I've just looked to your site and description of your concept
(http://www.fastforward.ch/ff/de/dokumentation/entwickler/m4sd/downloads/contentParagraph/02/document/screenshot.jpg).
And I have suggestion:
On your screenshot you categorize object by types (News, Products,...)
It is not clear. I think that the best way is:
First of all you should separate meta data from content. For this purpose:
1. create folder "Classes" where you should register you new classes and
attributes.
For example classes:
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class:{code="objects_folder",title="Universal folder",repository="magnolia"},
attributes:
attribute{name="title",title="Folder
title",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
attribute{name="subfolder_type",title="Subfolder
type",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
attribute{name="objects_type",title="Object
type",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
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class:{code="news",title="News",repository="magnolia"},
attributes:
attribute{name="date",title="Date",type="Date",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
attribute{name="title",title="Article
title",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
attribute{name="body",title="Text",type="Text",isShowInList="false",isShowInDialog="true",...}
attribute{name="author",title="Author",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
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First step you can make using current version of Magnolia.
Last steps:
2. create folder "Content" and subfolder "Articles".
For subfolder "Articles" you should define mandatory attributes
"subfolder_type" and " objects_type".
3. You should write you own MetaDetaManager - it will load all your classes
when Magnolia start up (it is easy - it simple DOM parser)
4. You should write you own "tree" and object list implementation for console -
it should looks like:
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Articles | Date | Title | Author |
News(selected) |-----------------------------------
About company | 1.02.06|First ne..| unknown |
Articles archive | 2.02.06|About me | Vanya |
.... | | | |
Products | | | |
DVD | | | |
TV | | | |
MP3 Players | | | |
... | | | |
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It is most difficult part.
That is all.
In this case you will have structured information.
And in this case you can easy register new types
Using new "tree"/"object list" implementation:
class:{code="class",title="Class",repository="magnolia"},
attributes:
attribute{name="code",title="Code",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
attribute{name="title",title="Class
Title",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
attribute{name="repository",title="Repository",type="String",isShowInList="true",isShowInDialog="true",...}
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Classes | Code | Title | Repository |
News module(select) |-------------------------------------------------
Forum module | objects_folder | Universal folder | magnolia |
.... | news | News | magnolia |
| class | Class | magnolia |
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Asking :)
Thanks,
Andrey
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 8:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [magnolia-user] Using Custom Content Types with Magnolia
For what its worth we're currently working on something similar but
open source - for the Community Edition - because we believe this
should simply be a part of a cms. It's far from being completed. But
for those interested you can find more info here:
http://www.fastforward.ch/ff/de/dokumentation/entwickler/m4sd.html
Regards,
Will
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