I've done quite a bit of searching to see if Umbraco 6 will support multiple inheritance of document types (I have seen a similar concept referred to as "mixins"). That is, a single document type with multiple parent document types. This is a feature that Umbraco 5 supports.
As best I can tell, I'll have to wait for Umbraco 7 for this feature (at least for a UI to make it usable). Is that correct?
Here are some links I used to research this issue:
We are actually using uSiteBuilder / uSiteBuilder Admin which supports 'Mixins' if you're looking to manage DocTypes in a better way which it seems you are then it's definately worth checking out.
The latter is built atop the former. I find it worrisome that USB hasn't been updated since 2011. On the other hand, the mixin functionality built into USBA is really neat. The ability to deploy document types with just code (by associating classes with document types), and the ability to compose document types by using an array of classes sounds potentially very useful (and should help us avoid unnecessary work). I will have to do some more research to ensure USB/USBA will work with our specific codebase (we do some MVC customizations and such, we will be hosting in Azure, and it seems it requires full trust which may be a problem for some), but this may hold us over until Umbraco supports multiple document type inheritance.
I also see that the source code is available for USBA, so it might be possible that I can just extract the mixin code and use it for my purposes.
However, if somebody who knows more about multiple document type inheritance happens across this thread, please to let the rest of us know what the plan is.
The uSiteBuilder project is a little of date, we are using USBA, we might be using a different version than the one hosted here with Umbraco 6, I'll come back to you.
Will Umbraco 6 Support Document Type Multiple Inheritance (Mixins)?
I've done quite a bit of searching to see if Umbraco 6 will support multiple inheritance of document types (I have seen a similar concept referred to as "mixins"). That is, a single document type with multiple parent document types. This is a feature that Umbraco 5 supports.
As best I can tell, I'll have to wait for Umbraco 7 for this feature (at least for a UI to make it usable). Is that correct?
Here are some links I used to research this issue:
Hi,
We're using Umbraco 6 with Mixins without an issue.
Rich
Hi Rich,
My only real exposure to Mixins is this page (which appears to be targeted for Umbraco 4.5): http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/doctypemixins
Is that what you are using, or is there some other built-in feature related to Mixins that I'm unaware of?
Thanks,
Nick
Hey Nick,
Sorry, should have expanded.
We are actually using uSiteBuilder / uSiteBuilder Admin which supports 'Mixins' if you're looking to manage DocTypes in a better way which it seems you are then it's definately worth checking out.
Rich
Looking into this a bit, it looks like uSiteBuilder (USB) is here: http://usitebuilder.vegaitsourcing.rs/ and uSiteBuilder Admin (USBA) is here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/usitebuilder-admin .
The latter is built atop the former. I find it worrisome that USB hasn't been updated since 2011. On the other hand, the mixin functionality built into USBA is really neat. The ability to deploy document types with just code (by associating classes with document types), and the ability to compose document types by using an array of classes sounds potentially very useful (and should help us avoid unnecessary work). I will have to do some more research to ensure USB/USBA will work with our specific codebase (we do some MVC customizations and such, we will be hosting in Azure, and it seems it requires full trust which may be a problem for some), but this may hold us over until Umbraco supports multiple document type inheritance.
I also see that the source code is available for USBA, so it might be possible that I can just extract the mixin code and use it for my purposes.
However, if somebody who knows more about multiple document type inheritance happens across this thread, please to let the rest of us know what the plan is.
Thanks, Rich!
Hey Nicholas,
The uSiteBuilder project is a little of date, we are using USBA, we might be using a different version than the one hosted here with Umbraco 6, I'll come back to you.
Rich
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