Same Block with different content

Nicklas Ekered

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I got a block which is going to hold several chold blocks in a contentarea. The child blocks are going to hold information like pictures and links.

Do i really have to create new blocks for each and every childblock or can i create a generic block for it? How? The child block ive created stores the same data so if i change in one of the child blocks it changes the other ones to!? Seems a bit crappy

#79452

Dec 17, 2013 16:11

Per Nergård

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We have built blocks that have displayed it's own custom add data api when in editing mode (block preview page) and stored the data in the dds.

#79459

Dec 17, 2013 19:50

Nicklas Ekered

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Ohh oki, well it seems like that blocks in CMS 7 isn't that well thought through. The Editors will find the out of the box solution wanting and obsolete and the result will end in a lot of blocks which is not the best way to do things. I really hope developers at EPiServer will change the blocks to go from shared to unique or at least make both available.

oh well since i dont want to build my own solution to a common problem Ill just get the EPiImage property from nuget...

Thanks for the answer though!

#79471

Dec 18, 2013 10:53