We have a third-party provider that is developing our ecommerce website. We would like to integrate a content management solution with their project. However, their project has their own master files, templates, css, etc. From my understanding, to use Umbraco, we would need to convert all their master pages into Umbraco templates. Under this scenario, we would need to re-convert all the templates anytime they gave us updates of their code. I'm curious if there is a way to leave their project as-is (using their master pages) and just place "tags" or "placeholders" where we want the content to display. Is this possible?
If the ecommerce site is completely self contained (ie, all the files are within a single folder hierachy) you can quite easily specify that folder in Umbraco to be ignored so none of the handlers worry about it and it'll operate as-is.
If you want to integrated CMS functionality with the ecommerce site then you'll need to import the templates into Umbraco and add the tags.
It'd be easier if you're using Umbraco 4 as that uses ASP.NET master pages rather than the custom templating solution of the v2/ v3 days, making the integration a lot easier
Is there a doc or video to help me get my head screwed on?
We are trying to get started with umbraco, and don't know where to start. (I can get it installed fine, but I have zero idea how to get the content framed in our asp.net app) Thanks!
Consider umbraco.tv. Start using it for a month (it's really cheap) and you'll get lots of info on how to handle all these tasks. Cancelling of the subscrption can be done at any time (but I'm quite sure you won't after having seen the videos stuffed with great info)
Hopefully, lots of people will also contribute to the wiki for these kind of tasks.
If the 3rd party provider has references in their master pages to all kinds of custom controls and user controls, how exactly does that translate to Umbraco? Would all those references stay the same?
Using Umbraco with a 3rd party website
We have a third-party provider that is developing our ecommerce website. We would like to integrate a content management solution with their project. However, their project has their own master files, templates, css, etc. From my understanding, to use Umbraco, we would need to convert all their master pages into Umbraco templates. Under this scenario, we would need to re-convert all the templates anytime they gave us updates of their code. I'm curious if there is a way to leave their project as-is (using their master pages) and just place "tags" or "placeholders" where we want the content to display. Is this possible?
Thanks!
If the ecommerce site is completely self contained (ie, all the files are within a single folder hierachy) you can quite easily specify that folder in Umbraco to be ignored so none of the handlers worry about it and it'll operate as-is.
If you want to integrated CMS functionality with the ecommerce site then you'll need to import the templates into Umbraco and add the tags.
It'd be easier if you're using Umbraco 4 as that uses ASP.NET master pages rather than the custom templating solution of the v2/ v3 days, making the integration a lot easier
This sounds like the same kind of task that I posted here: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/2667-How-to-access-Umbraco-content-from-existing-NET-application
Is there a doc or video to help me get my head screwed on?
We are trying to get started with umbraco, and don't know where to start. (I can get it installed fine, but I have zero idea how to get the content framed in our asp.net app) Thanks!
Sam,
Consider umbraco.tv. Start using it for a month (it's really cheap) and you'll get lots of info on how to handle all these tasks. Cancelling of the subscrption can be done at any time (but I'm quite sure you won't after having seen the videos stuffed with great info)
Hopefully, lots of people will also contribute to the wiki for these kind of tasks.
Cheers,
Dirk
I can really recommend umbraco.tv as well. It's giving you a lot of quality info that gets you going pretty quickly.
If the 3rd party provider has references in their master pages to all kinds of custom controls and user controls, how exactly does that translate to Umbraco? Would all those references stay the same?
Thanks
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