sub-content class

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Dries Samyn

Wednesday 19 May 2004 7:37:02 am

First of all, sory if this would be covered in the manual somewhere, I haven't been able to find it yet.

When setting up a content class, how is it possible to enable it to have "sub content". For example, when you create a "product", you can then add as mnany "product reviews" as you want. I can't seem to see how that is being enabled.

What I am trying to do is create a content type for a page that allows to have text and any amount of URLs (including title and descrption) at the bottom.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,
Dries.

Guglielmo Celata

Wednesday 19 May 2004 9:59:50 am

Hi Dries,
what I usually do, is to create a new class of content (in your case: <i>product review</i>) and create <i>product reviews</i> as children objects of the <i>product</i> object, using the <i>Create here</i> button in the admin interface.

That is, you don't impose the relation at a design level (i.e. when specifying classes), but at an implementation level (i.e. when creating objects).

It's questionable, but it works.

Remember, though, that you have to enforce a policy, so that the user you choose to authorize, can only create <i>product reviews</i> under a <i>product</i> object and nowhere else (it can be done in the <i>role</i> sub-section of the <i>user</i> section of the admin interface.

Sounds complicated, but it's absolutely not.

Bye,
Guglielmo

Dries Samyn

Thursday 20 May 2004 1:00:49 am

Guglielmo,

Thanks for the reply. I think I understand what you are saying. But how come some content objects (for example the ones of type "product") have a "create here" button, and others don't?
I'll explain better. For example, I would like to have subcontent for "article" objects (for a "related links" list for example), but if I create an ojbect of the type "article", I cannot see a "create here" button.

Thanks,

Dries.

Guglielmo Celata

Thursday 20 May 2004 3:55:23 am

Well, Dries,
the Article class is treated as an exception in the default administration interface. I don't know exactly why (I suppose it's a bug, but you'd better ask somebody in the crew).

You can very easily change this behaviour, anyway, by modifying the following file:

[ezRoot]/design/admin/override/templates/article.tpl

All you have to do is remove the comment around the

<div class="buttonblock">

block where the <i>create here</i> button lies.

Well ... that's what I've done :-)

Guglielmo

Dries Samyn

Thursday 20 May 2004 4:28:04 am

Thanks for the reply!
I suppose I could also add a new custom class based on article.

I'm pretty interested to hear what the reason behind it is though? Can anybody of the "crew" comment on this?

Cheers,

Dries.

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