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  • Jules 205 posts 448 karma points
    Jul 07, 2011 @ 17:52
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    How could I approach this ? :-)

    Hi I have an interesting project that I am exploring at the moment.

    I will simplify in order to explain.

    There are 4 templates each of which will be used to create a layout similar to below.  Each layout will display 15 product images.  There are about 1500 products so about 100 of these layouts will be generated.

    I am relatively new to Umbraco but know the basics quite well having completed 4 projects. Anyway I would usually do all the above working from a normalised database. I would have a templates table related to a boxes table. The boxes table would store all of the css layout information.

    In addition we would have something like the following table arrangement: 

    Templates --< Layouts --< LayoutBoxes --< Boxes

    This would allow me to assign a template to a layout and then access all of the box layout info for that template.  Table LayoutBoxes would also have product id in it so we could assign the products to a specific box.

    Still here??? Respect!!!

    Anyway I would love to do this in umbraco becuase it would make other content management aspects of this project much smoother.  I could do all of this using usercontrols and base this part of it on a separate database but there must be a better Umbraco way of doing this with document types templates and content pages and xslt. And I really want to learn more about Umbraco as well so have been looking for a more challenging project like this.

    Because of the complexity of the data relations, I am not entirely sure of a general approach here.

    Can anyone advise on a general approach?

    Thanks

    Jules

     

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