Folks I'm building a simple "multi-level selector" to link off to content. Easy enough?
I want to ensure that our business area/non-techs are able to edit this logic easily (change where links go to for example)
Do we think taxonomies are the best way to maintain this? Or maybe some sort of text/flatfile that is editible (i'm new to sitefinity)
Here's an example data structure
and our frontend would have two (or however many dropdowns) and the button would send you off to the content.
This should be easy enough, but again not sure what the best way to start developing this widget
Hmm actually maybe this will help: www.progress.com/.../display-hierarchy-of-content-items
Edit: ah maybe not, I don't need a seperate piece of content for each level, I just need to assign a combination to a piece of content
Alright yeah I'm confused.
Looks like I may need a dynamic content type (so I can have a hierarchy), which means I need a module?
You could use tags or categories (I recommend this to build hierarchy) for this, you will still need a piece of content to assign those too, so a dynamic module build with Module builder would be a good choice. Your widget then can use the TaxonomyManager.GetStatistics() to get all the tags or categories assigned to your content type and build your menus by Taxon level.
knowledgebase.progress.com/.../how-to-get-all-items-to-which-a-category-is-assigned-using-the-api
Cool I'll try that, thanks again jread!
Just another related question, Sitefinity does not have multi-level lists (lists of lists) out of the box, correct?
With a custom content type built with the module builder, you can build you hierarchy as you feel needed