations)
That looks pretty much what I want to do, so I'll have a play when I'm back in tomorrow. No doubt I'll have some more questions as it all goes on. As a newbie to Umbraco, I;m still sorting out in my head the ins and outs of this CMS system in regards to XSLT, code-behind, user controls etc. And as primarily a VB.NET (don't groan, someone has to do it) I also have to 'struggle' with c#!
Linking a Member to an Event
We are developing a website that requires us to link a member to a specified event or meeting. We are using the built in members from Umbraco to store all the membership data - these are either locations/business or a single individual.
The events are created as umbraco nodes.
What is the best way to link these two things togther?
I have not used Umbraco before, all my sites have been 100% bespoke database driven and I know how to do this by linking tables together in SQL.
Would I need to create a table in the Umbraco database to store this or could it be done in XML - which I guess is the same thing, only a different file format. If it is required to use another table or file, how would one go about popuating this on the post back.
I can usually figure most things out, so I am not necessarily looking for a working code example, but some pointers would be useful.
Regards
Iain
Hi Iain,
The Umbraco Relation API would be perfect for this - Hendy has an excellent blog post explaining what you need to get started, see: http://blog.hendyracher.co.uk/umbraco-relation-api/
If you have umbraco.tv, there's also a few videos on Relations, including one that explains the exact feature you are looking for (Event signup with relations)
Hope this helps,
Tom
Thanks Tom.
That looks pretty much what I want to do, so I'll have a play when I'm back in tomorrow. No doubt I'll have some more questions as it all goes on. As a newbie to Umbraco, I;m still sorting out in my head the ins and outs of this CMS system in regards to XSLT, code-behind, user controls etc. And as primarily a VB.NET (don't groan, someone has to do it) I also have to 'struggle' with c#!
Iain
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