Document Actions
2.9.
Establishing Relationships
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On several of those screen captures illustrating adding content, you may have noticed a Related Items area at the bottom of edit panels. This is where you can pick related items to establish connections between content items. Once items have been related to one another, links will automatically show for related items when an item is viewed. You can't do this for folders, but you can for regular content, such as pages and images.
For example, in a folder containing several photographs, you may wish to relate two of them so that when one is viewed, a link to the other will show. First, click the image (this image is called PhotographOne.jpg) and choose the edit tab. At the bottom will be the simple Related Item(s) input area:
Clicking the browse... button will bring up a search panel to find items you may relate to PhotographOne.jpg:
PhotographOne.jpg is shown greyed out (you can't relate an item to itself), and other images in the current folder are shown. If there were pages or other content items in the folder, they would show too. There is a search box if you would like to find items outside of the current folder. The list of items at the bottom has insert | view choices at far right. In this example, the insert choice is about to be made to select PhotographTwo.jpg, which will be added to the list of items relating to PhotographOne.jpg:
Now, when PhotographOne.jpg is viewed, a link to PhotographTwo.jpg will be shown at the bottom of the display:
This is an easy way to give life to your website, so that content, however nicely organized it may be within folders, will have a dynamic aspect. Use your imagination, but concentrate on making sensible choices for establishing relationships. There are other ways of making connections in Plone, through use of SmartFolders, but the ease of setting related items at the time of content creation, or upon item editing, is a feature that should not be overlooked.
