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I've a template name "teacher". Teacher template has following fields : - Name - Designation - DateOfJoin - Social
Where social field should capture following data: - Type (FB/Twitter/Instagram) - Link - Icon
what should be the datatype of "Social" field so that we can add multiple social links. Can somebody suggest me the best approch to achieve this.
A good option for this would be to use Sub Items (children) to store the Social data.
So you would create a new template with fields as @nathanhase mentioned, e.g.
SocialLink with fields:
* SocialType - Droplink pointing at a set of lookup items to define the type, e.g. Twitter, Facebook etc...
* SocialLink - General Link field
* SocialIcon - Image field
Then you would create sub items of your Teacher data item for each social account the teacher has.
This would work, but if you wanted to make it easier for content editors, you could use the Express Sub Item module from the market place. This module enables editing of child items from the parent. You would get this type of effect (screen shots are pre sc8, but sc8.2 is supported):
This meets all your requirements mentioned above.
The simplest thing to do would be to split that into three fields on your Teacher template. It would also be reasonable to have these three fields in a separate "Social" section of the template.
SocialType - Droplink field with a source pointing at a folder with simple Items that have names which will be set as the value of the field.
SocialLink - General Link field
SocialIcon - Image field with a source pointing at a media folder that contains the available icons.
These can be collected into an object within the Model that uses this data, if necesary.
Multiple social networks
Create a General Link field for each of the possible social networks. You'll know which network by the name of the field. Icons are generally a consistent application via css so those don't need to be selected in Sitecore.
