How to highlight a product (a resource) as a "crush" on the front-end for a while ...until another gets this attribute ?

Hi there,

I'm listing real estate products and my client would like to distinguish some of them whenever he has a crush on it. Only 1 to 3 resources should be concerned at a time. Those resources shall be listed in their main category, i mean with their siblings.

I guess duplicating those "favorite" resources in another container isn't a good idea. I thought of something like a getResources call in which the client specifies and edits the targeted IDs but that's already too tricky in my opinion.

What are your suggestions about how to do that in a proper an easy way ?

Hi kehezen,

Isn't a symlink an option ?

What are you trying to achieve (mostly visually talking) ?

Having those records listed in the front/home page ?
Having a particular CSS class to distinguish those in their respective categories ?
I assume previous "crushes" should be automatically removed when a new one i added (on which constraints ?) -- this would, IMO, involve a plugin which would check your constraint(s) (OnDocFormSave for example) and remove previous entries that need to be removed.

All in all, some ideas :

* a "crush" TV (checkbox)
* a system setting with the resources IDs (comma separated or "piped" |) -- ClientConfig might be useful here (according it supports resources combobox)

Hope that will help.

Cheers

Thanks for your answer Romain,


I thought there might be something to do with symlinks but until now I never had to or tried to handle them. They may be a solution in my case. ClientConfig also is something I forgot and that could be useful in my case. I'll check both. Thank you again and again.


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Quote from: romain at May 24, 2013, 02:07 AM

All in all, some ideas :

* a "crush" TV (checkbox)

While typing this post, I think of a getResources call with a limit of 1 or 3, and a condition 'where tvCrush = 1'. How bad would this be ?

Besides having another getResources call, i don't see any problem here

Problem solved then