Hi, David,

To save yourself some effort, you could install the blog4umbraco package from the package repository or the projects area. It has most of the work done for you already, including date folders.

But if you want to build your own then you're on the right track with a blog area and blog items. Under the blog items you'll probably use doc2form to create blog comment items, but let's resolve the date folder issue first before getting into blog comments. :)

What you have appears to be correct. What, if anything happens when you create a new blog item? You might also look in the umbracoLog table in your database to see if there are any warnings or errors that might give you a hint want is going wrong.

cheers,
doug.

Hi Dave,

You should be able to simply it down while your working it out, to something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<settings>
  <folderProviders>
    <folderProvider alias="Blog"            
  assembly="/bin/AutoFolders"
  type="AutoFolders.Providers.DateFolderProvider">
  <property alias="MonthFormat">MM</property>
  <property alias="YearFormat">yyyy</property>
 </folderProvider>
  </folderProviders>
  <autoFolders>
    <autoFolder docType="BlogItem"             
  folderProviderAlias="Blog"             
  folderDocType="BlogArea"             
  />
  </autoFolders>
</settings>

Things to check if it's not working would be the casing of your alias' as these will be case sensitive.

Matt

Thanks for the replies guys,

Ok, doug, When I create a new blogItem it creates the page but just under the blogArea page, not nested under any date folders. I also checked the database and the only error that seems to be in there is;

Error adding stylesheet to tinymce (id: 1049). System.ArgumentException: No node exists with id '1049'

Matt: I have replaced the config file with the one you provided. I checked the casing which didn't actually match, so I changed them, with no results. 

What is the 'Blog' alias referring to in the config code you provided in your last post. I don't have any pages or doc types with that alias. Should I change that to a doctype alias? If so, which one?

Cheers again for your help on this

Dave

Hi Dave,

The folder provider alias related to the folder provider defined at the top of the xml doc so that should be fine.

Looking over it again, i think folderDocType should be set to blogDate. If this doesn't work, I'd check the child doc type settings to make sure blogDate can be created under blogArea, and thet blogItem can be created under both blogArea and blogDate.

Matt

By the way, be sure to restart the site's application pool (you can just touch the web.config file) after changing the AutoFolder config files to be sure they get picked up.

cheers,
doug.

Yo Matt,

Ok, I changed the folderDocType to blogDate and checked all the child doc type which appear to be all setup ok. This is becoming very confusing. If it's not too much to ask is there any chance you could try and recreate this setup on your system. Its fairly basic in that the root structure is;

Home

Blog -- doc type alias blogArea

<< then supposed to be year >> -- doc type blogDate

<< then month >> -- doc type blogDate

Blog Item -- doc type blogItem

See if you can get it to work at your end.

Cheers pal

Hi Matt

Thanks for doing this for me. Your setup seems to be exactly what I have and it still doesn't create the date folders for me.

Would it make a difference if the blogItem and blogArea are under a sub doctype and the blogDate isn't?

That to me is the only difference between our two setups.

Cheers again

Dave

Hi Dave,

If you mean you have used a Master doc type, then no, it shouldn't make a difference.

Is your site somewhere accessible that I might be able to take a look at?

Cheers

Matt

Hi Guys,

I've been struggling to get this working too without much success. To try and get it working I have recreated the setup Matt suggested on a fresh install of Umbraco (v4.6.1 which the package documentation says this is tested with). I've created the DocType's with the same names (and these are the only DocType's I've created) and copied the configuration file from this page.

When I create a blog item underneath the blog folder it just sits underneath this node, no date folder is created. I was wondering if anyone had any advice for debugging this? Or are there any steps I've missed (e.g. Do I need to create any properties for the DocType or should the date be taken from standard DocType properties)?

Cheers,

Adam

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