[opencms-dev] Custom Module and Detail Page

[Alexander Kandzior]

Markus

Regaring your 2nd question:

- It is possible to have a certain resource type spread to multiple folders
within the /.content/ hierarchy? This would be required to create collectors
showing different articles, but using the same details page.

There are 2 options:

1. You create a subsite. The subsite will then have its own detail page and
content folder. So you have 2 detail pages for the same content, one in each
subsite. This would be a preferred solution to distinguish e.g. between news
issues by different departments. I this scenario you could also set
different read/write access to the different news folders.

2. You leave all resources in the same folder, but use a category to
distinguish different types of e.g. news. There are ready made collectors
for this which collect all news only of category A or B. There is also a
category selection widget which you should use in you news XSD, so that the
content manager can easily define the category of the news.

I recommend option 2 if you don't need the different read/write access.

Kind Regards,
Alex.
 
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Alexander Kandzior
                                                              
Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts                 
http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org                  


-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Markus Fischböck
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 5:07 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] Custom Module and Detail Page

Hi everyone!

I was wondering if there are any specifications or tutorials to get a
details page to work with my custom module.

>From what i've gathered from various tutorials and the wiki was the
following:

- Create a own module as well as the module_config (.config) file and
adjust the all Resourcetype values accordingly to my requirements
(Typename, Name within the .content directory, Pattern)

- Create a config folder within the module and the related
"content.sitemap.config" file. I've supplied (type name, folder, pattern
and formatter settings)

- Create a details page using the sitemap editor for the related
resourcetype.


Further i've created a configurable list (from the provided opencms
module) and configured it to show a listing of the designated resources.
Problem is that the links are not interchanged to the details page, but
still point to the /.content/<resourcetype>/xy_00001.html files.


Another question would be if it is possible to have a certain resource
type spread to multiple folders within the /.content/ hierarchy. This
would be required to create collectors showing different articles, but
using the same details page.
Example:

ResourceType: CustomNews
should be stored in /.content/news
as well as in /.content/archive

It would work to have 2 different configurable lists showing those
contents, but I'm not able to map it to the same details page.
Any help appreciated!

Thanks in advance and best regards,

Markus Fischboeck

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