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bayshield 50 posts 65 karma points

Jul 18, 2010 @ 18:07

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Related Nodes

I am working on a family history site and am looking for some advice on the best way to handle related nodes.

I have a person docType that contains all the persons details, Name, DOB etc.., what I need now is to find the best way of linking a person with another person whilst indicating the relationship (i.e. Person 1 is the father of person 2).

Any recommendations?

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Matt Brailsford 4125 posts 22223 karma points MVP 9x c-trib

Jul 18, 2010 @ 19:46

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Hi Bayshield,

I'd look into the Relations API. There is a nice explination on Hendys blog

http://blog.hendyracher.co.uk/umbraco-relation-api/

There is not real front end to it (though hendy also has a handy package to help http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/relation-types), but it allows you to relate multiple nodes together and easily query them to find related nodes.

I'd probably make a relation type for each kind of relation "Mother", "Father", then query the relation API for related nodes.

There are also some handy videos on umbraco.tv if you have a subscription:

http://umbraco.org/documentation/videos/for-developers/relations/introduction-to-relations

Matt

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bayshield 50 posts 65 karma points

Jul 28, 2010 @ 11:48

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Thanks Matt. Hendy's post was exactly what I was looking for.

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