I have some shadow assets (DB Data Source Records) that I'm experimenting with as a proof of concept that we could use Matrix to hold extended descriptions for material held in a read only database that we have access to.
The Data manual explains how to setup an asset listing of them which is somewhat useful - but I was wondering if I could, via a paint layout, make the individual assets themselves available at a web address. At the moment (with Matrix 3.20) it seems that I can't set a webpath on a data source record? Which would seem to rule that out?
Beyond creating an asset listing of the shadow assets, is there anything else I can do with them? Can you use a search page to return the details of a single shadow asset from a listing for example (I've tried, but the paint layout doesn't return any data for the %data_source_record_set_*% values) ?
You should be able to set your asset listing to show 1 asset per page, which will allow you to access one access per page. So, even though it does not have a friendly URL, this should work.
Ok, yes we could do that, but I don't see how that would actually be helpful… as the address for an individual asset could never be guaranteed (assume the db changes on us).
Anyone else able to answer my question about search pages and shadow assets? It may be that I've set it up wrong, but it seems you can't use a search page on shadow assets?
And backtracking to using an asset listing to list shadow assets - should you be able to pass through a record set value to a nested asset (in this case a search) in a type format or not? I've tried $ds__VALUE%, %global_ds__VALUE% and %globals_data_source_record_set_VALUE% and all three seem to pass through nothing to a nested search.