Hi,
We have a project where we need to dynamically create the following item structure in the frontend:
- Case X
- Box A
- prod_Item 1
- prod_Item 2
- prod_Item 3
- Box B
- prod_Item 4
- prod_Item 5
- Box C
- prod_Item 6
- prod_Item 7
- prod_Item 8
- Box A
Ideally a Case would be an Item (within a named item list [we expect hundreds per month plus the ability to search is important]), Boxes would be an itemlist associated with a Case and prod_Items as an item list within Boxes, but that't not possible in the current Dynamicweb version.
Considering http://developer.dynamicweb.com/forum.aspx?PID=48&ThreadID=40383 we figured out that we create "Cases" with the Item Creator and redirect them to another page with the Item creator, where we create the "Boxes", and then redirect them to another page to create the "prod_Items". Reasons:
- Each case may have multiple boxes and each box may have multiple prod_items
- We cannot create item lists within an item using the item creator (current DW version)
- Since we cannot have item lists within items lists, "Cases" are pages, "Boxes" are pages and "prod_Items" are paragraphs
We made it work by manually inserting a paragraph (in SQL) with the item creator module on every new page (Case and Boxes), but that does not seem a very good approach since we need to develop something to clean that paragraph after everything is done.
One thing I also though was what if we could do RenderParagraphContent and override the module's settings (check attachment) to dynamically set the Target page, but don't know how/if it is possible. That way we could avoid creating a paragraph with the item creator module on evey new Case/Box.
Any help/guidance is appreciatted. Right now I just need a suggestion on what the best path should be (maybe even considering future updates of Dynamicweb where we could do some SQL queries to update the data).
Best Regards,
Nuno Aguiar
