Hi,

Id like to add a feature to my site where I have 5 custom selected Important cloned pages featured on the homepage or in the sidebar of other cloned pages. I know I could add a checkbox to the cloned page template and list the 5 latest pages that has that checkbox checked. But what will happen then is that all authors on the site will just check it each time to get their article featured in more places.

Therefore I was thinking if it is possible to have a separate template called Settings or whatever, where I could list all cloned pages and have a checkbox next to them. Then I could check the pages that I would like to feature.

cheesypoof once showed me a great technique where I could feed cloned pages into a dropdown of another template with a snippet file and using opt_values='somefile.html' dynamic='opt_values', but I can't really figure out how to do that in this instance, since I would need checkboxes.

A problem could be that I have a lot of cloned pages, so loading them all into a settings page might not be a very good idea. It could be slow, and hard to navigate. Another idea might be to use repeatable regions, again in a settings template, and feeding it ID's or page_names? But I'm not sure if it is possible to then display the page titles and images associated with these ID's then?

Any ideas would be appreciated, if it isn't possible with Couch then that is ok too. I can always do it the manual way be hardcoding it into the HTML files.

[trendoman]

Between hard-code and autoassign one should choose what's the most fun thing to do

In case you decide to go with the latter and therefore bear the consequences I can suggest the following technique:

Indeed create a separate template. Set a relation between it and each page of the posts-template.
Once you are done with all testing, the final result should look like a list of all page_names (posted articles) and a check-box beside each to establish/indicate a relationship.
You'd select some (5) and they will be marked as related to a featured-list.
Listing related pages is trivial.

[KK]

Another idea might be to use repeatable regions, again in a settings template, and feeding it ID's or page_names? But I'm not sure if it is possible to then display the page titles and images associated with these ID's then?

That is a perfectly fine approach. You can use a repeatable region with a single text box and then input the page_names of all selected pages (one page_name per row) into it.

On the front-end, loop through the repeatable-region to fetch the page_names and feed them into cms:pages loop to get the full data of those pages (e.g. as follows where we assume the name of the text field is 'my_page')

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<cms:show_repeatable 'whatever_name'>
    <cms:pages masterpage='blog.php' page_name=my_page limit='1'>
        .. all data about the specified page available here ..
    </cms:pages>
</cms:show_repeatable>

Hope it helps.