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Ash8087
Ash8087

Reputation: 701

List of News Articles In Sitecore (Best Approach?)

I am creating a Sitecore MVC site for a client and I need to create page that will list news articles for the company.

So far, I have created items that use a shared data template called “Article,” and I also have a sublayout (a view rendering) called “Article” that will display these items.

For the list itself, my plan was to create another component (a sublayout) call “News_List”, and to put a placeholder in it called “List”.

My question is this: can I allow the author to insert articles (e.g., N items of type “Article”) into this placeholder via the page editor?

Will SC allow you to insert multiple instances of the same component into a placeholder? Will this break anything?

I believe this is a pretty common question but I have not found a definitive answer. Thanks in advance…!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 364

Answers (2)

Gatogordo
Gatogordo

Reputation: 2635

You can insert as many components (of the same type) in your placeholder as you want.. Just make sure to put the placeholder settings correctly and give it a decent name (not just "list" ;))

But are you sure you want to do this? Your editors will manually need to create a list of components for each article they want to add on the page. Doesn't sound to be very user (editor) friendly.. Maybe you should consider creating a list component that can get a list of articles as a datasource and show those. Or even select them automatically (but that might be not according to your business case)..

Upvotes: 1

Marek Musielak
Marek Musielak

Reputation: 27132

Yes, authors can add multiple instances of the same component into a single placeholder.

Assuming that the code of the component doesn't do any stupid things it's absolutely ok to do this.

Upvotes: 0

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