Hello Fellows and Gurus !

I've just started out working in a new company this week, on a MCMS
2002 project. Knowing that, I bought the "Building Websites with MCMS
", pdf version : no time to lose. I am already half-way through.
Fumble around the WoodGroveNet Sample site too and browse the WWW for
information regarding a common issue (according to me). I did not get
any clue so far...

So here is the issue at stake :
Our customer would like to be able to publish a list of text
paragraphes, highlight some of them, and on the top of it, create some
kind of dynamic "local" navigation within the same page (probably as a
usercontrol) featuring anchor links (#parag_1, #parag_2) pointing to
these paragraphes...  You can also consider building a FAQ (with some
"Question & Answer" items) to get the whole picture.

>From what I've seen / read so far, within the template you can edit
content within some preset placeholders. However you cannot really add
a collection of placeholders as far as I know.

Is there a way to solve this issue or is this beyond the possibilities
of MCMS ?
In a nutshell :
- provide a collections of items within the same page "authorable"
with various options and input controls ?
- generate a local (anchor) navigation based on the items listed in
this page ?

Any ideas, hints & tips much appreciated.

Thanx !

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Hi,

I would go with an XmlPlaceholder to hold the data of the FAQ in a
structured manner.
Then create a custom placeholder control that renders a different input
control for each section in the XML.

To allow adding another section render an additional empty control at the
end.

When ever a content is added allow a postback to the server to add a new
control to the end of the list.

During save read the content of all child controls and generate the XML out
of it.

To allow highlighting you could add a check box beside each textbox control
to flag which to highlight.
Add this as an attribute to the XML.

Cheers,
Stefan


"Sagamore" <cotasson@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183576801.917277.19720@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Hello Fellows and Gurus !
>
> I've just started out working in a new company this week, on a MCMS
> 2002 project. Knowing that, I bought the "Building Websites with MCMS
> ", pdf version : no time to lose. I am already half-way through.
> Fumble around the WoodGroveNet Sample site too and browse the WWW for
> information regarding a common issue (according to me). I did not get
> any clue so far...
>
> So here is the issue at stake :
> Our customer would like to be able to publish a list of text
> paragraphes, highlight some of them, and on the top of it, create some
> kind of dynamic "local" navigation within the same page (probably as a
> usercontrol) featuring anchor links (#parag_1, #parag_2) pointing to
> these paragraphes...  You can also consider building a FAQ (with some
> "Question & Answer" items) to get the whole picture.
> 
> content within some preset placeholders. However you cannot really add
> a collection of placeholders as far as I know.
>
> Is there a way to solve this issue or is this beyond the possibilities
> of MCMS ?
> In a nutshell :
>  - provide a collections of items within the same page "authorable"
> with various options and input controls ?
> - generate a local (anchor) navigation based on the items listed in
> this page ?
>
> Any ideas, hints & tips much appreciated.
>
> Thanx !
>
> --
> http://blog.cotasson.info/
>

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Hi Stefan,

Thanks very much for your quick reply.
As I said I was half-way through your book and just read about the
checkboxlistPlaceHolder last night...
This is something I need to investigate today. Good thing I bought
this book.

For the side dynamic anchor navigation, I guess I need to retrieve and
parse the content of the xmlplaceholder
currentPosting.placeHolders["myXML"]

and populate the navigation according to the XML node / attribute
value.

Thanks again.

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Hi,

yes you would need to parse the XML.

Cheers,
Stefan


"Sagamore" <cotasson@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Stefan,
>
> Thanks very much for your quick reply.
> As I said I was half-way through your book and just read about the
> checkboxlistPlaceHolder last night...
> This is something I need to investigate today. Good thing I bought
> this book.
>
> For the side dynamic anchor navigation, I guess I need to retrieve and
> parse the content of the xmlplaceholder
> currentPosting.placeHolders["myXML"]
>
> and populate the navigation according to the XML node / attribute
> value.
>
> Thanks again.
>

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