I'm starting to rebuild one of my sites - And one section allows a user to add there sports club in the UK, currently I have a list of all the towns in the UK which they can choose from in a dropdownlist.
All the towns have pages attached to them as well, so I'm thinking about creating a Towns parent node and then listing all the towns underneath so they can be edited?? Problem is there are hundreds of towns, and I'm worried about all those nodes under one node?? My thinking is at least then I can create a datatype and pull through all the town nodes and display them in a drop down list??
Just wondering how you old school umbracian's might approach this?
it depends exactly what you are trying to do, but you could just tag a page with a town field. the lookup for this can be a custom dropdown datatype with a list of all the towns.
Then you can search for pages tagged as a particular town to give you a pseudo hierarchy
Usability-wise, a massively long list is terrible for visitors. So... you might organize by county and then town, for instance. Or, keep them all in one list as now and check out the built-in ultimatePicker in auto-complete mode for easy searching as you type (more info about it at http://www.nibble.be/?p=38)
How Would You?
I'm starting to rebuild one of my sites - And one section allows a user to add there sports club in the UK, currently I have a list of all the towns in the UK which they can choose from in a dropdownlist.
All the towns have pages attached to them as well, so I'm thinking about creating a Towns parent node and then listing all the towns underneath so they can be edited?? Problem is there are hundreds of towns, and I'm worried about all those nodes under one node?? My thinking is at least then I can create a datatype and pull through all the town nodes and display them in a drop down list??
Just wondering how you old school umbracian's might approach this?
it depends exactly what you are trying to do, but you could just tag a page with a town field. the lookup for this can be a custom dropdown datatype with a list of all the towns.
Then you can search for pages tagged as a particular town to give you a pseudo hierarchy
Usability-wise, a massively long list is terrible for visitors. So... you might organize by county and then town, for instance. Or, keep them all in one list as now and check out the built-in ultimatePicker in auto-complete mode for easy searching as you type (more info about it at http://www.nibble.be/?p=38)
cheers,
doug.
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/tribal-xpath-node-relations
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