First off, I’m a newb with ee.
Here’s what I trying to accomplish in general terms. I want a web page displaying a particular Service the company offers. And in the right sidebar I would like to display one or more Case Studies that relate to this Service web page. The Case Study sidebar element would consist of a thumbnail image, a bit of text, and a URL to link to the Case Study in PDF format.
The difficulty I’m having is how to build this in the EE control panel. I thinking I would create a channel for Services content. And another channel with the Case Study content. Then I would create a dynamic Multi-Select box on the on the Services Channel with data from the Case Study channel.
So the hope is that a user of the EE control panel could enter the Service info and select one or more Case Studies via the Multi-Select box, to also be displayed on that page in the right sidebar. This multi-select would need to display a Case Study Title so the user could identify which Case Study they wish to add.
Finally, in thinking how to build the template, I’m wondering if I will be able to get entry_id’s of the Case Studies to feed the Channel entries tag within the page templates sidebar?
<div class=”content”>
{exp:channel:entries channel="services" limit=1"}
Services Stuff
{/exp:channel:entries}
</div>
<div id=”right-sidebar”>
{exp:channel:entries channel="case_studies"
fixed_order="3|15"}*
Case Study Stuff
*Can I get the case study entry_ids from the services channel to populate fixed_order field above?
{/exp:channel:entries}
</div>Can this be done?
Is this even the right way to do this?
Would an add-on like Matrix be appropriate in this situation?