Hi Sean,
Appreciate the reply.
I'm not sure I follow, you mention some inherit [sic I think] issues with folders, but I'm not sure what you mean by this (the link you provide goes to a community portal helper file on github)? We've never had issues with folders, but we could be an exception I suppose?
As for your next remark:
"Combining taxonomy fields (which could be populated for marketer content organization only) with smart folders is a very different approach... but a better one, in my experience."
This feels like you're confusing content delivery with content editing here. Unless I misunderstand. Smart folders / taxonomy fields aren't going to help our content editors create (reusable) content items of the correct type.
Our issue isn't with selecting the right content when displaying/delivering this on our website. We can do this using folders (what we're used to), tags, smart folders or any combination thereof.
Our issue is that when someone wants to add a couple items (to what used to be a custom table) / of a reusable content item.. they are presented with a selection field of 60+ content types (or however many we will end up when all is said and done) and we really don't want to burden them with this huge selection every time and it feels like we shouldn't have to.
Are you truly telling me that you think it's 'a better experience' to have to pick 'the right one' every time you add a content item rather than the system narrowing down your options to the relevant ones? I find that hard to believe, but perhaps we're not seeing the missing link here?
Thanks again in advance. Really hoping we're just missing something here!
/edit:
What a 'minimal effort, great result' change would be, in my opinion: extend the smart folder functionality a tiny bit onto the 'create new content item' form. When you set up a smart folder you define content type(s) it should show. This works fine. Now, when adding a new content item (when you're looking at a smart folder) have it filter the list of available content types based on the definition of the smart folder. It feels like a really obvious (and minor) change.