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jaichandler-gmail - 3/16/2011 5:55:12 AM
   
New to Kentico and I need some Help
Hi everybody.
I am looking to rebuild a Site in Kentico, I am thinking that I will custom Documents to define the main bulk of the site which is like this
please see this site: http://www.mosaicholidays.co.uk

Country
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Resort
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Country

And I will define all the content in the Custom documents.

Is this the right approach, or is there a better way. All this data exists already in a database, but I want this data Things like body text etc to be editable by the Content writers.

I am doing a few tests, and my Custom document is not working. I create a page called test, then I try to add a custom document to it which I called country. I fill out the form but I cant see any content on the page.

What am I doing wrong? There is the default transformation but nothing shows on the page.

Also how can I link the Structure as above, and how would I go about getting all resorts under say Egypt.

Many thanks

Jason

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Jason - 3/16/2011 5:57:47 AM
   
RE:New to Kentico and I need some Help
Sorry the structure should be:
Country
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Resort
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Hotel

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Chanan - 3/16/2011 6:05:07 AM
   
RE:New to Kentico and I need some Help
I suggest you follow the corporate site guide that Kentico has. It gives some good examples of how to use the repeater with transformations to show data in a similar manner.

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kentico_borisp - 3/23/2011 9:27:05 AM
   
RE:New to Kentico and I need some Help
Hello,

This structure can be simply achieved by placing the documents in the correct location and create a structure exactly as described in your post. If you have troubles displaying the content then you can check our sample sites as suggested by Chanan or you can enable debug to see what data is retrieved. For all the debug web.config keys please check our documentation.

If you are displaying the content with a transformation, then please check if anything is returned by placing some static string into it and uncheck the "Hide if no record found" property to see if even one document is returned.

If this doesn't help you please describe your problem in more detail and post maybe some screen shots, to see exactly, what is happening on your side.

Best regards,
Boris Pocatko