I am building a website for a recruitment agent and when someone applies for a job i want to save the details (name, contact details and a CV upload) into a content type in the backend so that they can be viewed by the members by logging into the backend. I plan to do this by creating a content type and adding a new piece of content for every upload.
First question - is this a dumb idea?
Second question - can i customise the order they will display in the content tree? for example show the most recently uploaded application first?
After that you make the applications visible to your editors. There are several ways to do that (custom property editor, dashboard, custom section, ...). It will require some Angular coding. This is a good starting point : https://github.com/umbraco/umbrangular
I have Umbraco working with MySQL so i guess it will work fine. From a brief look through the code on github i think it will work regardless of db platform but wanted to see if anyone knew for sure :)
"can i customise the order" - you can do this. We ended up changing umbraco's code to only do this for a particular content type, there may be a better way to do it though
Customising content order in Backend
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I am building a website for a recruitment agent and when someone applies for a job i want to save the details (name, contact details and a CV upload) into a content type in the backend so that they can be viewed by the members by logging into the backend. I plan to do this by creating a content type and adding a new piece of content for every upload.
First question - is this a dumb idea?
Second question - can i customise the order they will display in the content tree? for example show the most recently uploaded application first?
Ian
Hi Ian,
I assume this data only needs to be visible in the backend and it won't be published on the website.
Personally I would store the data in a database table for several reasons :
So what you need are several things.
Or you can maybe use this package : https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/ui-o-matic/
Dave
Thanks for the advice, i'll take a read of those articles and look to change my approach accordingly
If you have any questions, please let us know.
Dave
Do you know if UIOMatic works with Mysql? Or is it just SQL Server? It doesnt explicitly say as far as i can see
Hi Ian,
Never tried Umbraco with MySql. But I assume it works because it uses the same database layer as Umbraco.
Dave
Umbraco with mySQL (or AWS aurora) works fine
I have Umbraco working with MySQL so i guess it will work fine. From a brief look through the code on github i think it will work regardless of db platform but wanted to see if anyone knew for sure :)
"can i customise the order" - you can do this. We ended up changing umbraco's code to only do this for a particular content type, there may be a better way to do it though
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