I have a "Language" document type, and under my site's Content I have a folder called "Languages" which contains all the languages we support.
I created a custom Data Type called "Languages Dropdown", and I want this dropdown to be populated from the instances of "Language" present at a specific path.
This is my default Sitecore thinking in action. Is such a thing even possible in Umbraco?
Certainly - first of all, take a look at nuPickers and see if that can do what you want - 99% of the time this sort of thing can be handled really easily with that package:
https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/nupickers
Documentation can be found here:
https://github.com/uComponents/nuPickers/wiki
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I have a contact form in different languages. All Forms (1 per language) store their data on a certain page. When I click "Mails" and that storage page, I see a list of all messages from all forms - so far so good.
But when I click CSV Export, I only get the data from one language. After a while of debugging I think I have found the reason - this is because the export service collects the fields from the first message and based on that field list it builds all the other rows. As other messages are from different forms (i.e. languages) there are no corresponding fields for those messages and they are not exported.
Have a look at https://github.com/Intera/typo3-extension-powermail/blob/master/Classes/Domain/Service/ExportService.php --> see function getDefaultFieldListFromFirstMail
Now I am writing to SO instead of Github Bugs, because I still think that there is something wrong with my setup, as Powermail is quite widely used and such an error would have been reported earlier.
The problem was the way I set up the translations of the Powermail forms. I have created a different form for each language, which is not the correct way to do it.
I have found a video which describes the correct process: https://vimeo.com/268654409 .
In the case that the video gets removed, here are some screenshots:
1.) navigate to "LIST" on the the page of your form, select your form and click "Create new Record".
2.) Add a new record "Alternative Page Language"
3.) Select the desired language for the new record and name it properly:
4.) Now you should have a new localization in your powermail fields:
Click on that localization entry to edit / translate it.
I am using several different Word templates, mainly because of different layouts and structure. I want them all to use a "base-template" that has my several styles. And of course, if I add or update a style - I want all the templates to be updated.
Is there a way for doing this?
I'm using Word (2013 / 2016)
There is no built-in way to directly "inherit" from a template. The best you can do is create a so-called "Style Set" (Word 2013 and newer), save it to a file and place it into the AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Quick Styles folder of your user profile.
Check this tutorial to see how to create a custom style set: How to create and share custom Style Sets and this blog post that explains the difference to themes: Changing your style in the new Word.
However, you can't use it to automatically update existing documents or templates. A style set only is applied to a template or document, i.e. you basically create a copy of everything (and not a reference to the style set). This is to make sure that the document is self-contained and can be shared with people who don't have the style set.
I have a requirement to store a list of designers with logos and some bio information in my Umbraco CMS. I created a document type called 'Designer' with all those properties. I'd like to now create a dropdown list with those designer names so I can associate it with other document types. How do I create this dropdown? I'm using the v7 of umbraco.
Checkout nuPickers for Umbraco v7. Should have everything you need.
http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/nupickers
http://github.com/uComponents/nuPickers/wiki
http://www.nuget.org/packages/nuPickers
Look here for help with creating custom labels using macros
http://github.com/uComponents/nuPickers/wiki/Custom-Labels
As I understand, your intention is to let editors pick designers from the designers dropdown when editing content items in the backoffice.
If so, you may want to either use an existing data type called 'Dropdown' or create a custom data type.
If you only want the names in the dropdown, the default 'Dropdown' data type may suffice. Take a look at the article explaining how to customize the 'Dropdown' data type
Otherwise (say, if you want to show the avatar of the designer in your designer picker), you may want to implement your custom property editor (designers picker) and a custom data type related to it. Then you will be able to associate your data type with any document type you want.
A couple of useful links in this case:
how to create a custom property editor in umbraco 7
the demo which includes building a custom picker property editor to assign custom data to a document
Umbraco v7 XPathDropdownList implementation
I am just wondering is there any plugin to create dynamic content for a page i.e something similar to a data repeaters in .net. To make it simple it should be a section that should contains 5 to 6 fields/property like
heading
heading 2
image
content - rich text editor
info
This must be in repeatable control so that the editor can add any number of these section a page and all these should be displayed in a single page.
Is there a plugin for the above functionality or what is the best way to achieve this.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Aneesh
You can achieve this without any plugins.
Create your repeatable section (containing the relevant fields) as a document type, and then use the multi-node picker in another document type to select one or many of the sections.
So for example, I could have a FAQs page (which uses a document type called "FAQs Page"), and I want to be able to add multiple question and answers to this page. I could set up a document type called "Question". This will contain two fields: Question and Answer.
On the "FAQs Page" document type, I would add a multi-node picker field called "Questions". This way, an author could select multiple "Question" nodes to appear on the FAQs page.
You would obviously need the code to output this, and also you would create a data type that inherited from multi-node picker, so that you could limit the selection to only Question nodes.
There is also the Repeatable Custom Content datatype which works well but does not support all data types. But it does support all the ones you need for your stated purpose (textstring, media picker, richtext area, etc).
You can find it here: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/repeatable-custom-content I've used it a few times and it works really well in certain situations (e.g. where the items will not be shared across different pages of your site).
If you are sharing content components across multiple pages then #Digbyswift's solution is perfect.
I've always Digbyswifts method, but whilst looking for an alternate solution tonight I found this plugin, which is excellent for those situations where creating lots of widget nodes feels like overkill. It's licensed but the free older version is also available.
http://inaboxdesign.dk/blog/widget-builder-for-umbraco/
I'm looking for the following... can anybody point me to anything that currently exists in this field? Trying not to reinvent the wheel.
Basically a CMS system where I can setup a Form type though an interface.
Basically say that this type of data has a text field called Name, a Date field called "Start Date" and an email field called "Owner". And that together is a Node type called "Project"
Then a data entry person can go and fill in multiple projects and perhaps save them into different categories.
And then I can export the results as XML or JSON.
Thats the wist list... does something like that exist? or am I going to have to program it fresh?
You could certainly take a look at the open source Hippo CMS - it allows you to create your own content types pretty much in the way you're describing (disclaimer: I'm CTO of the company).
A "document type" in Hippo CMS is both the type definition (which nodes go where, what are they called, what type are they) as well as the form to input the content into. The form is build up from different editing fields, and there are fields available for Date, String, HTML Field and so on. If you need a very specific kind of field, then you can create your own and add it to the installation as a plugin.
Hippo is based on the Java Content Repository specification (JCR), which deals with Nodes in a hierarchical structure. If you're looking for a Java solution - then this might be what you need. But from what you're writing, I think you won't even have the need to dive into the Java internals. You can use the XML Export from the Console web interface to get the content out, or add a REST API that exposes the content either as XML or as JSON. For this, you'll need to go a bit deeper. More info on this is available on the community website.
Feel free to try the online demo installation. After you've logged in as one of the 'admin' users, navigate to the "Browse" perspective and open up the "Configuration" accordeon (it's all the way in the bottom of the screen, right above "Taxonomies"). Here you can work with the Document Types.