I have developed an ExpressionEngine website which has a news section. There is a news channel with categories, and the main news listing page is powered by a news/index template. The single entry (article) page is powered by a news/article template. You can see this section in action here: http://www.longbridgebirmingham.co.uk/news/. Everything's working great.
What I now need to do is list news in a very similar fashion within a subsection of the website (at segment 3 level). Here, to be exact: http://www.longbridgebirmingham.co.uk/life/community/news/. So far, I have created a new 'Community' category for the news channel and created a new community-news/index and community-news/article template which pulls in only Community news. I have used the 'Pages' facility to force this test page to use the community-news/index template: http://www.longbridgebirmingham.co.uk/life/community/news-new. Not sure if that's the right thing to do, but it seems to be working.
Now, I've been really struggling to find out a way to hook up the community-news/article template so that articles are presented at a segment 4 level: http://www.longbridgebirmingham.co.uk/life/community/news/article/url-title. Any help or advice would be really appreciated!
Thanks a lot in advance.
OK, so this is how I would recommend doing it.
you currently have your news template group which is fine.
Create categories for your news items, such as 'life' and 'community' and using the great Low Seg2Cat addon, you can then just use something like the following to filter based on the categories:
http://site.com/news/
http://site.com/news/category/
http://site.com/news/category2/sub-cat2a
This will allow you to use an unlimited number of categories and using Seg2Cat, you'll be able to filter based on the {segment_2_category_id} and/or {segment_3_category_id}.
Now, all you need to do is to append the article segment at the end if you want to show an actual article.
For example: site.com/news/category/article/url_title_of_entry/
EE, will automatically pull the article.html template from the template group.
Does this help?
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I am fairly new to Orchard, really impressed with what I have seen so far.
My question:
I have a site that uses blogs fairly heavily as content. On the homepage, there are the following widgets:
'featured' - a blog post that has a featured field (query)
'latest' - a list of blog posts, sorted by date (blog archives)
The featured post will have an image heavy design (while hiding things like post time/number of comments/tags/etc) while the latest posts will be a fairly traditional layout (showing the aforementioned fields). As such, these widgets, which are the same base type, need to have very different structures.
I have figured out how to access the individual widgets, the overall blog post and each of the individual parts of the blog posts, however I cannot figure out what level I should be creating a view at, to be able to style these individually.
At the content level, I have a reasonable amount of control (still reliant on the #Display(Model.Content) though) however, none of the alternates I can see in Shape Tracer will allow me to ONLY change the Content-BlogPost.cshtml (or similar) for the particular Widget or Zone (both would allow access).
What I really need is to be able to specify the zone AND the content area. (something like Zone-ZoneName-Content-BlogPost.cshtml)
Am I missing something important? or am I going about this completely wrong?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Nick
(apologies for cross posting from codeplex, has been a few days and I really need to progress)
One of my colleague left on vacation and left me with an Orchard project to work on.
I never worked with Orchard, so please excuse my ignorance and my possibly stupid questions.
I come to you for general advice on how to implement and structure the content of my site, as my research didn't give me the answers I'm looking for.
Here are the requirements:
The site must be divided into sections (section A, section A-1, section A-2, section B, etc...)
The navigation of the site must be based on the sections, each navigation item must also contain an image
Each section has a separate page with roughly 4 types of content that must be displayed:
Title of the page
Articles associated with this section, which represent the main content
FAQ content associated with the section which should be displayed in a specific zone
Miscellaneous content associated with the section which should also be displayed in a specific zone
I'm struggling at nearly every aspect of the requirements...
We started building a taxonomy, with as many terms as we have sections, allowing us to build the hierarchy we want, which is perfect. But this had 2 downsides:
The built-in taxonomy-based navigation is static, so the only thing displayed is the term, and we couldn't find a way to change it so the user would be able to add an image to the taxonomy term.
The generated pages based on the taxonomy display every content item based on the current term, that is, the articles, but also the FAQ content and the miscellaneous content, all in the Content zone.
Is there any way to work around these issues by using the built-in taxonomy? Or will I have to build content types from scratch in order to achieve what I'm trying?
The solution my colleague came up with was to add a layer for each section, and add in this layer 3 widgets, one for each specific content (title, FAQ, misc) in different zones. But I don't think this will me maintainable, as we currently have 4 main sections, each with 4-5 subsections, so that's rougly 60 layers, which will be a nightmare for the client to maintain.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated, I'm kind of lost.
Thanks in advance,
Mickaël
Taxonomies was a good start, but now you need to study projections. You'll be able to set-up filters about what you display.
For adding an image to your terms, one way to do it is to add a media library picker field to the type that was created for your taxonomy.
I want to create a news site in which there will be two sort of pages:
Home Page: showing the main updated (last) article today.
News Page: showing a selected news.
Both pages should look like a simple news site (showing the main article) and both should have related last news on the side.
What I want to do, is a lot like what's mentioned in the site:
Link
Problems:
This site only shows how to create the related news and not the main article.
I wanted to know how to do the same thing only without a news site (meaning a simple list with a Wiki field where the picture should be)
How can I (hoping its possible) take a Wiki field in CQWP and add smaller "width"?
Thank you in advance,
Mor Shemesh.
Create a publishing site
On the default.aspx put s Conent Query web part, configure it to show 1 article, sorted by date in decending order
Create another welcome page and put a Content Query web part there also, configure it to show several item, according to the filter you need
I'm just tasked by my boss to create a Sharepoint solution for the scenerio below.
(I'm a total newbie to Sharepoint. So please forgive me if i use the terminology wrong)
The portal should open in a custom look than the default Sharepoint design and it should have links to the products. Every product page should have different look and feel but have same types of content. For example every product should have Published Materials list but with different set of content.
So, an example of the desired map is like this:
/Home
-Latest News
-Core Team List
-Products
-Product 1
-Product 2
-Product 3
I found Sharepoint a whole new and strange world. I thought i'm good at learning, until i met Sharepoint. Everything seems very detailed and i'm living difficulties in finding useful information quickly. Because i have no Sharepoint background and i don't event know what i'm lookin' for.
Could you please help me by telling me how can i accomplish this or even just telling me the name of "thing" that i'm trying to accomplish.
Thank you in advance.
PS. Oh, by the way, I learned the word Branding in my search for the holy grail. I don't even know that the word fits or not...
I did try the method you post on other page (Restaurant review site in SharePoint) but unfortunately i couldn't succeed. I stucked at choosing what type of content type in the "Create Content Type" page at first and then tried some parent types but i couldn't get it show up in Sharepoint Designer 2007's New Sharepoint Content "Publishing Page" dialog.
So i tried something else.
At my homepage created a new Document Library of type "Web Part Page" called "Products". It created me a some sort of list whose all items are web pages. At this point i felt that i'm near to accomplish something at last.
Here are some questions i've collected: :)
I add two Announcements web part to different "Products" pages. When I add a new announcement to the list from one product page, it shows up in the other one too! How can I make their content only visible in page that the content created on?
*[Theming is a recurring theme in my posts]* Is it possible to change the view of each Product page at this setup so they have different design and color?
Thanks.
Check out the links I posted in the answer to this question for some links to SharePoint 101 tutorials online:
Restaurant review site in SharePoint
Given you're looking for 'branding' that will mean a custom Master Page. A Master Page is what will determine the overall layout of your SharePoint Web Application's pages. After creating a standard SharePoint application, connect with SharePoint Designer and play with that Master Page for a while until you get the hang of it.
In modifying or creating custom Master Pages, it is important to take note of all the controls (special ASP.NET server-side tags) in particular Content Place Holders; if you create your own Master Page and these are missing you're in a world of uninformative-error-message hurt.
You're going to want to create Lists ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA011199881033.aspx ) to represent 'News' and 'Products'... for Products you may even want to create a Content Type.
Once you create 'News' and 'Products' lists, to see those lists of Products you'll want to make views and use List View Web Parts ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100240521033.aspx ) to include those views in Pages... but at the subject of Web Parts this is probably getting a bit overwhelming so I'll stop here. Comment me if you'd like more.
Addendum
"Is is possible to show only categories of a document library in home page and documents of the selected category in another page?"
-> Yes, and there are several ways. I'd suggest you look into either defining a View for that list which filters based on the category field, then add List View Web Parts to your home page, or writing custom XSLT for the Content Query Web Part, and then add it to your home page. Writing the XSLT for he Content Query web part is a little more difficult, but using the List View has it's short comings in being not-as-configurable, much like this guy is finding out: No-code solution for calendar view of SharePoint news items
"But how can i change a list item to show its details as a whole new page with its own web parts and theme?"
-> Here's the kicker; in SharePoint, each Site you create has a special list for Pages, and each Page actually belongs to a Content Type.
So you can take any content type and turn it into a page; all you have to do is create a Page Layout for it, and add that Content Type to the list.
(So, an example. This is purely speculative; I'm not saying do this specifically, and you probably can't do it exactly as I describe it as I'm oversimplifying a little)
You create a Content Type 'Product', but you also decide 'Category' should be a Content Type too. So you create a content type for 'Catagory', and you give it a lookup column, which refers to items in the 'Product' List. You specify that the lookup can contain multiple items.
Now you want a Page where people can see a category, and all the Products which belong to it. You create a 'Page Layout' (an aspx file) for the 'Catagory' Content Type. In the Page Layout aspx file you can include web controls which render the Catagory's fields, such as 'title' and 'description' and you can probably even add one to render the 'Products' lookup field. (maybe you'll have to code it yourself)
I hope I haven't lost you.
Now that you've created a Page Layout for 'Catagory' you can add 'Catagory' to the Pages list/library and then create pages which represent Catagories, and when people edit those pages, they will also edit the Catagory.
More Addendum
If "Announcements" is a list, the web part you added was a list view web part, and so it just shows the contents of the list (which is independent of the product pages)
You'll want o specify filters of your view. I dunno if you can specify unique filters on the web part... but you can try :)
You might want to consider looking into The Content Query Web Part.
I don't fully understand your second question, but I get the feeling the answer is yes... what do you mean by "view"? You gotta be careful with the lingo; do you mean the Page Layout? or the List View Web Part? or the List View? or the Master Page? ...
you HAVE to check out Heather Solomon. She is the shiznat when it comes to sharepoint branding.
A good start would be using Sharepoint Designer.
Use SharePoint Designer to do your CSS work, particularly in discovering the CSS rules in play. DO NOT publish the finished work from SD; if you do, future Windows Updates may wipe out your files. Instead, deploy your customizations as a Feature. In MOSS 2007, you can add a single custom CSS file using Central Admin - this will then be applied AFTER core.CSS at runtime, To the best of my knowledge, this is the only practical way of doing this.
You need to indicate whether you are using WSS or MOSS. With WSS, you can use themes.
A client is asking to incorporate commenting on their news articles. They're using the Sharepoint news site template for their news publishing, etc. They want a simple commenting system, much like what is available on most blog engines, only they want it at the bottom of each news article.
I just thought I would ask around about an out of the box solution before I go quoting a custom dev solution. Thanks in advance!
I struggled with this a while back and the solution we found was to use a discussion borad list (out of the box) and we created a custom web part that we added to the page layout for news.
We had to do som trickery to add support for anonymous comments, but on the whole it works good and wasen't to much code.
The Community Kit for SharePoint does the whole commenting thing for blogs.
you may have to cut out the commenting part of it to get it to work with your news section however.
The commenting section of the Enhanced Blog Edition of CKS does to approval of comments and spam checking.
I had the same request. I didn't find an existing solution, so I did it by copying from the standard Blog site template, plus custom coding.
From the template: Copy the definition for the blog comments list. Remove the lookup fields, and use a feature to create the list on all publishing sites.
Custom code: Add a feature receiver to the comments feature, and use it to add the lookup fields for page id and title, (using the pages list as destination). This needs to be done in code because you can't configure the destination list for lookup fields in XML, (or at least I don't know how).
Write controls for querying the comments list and adding to it, and place on the page layout.
Simpler approach: Don't use the standard blog comments list, just create your own, where the page reference is just a number and not a lookup field. Pro: Less work. Con: You miss out on the views that come with the standard list.