Thanks to Lisa for her series, esp. yesterday’s Dissecting the Default Templates: Custom Weblog Fields.
EE customization capabilities are quite well thought out!
I have a question though.
I know we can establish global variables, custom member profile variables (to add info for each member) and custom weblog variables (to add variables to be set on each weblog entry).
My question is: Is there the capability to create variables for a weblog “container”(exp_weblogs)?
For example: There may be multiple customer events occurring at the same time, we’ll call them event A and event B. I have weblogs A and B established for select attendees to blog on these events. For eventA’s blog “home” page, I want to include info about eventA which is essentially static, with links to the events registration site, background about the event’s purpose and such. Same thing for eventB - but it will have its own set of info with separate event registration and background info totally separate from eventA. I need this info at the eventA or eventB blog level, but it does not need to be carried on an entry (exp_weblog_data) since it may vary from weblog to weblog but doesn’t vary by entry. Hope this makes sense.
We initially did this by creating separate template groups for each event and “hardcoding” the static info which I suspect was quite “the hard way” of doing this and I’d love to learn “a better way”.
If this isn’t native, please feel free to relocate to the Feature Requests.
Thank you!
-C