Interesting Problem RE: Sharing content (records) between sections
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Last Post: February 10, 2011 (RSS)
Hello,
I am building a site for a construction company that wants to simplify the process of helping their customers choose which materials/colors/etc. will be used for various rooms.
I plan to use category menus within CMSB to create "rooms" (such as kithen, bath, living room, etc.), and then "products" within each room (such as floor coverings, wall finish, wall paint color, etc.), and then use the image upload feature to build an array of choices for each.
Ideally, I'd like to have the client be able to enter items that are common among several room types once, and then have those choices "shared" among the room types that use those products. For example, I'd like to create a section called "wall paint colors" that could be updated in one place, so that the same choices can be used in every "room" that allows "wall paint colors" as a choice, without having to modify each room's records individually whenever the client wants to add/delete/modify paint colors.
Hope this makes sense - any insights greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
-Dan
I am building a site for a construction company that wants to simplify the process of helping their customers choose which materials/colors/etc. will be used for various rooms.
I plan to use category menus within CMSB to create "rooms" (such as kithen, bath, living room, etc.), and then "products" within each room (such as floor coverings, wall finish, wall paint color, etc.), and then use the image upload feature to build an array of choices for each.
Ideally, I'd like to have the client be able to enter items that are common among several room types once, and then have those choices "shared" among the room types that use those products. For example, I'd like to create a section called "wall paint colors" that could be updated in one place, so that the same choices can be used in every "room" that allows "wall paint colors" as a choice, without having to modify each room's records individually whenever the client wants to add/delete/modify paint colors.
Hope this makes sense - any insights greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
-Dan
Re: [danwilson] Interesting Problem RE: Sharing content (records) between sections
To put this into more familiar terms, this would be similar to a newspaper site creating a list of different writers that could be attached to a story. Using the image upload feature (and the custom data fields 1-4), you could upload a picture of the writer, his name, byline, email, and even a short bio - and then choose, at the article level, which writer to publish with the story. Hope this is all making sense - I realize it's a somewhat abstract scenario, but my thanks go out to all who are taking a look at this and might be able to offer a solution.
-Dan
-Dan
Re: [danwilson] Interesting Problem RE: Sharing content (records) between sections
By ross - February 10, 2011
Hi Dan
Thanks for posting! I think I understand what you are looking for here and I would actually setup each "room" as its own section and then have the different options as records in that section.
On your main list of items, you can create drop down menus that pull values from each "room" that list all the records you created in their sections as options.
Then on the display pages, you can code them to do look ups and display all the appropriate information.
Does that make sense? Let me know what you think. Thanks!
Thanks for posting! I think I understand what you are looking for here and I would actually setup each "room" as its own section and then have the different options as records in that section.
On your main list of items, you can create drop down menus that pull values from each "room" that list all the records you created in their sections as options.
Then on the display pages, you can code them to do look ups and display all the appropriate information.
Does that make sense? Let me know what you think. Thanks!
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