Hi Andrea,

Yes, you can create this type of site, I suggest you install Umbraco and then install  the "Runway" demo website to see how this works.

There are also free intro videos here http://umbraco.tv/help-and-support/video-tutorials/introduction-to-umbraco/sitebuilder-introduction/document-types

As well as a video tutorial showing you how to build the site from scratch http://www.blogfodder.co.uk/2010/5/13/building-your-first-umbraco-site-from-scratch

Best of luck, let us know how you get on

Rich

Hi Andrea, yes - it is very possible to build a site like that - I am currently building a Healthy Cities / Communities site that has a set of member contributed news sections, each news item with one or more tags. Setting out the news structure and tagging system was very straightforward - more of a challenge was building and securing a form allowing members to add content and upload files without giving them access to the Umbraco back-office UI.

 The site is not "live" yet (will be after Christmas) but I would be very happy to drop you the link if you're interested. 

I would also strongly recommend the umbraco tv videos on building a news section.

Hi Chris,

thanks for your post. Only one question. For the tagging system have you used a particolar logic?  For example for each section have you created a tree structure and each news item is a child of a specific section?

Thanks.

Hi Andrea,

Can each piece of news be specific to more than one section of the site?

Rich

Hi Andrea,

Whilst I'm thinking about it...

If your news is only for one section then you can structure your content like this:

- Content

- Home 

- Section 1

- News item for section 1

  - News item for section 2

- Section 2

- News item for section 2

- News item for section 2

Otherwise if they can be for more than on section, then you'll need some type of content picker most likely (I'll explain more if you need it), if that's the case then I would go with something like this:

- Content

- Home

- Section 1

- Section 2

- News

- News item 1 (on the news item, content picker to choose which sections are relevant to this news item)

- News item 2 (on the news item, content picker to choose which sections are relevant to this news item)

- News item 3 (on the news item, content picker to choose which sections are relevant to this news item)

Rich

Yes a news item can be specific to more than one section but only in the home page it must appear inside in a single section.

Hire an example.

SectionA, SectionB, SectionC

(Each section has a specific page with a list of news item.)

NewsItemA --> SectionA and SectionB

NewsItemB --> SectionA

NewsItemC --> SectionC and SectionA

Inside the home page:

SectionA  display the link to the news: NewsItemA, NewsItemB

SectionB is empty in this case

SectionC display the link to the news: NewsItemC

Instead if I open the Section's Page:

PageSectionA display the link to the news: NewsItemA,NewsItemB, NewItemC

PageSectionB display the link to the news: NewsItemA

PageSectionC display the link to the news: NewsItemC

Hi Rich,

your second solution is the correct way, can you explain me more??

Thanks

Hi Andrea,

I would go with my second suggestion then for site structure.

Personally I would install 'uComponents' and add a new MultiTreeNodePicker datatype

Then on the 'NewsItem' doc type add a property named "newSections" with these you will be able to select which sections are relevant to this news item.

There will be a good way to go after this, but that's how I would structure it.

Rich 

Site structure by DocType would be

- Home Doc Type

- Section Doc Type

- News Section Doc Type

- News item Doc Type

Make sense?

Rich

Yes the structure is correct.

Cool, let me know when if have any problems getting it set up.

Rich

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