We have a few different products that we make. One of them is a document management system (Windows application), that DMS runs on an oracle database and has it's own tables. We also have our own cms (web), but this cms is old and has crappy code and it just doesn't cut it anymore, we want something better. This cms is also made with ASP.NET webforms, we want to switch over to ASP.NET MVC3. So we either can start over from scratch or use an existing CMS (like Umbraco) and build plugins for that.
Our current CMS uses the same data as our DMS. So we can do all the admin stuff in the DMS and our customers can do that too. In the dms we can set a folder that becomes the root of the website. All folders created under that will together be the main menu of the website. In each folder we can add documents and we can set one html document to be the content of that specific page on the website.
We want to be able to do the same with Umbraco, make it work together with our dms the same way as our (old) cms.
I have been looking for way to do this, but i'm not getting very far. I have managed to create a hive provider and a tree provider that read/add/delete data from a table in an Oracle database. In the admin content section of Umbraco, i can see the new tree and load data from the table in Oracle. But i can't figure out how to use that data for content on the site.
I'm still really new with Umbraco, i have never used it before. It seems hard to find documentation about it, i have been searching with Google for a while now and i've also searched these forums.
So could someone point me in the right direction and tell me if it's even possible to do what i want?
Using Umbraco 5 on a custom Oracle database
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We have a few different products that we make. One of them is a document management system (Windows application), that DMS runs on an oracle database and has it's own tables. We also have our own cms (web), but this cms is old and has crappy code and it just doesn't cut it anymore, we want something better. This cms is also made with ASP.NET webforms, we want to switch over to ASP.NET MVC3. So we either can start over from scratch or use an existing CMS (like Umbraco) and build plugins for that.
Our current CMS uses the same data as our DMS. So we can do all the admin stuff in the DMS and our customers can do that too. In the dms we can set a folder that becomes the root of the website. All folders created under that will together be the main menu of the website. In each folder we can add documents and we can set one html document to be the content of that specific page on the website.
We want to be able to do the same with Umbraco, make it work together with our dms the same way as our (old) cms.
I have been looking for way to do this, but i'm not getting very far. I have managed to create a hive provider and a tree provider that read/add/delete data from a table in an Oracle database. In the admin content section of Umbraco, i can see the new tree and load data from the table in Oracle. But i can't figure out how to use that data for content on the site.
I'm still really new with Umbraco, i have never used it before. It seems hard to find documentation about it, i have been searching with Google for a while now and i've also searched these forums.
So could someone point me in the right direction and tell me if it's even possible to do what i want?
Nobody that can even point me in the right direction?
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