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  • bayshield 50 posts 65 karma points
    Jul 18, 2010 @ 18:07
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    Related Nodes

    I am working on a family history site and am looking for some advice on the best way to handle related nodes.

    I have a person docType that contains all the persons details, Name, DOB etc.., what I need now is to find the best way of linking a person with another person whilst indicating the relationship (i.e. Person 1 is the father of person 2).

    Any recommendations?  

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  • Matt Brailsford 2958 posts 15629 karma points MVP 7x c-trib
    Jul 18, 2010 @ 19:46
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    Hi Bayshield,

    I'd look into the Relations API. There is a nice explination on Hendys blog

    http://blog.hendyracher.co.uk/umbraco-relation-api/

    There is not real front end to it (though hendy also has a handy package to help http://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/relation-types), but it allows you to relate multiple nodes together and easily query them to find related nodes.

    I'd probably make a relation type for each kind of relation "Mother", "Father", then query the relation API for related nodes.

    There are also some handy videos on umbraco.tv if you have a subscription:

    http://umbraco.org/documentation/videos/for-developers/relations/introduction-to-relations

    Matt

     

     

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  • bayshield 50 posts 65 karma points
    Jul 28, 2010 @ 11:48
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    Thanks Matt.  Hendy's post was exactly what I was looking for.

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