mattbrailsford/umbraco-fluidity

Nested Collections Parent/Child

markprouse opened this issue · 2 comments

markprouse commented

Is it possible to have nested collections with Fluidity?

Persons
____|--> Person (fields etc)
____|--> Children
____________|--> Child (fields etc)
____________|--> Children
____________________|--> Child (fields etc)

If not natively, is there a work around which i can do achieve this using say three Collections so as i drill down each time i see the Children list and tabs for fields etc?

mattbrailsford commented

@markprouse not currently no, it's a long standing open issue #41. I'm hoping to spend some time on Fluidity next year for some big updates, but until I can focus on it, that won't be possible.

The only thing you can do right now is have them as separate collections and give the child items a parent picker property to pick the master entity. Then in the list view, created filters to filter by specific parent types. Not ideal, but best we have atm.

c9mb commented

If you haven't already done so, then I'd recommend that before starting on big updates to Fluidity, you should download a trial copy of Sitefinity and check out the 'Dynamic Modules' function, for some inspiration in what Fluidity could be to Umbraco. Prior to being an Umbraco developer, I spent many years as a Sitefinity developer, and it was quite a step backwards to lose the functionality of something I'd simply taken for granted as a basic CMS feature. Of course, commercial software vs. open source is a challenge when it comes to matching feature-sets, and everyone makes their choices on where that trade-off needs to be, but it's good to know what's available in the marketplace and where the bar is set.