Working with another designer, we have finalized our designs for the blogs I am developing for my company. Currently, when I add links to the blogroll it asks for a caption and just links that text. The design calls for images to inserted as the linked object. I didn't think this would be a big deal, but it seems to be. I can't change the Blogroll's generic property type away from related links or it messes everrrrything up. Rather than the caption text field, I want an image chooser. I don't know what the easiest way of going about this is. Should I just put a text editor in there and add the images and links that way?
What gets messed up when changing blogroll to another property type? It might be worth checking it out and working through the breaks.
It also may be easier still to just replace the related links datatype with something like this -> http://our.umbraco.org/projects/related-links-with-media, as it simply adds media capabilities to the standard related links datatype.
Thanks for such a quick response. It's not so much that it breaks as it is the related links datatype is perfect for this and when I use other datatypes I don't get those exact input options for my editors.
I tried out the related links with media and it didn't appear to work. Everything I made using it linked back to the homepage of the blog and didn't include any images. Maybe I did something wrong. I will continue to experiment with it. I don't believe it is exactly what I am looking for anyways...although closer.
The related links with media replaced the link section with a media picker and I need to do is add a media picker to the existing "Add Link" section and have that image show up on the blog instead of the caption. This relegates the caption for use only as a backend organizational tag.
Hmm. It may be easier to just whip out the related links for something like http://our.umbraco.org/projects/repeatable-custom-content, which allows you to set exactly the properties you want for your blogroll, whilst keeping it all on one tab for convenience.
With this you could set up the option to use a link with or without an image, even a bit of explanatory text if you like. It's a little bit "buklier" than the related links datatype, but does allow for more flexibility.
The output will change however, so your blogroll xslt will need to be adjusted, but it seems like this would have to happen anyhow.
Images in Blogroll
Working with another designer, we have finalized our designs for the blogs I am developing for my company. Currently, when I add links to the blogroll it asks for a caption and just links that text. The design calls for images to inserted as the linked object. I didn't think this would be a big deal, but it seems to be. I can't change the Blogroll's generic property type away from related links or it messes everrrrything up. Rather than the caption text field, I want an image chooser. I don't know what the easiest way of going about this is. Should I just put a text editor in there and add the images and links that way?
Any help is greatly greatly appreciated.
What gets messed up when changing blogroll to another property type? It might be worth checking it out and working through the breaks.
It also may be easier still to just replace the related links datatype with something like this -> http://our.umbraco.org/projects/related-links-with-media, as it simply adds media capabilities to the standard related links datatype.
Dan
Hey Dan,
Thanks for such a quick response. It's not so much that it breaks as it is the related links datatype is perfect for this and when I use other datatypes I don't get those exact input options for my editors.
I tried out the related links with media and it didn't appear to work. Everything I made using it linked back to the homepage of the blog and didn't include any images. Maybe I did something wrong. I will continue to experiment with it. I don't believe it is exactly what I am looking for anyways...although closer.
The related links with media replaced the link section with a media picker and I need to do is add a media picker to the existing "Add Link" section and have that image show up on the blog instead of the caption. This relegates the caption for use only as a backend organizational tag.
Hopefully that's a bit more clear.
Hmm. It may be easier to just whip out the related links for something like http://our.umbraco.org/projects/repeatable-custom-content, which allows you to set exactly the properties you want for your blogroll, whilst keeping it all on one tab for convenience.
With this you could set up the option to use a link with or without an image, even a bit of explanatory text if you like. It's a little bit "buklier" than the related links datatype, but does allow for more flexibility.
The output will change however, so your blogroll xslt will need to be adjusted, but it seems like this would have to happen anyhow.
Dan
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I have that all set up now and just have to work on the XSLT. This lends so much more control.
Thanks a lot Dan
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