This page has some video tutorials for using the Scaffolding Plugin. These tutorials apply to the Scaffolding 2 Beta.
Basic Features | Advance Features | Live Templates
Basic Features
These tutorials demonstrate adding some basic data fields to a page.
Creating a page with Scaffold data
This tutorial demonstrates creating a page with scaffolding data.
Editing a page with Scaffold data
This tutorial demonstrates editing an existing page with scaffold data and adding some new data fields to it.
Adding a drop-down list
This tutorial demonstrates adding a drop-down list of options to the page. Some things to note:
- The value displayed in the drop-down list is different to that displayed on the final page.
- The final page value can have wiki markup in it.
Switching to a checkbox list
This tutorial demonstrates converting a drop-down list to a checkbox list.
Adding a multiple-selection list
This tutorial demonstrates adding a multiple-selection list to the page.
Advanced Features
These tutorials demonstrate some of the more advanced features available.
Dynamic table data
This tutorial demonstrates adding a data table to a page, as well as adding, reordering and deleting rows dynamically.
Dynamic repeating section data
This tutorial demonstrates converting the data table into a repeating section.
Version history
This tutorial demonstrates view the historical versions of scaffolding data, and restoring to a historical version.
Dynamic calculations
This tutorial demonstrates the use of the {eval-data} macro to calculate new values based on scaffolding data. In this case, it is displaying the average of a table column.
Live Templates
This section demonstrates using Scaffolding data in templates to provide more structure for pages which share the same layout.
A basic contact page
This tutorial demonstrates creating a single contact page, specifying the scaffolding data on the individual page.
Converting to a template
This tutorial demonstrates converting the stand-alone contact page to use a template with the same structure. It also demonstrates creating a new page with the same structure but different personal data.
Editing the template
This tutorial demonstrates updating the shared template, with the change appearing on the individual contact pages immediately.
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