I am new to Umbraco CMS, so this question may sound silly. The requirement is to show the tags (based on a specific tag group) to editors in a dropbox, and they could able to choose these tags and save it to the article. What is the best way of achieving this?
The tag property allows free text entry. If you only want editors to select from a predefined list of options you will probably need to do this a different way. You may want to try the dropdown property with the multiple choice option turned on instead. Then you can setup the prevalues (options) ahead of time and your editors can only select from that list.
You could also create a container in the tree for your categories and then allow your admins to select the appropriate items from that list using a multinode tree picker. Here's kind of an example of how you might structure this for a blog:
Blog
Authors
Author
Categories
Category
Posts
Post
Then when an admin adds a new post you would allow them to select the appropriate authors/categories for the post using a multinode tree picker.
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In a given area path, I would to get the list of stories that does not have parent feature link. How should I write the query for it?
To achieve you could change the type of your query to the Work items and Direct Links query, then choose the option to pull back all work items without any matching links. The results will still be a flat list.
In the filters for top level work items, just add a filed to specify a detail area path and choose corresponding work item type.
More details please take a look at our official here: Use direct links to view dependencies
Hope this helps.
I'm looking for something like an editor but instead of the user editing just a post or page the user can edit the default template layout or view layout for all pages associated to something.
I'll give an example to get my question across because i really don't know what it would be called.
Say for example you have categories. (people, animals, etc..)
Now imagine there is a category of people, each person in the category has the keys 'height', 'weight' and 'age' and each key has values assigned to them (height: 120 cm, weight: 80 pounds, age: 25)
I want the user to be able to edit the layout of the people page (page template or view that each person is displayed on) and be able to add in the keys they want to be displayed on the page.
So say they add the keys ‘height’ and ‘weight’ it will only display the height and weight on every person page, plus whatever pre set text the user added in the template editor for the people pages to display.
I could probably find a good editor that can be customised and change it to my liking but there might already be gems out there made for this.
My question is, is there a gem for basically letting users set templates for record pages.
Even if there is something out there to change views for objects but the user cant set the keys on it, i'd still like to see it because I might be able to add the key/value functionality to it.
Hopefully you understand what I'm looking for.
UPDATE
Ok so i appears I'm after an editor that works with a template engine like liquid or one thats both an editor and template engine.
If you plan on building from scratch, it sounds like it could be done using rails generate scaffold this allows views/models/controllers to create pages for each of your categories.
Then you can use Associations to create associations between your categories.
You can also make different user roles by making a field called "Role" in your Users relation
Otherwise, there are also open-source software Active Admin to manage content for your categories.
EDIT: After looking around I found a gem you can use to have end-users edit your own views, feel free to check out Liquid.
I want to ask how to SEO-wise properly structure URLs for e-commerce store (eshop) with multiple categories being nested in different ways.
Let's use example of cars. Customer can filter products using several features, by brand, car and fuel. And I want to use selected filter options in URL like this:
www.foo.com/mercedes
www.foo.com/blue-cars
www.foo.com/diesel-cars/blue-cars/mercedes
But I also want to maintain the navigation path user used to get to his filtered products. So the problem is, that I will have different URLs having exactly same content, e.g.:
www.foo.com/diesel-cars/blue-cars/mercedes
www.foo.com/mercedes/diesel-cars/blue-cars
www.foo.com/blue-cars/mercedes/diesel-cars
And so I will have duplicate content as well. I could/should do a rel="canonical" in those pages to one MAIN url, however, it stil will be a little mess. Any suggestion or best practice how to deal with this problem ?
If you have the same item (car) on multiple categories very often, you definitely risk a duplicate content issue.
Solutions:
Have a main category only, ex: http://example.com/cars and add a query string for filtering ex: http://example.com/cars?color=blue
Stackoverflow use a similar approach look here:
Use canonical link to improve link and ranking signals for content available through multiple URL. More info from Google here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en
I need to set up a field in LocomotiveCMS that is similar to Select but allows multiple selections. Something like in HTML... does LocomotiveCMS allow for that, or will I have to do some ruby coding to get that to work?
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Old question but still a thing.
I'm unsure whether your question relates to fields within the Locomotive CMS Back Office or on the front end so I've addressed both below.
Front End
Irrespective of whether or not you're dealing with Locomotive CMS content types, either of the following will allow selection of multiple values on the front end:
Listbox (select element with the multiple attribute)
A series of checkbox inputs with the same value in the name property
Back Office
If you need to allow selection of multiple values within the Back Office, you can do this for content types using the has_many or many_to_many content type relationships.
If you need multiple value selection outside of content types (e.g. in metafields schema) you're unfortunately out of luck.
I am working on a web app which lets users tell their favourite movies, directors, movie- writers, and actors. For this I want to provide them a dropdown list or auto complete for each of them so that they can just pick their choices.
For this:
I need a list of all movie titles, actors, directors, writers present on Imdb.
I checked Imdbpy and it does not seem to provide methods to get this data.
Would using imdbpy2sql.py to create a database and using sql to query the db, provide the required data? Is there any other way to do this?
Thanks!
Using imdbpy2sql.py to create a database and using SQL to query the db, will provide you the required data.
You can also try using Java Movie Database or imdbdumpimport to read in the text files to SQL.
The last option to do this is parsing the plain text files provided by IMDb yourself.
I think your best option is to parse the plain text files distributed here: imdb interfaces.
You probably just need the 'movies', 'actors', 'actresses' and 'director' file; they are quite easy to parse.