As part of the newly updated partner program, Kentico kicked off a series of instructional webinars for partners.

The idea behind the series is that Kentico partners will now not only have early access to educational presentations of this nature, but also to the guys holed up in the engine room at question time, and seriously, for those of us not located anywhere near the Czech Republic this access may prove to be the larger opportunity.

Several people forwarded questions about Kentico repeaters after viewing the first partner webinar given by Petr, so it made sense for the Tips and Tricks this month to answer at least some of these.

A repeater is essentially nothing more than a loop. It loops through a group of items, repeatedly applying a transformation to each. However, if you dig a little deeper, you’ll find that the Repeater is one of the real strengths of Kentico.

Given the appropriate queries and transformations for a given document type, a user with little or no programming experience can construct pages on the fly using repeaters, choosing not only what is displayed, but how it is displayed, when it is will be displayed, and to whom it will be displayed.