Hi, I have a scenario that I hope DMX can provide a solution to.

I have a bunch of pdfs. I'd like to categorize each pdf as it is uploaded into two different categories. Lets call them department and author. Documents would have to be able to have multiple department and author categories assigned during file upload.

Is this easily done?

The department pages are static and I believe a view module can be configured to filtered and skinned to show only one departments category documents.

The author page though is dynamic (using XMODPro) and is rendered using a url parameter to specify the AuthorID.

Can a DMX view module accept a url parameter that has a matching category which would list the documents for a specific author?

Document security is not an issue as all documents would be publicly viewable.

We're not locked in as to how to specifically provide the functionality I've described, but would like to know if DMX can do this for us using the mentioned method or a similar construction.

Regards,

Mark G.

"Documents would have to be able to have multiple department and author categories assigned during file upload. Is this easily done? "
Yes. A document goes to 1 folder and n categories. But note you upload into a folder, not a category. Categories are labels you attach.

"Can a DMX view module accept a url parameter that has a matching category which would list the documents for a specific author?"
DMX has been designed to react to querystring parameters. If you set these correctly you can load a single category of documents, yes.

Best,
Peter

Peter, Thank you for your prompt reply. Is setting the parameters correclty a documented procedure or is it something I'll need to figure out on my own?

Thanks..
Mark

It is something you need to figure out. But it is pretty simple to see actually. Whenever you click navigate in the Ajax UI on an item it reloads the browser and changes the querystring. You can easily spot the pattern and find what you're looking for. E.g. loading a folder you need to inject EntryId=xyz, where xyz is the entry id of the folder. Same goes for categories and CategoryId.

Peter