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Managing global elements in the tree that are not pages


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bostonmark

Community Member, 10 Posts

12 September 2011 at 8:12am

I've worked on other CMS's before and this is my first SS project. Is there a notion or creating PHP classes/models that map to fields in the back-end that don't necessarily map to a page? For example, creating global elements that are more of settings? For example, can I create a node in the tree called Main Nav and sub-nodes that solely represent nav links? These won't necessarily be pages though, but I would want to code my global template to call on these when making the top-level navigation. Does that make sense?

Also, FYI, I'm using SS 2.3.11, not the latest, because I need to use the Event Calendar module which is for that version.

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swaiba

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12 September 2011 at 8:54pm

Edited: 12/09/2011 8:55pm

Probably the Siteconfig...

http://www.ssbits.com/tutorials/2010/2-4-working-with-siteconfig/

But maybe ModelAdmin...

http://www.silverstripe.org/making-a-crm-with-modeladmin-in-silverstripe-230/

(oh and I've limited experiences with the event calendar - but it seems to work fine with 2.4.5)