Hi Tony,

Sure it is possible to modify the related links to also allow links to media items. Take a look at the current sourcecode for the related link and add the functionality you want.

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the quick response, where would I find the current source code? I'm not much of a developer myself but if I know where to find the code I might be able to work out what to do. I have searched my umbraco website folder for "related links" but nothing shows up.

You can find the sourcecode on codeplex

http://www.codeplex.com/umbraco

It's in the editorcontrols project.

Hi Tim,

Once again thank you for the quick response, I will have a look at the source code although I think I'm in way over my head here, when I said I'm not much of a developer I kind of meant I am not a developer at all! I'm suprised someone else hasn't already modified the Related Links data type to allow it to pick Media as well. I thought it would be quick handy if someone wanted to have a list of documents on a page.

Hi Tony,

Check out http://www.nibble.be/?p=64

I made a related media datatype

Hi Tim,

Thanks for that, that is excellent, is there anyway you know of to make it so that you could have a related links data type that picks Content or Media? So you could have a list of related links that is a combination of webpages (both internal and external) and documents (pdf's etc) or would I have to create an XSLT that combines the original related links datatype and the new media related links datatype you created then sort the results alphabetically? For example you could have an alphabetical list on a page that is a mixture as follows:
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Related Links[/b]
BBC Website this is an external link
Childrens Section this is an internal link
Dave's list this is a PDF from Media section
Freddies website this is an external link
Gary's website this is an external link

Hi Tony,

That would need another datatype, a combined one, but the way you outline it with combining the results should also do the trick.

I have combined the Two XSLT's into one XSLT but I am not sure how I would sort it, I did try putting in above

but it didn't like that, I have since realised that is of course not nodeName that I want to sort by but I'm not sure what it is I want to sort by or where I would put the sort command in my XSLT, I currently have as follows:


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