Many thanks for that. Great news. One further question, most of our sites have a product catalogue, split by category; with various attributes such as size, product name, application uses, colours available, etc… are these kind of product relationships able to be setup?
this can all be done without much of a problem in Umbraco. The complexity of your solution basically depends on a couple of factors (not Umbraco dependent):
- Are the product catalogues distinct from each other? If so each sub site will get it's own catalogue, otherwise you can create one for all sites and associate individual products to the site(s) where they will be shown.
- Categories: creating a singular straightforward hierarchy is easy (and actually that happens automatically), gets obviously more tricky if e.g. an item can be in more than one category etc. It's all doeable and relatively easy once you get the hang of it, as I said, depends on your requirements.
- Attributes/tags: there are numerous ways to attach these attributes to your items: as properties of the item (like a field in the db), as sub items (e.g. you just add a 'red' and a 'green' node to the item to indicate the available colours), as checkbox/dropdown list of items you define somewhere else or give even the editor control over, and some more specialiced versions. Adding these is probably quite easy, depending on the number of relations etc. the frontend logic might be the trickier bit, which will be the same if you use Umbraco or not. ;)
Sascha's right that the inital site hierarchy can be used as categories.
If you require more that this, I'd have a look at the MultiNodeTreePicker in uComponents (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/ucomponents)
This could allow you to create your category sections as 'pages' and then associated them with your products, etc
Content - Site 1 ---- Content pages - Site 2 ---- Content pages - Categories ---- Colours ---- Sizes
Managing serveral brand sites with Umbraco
Hi Everyone,
We have several brand sites and would like to manage them on a single CMS platform - using a single instance of Umbraco. Can you do this with Umbraco?
Regards Alex
Yep.
Create a structure like
Content
- Site 1
---- Content pages
- Site 2
---- Content pages
You can then use the 'manage hostnames' feature to assign domain names to each 'Site' level.
Cheers
Chris
Hi Chris,
Many thanks for that. Great news. One further question, most of our sites have a product catalogue, split by category; with various attributes such as size, product name, application uses, colours available, etc… are these kind of product relationships able to be setup?
Best regards
Alex
Hi Alex,
this can all be done without much of a problem in Umbraco. The complexity of your solution basically depends on a couple of factors (not Umbraco dependent):
- Are the product catalogues distinct from each other? If so each sub site will get it's own catalogue, otherwise you can create one for all sites and associate individual products to the site(s) where they will be shown.
- Categories: creating a singular straightforward hierarchy is easy (and actually that happens automatically), gets obviously more tricky if e.g. an item can be in more than one category etc. It's all doeable and relatively easy once you get the hang of it, as I said, depends on your requirements.
- Attributes/tags: there are numerous ways to attach these attributes to your items: as properties of the item (like a field in the db), as sub items (e.g. you just add a 'red' and a 'green' node to the item to indicate the available colours), as checkbox/dropdown list of items you define somewhere else or give even the editor control over, and some more specialiced versions. Adding these is probably quite easy, depending on the number of relations etc. the frontend logic might be the trickier bit, which will be the same if you use Umbraco or not. ;)
Hope that helps,
Sascha
Alex,
Sascha's right that the inital site hierarchy can be used as categories.
If you require more that this, I'd have a look at the MultiNodeTreePicker in uComponents (http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/ucomponents)
This could allow you to create your category sections as 'pages' and then associated them with your products, etc
Content
- Site 1
---- Content pages
- Site 2
---- Content pages
- Categories
---- Colours
---- Sizes
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