I have been working with SharePoint for years and want to try out this great framework. In SharePoint we have something called web parts where you can create a custom control. I have been looking for something similar in Umbraco and succeeded creating a macro that can be inserted in a content editor. But I am looking for the level above. If I add an "Image with text" section i get 3 options "Banner, Quote and Rich Txt". How do I add a 4 option here? I am also trying to understand the naming conventions. What do you guys call components from page layouts to the different sub components you can add? Trying to learn your language :D
There are a number of ways to achieve the type of reusable control you are looking for in Umbraco.
One that I personally quite like is the Grid Editor. You can create reusable components that can be used by editors on any grid you add to any page layout.
Custom web parts
Hi All,
I have been working with SharePoint for years and want to try out this great framework. In SharePoint we have something called web parts where you can create a custom control. I have been looking for something similar in Umbraco and succeeded creating a macro that can be inserted in a content editor. But I am looking for the level above. If I add an "Image with text" section i get 3 options "Banner, Quote and Rich Txt". How do I add a 4 option here? I am also trying to understand the naming conventions. What do you guys call components from page layouts to the different sub components you can add? Trying to learn your language :D
On forehand thx, Thomas
There are a number of ways to achieve the type of reusable control you are looking for in Umbraco.
One that I personally quite like is the Grid Editor. You can create reusable components that can be used by editors on any grid you add to any page layout.
You can find out more about grid editors here
https://our.umbraco.org/Documentation/Getting-Started/Backoffice/Property-Editors/Built-in-Property-Editors/Grid-Layout/Grid-Editors
For an example here is one that I built.
https://github.com/dotnetjohn/RssListing/tree/master/RssListing/App_Plugins/RssListing
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