Hi,

I am looking into different ways of extending umbraco to make it easier to manage large lists of child nodes that would occur within a News or Blog section of a website (I am aware of the blog plugin that puts the nodes into date folders but I am looking at another way of managing this).

My idea is that you have a configuration file that would control the creation of a custom section. Within this configuration file you would have something like the following sections:

Parent ID: 1150 (This would be the node ID of the Parent Page that will have all the child News Item nodes below it)

Child Document Type: News Item (This would be the document type that you would want to list in your custom section)

Custom Section Name: News (The name of the new custom section)

Custom Section image: news.png (The image icon you would want to use for your custom section)

There would probably be more settings you would want to configure but this is the basics.

What would then happen is that a tabled list would be generated in the custom section containing all of the News Item nodes that have been created under the child node. You would then have an easier way to manage your news items. You would be able to add new news items from this section and they would automatically be added under the Parent node specified in the config file.

Has anyone attempted anything similar to this and if so could you point me in the right direction for getting a hint on the code that I would need.

The bit that I am not sure about is programatically getting all child nodes under a specified parent node with a specified document type.

Cheers,

Marc