Hi,

Creating a specific umbraco section seems as a lot of overkill, you could quite easily build a small user control that can be hosted in umbraco as a dashboard control (it requires little programming - which you'll need anyway, whatever method is choosen)

Find some inspiration on iterating documents in the system on this wiki page

Examples of dashboard control configuration can be found here

Hope this helps.

Regards,

/Dirk

Thanks Dirk, I will take a look and see what I can do. Looks like it's time for me to learn asp.net and how to create a user control.

Also, at cg09, I've heard about a 'widget' framework, which may be a better fit for such tasks. Not sure how far they got at the moment, but you'll find their project page at http://our.umbraco.org/projects/widgetframework

Cheers,

/Dirk

Hi Dirk,

This is probably better suited to an asp.net forum but I thought I would be cheeky and ask anyway, I am trying to create my first ever user control using the code that your referenced, I have added the references to the DLL's that it asked for and I have got the following in my in my .cs file but it doesn't seem to like it when I try and build the project, what am I doing wrong, I guess I should really go away and take an asp.net course before I start trying to create user controls!

using

using

using

using

using

using

using

using

namespace

//get the document by its ID

Document doc =

Document[] children = doc.Children;

Response.Write(childDoc.Text);

}

}

//Root documents

Document.GetRootDocuments();

//Get Node IDs of a specific type

DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias(

Document.getAllUniqueNodeIdsFromObjectType(dt.UniqueId);

//Get documents which has publishing date set

//and is either waiting to be published or is expired

Document.GetDocumentsForRelease();

Document.GetDocumentsForExpiration();

Ok I have enlisted the help of a developer now, I just wondered if there was a list of all the different GetDocuments commands, for example what is the one for getting unpublished documents? It seems that the example above shows the command for getting documents that are due to be released and one's that are due for expiration but it doesn't show the command for listing documents that have not been published.

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