Take the example of an album containing tracks using the List module, per http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/many-ways-to-relate-orchard-things-part-3-lists
Is it possible to create a dynamic menu for the list of tracks using the navigation module? I can get it to work by adding the menu part to the track content type, but that creates a lot of steps and maintenance for content creators. The other option is with queries, but that would be too complicated for content creators.
To take it further, the ultimate goal would be to create a dynamic menu for nested lists. An example would be:
Artists: contains Albums
Albums: contained by Artists and contains Tracks
Tracks: contained by Albums
I think I could do this with Taxonomies, but the source content works a lot better with Lists.
Related
I'm trying to create a flat view that shows all documents in a list without folders, but I can't figure out how to get for each document the columns of the parent folder.
We have to keep the folders system, but be able to use filters on this view.
View screenshot with folders
View Screenshot without folders, where I need to get the folder columns
I think this is a misunderstanding of the columns behavior, in fact you are displaying the same columns in both views (except for Modified, Index, ISO Language), however I assume what you really want is to display the same Field Values of the parent folder for each child item, that kind of behavior (values inheritance between folders and child items) isn't possible by just editing the view neither by applying some list settings.
First of all you need to understand that list items, documents and folders are all list items from the system perspective so they have individual properties for each one of them, a folder is just a special type of item that is able to contain other items (strictly speaking is just simulating a container).
In your case the Field Values that are being displayed in the columns of the folders view are values that belong to the folder itself but not to his child items. If you want to propagate those field values for the child items of each folder then you have two options:
Manually: Assign the values to each child item by editing their
properties using the Edit Form or using a Grid View to edit multiple
items faster.
Automatically: Create a Workflow or Event Receiver to copy the values
of the parent folder to each new item/document that is added to the
list/library.
However, as I can see your library is not being used in production yet, so my personal recommendation is to change your approach and use something similar to a Managed Metadata term store instead of folders (folders should be your last option to categorize items/documents, just for cases when you really don't have another way to achieve your goal), with the Managed Metadata approach you are able to apply tags to the items allowing them to belong to multiple categories and being filtered and searched more efficiently, but I know what you may be thinking "how can I do this if the Managed Metadata Service is not available in SharePoint Foundation", well thats why I said "use something similar", there should be more than one third party solution out there that will provide a similar functionality, but if you want to choose the less effort path, just use out-of-the-box Multi-choice field or Multi-lookup field, that you can start to using right now and assign the categories that you want to your items and create different views and filter them.
To achieve this you need to create a new view, or modify an already existing one, in your library.
When you edit or create a new view you are presented with the "Edit view" screen, here you can choose to "Show all files without folders" in the "Folders" section.
See e.g. for more details http://www.bloggedbychris.com/2013/10/19/flatten-document-library-list-sharepoint-2013-2010/ on this particular problem.
I set up the following Content Definition in an Orchard 1.9.1 site:
Manufacturer
- Logo (Media Library Picker Field)
- Container (single supported type - Product)
Product
- Containable
- [Generic Fields]
I added a few sample Product items to the site, and as part of that it had me select the Member Of option, which was a list of Manufacturer items I had already added.
The issue I have is, when I try to build a query to use with a projection widget, I can't seem to find a way to get either a Manufacturer's children, or a Product's parent container since I need to display all content on a single view. There are only going to be ~20 line items here, so performance is a non-issue. If I do multiple queries (one for each type), everything shows up individually but the Shape Tracing tool, when showing me the various Model items on the view, can't seem to show me either of these options.
My end goal is building a custom view to display this information, but I can't figure out how to traverse either up the Product to what its' parent container is, or traverse down from a Manufacturer to the child Product items below it.
How do I build a query that lets me see all of this so I can build a projection widget off of that?
Edit
I played with this some more and came across the ability to take a query and attach a layout to it. That is definitely getting me closer, however the grouping option says No properties are currently available in order to group this view, however I would think being part of a container/containable would define grouping automatically. As it stands, this lets me show everything, but unfortunately the parent/child show, and then the children repeat again, independent of the parent. It's so close, but I can't quite get it right.
How is it possible to group albums by year?
For example:
2014
- Album 1
- Album 2
2013
- Album 3
I've recently seen that it is possible to group them in the backend using a subfolder-like approach to sort them - but is it also possible to query albums for a specific folder?
I'm currently using this call in my Gallery overview:
[[!GalleryAlbums? &sort=`year` &albumCoverSort=`random` &rowTpl=`galAlbumRowTpl`
&toPlaceholder=`galleries` &showAll=`1` &parent=`6`
&prominentOnly=`0` &limit=`50`]]
<div class="galleries">[[+galleries]]</div>
Currently the GalleryAlbums Snippet doesn't support sorting by year, even though there's a "year" field for the Album object:
However, there's a couple ways to do this.
1. Write your own Snippet
This would be the most performant option, but instructions for this might be out of scope here, so another option might be:
2. Nested Template Chunks
Organize your albums by nesting them under parent albums named after the year. So you'd have an album called "2014" and under that you'd have child albums you want to display for that year.
Then modify your snippet call to include these properties:
&showAll=`0`
&parent=`0`
According to the Gallery documentation, this is what those properties do:
showAll If 1, will show all albums regardless of their parent.
parent Grab only the albums with a parent album with this ID. Remember to set showAll to 0, otherwise it won't work!
Now modify your rowTpl, so that it's something like this:
<li>[[+name]]
<ul>[[GalleryAlbums? &showAll=`0` &parent=`[[+id]]` ... ]]</ul>
</li>
What this means, is that your "outer" Snippet call gets only "top-level" albums, because you specified that the parent attribute must be "0". Then the tpl for each album calls the Gallery snippet again, with the parent property as the ID of the currently iterated Album, thereby returning a list of child Albums. Note in the above code sample, I've omitted the other important properties like &rowTpl, which you would need to populate.
NOTE: I see you're calling your Snippet with the uncached token !. You might get performance gains by caching it, especially if you use an aggressive caching mechanism like StatCache. Granted the GalleryAlbums getList processor utilizes its own cache handler, but there will likely be performance penalties for using a nested Snippet call like the one I've described here.
Lets say for example, I have a list of products that each have it's own page... in what way can I create a single page that will list each product as it's contents as a list (with hyperlinks)? Not really sure how to do this directly in Orchard - or will I need to create a custom page / widget? Thanks for any help... new to Orchard and not sure how to tackle this.
You have a couple options. I believe the Orchard gallery at orchardproject.net has a module called Simple Commerce that may solve your problem. (it's simple so it might not)
(In the following section, I've tried to boldface the terminology words that are 1) are crucial to understanding how to use Orchard and 2) helpful in finding your way around the dashboard)
Another option may be first creating a Content Type--probably one named Product with some Fields describing an individual product. Price, SKU and description come to mind, but you'll be better able to describe your own products. Each Content Type in Orchard can be associated with any combination of Parts. You may have to research which ones you actually want for an individual product, but I'd recommend:
Body (this could replace the Description I suggested above) You could include any amount of HTML/script in this section to make your individual product pages look fancy!
Common (this has to be added when Containable is used)
Containable (this will allow the items to be listed)
Route (so you can link to a specific product)
This gives each product its own slug (URL)
Tags (to allow products to be categorized)
Now, you need to create a new List from the dashboard so you can display the products together (and inherit other features like pagination, etc). Be sure to select the Product Content Type in the Contains drop down list.
Then, you can start creating your Content (your Products) one by one. In the dashboard, click the new Product item and describe each new piece of Content.
Finally, you can link directly to this new List using the Products List's *slug*. You could (and might want to) add the Products List to your main navigation menu. Clicking the Products List and checking the "Show on main menu" box will automagically add a navigation button directly to this page. You could, of course, link to this List from anywhere using the slug (also found on the list's edit page)
This page, from the Orchard documentation pages describes more things you can do with a list of content like modifying the layout of the list, placing content fields in different places and even converting your products to widgets which you could use to display some promotional product offering in a special spot on your site.
I highly recommend reading through at least the documentation provided on the Orchard site to get a good grasp of what this CMS can do out of the box and what you would need to write custom code to accomplish (which you could do in this case, but Orchard can handle it out of the box)
Hope this helps!
Two ways to do this:
http://orchardproject.net/docs/Creating-lists.ashx and http://orchardproject.net/gallery/List/Modules/Orchard.Module.Contrib.Taxonomies
let me explain my current situation
i have a SharePoint site lets say it is MAIN, and a subsite lets call it SUBMAIN
in MAIN i have a list called "a" and in subMAIN i have a list called "b"
both lists have the exact same columns,
i need to show the content of both lists (ordered by modified date for example) in one webpart in the main page i know it is possible some how but couldnt get to it.
currently i am showing only the content of list "a" in a content query webpart (i have changed the way it display and added to it horizontal merquee) so it will be nice if somehow i can add contents of list"b" also to the same content query webpart (but if it is not possible in content query webpart its ok, at least let me know what other options do i have)
your help is appreciated
If you are using SharePoint Designer to do this, take a look at this blog.
If you are building your own web part, I would perform two queries on the SPList objects. You can then aggregate, sort, etc. the results however you would like. If you aren't familiar with SPList, you can look here for the MSDN overview.
I've built web parts to display items from 2 different lists, and I did something similar to what Scott Price suggested. I used an SPQuery object for each list and used it to get DataTable objects that I could then use with things like Repeaters and DataLists. You could merge your two tables and do something similar.
The biggest trick for me was setting up the custom templates for DataBinding in a webpart. To do that, I created a custom class that implemented the ITemplate interface and then emitted the HTML for each item from the template class in an event handler. Then, you just create an instance of your template class and set that as the ItemTemplate property of your, say, DataList.
This post and this one do a better job of explaining that approach, but the nice thing is that you have complete control of the markup, and you can style it as you like.
If you're not looking to code your own solution, you might consider this webpart on codeplex:
http://rssaggregator.codeplex.com/
It's actually an RSS aggregator, but since all SharePoint lists have built-in RSS feeds, you can use it just as well to aggregate the SharePoint lists from the different sites.
Another approach is SLAM, SharePoint List Association Manager, an open source project my company created and actively supports. SLAM will allow you to configure those two lists to be automatically synchronized to SQL tables at which point you can create a query to join the two. If you have the two lists built off a content type (since they have the same fields) you can actually slam the content type and have both lists in the same SQL table.