Introducing a new Umbraco datatype for Multi-lingual websites.

Over the last 6 months we have been building various multi-lingual sites for different clients and for some of the clients they have 1 to 1 relationships between some or all of their pages.

Within Umbraco, you can copy a page ( or whole tree of pages ) and keep a relationship between each of the pages and their new copy, this allows content editors to subscribe to change notifications that Umbraco can create if one of the linked pages is changed.

Unfortunately one thing that is missing in Umbraco is any way to see which pages are related to each other and to have a quick and easy way to jump between the related pages.

We created a datatype that solves these problems and thought we would release it as an open source project ( which we are still maintaining )

Currently you can:

1) See current relationships
2) Add relationships
3) Limit the number of relationships that can be added ( by the data type )
4) See the Country flag ( assuming a culture has been set on each of your top level site nodes for each country site )
5) Link between the documents
6) Change or delete the links

An example where multiple languages are allowed:

An example where only 2 languages exist (1 relationship):

You can download the datatype from the Umbraco project page:
Vizioz Relationships for Umbraco

Please do let us know what you think :)

Umbraco Gold Partner and the last 6 months.

As with a lot of blogs, unfortunately over the last 6 months our blog has been feeling some what neglected, the good news, is this has been due to us going from strength to strength :)

In the last 6 months we have developed 5 more Microsites for Microsoft, we have helped a London agency fix a dire Umbraco implementation for a global drinks brand, built a great site for a famous food product range and most recently we are working with DairyMaster in Ireland building them a new website for their global distribution network and over the next couple of months we will be launching their new global marketing websites in 9 different languages.

As well as working with these great clients, we also helped ResourceiT launch their new website in time for the Microsoft Global Partners conference.

In December, Umbraco HQ launched their Umbraco Gold Partner programme, Vizioz was proud to be one of the first Gold Partners in the UK, showing our clients that we are investing our money in the product we promote, ensuring that Umbraco continues to go from strength to strength.