First of all i would like to thank you for a cool package. I was a fan of documents in Synkron VIA, and i think its nice to see it Umbraco :)
I have a couple of suggestions:
1. It would be cool if the datatype could be used with a macro, so i could insert multiple Documents into the Rich Text Editor, instead of making a "Select document" document picker on the document type itself. As it is now the datatype is not available as a "type" on the macro "parameters" pane.
2. It would be really cool if the documents could use templates, so a document could have its own template. Example: You could imagine the employees of company built as documents. An employee would be listed on pages they had relevance to. An "employee box" would have a certain layout. This layout is defined in a template for the given "document" and inherited into the surrounding page layout, as a kind of sub template.
I have no idea how complex or even impossible these suggestions are. But i think they would greatly improve the package.
Those are some good ideas, and I haven't thought about any of them, so I'll add them to my growing list of ideas! I'm still thinking a bit too much along the lines of VIA I guess, so ideas from more experienced Umbraco users are very welcome!
This package is a bit of a "learn-by-doing" experience for me, so no promises.
At the moment I'm doing another datatype, a bit like the Document List module on VIA. You choose a folder in the Document tree, and the documents in that folder will be shown on the site. I'll add some sorting and ... let's see!
Using documents in the RTE with a macro
First of all i would like to thank you for a cool package. I was a fan of documents in Synkron VIA, and i think its nice to see it Umbraco :)
I have a couple of suggestions:
1. It would be cool if the datatype could be used with a macro, so i could insert multiple Documents into the Rich Text Editor, instead of making a "Select document" document picker on the document type itself. As it is now the datatype is not available as a "type" on the macro "parameters" pane.
2. It would be really cool if the documents could use templates, so a document could have its own template.
Example:
You could imagine the employees of company built as documents.
An employee would be listed on pages they had relevance to.
An "employee box" would have a certain layout.
This layout is defined in a template for the given "document" and inherited into the surrounding page layout, as a kind of sub template.
I have no idea how complex or even impossible these suggestions are. But i think they would greatly improve the package.
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Thank you for the feedback!
Those are some good ideas, and I haven't thought about any of them, so I'll add them to my growing list of ideas! I'm still thinking a bit too much along the lines of VIA I guess, so ideas from more experienced Umbraco users are very welcome!
This package is a bit of a "learn-by-doing" experience for me, so no promises.
At the moment I'm doing another datatype, a bit like the Document List module on VIA. You choose a folder in the Document tree, and the documents in that folder will be shown on the site. I'll add some sorting and ... let's see!
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