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  • Andrew Trenton Massery 2 posts 82 karma points
    Nov 08, 2017 @ 15:55
    Andrew Trenton Massery
    0

    Advice on making a database that acts like a contact list of sorts?

    I can't seem to find the right way to word my question. Basically before Umbraco I was using Angular.js and I had a file that looked like this:

                {
                        ref: 'physician',
                        title: 'Dr.',
                        titleFull: 'Doctor',
                        firstName: 'John',
                        lastName: 'Does',
                        region: 'OB/GYN',
                        extension: '1111',
                        fax: '111-1111',
                        number: ''
                },
                {
                        ref: 'physician',
                        title: 'Dr.',
                        titleFull: 'Doctor',
                        firstName: 'Jane',
                        lastName: 'Doe',
                        region: 'Outside',
                        extension: '',
                        fax: '222-2222',
                        number: '222-2222'
                },
    

    This file had a lot of information like above that my search function would narrow down so people could easily find information on our intranet. Is there a way to do something similar in Umbraco? Or maybe with a package of some kind? I know this is a dumb question but I can't seem to Google the right thing to ask.

  • Nigel Wilson 939 posts 2061 karma points
    Nov 09, 2017 @ 16:25
    Nigel Wilson
    100

    Hi there Andrew

    If appropriate you could create a Document Type with the necessary properties as detailed and load the data in the admin area of Umbraco.

    Then you can create a custom Lucene index and reference that for searching. This does require both client and server side coding.

    Just one option.

    Cheers, Nigel

  • Andrew Trenton Massery 2 posts 82 karma points
    Nov 10, 2017 @ 14:32
    Andrew Trenton Massery
    0

    Hey I'm sorry for the late reply. I think my account was in a probation period from just signing up.

    I managed to find a grid add-on that lets me make what I was looking for. It's not super pretty but it does what I need it to do.

    Thanks for your advice though! If you don't mind me asking, do you know how I could go about bulk uploading that data to the server? My programming skills are very skewed so I'm a bit unsure how to send data to the SQL database

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