Quick overview. I am carrying out some initial fact finding to see if umbraco fits the CMS aspect of a new project I will be working on. So far everything is fantastic. I checked Umbraco out a few years ago but didn't dig too deeply. Looking at it now I am amazed. It's so slick.
Anyway, I have a number of requirements for this new project, and I am doing a box ticking exercise to see if I can work out how umbraco will address each.
The one I am stuck on is this. The website will have different sections, for example Corporate, Education, People, Charity etc. Each section has its own content. Thats fine, I can just structure as follows
There will also be a news section. AGain, thats easy I can simply set up a news document type etc. However, each section will have its own news. But the slightly more complex aspect is that news stories could appear in more than 1 section.
So I was thinking that I could tag news stories using the "tags" Data Type. Each story could be tagged Corporate, Charity etc.
My question is, can I then display news tagged as Corporate within the news page inside the corporate section?
I guess I would need to create a document type for my section home page, and in that document type I can create a property for the "tag" for that section. I can then use XSLT on the news page to find the parent "section document type" page, find the tag name and then select the stories tagged with that tag. It is this last bit I am unsure about.
Can I request some help with evaluating umbraco?
Hi Guys
Quick overview. I am carrying out some initial fact finding to see if umbraco fits the CMS aspect of a new project I will be working on. So far everything is fantastic. I checked Umbraco out a few years ago but didn't dig too deeply. Looking at it now I am amazed. It's so slick.
Anyway, I have a number of requirements for this new project, and I am doing a box ticking exercise to see if I can work out how umbraco will address each.
The one I am stuck on is this. The website will have different sections, for example Corporate, Education, People, Charity etc. Each section has its own content. Thats fine, I can just structure as follows
Website
----About
----Contact
----Standard Page 1
----Corporate
-------Page 1
-------Page 2
----Education
-------Page 1
-------Page 2
----Charity
-------Page 1
-------Page 2
etc.
There will also be a news section. AGain, thats easy I can simply set up a news document type etc. However, each section will have its own news. But the slightly more complex aspect is that news stories could appear in more than 1 section.
So I was thinking that I could tag news stories using the "tags" Data Type. Each story could be tagged Corporate, Charity etc.
My question is, can I then display news tagged as Corporate within the news page inside the corporate section?
I guess I would need to create a document type for my section home page, and in that document type I can create a property for the "tag" for that section. I can then use XSLT on the news page to find the parent "section document type" page, find the tag name and then select the stories tagged with that tag. It is this last bit I am unsure about.
Many thanks for any help you can give.
Paul
Yes, you can solve it exactly like you have outlined it. Should be no problem with some xslt.
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