Strategic question for developing an 'address book'
I'm not sure where to post this or how do start developing this application. Basically, I'd like to create an address book section on a new site I'm working on and am not sure what the best way to do this is. Should I make each entry a member? Or a custom document type?
Sorry for the vagueness of this, I'm just at a loss of where to start, has anyone used Umbraco for this sort of application?
I'll try to share some of my thoughts on your question. Nevermind it's a vague question at the moment. It might benefit you since you may get inspired in many different ways leading you to the ultimate solution :-)
How big is the address book going to be? Maybe it's worth considering saving the information in an external database and then create a datatype that can be used in Umbraco to show the information where you need it?
I don't think that the members approach is the way to go about this. You could probably do it but I just don't think it makes sense. If you were creating a site where members needed to give their adress information then it would probably make sense.
Instead I think you should make it using your custom defined document structure. If you need addresses from around the world you could probably define it as a repository in your content tree and then structure it in a folder organizing the addresses by country and postal codes if that would make any sense?
And then simply allow for the address document type to be stored at the last level containing the information that need to store.
Am I getting in the right direction with the above?
Strategic question for developing an 'address book'
I'm not sure where to post this or how do start developing this application. Basically, I'd like to create an address book section on a new site I'm working on and am not sure what the best way to do this is. Should I make each entry a member? Or a custom document type?
Sorry for the vagueness of this, I'm just at a loss of where to start, has anyone used Umbraco for this sort of application?
Thanks,
Amir
Hi Amir
I'll try to share some of my thoughts on your question. Nevermind it's a vague question at the moment. It might benefit you since you may get inspired in many different ways leading you to the ultimate solution :-)
How big is the address book going to be? Maybe it's worth considering saving the information in an external database and then create a datatype that can be used in Umbraco to show the information where you need it?
I don't think that the members approach is the way to go about this. You could probably do it but I just don't think it makes sense. If you were creating a site where members needed to give their adress information then it would probably make sense.
Instead I think you should make it using your custom defined document structure. If you need addresses from around the world you could probably define it as a repository in your content tree and then structure it in a folder organizing the addresses by country and postal codes if that would make any sense?
And then simply allow for the address document type to be stored at the last level containing the information that need to store.
Am I getting in the right direction with the above?
/Jan
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