What best practice using Related Data in Sitefinity 7

Posted by Community Admin on 08-Jul-2014 00:00

Hi experts,

What should use if using related data (especially for dynamic content related data) , on Sitefinity 7 as i know 2 things:

1. adding a custom field on content type with field type related data, or...
2. adding parent child (ex. content A has child content B it makes automatic related data)

so, what best practice for this case ? Thank you. I appreciated for an answer.

Regards,

Posted by Community Admin on 10-Jul-2014 00:00

Hello Anthony,

There is no best approach here. Both methods are viable and you should choose based on your preferences. I can personally recommend you use the first approach as there you can have multiple related data items, while multiple child modules with a single parent one is not possible in our system for the time being.

Regards,
Ivan D. Dimitrov
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 10-Jul-2014 00:00

May I have a sample code for the widget template for the second point (I did not find documented on the sitefinity documentation for the widget template of the second point about related content between dynamic content parent and dynamic content child (not related data field) )

Posted by Community Admin on 11-Jul-2014 00:00

anyway, i found the solutions point 2nd for widget template parent-child related data :

using this syntax to datasource repeater/ list

<%# Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules.DynamicModuleManager.GetManager().GetChildItems((Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules.Model.DynamicContent)Container.DataItem) %>

.... register block & assembly block....

....
<telerik:RadListView ID="dynamicContentListView" ItemPlaceholderID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" EnableEmbeddedSkins="false" EnableEmbeddedBaseStylesheet="false">
<LayoutTemplate>
<ul>
<asp:PlaceHolder ID="ItemsContainer" runat="server" />
</ul>
</LayoutTemplate>
<ItemTemplate>
<li class="sfitem sflistitem sfClearfix" data-sf-provider='<%# Eval("Provider.Name")%>' data-sf-id='<%# Eval("Id")%>' data-sf-type="Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules.Model.DynamicContent">
<img src='<%# ((Telerik.Sitefinity.Libraries.Model.Image)Eval("Image")).Url %>' />
<ul>
<asp:Repeater ID="Repeater1" runat="server" DataSource='<%# Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules.DynamicModuleManager.GetManager().GetChildItems((Telerik.Sitefinity.DynamicModules.Model.DynamicContent)Container.DataItem) %>'>
<ItemTemplate>
<li>
<%# Eval("Title") %>
</li>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:Repeater>
</ul>
</li>
</ItemTemplate>
</telerik:RadListView>
....

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