Can you give a bit more of an explanation as to what you are trying to achieve?
There are various built in property editors / data types that allow you to link to existing pages or type in urls and even link to particular documents.
There is content picker, for selecting content, or you could installed Link Picker which allows for a link to a content node, media/document, or typing in a url. It also allows you to specify if you want it to render in a new window/tab or the current page etc.
The problem I have is, I need one of the panels to link to a book mark, but content picker only allows you to select a piece of content. I saw no other data type that allows for either picking content OR entering a static URL.
Document Type for either picking content OR entering a static URL
As the Title said. Why is there not a document type that allows you to either pick a piece of content OR enter a static URL.
I know there are external packages like "multi-url" that can do this, but this is overkill for when I want to use it for just one link.
Any other options?
Hi Phillip,
Can you give a bit more of an explanation as to what you are trying to achieve?
There are various built in property editors / data types that allow you to link to existing pages or type in urls and even link to particular documents.
There is content picker, for selecting content, or you could installed Link Picker which allows for a link to a content node, media/document, or typing in a url. It also allows you to specify if you want it to render in a new window/tab or the current page etc.
Sure.
I am using Umbraco 7.4. I have a document type that renders a small image panel. The following are the data types used:
Panel Image : Media Picker Panel Title: TextBox Panel URL: Content Picker
The problem I have is, I need one of the panels to link to a book mark, but content picker only allows you to select a piece of content. I saw no other data type that allows for either picking content OR entering a static URL.
Does that make sense?
Hi Phillip,
I highly recommend https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/link-picker/ .
I believe it should allow you to do what you are after.
Nik
I think you mean data type rather than document type?
Anyway, I use this package, which works well:
https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/multi-url-picker/
It allows you to set how many links you can pick, so for single links you just set it to allow one.
That was corrected in my further explanation, but yes. I also use Multi-url picker, but its overkill in this instance.
I will look at Niks recommendation, but I honestly feel this is core and should be part of the base (shipped) data types. Just my opinion though!.
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