On Jan 12, 2:21 am, JB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive this rather general question but I've gotten balled up looking > at the keyword management functionality used to create categories of > things and custom content. What I need to be able to do is create > several static look-up tables. These will be used on several forms > throughout the site and a good example might be something like a > Contact Us type, used to allow the user to select a general inquiry > type along with their free text. Another might be a Country List, and > State List for use in various address forms. I certainly see how > custom content can be used to do this, but before I simple jump in, I > am wondering if this is the best practice for simple look-up values.
If you want the table managed by the framework you will need to create a content type. You will end up with a lot of extra fields with seemingly no use. In your place, I would probably create a content type for the "contact enquiry" -- because you may want to send different enquiries to different mail addresses, show different confirmation text and so on. All of this sits nicely in a content type. For the country drop down, you might consider building your own formtool -- this is a component that builds a UI element in a form. This might simply have the country list embedded in the component rather than in a table. This works well for countries because you rarely change them. -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
