I am using Orchard 1.8.1 and one of the sections of the site I'm building is for a standard photo gallery. Since all the modules involving photo galleries are ancient, I opted to stay native and try using custom content types to build it instead. The way I accomplished this is with a Photo Gallery content type that has the Container part associated, then a Photo Gallery Item content type that has the Containable part associated to it.
Using the Shape Tracing tool, I was able to build out the main gallery page that shows all the individual galleries, but when you go inside a single gallery is where I get lost. The attached screenshot probably shows it best, but in the Content zone, I can see there are two individual items contained under Model.ContentItem.ContainerPart.ItemCount, however I can't figure out how to access those individual items to build a template to show them. The point of the gallery page will be implementing the gallery from Galleria, so whenever I view the individual page for the Photo Gallery content type, I need to access all child items underneath it to build this.
Any ideas?
You can use a media library picker field configured for multiple media, and then edit each image to set its caption and title. Then, it's just a matter of customizing a template override in your theme to make it look exactly the way you want.
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I need to create few templates for E-commerce site. Can anyone guide me as how to create templates in Kentico 9 ? There is an existing site and I need to create five other templates for the same. Am totally new to Kentico.
Please help.
There are many generic templates in Kentico, so you could clone any of them and modify to your needs - this might be easier for you to edit existing one as you'll have an example.
I'd recommend you to take following steps:
Go to Pages application in Kentico administration
Select any page in content tree on the left
go to properties -> template
Save as new template (so you do not screw up exting one) and save your changes
Switch to Design tab - this is where you build/configure you template
On the Design tab there is green line with template name and hamburger menu, where you can choose edit layout - this is where you can implement markup of the page as well as split your page into zones. After you accomplish html for you page save changes and close current dialog.
Now you should be back to Design tab. Here you can add web parts to zones you've specified in the layout. There is huge amount of different web parts (user controls). All they have different purpose and settings, so you should check documentation and figure out which one should be used in your particular case.
Try editable text, editable image, repeater, navigation in order to get an idea how it works.
I am trying to build a website using Orchard CMS. The site has a product listing page where it has to show multiple product images. I would like to make a content type with Image Gallery to pick up multiple images for the product (has to show thumbnails too). Would this be possible? Can somebody direct me to the right documentation? The documentation on the Image Gallery codeplex site is not really well explained to my knowledge. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
Try to use ImageMultipicker Field from Amba.ImagePowerTools module.
It allows to pickup muliple images and has http://imageresizing.net/ library for resizing under the hood.
https://imagepowertools.codeplex.com
https://gallery.orchardproject.net/List/Modules/Orchard.Module.Amba.ImagePowerTools/1.2
You need to create a list for Products first. You can add Image Gallery widget to your list as a part.
Check this link for more information:
http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Creating-lists
This seems to be just what you're lookinghttp://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2012/03/30/zengallery-a-minimalist-image-gallery-for-orchard.aspx for:
Effectively I am looking to change the viewed Document Library within an exsisting List View Web Part from 'Document Library #1' to Document Library #2'. I want to do so without having to re-create the entire web part (e.g. settings & views) as I would have to do this multiple times.
Sharepoint version is 2007 and Sharepoint Designer is not avaliable.
Context: I am currently building a Sharepoint area which will consist of multiple ASPX pages all based off an original layout. This layout includes a List View web part that directly views a Document Library.
Each ASPX page has a Document Library attributed to it (e.g. Page1.aspx and DocLib1), which I wish to display within this List View web part.
Page1.aspx was setup just fine (effectively the original). When setting up Page2.aspx as a direct copy of the first, I am unable to change the List View from DocLib1 to DocLib2 as there seems no option to do so.
The list view web part isn't easily customizable unless you can edit the xml for the web part and change some guids. If you want to be able to change the source list through the browser you will need to use a different web part - the content query web part is an out of box option, though obviously that is quite different from the standard list view.
You may also be able to do something with with list templates - if you can use a custom template instead of the standard document library template, you may be able to alter AllItems.aspx to do what you need.
Sharepoint 07 has nice page library. You can create templates and then just by pressing Site-> 'Create a page' get a choice with page templates.
However if one tries to create second library, for example, document library, in the same site (node), then it is not possible to choose element type as "page". Only "wiki-pages" and "pages with web-parts"!
So, is it possible to get 2 or more page libraries in the same node?
It seems very inconvenient to create the hole new site or new node only just for page library.
The SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure can only handle a single Pages library per Web site, it's a physical limitation of the software.
You could create sub webs to separate out your content more, or create new Content Types inheriting from the "Page" content type, and add in extra columns to store metadata to further categorize your pages. You'd then add this new content type to the Pages library, and you can slot your new content into this content type to categorize it.
Luckily, I have discovered another solution. Using Metalogix Content Matrix I was able to copy and paste the 'Page' Library renaming it and Viola...it works! I'm able to edit pages without getting the "The SPListItem provided is not compatible with a Publishing Page" Error. Whohoo! I hope this helps you.
Background
My task is to, in SharePoint, show an image of a process map which should be clickable. Think of an imagemap in html. Some areas take you to other process map images and other brings up a pop-up window.
"Connected" to each process map is a set of documents. These documents are stored in a document library. There are one process map for each folder in the document library. The documents should be shown next to the image. The person clicking either the image or a folder to navigate in the hierarchy should also be able to upload, download and delete the documents.
Question
What would be the easiest solution for this?
My thoughts
... so far is to create a custom web part which I add above the document library browser (the default one in MOSS 2007). This web part reads some xml file pointing out the image to show and the areas which is to be clickable. It listens for some kind of events from the document library, like clicks on folders in the browser or it reads the current URL to know where in the folder hierarchy we are currently, and from that show the correct process map image. When the image is clicked, the web part updates the image and tells the document library to update accordingly.
Is this feasible? Am I on the wrong track? How do I communicate with a document library?
Thanks, Martin
My thoughts are that you create a web part that displays your image map and outputs(provider) the appropriate criteria to a another web part that consumes it and displays the files in a document library.
You can achieve this by creating your own custom webpart that displays a document library based on a CAML query. Each Images sends a different CAML query to the document library webpart.
I hope this helps. Please provide information on how you solved this problem if you have already done so.
Thanks
Long since I've been here... Actually solved this one.
We created two web parts, one for process navigation and one for filtering documents in the document library.
The web part for process navigation is actually just a web part that looks for a specific query parameter in the URL and adds ".html" to it. Then looks for that document in a document library. If found then this document is shown inside an iframe. Simple!
The html documents are produced by Visio and exported to html, then uploaded to SharePoint. The links in the Visio document drives the application with queries.
The web part that shows the corresponding documents also looks for a specific query in the URL then sends filterparameters to the document library through the IfilterProvider interface. I snatched this example IFilterProvider at MSDN and made it look in the URL for parameters and then made the controls invisible to the user.
Really simple solution, though the customer needs to put in a lot of work to incorporate their company processes into it. And it is somewhat error prone and probably a sucker to make changes to data-wise.