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  • Fergus Davidson 309 posts 588 karma points
    Jan 28, 2010 @ 11:39
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    reusable content

    hi

    i am new to umbraco and i need some advice on how to structure my content.

    i am working on a simple site, the homepage of which has a promo area on it.

    At the moment i have set it up so that the user can select a new background image and enter some text, the promo area then has this new image as a background on the promo div, with the text positioned over it.

    this works fine, but what i would like to do is to save the background image/text combinations as 'promos'. the user could add, then, any number of promos and then on the homepage, just select one of them using a content picker.

    any advice would be most welcome

     

    thanks

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  • dandrayne 1138 posts 2262 karma points
    Jan 28, 2010 @ 11:49
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    Yes, this is completely doable.

    I'd have another area of the content tree as a "folder" to hold document types called "Promos" or similar.  This document type would consist only of the text area and the background image (or whatever else you need), then have a content picker on your homepage document type that allows you to select the promo to use.  Something like the following

    <xsl:variable name="promoId">
      <xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/data [@alias'YOUR_PROMO_PICKER']" />
    </xsl:variable>

    (you may want to have some checking in here, provide a default promo of none chosen etc)

    Then grab the promo node using something like the following

    <xsl:variable name="promo" select="umbraco.library:GetXmlNodeById($promoId) "/>

    Then you can just access the promo properties as with "currentPage"

    <xsl:value-of select="$promo/data [@alias='YOUR_PROMO_TEXT']" />

    Dan

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  • Fergus Davidson 309 posts 588 karma points
    Jan 28, 2010 @ 16:54
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    perfect, thanks so much

     

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