Following the portfolio-tutorial, the documentation mentions a limitation near the end when it comes to dynamically updating and storing information relating virtual folders (http://www.couchcms.com/docs/tutorials/ ... folio.html):
The tutorial mentions that this is only a temporary solution.
Has there been some progress on a more user-friendly solution to dynamically provide and display custom folder information?
Ideally we'd want to provide the user with a richtext editor for entering the description of each folder and a single line text field for its blurb. However, Couch (currently) has no provision for adding any custom information to folders.
To get around this limitation, we'll use a method that should prove useful in several other scenarios too and hence is worth taking a look.
We'll create a separate new template containing the desired editable regions. For each folder (category) that we define for portfolio.php, we'll then create a matching cloned page out of this new template. In these cloned pages we'll store information about each folder.
Finally, while listing the folders, we'll fetch back the data from each associated page and display it.
This technique does entail the maintenance of a separate set of pages that need to be kept synchronized with the original objects, however, it will get the job done quite well.
The tutorial mentions that this is only a temporary solution.
Has there been some progress on a more user-friendly solution to dynamically provide and display custom folder information?
