Collections without URLs?

I guess this is more of an open discussion question, but I am wondering if it possible to have collections who's child resources are not pages themselves with their own URLs?

I need a way to centrally store thousands of pieces of data (courses for a college website) and to selectively add them to resources (with a MigX table). But they cannot have their own URLs.

Right now I am storing all those pieces of data on the individual pages using MigX tables in just plain text on each resource, But a lot of programs have English 101 say, and if I need to edit that course description, I need to do it across hundreds of indiviual resources.

Is there a better way to store that data? Besides just making a new table in the DB?

Sounds like custom DB table is the best option. Anyway, to avoid showing those pages you can create a plugin that redirects all pages with specific parent to 404.

What is the best way depends on data you have

You could use chunks with names like English101Description and put chunk tags in the content:



I think that would be easier than a custom table.