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  • Danny Winbourne 12 posts 63 karma points
    Mar 15, 2021 @ 10:55
    Danny Winbourne
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    Reusable content “widgets”

    Hi All,

    I am new to the latest version of umbraco having previously used it in the xslt days.

    What would be the best approach for building pages using “reusable content blocks”. By that, I want to have the content of the block shared between multiple pages. If for example, I have an empty page type with a placeholder where i can add content items, like “image with text”, “image carousel”, “promo item” etc etc (these items have a backing doc type with different fields, with its own presentation). Editor can add one or more of these in any order they choose. I want to be able to share the content source for these items, so editor can edit the content in one place, and it updates everywhere it was used.

    Thanks Danny

  • Danny Winbourne 12 posts 63 karma points
    Mar 18, 2021 @ 17:12
    Danny Winbourne
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    Can anyone help me on this?

  • Brendan Rice 538 posts 1102 karma points
    Mar 18, 2021 @ 17:47
    Brendan Rice
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    Hi Danny,

    there's a fancy new Block List Editor in v8, it seems like it would be a good fit:

    https://umbraco.com/blog/deep-dive-the-block-list-editor/

  • Danny Winbourne 12 posts 63 karma points
    Mar 18, 2021 @ 18:14
    Danny Winbourne
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    Thank you Brendan,

    It’s not quite what I’m looking for I don’t think. I just one to drop my chosen “block” onto the page and select its backing data source.

    The page adding to will be empty with a placeholder where “blocks” are added.

    I’ll download and have a play with the demo however and see how I get on.

  • Brendan Rice 538 posts 1102 karma points
    Mar 18, 2021 @ 18:19
    Brendan Rice
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    One way to approach it might be to have the 'data' held under a folder or settings node and linking to it from the block using the content picker.

  • Danny Winbourne 12 posts 63 karma points
    Mar 18, 2021 @ 18:20
    Danny Winbourne
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    Thank you. I think that could work - In fact, it’s exactly how I implement this with Kentico.

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