This page has some video tutorials for using the Scaffolding Plugin. These tutorials apply to Scaffolding 2.2+.

Basic Features | Advanced 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.

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Editing a page with Scaffold data

This tutorial demonstrates editing an existing page with scaffold data and adding some new data fields to it.

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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.

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Switching to a checkbox list

This tutorial demonstrates converting a drop-down list to a checkbox list.

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Adding a multiple-selection list

This tutorial demonstrates adding a multiple-selection list to the page.

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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.

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Dynamic repeating section data

This tutorial demonstrates converting the data table into a repeating section.

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Version history

This tutorial demonstrates view the historical versions of scaffolding data, and restoring to a historical version.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Editing the template

This tutorial demonstrates updating the shared template, with the change appearing on the individual contact pages immediately.

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