What is the difference between Page and Article?

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av613 Posted: Wed, May 7 2008 2:26 PM

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What is the difference between a "Page" and an "Article"?

What are the proper use cases for each type?

Is it possible to use the WebLog controls to pull a set of "pages" or "articles" with certain tags?

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Alex Crome replied on Wed, May 7 2008 3:10 PM

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To be honest, there isn't much of a difference between the two.  The main difference is that pages don't appear on the post list on a weblog home page, whereas blog posts do.

As for pulling a set of pages or articles with a certain tag, you just need to use a WeblogPostList cotnrol and set some Query Overrides

e.g.

<CSBlog:WeblogPostList runat="server>
     <QueryOverrides Tags="tag1,tag2,...,tagN"  BlogPostType="Article" )
</CSBlog:WeblogPostList>

For more documentation on the WeblogPostList, have a look at http://getben.com/documentation/cs2008/chameleon/Control.aspx?type=CommunityServer.Blogs.Controls.WeblogPostList%2c+CommunityServer.Blogs.

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av613 replied on Wed, May 7 2008 3:28 PM

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This is what I thought - thanks for confirming.

Question: If the "pages" are tagged with specific tags, it seems that the only way to have them pulled by the "archive/tags/[tag-name]/default.aspx" URL is to mark the "page's" to "Display on blogs home page"...

So, does this mean there is no way to have a PAGE that does not appear on the home page, but does appear when you pull it by tag-name?

What I need: I have an issue with articles. I want to have each article as a "page" but tag them with the correct issue-name as the tag-name.

I then want to be able to let people click on the issue-name tag and see all the articles.

I assume that this is a common use-case. Any suggestions?