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Sitecore dynamic data sources

I've been working on some components for my website using Sitecore MVC. The data source items for all these components reside in this fashion, under the page item in a components folder.

  • sitecore
    • content
      • website
        • home
        • page1
        • components
          • datasourceitem1
          • datasourceitem2
          • datasourceitem3

I've been using "./components" to give the user option to create or select data source items for components. Here is a screenshot

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These components can be reused on different pages and some data source items may reside in an area other than the Components folder. For this reason, I would like to vary this Data Source field to point to different areas of my content tree.

Is there a way to accomplish this in Sitecore 7.0 with MVC?

Thanks

Solution

  • You can separate different datasource locations using pipe |

    like this

    ./Components|/sitecore/content/Site/Site Components/Whatever

    I mean the field Datasource Location of the component sublayout