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Lise T. Pedersen
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Posted on 02/10/2013 16:55:14

I have a small group of products in 8 categories, and I think, I am going to build a "product catalogue" in the news v2 module.

But is there any way, that I can "extract" the list of news categories and  items in each category and in some way show them in a fold-out (left) navigation?

Or any other ideas to solve this?

My problem is that I have to implement pages with overview of all products in each category, both with picture and text and link for each category/item. If it was only links, I could go the other way around, produce pages for each product and use either sitemap or navigation templates to "collect" them. But i'm not sure I can handle all the xslt-programming, these templates would need.


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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 02/10/2013 20:38:41
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Hi Lise,

 

As far as I know, there's no direct way to do it. However, you can use the extensibility API to inject your items into the main navigation. This article shows you how: http://devierkoeden.com/articles/extending-the-sitemap-with-dynamicweb-content.aspx

 

Cheers,

 

Imar

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 03/10/2013 09:46:12
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Hi Lise

 

Imars approach is a possibility.

 

BUT - you should consider using Items. They will be available in the navigation, can be published on pages using the item Publisher and can contain whatever data you need. That is the way to go.

 

BR Nicolai

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 03/10/2013 12:29:35
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Ah, yes, I agree. Items would make this much easier. Guess I still had my old extensibility API hat on.... ;-)

Imar

 
Lise T. Pedersen
Posted on 03/10/2013 12:49:28
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Thanks for your answers - I have not practiced anything with items yet, only seen it demonstrated, and it looks promising.. Can I find some study material/tutorials somewhere in the Engage (have searched in video archive, found nothing, and hans now signed up for a tech talk in november)??

Lise

 
Merethe Nielsen
Posted on 03/10/2013 13:01:37
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Hi Lise

 

A lot of documentation for items is placed in the manual: http://manual.dynamicweb-cms.com/Dynamicweb-On-line-Manual/Items.aspx

 

I agree with Nicolai. Items have a lot of possibilities and we improve it for each release.

 

Kind regards,

Merethe Nielsen

 
Merethe Nielsen
Posted on 03/10/2013 13:04:42
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In in the download section here on the developer site you can download a zip containing a design and datebase that illlustrate Nicolais "4 ways of implementing" which he has demoed on tech conference and in partner meetings:

http://developer.dynamicweb-cms.com/downloads/tech-conference-2013.aspx

 
Lise T. Pedersen
Posted on 03/10/2013 13:06:55
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Thank you Merethe - I'll ihave look at it immediately!!

 

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