Data From another database (same server) -progrmaticaly included
Ok. Here is what I have.
We have an existing document system which we use for newsletter delivery. That piece is all setup and running, working, and do a lot of diff. work to deliver newsletters.
It has document categories, tagging, and authors.
When these things are added to a document the pages have already been developed so that it looks up data and displays something like this:
What I don't want to do is replicate the Author information,categories so I want to have a way to choose author and category in umbraco.
Then when that page is rendered I want it to pull dynamically for that page the author information and the category information based on what was selected and create the above format.
So before someone chimes in. I wanted to have some community take on this. We have a custom built user management, paid content management solution which does not need to change at this time. However, there are some things that I would want to share and eventually I Wonder if this will cause more of an issue than not. For example if I were to incorporate an umbraco community forum, I would have to recode it all since it's probably based on the member table and it's not easy to convert it over to external data?
What about using like I mentioned in the prior post, categories\author info from an external database use it to identify certain pages? It just seems to me that because we have all this foundation already laid it it's going to be very difficult to implement any existing tools and it will require everything I built to be customized.
So I need to make custom data types, custom rendered control, custom user controls, etc.
Everything pretty much custom. Unless I am missing something I just don't see the value in using umbraco for this particular system.
Data From another database (same server) -progrmaticaly included
Ok. Here is what I have.
We have an existing document system which we use for newsletter delivery. That piece is all setup and running, working, and do a lot of diff. work to deliver newsletters.
It has document categories, tagging, and authors.
When these things are added to a document the pages have already been developed so that it looks up data and displays something like this:
[AUTHOR PIC ] POSTED: [DOC DATE]
BY: [AUTHOR NAME]
[MAIN CONTENT]
[CATEGORIES]
[TAGS]
What I don't want to do is replicate the Author information,categories so I want to have a way to choose author and category in umbraco.
Then when that page is rendered I want it to pull dynamically for that page the author information and the category information based on what was selected and create the above format.
Is this possible and if so how?
Thank you to anyone that can help me out.
So before someone chimes in. I wanted to have some community take on this. We have a custom built user management, paid content management solution which does not need to change at this time. However, there are some things that I would want to share and eventually I Wonder if this will cause more of an issue than not. For example if I were to incorporate an umbraco community forum, I would have to recode it all since it's probably based on the member table and it's not easy to convert it over to external data?
What about using like I mentioned in the prior post, categories\author info from an external database use it to identify certain pages? It just seems to me that because we have all this foundation already laid it it's going to be very difficult to implement any existing tools and it will require everything I built to be customized.
So I need to make custom data types, custom rendered control, custom user controls, etc.
Everything pretty much custom. Unless I am missing something I just don't see the value in using umbraco for this particular system.
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