We have a list of faculty and units for a SiteFinity 7.1 site. We have these as custom content items in the site, because we are programming against them and building a few widgets around them.
However, we also have news about these faculty and units, and we'd like to use the existing news items in SiteFinity.
How do we easily tie faculty and units (custom content items) to news items (another content item baked into SiteFinity)? I wasn't sure if we create classifications that list faculty and units, and use these as the grouping mechanism? Or is there an easy way to tie two content items together?
It kind of depends on how you're going to (or how you want to) display the data at the end. Here are a couple of different ways to achieve what you're after.
You're planning on using the stock News widget to display the content.
If this is true, using a custom taxonomy would be pretty easy in this case. Here's a video that outlines this method.
You're planning on displaying the news items in close proximity to one of the custom content types you've created.
In this case, adding a related data field to the custom type would allow you use related content items with widget templates.
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I am trying to add a small 'lockup' / promo to a page that loads information dynamically based on page.metafield information. Replacing images, video ID's etc. Which all works just fine.
My client is asking for a small area to display a product that relates to this dynamically changing content and I am struggling to come up with a good way to do this.
The current setup is that we have 30 pages with a set of 8 metafields each page. Each one of these pages must show a different , single product with an image, title, price, buy button and another button that links out to a partner site.
I can create snippet and load almost all of this info through metafields manually (price, title etc the client could just add to another metafield) but I would prefer to load a product to pull this info so it can be added to cart. Although I can add product data manually, I still don't actually know which product will get added to the cart, because I'm on a 'page' not a 'product'.
The products themselves are using a custom template that is different to the rest of the site so that seems like its not an option. The template for this content page is just 'page' but surely I can call the product object someway? If the client entered a product ID in the metafields, is there a way of pulling that IDs data easily?
Whatever you mean by pulling ID's, but there are a couple of ways of dealing with this. One, you have a Storefront API token, allowing you to freely and securely call Shopify with JS and get back all the data about the ID you're interested in. Or, you have an App installed in the store, in which case you can setup and callback an App Proxy, providing that ID, and getting back all the info you need. Lots of options!
I'm trying to customize a product in the CategoryContent panel in BigCommerce. I want to change the markup for each product in the listing, but the markup for the entire product list is trapped in an uneditable blob :%%GLOBAL_CategoryProductListing%% (I'm getting really tired of these unchangable GLOBAL variables).
Is there any way around this so that I can put my own markup on each product in the list. I'm also open, reluctantly, to reconstruct the product list using the API, but I'm not sure how I can access the API from within a BigCommerce store. Is that possible?
I was able to identify Snippets/CategoryProductsItem.html as the file containing the markup for the individual items in a category list.
I hope this saves someone the time it took me to find the file.
The Snippets/CategoryProductsItem.html is the snippet used for grid category files. If you are using the list view, the file is Snippets/CategoryProductsItemList.html.
This file represents each product listing li. It acts as a template which loops through all the %%GLOBAL_CategoryProductListing%% information for this category. To add a feature to the category ProductList li add it to the Snippet, and it will be applied to each item.
Hope this helps.
I am using content query web part to display pages from pages library.
I want to configure my web part to display pages according to number of page views. most popular page (according to number of views) should be on top. Is it out of the box functionality in SharePoint 2010?
Simple answer: No, this is not included out of the box.
To achieve this, you need to add the number of page views to the page item, then sort by this number by using the Content By Query Web Part. This is not a out-of-the-box solution.
You can show the most popular pages using the rating system, but this is different than basing it on the number of views.
I may be missing something here so I apologise if this question may come across as obvious.
In a XAML WinRT app, I can have a GridView control that I can throw a collection of stuff at, and then using DataTemplates etc I can render that stuff on screen.
How can I take this a step further and have a single “master” GridView control which contains several sections which get their data from different places and exist within the app as different collections of stuff?
For example, take the built in Games app. Here we have different sections – Spotlight, Friends, Game Activity etc which are all very different from each other, have different data and are displayed in different ways but they all exist within the same GridView control.
How can this be done?
I do hope this makes sense
Kris
If I understand your requirement correctly, you want to have a group of groups, and display each of the child groups using different templates.
The way I did it was to derive all the child items from a common base class (or you could build a group of groups of Objects, I suppose). Then we used the DataTemplateSelector to pick the appropriate template for each item in the master GridView.
We had to go a step or two further than that in practice, but that's the theory behind how I achieved a similar goal.
I'm trying to create a new module for Sitefinity. I'm basing my module off the sample module linked to from the documentation. http://www.sitefinity.com/help/developer-manual/adding-modules-pluggable-explained.html
What I want is a list of videos. On the left-hand side - the CommandPanel - there should be 3 buttons - "Videos", "Artists" and "Genres".
Whenever either of these is selected, on the right-hand-side, a list of Videos/Artists/Genres should be displayed.
The concept is simple, but what I'm struggling with is, where to actually put the code.
Should I hard-code the list directly into CommandPanel.ascx? Am I supposed to create new controls for Videos, Artists and Genres? Or should I have one control and multiple Panels, which I show/hide? And how do I connect the menu items on the left with changing the panel on the right?
NB. I might be wrong to have Videos, Artists and Genres all on the left. Maybe it should just be "Videos", and Artists and Genres should be separate module each?
I don't need a complete answer, just some direction on how to code in this framework, and where everything should go.
Hi there I just saw this come up I am not sure if you have already started this module yet you may even be finished by now, but I just wanted to say had you checked out the Sitefinity Beta for 3.6 because they are about to simplify the whole Sitefinity module process and particularly for what you are trying to do. Check it on the Sitefinity block a barebones module with the new architecture. This I think would satisfy your needs because you can create a separate "View" for each one of your Videos, Artist and Genres and all their views like create, edit etc.