TutorialsDataObject as Pages: The Module

24 January 2012 | Aram Balakjian | DataObjects, Model Admin, Controllers, Search

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It's been a while since we published the DataObject as Pages series of tutorials, which have proved to be particularly popular. At Aab Web we use those techniques regularly as a way to allow our clients to mange large amounts of flat content or content that is distributed in multiple places throughout a site. Although the final implementations in each project are often varied and bespoke, they all start with the basics outlined in those tutorials, so it made sense for us to build a starting point to work from (and include some more complex features at the same time). That starting point is this module, catchily entitled: DataObject as Pages.

BlogSite of the Month - Vote Now!

6 January 2012 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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It's been a while, but Site of the month is finally back and there are some great sites to choose from!

TutorialsSetting and displaying custom messages in your site

31 October 2011 | Shea | Decorators, Controllers | Supports v2.4

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There is a method on SilverStripe's Form class to set a success or error message when the form is submitted. That's cool... but sometimes you need to display a message that is not related to a form. I've created a couple of simple controller methods to enable setting and displaying of message banners anytime.

BlogOctober Site of the Month Winner!

25 October 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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The Votes are in! And the winner of October's SSbits Site Of The Month is.....

BlogOctober Site of the Month - Vote Now!

11 October 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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It's time to vote on your favourite of this months 5 SilverStripe website nominations!

TutorialsAdding Custom Filterable Reports to ReportAdmin

7 October 2011 | Craig Ballantyne | CMS, Reports | Supports v2.4

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With only the standard Broken Links Report, the report admin area in Silverstripe's CMS can feel a bit underused.  In this tutorial I'm going to take a look at how you can add a custom report into the report admin section of the CMS which can make keeping track of a variety of statistics a little more straightforward.

To keep this simple I am going to give users the ability to assign a colour to each page on the site and then generate a report of any pages on the site that have been assigned a particular colour.

BlogEnter now! - October Site of the Month

4 October 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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Enter your site for a chance to be in the final 5 vote off! Voting will begin on the 12th of October.

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SnippetsAutomatically Redirect to the first Child Page without a Redirector Page

27 September 2011 | ekersten | URLs | Supports v2.4

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This is a little snipped i've been using to redirect a custom page to it's first child. It extends the init method of the Controller. This has proven useful in cases where the client wants to re-sort the child pages and doesn't want to mess around the configuration of a redirector page.

SnippetsInserting Javascript into a DOM Popup

11 September 2011 | Gordon Anderson | JavaScript, DataObjectManger | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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I recently ran into the problem of how to insert my own Javascript into a DOM (DataObjectManager) popup window.  After much googling and getting nowhere I resorted to reading the code and discovered that it was in fact quite simple to do.

The problem I was trying to solve was for a dropdown select box to toggle fields in the form, depending on whether a link is internal or external to the site. 

BlogAugust Site of the Month Winner!

9 September 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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The Votes are (finally) in! And the winner of September's SSbits Site Of The Month is.....

BlogVote Now! - August Site of the Month

15 August 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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Here they are, 5 great SilverStripe sites for you to vote for your favourite!

TutorialsSorting on a related DataObject in ModelAdmin

2 August 2011 | Simon Erkelens | DataObjects, Model Admin | Supports v2.4

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Sometimes, in ModelAdmin, we want to be able to have a different default sort.

Specifically, like in cases where a has_one is the preferred sorting. For example, we have a warehouse. In our DataObjects, we have the object "Lanes", has_many Products. And we have Products, has_one "Lanes". When we're browsing our Products in the admin, we want to have them default sorted by their Lane, not their name.

Just saying default_sort = 'Lanes'; sadly does not do the job. It'll give you reddish-screens and stuff. Which is not what we like.

Here's a (quite simple actually) solution.

SnippetsHighlighting Query Text in Search Results

12 July 2011 | Pete Bacon Darwin | Forms, Search | Supports v2.4

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Most search results I have seen with Silverstripe just return the Summary of the page or the FirstSentence.  I have knocked up a quick way to show a sentence from the page that contains the search term and even highlights it for you.

BlogJune Site of the Month Winner

4 July 2011 | Aram Balakjian | Site of the Month

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The Votes are in! And the winner of July's SSbits Site Of The Month is.....