New to Umbraco but UI-O-MATIC looks a very interesting tool.
As I understand it, it is a package to allow editors to use Umbraco front end UI to edit non-Umbraco content in a database?
In other words, we can add our own tables to the db and edit them through Umbraco (and presumably retrieve their values say in templates / partial views?
Typically do we create these tables in Umbraco's own database or a separate one (if the latter, how do we connect?)
Hey, correct it's an easy way to create an integrated UI for managing third party data (coming from a db) the db can be the Umbraco one or another one (you can specify a connectionstring), for more details check out the docs http://uiomatic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Well you can't pull the editor in a page view (it's only for backoffice editing), but you can still show your custom data in your template/partial views like you are used to...
Just had a thought - we could use this to add extra fields to user groups to define which media node they start in (one of my other issues with Umbraco is it seems any user can replace any image - disastrous).
Therefore can we access this data in the back office forms eg when editing content?
UI-O-MATIC - just checking...
New to Umbraco but UI-O-MATIC looks a very interesting tool.
As I understand it, it is a package to allow editors to use Umbraco front end UI to edit non-Umbraco content in a database?
In other words, we can add our own tables to the db and edit them through Umbraco (and presumably retrieve their values say in templates / partial views?
Typically do we create these tables in Umbraco's own database or a separate one (if the latter, how do we connect?)
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Hey, correct it's an easy way to create an integrated UI for managing third party data (coming from a db) the db can be the Umbraco one or another one (you can specify a connectionstring), for more details check out the docs http://uiomatic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Thanks, Tim. And you can pull it in to a page view (as I say in a template or partial view?)
Great tool!
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Well you can't pull the editor in a page view (it's only for backoffice editing), but you can still show your custom data in your template/partial views like you are used to...
Just had a thought - we could use this to add extra fields to user groups to define which media node they start in (one of my other issues with Umbraco is it seems any user can replace any image - disastrous).
Therefore can we access this data in the back office forms eg when editing content?
I see that, but the data is available to external page views? And to back office content editing? That would be great
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Yup for an example check out https://creativewebspecialist.co.uk/2013/07/16/umbraco-petapoco-to-store-blog-comments/ (you could then use UI-O-Matic to create a UI for managing those comments)
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Hmm not sure what you want to do , it basically allows you to create a crud interface for a db table...
Basically, edit the 'foreign' data in the back office, and have that data available to both
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