Hello Will, thanks for your quick reply. I will respond below:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Will Scheidegger <[email protected]>wrote: > > Olaf, > > Where do you store your news, projects and galeries? > i have no idea, what would be the best place to do this? Data module? Regular webpages? Olaf > > A very brief description of how to do this: > - Create a query which will return the news ordered by date ascending > - Do the same for your projects > - Display the first news > - Do the same for the first project > > You can do all of this with the <cms:query /> tag without writing one > single line of code. For the random galleries, it's a bit more complicated. > You can get all galleries with a query, but then you'll need some code to > pick 8 random galleries from the list. > > I don't have the time to do a step-by-step guide for all of this, but if > you can tell us, which step you are having troubles with, we can try to help > you there. > > -will > > > On 30.07.2009, at 09:26, Olaf iLink wrote: > > Hello, >> >> i have a specific case, and i was wondering what would be the best way to >> implement this in Magnolia 4.x? >> >> We have a website that has news-items, and that has projects. A project >> has several properties that are much like a regular news-item, but with the >> optional addition of a youtube movie, and it can be linked to an media >> gallery. The media galleries are managed seperate from the projects, they >> have a title, description, cover-image, and of course media (which can be a >> mix of images and video). >> >> There is an overview page for all the media galleries, and there is an >> overview page for all the projects. The media gallery overview page show all >> the cover images and titles of all the media galleries, in descending >> publish data order. The projects page show the title, and introduction text >> with a read more link in descending publish date order. >> >> An editor can assign a specific media gallery to a project (in the project >> properties) and if a project has an assigned media gallery it will show up >> in the project page. >> >> On the homepage there is a footer which will show the latest news item >> with a title, intro, and read more link, and the latest project with a >> title, intro and read more link. If there is no project available, it will >> show a second news item there. >> >> On the homepage we also want to show a random mix of 8 cover images from >> the media galleries, which link directly to the corresponding media gallery. >> >> I think this case has a lot of things that come up often in website >> projects, so it's interesting to see what the best way is to handle this in >> Magnolia. >> >> Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated, this will really help in our >> evaluationprocess. >> >> We've received some pointers to source code of modules etc. but i'm not a >> star in reverse engineering, though i can read the code. I guess a >> step-by-step guide on how to do these things, how to program them, how to >> compile and deploy them, for a real life situation, would be very helpfull. >> >> cheers, Olaf >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > For list details see > http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Olaf Molenveld ---------------------------------------------- Interactive Link Keizerstraat 31 3512 EA Utrecht T +31 (0)30 634 32 66 F +31 (0)30 634 32 65 www.interactivelink.nl [email protected] INTERACTIVE LINK MAAKT SAMEN MET HANSNEL COMMUNICATIE, CHANNEL PANEL EN PARODOS DEEL UIT VAN DE HANSNEL GROEP ---------------------------------------------- De informatie in dit e-mail bericht is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Verstrekking aan en gebruik door anderen is niet toegestaan. Door de elektronische verzending van het bericht kunnen er geen rechten worden ontleend aan de informatie. ---------------------------------------------------------------- For list details see http://www.magnolia-cms.com/home/community/mailing-lists.html To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[email protected]> ----------------------------------------------------------------
