Hi Ryan, Unless I am missing something, I think Radiant can meet your needs out of the box with the help of a few extensions. However, I would do this a little differently than you describe for simplicity's sake. I would use the stereotype extension so that every page added under the / meetings page would be created with the necessary body parts (Date, Location, Description, etc...). Now everytime the non-technical user creates a page under meetings, the correctly named body parts are automatically added, and the user simply has to click on the relevant body part and fill in the necessary info.
I think there is an extension for building forms and calling them through Radius tags, but I think the method I described above is a little more straight forward and more inline with the overall Radiant architecture. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. -Fito On Apr 7, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Ryan Ferretti wrote: > Hey Everyone, I just started looking into Radiant to use as our > team's CMS > and it looks pretty cool... you guys have done a great job! My > question > basically is about whether Radiant supports creating custom admin > forms so > that someone non-technical could create a page. Something like this > scenario that uses the "Articles" page and its children from the > Roasters > Template: > > A person who knows no html/ruby can go into the admin section and > create a > new Article for a Meeting by just filling out certain fields like > Meeting > Title( which is technically Page Title now), Date of Meeting, > Location, and > Description. This would just be simple form without the Page Parts > (body, > extended). And then a technical person would obviously have to > write the > main Meetings page which aggregates its children and adds all of the > styling... something like this: > > <r:children:each limit="5" order="desc"> > <div class="entry"> > <h3><r:link /></h3> <-- This could stay as the title --> > <div class="posted"> > Posted by <r:author /> on <r:date format="%B %d, %Y" /><em>|</ > em><img > src="http://spurrd.com/assets/123/comment.png"; /><a href="<r:url > />#disqus_thread">Comments</a><em>|</em><r:link>Read full > article</r:link> > </div> > Date of Meeting: <r:content part="meeting_date" /> > Location: <r:content part="meeting_location" /> > Description: <r:content part="meeting_description" /> > </div> > </r:children:each> > > Is this possible out of the box or will it take a good amount of > work to > change the model/controller logic behind the scenes? Regardless of > the > answer we are definitely going to use Radiant on a different project > with > all technical people. Please let me know if I am not making sense. > > Thanks, > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > Radiant: http://radiantcms.org > Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ List Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant Radiant: http://radiantcms.org Extensions: http://ext.radiantcms.org
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