In Episerver in the main content area if you click on "create a new block" you are shown a list of blocks that can be added into this main content area.
We have created a custom block which I would like to hide from this list so that editors cannot see it.
Custom Block:
namespace Test.Site.Models.Forms
{
[SiteImageUrl]
[ContentType(GUID = "c9f294a0-6620-47c3-98fd-123f0fd8db8c")]
public class CalculatorFormBlock : BaseTestCustomFormContainerBlock<GatedContentSuccessMessageBlock>
{
}
}
Is there a default method in Episerver to do this?
You can use AvailableInEditMode property (set it to false) of ContentType attribute to completely hide it from editing (also available as a checkbox in admin UI).
More details in episerver documentation.
You can use the allowed types attribute on the main content area to only allow the blocks you want. It also works with interfaces.
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I know, if you want to check the names of the Display Output of the view page then we need to click on the Information Link near by Theme of Advance Theme of the view, it will list all the files.
After clicking on this, it will list.
Display Output : (View Machine name is add_to_cart)
views-view.tpl.php, views-view--add-to-cart.tpl.php, views-view--default.tpl.php, views-view--default.tpl.php, views-view--page.tpl.php, views-view--add-to-cart--page.tpl.php
So, could you please suggest which files should be best for creation of the Display Output template of the view page ?
If you want specific theming to your page display of add_to_cart view, then choose
to override views-view--add-to-cart--page.tpl.php.
I'll also want to add the importance of naming convention for templates, so that, next time, you can choose the template name yourself:
views-view.tpl.php: called for every view.
views-view--add-to-cart.tpl.php: called for only add_to_cart view.
views-view--default.tpl.php: called for the display: default(master display) of every view.
views-view--page.tpl.php: called for the display: page of every view.
views-view--add-to-cart--page.tpl.php: called for the display: page of only add_to_cart view. (the specific suggestions are always last)
Note:
Template naming suggestion flow: general to specific.
Also when you click the display output, you can copy the code for the template. This way you get all the variables that are available to you.
Hope this help else comment for queries.
Understanding how default, page comes in template names:
Within a view, you can create many displays as shown below.
Each display has a Machine Name, for eg: System display has a machine name: system_1. So, a view with system_1 display will be overrided using views-view--system-1.tpl.php. Note: the underscore('_') is replaced with hyphen('-'). The by default view display or master display in a view has a machine name: default.
I wanted to display a custom field as Read-Only on the Edit page ONLY of a custom object. This field should be hidden on the detail page. I tried wrapping the field in a section and display the section in Edit Page only(Page layout editor). That didn't work. I don't want to create a custom visual force page for the EDIT Page. Please suggest.
Thanks
Kumar
Unfortunately, there's no way to put a field on just edit or just detail. It's both or neither.
You have two options, custom Visualforce page as an Edit override is the easiest one, but if you want to leave the page layout editor as something useful to admins, there's also a very hacky option...
Create two record types, one that displays the field and one that doesn't. Create a new button that launches a Flow (with a return URL of the edit page for that object). The Flow should change the object's recordtype to the one that displays the field. Additionally, create a Process or trigger that changes the recordtype back to the one that does not display the trigger after you save the object.
I definitely recommend the VF page...
Let's say I defined a IBM WCM authoring template called "AT-Image"; it creates content item "CT-Image" that contains elements such as an Image of type "Image", Description of type "Short Text", Keywords of type "Text", and other fields that serve as meta for that image resource.
Now, I need to create a content item called "CT-Article" based off from its "AT-Article" authoring template. Let's say that "Article" item has 3 elements: Title, Summary, and Image. Title and Summary are of type "Short Text". But Image needs to be of type "CT-Image" and not Image or Image component.
Is this possible Out-of-the-Box or is this something I need to implement myself via WCM API?
From my point of view you should use a menu component in the following way:
Let's assume you have got your CT-Image and CT-Article in a common sitearea called "MyArticle" like this:
MyArticle
CT-Article
CT-Image
Furthermore you need a WCM Menu component which uses two selection criteria:
current sitearea as location
CT-Image as authoring template
So then rendering CT-Article with a presentation template PT-Article you can reference the menu component. Therefore, you reference the menu component in the presentation template markup. The menu component then will pick up the CT-Image and render it as it is located in the same sitearea as your CT-Article.
That's rather a content design approach then a technical approach. It's all there out-of-the-box and saves custom development effort.
If I understand correctly, basically you want to create pre-defined images and then pick one of them to display when you create an article. Correct?
Well, the easiest way would be to utilize what WCM already gives you: create an Image Component. You will be able to upload the image and also provide a description, but you won't be able to set keywords or metadata. The workaround for this would be to set the keywords/metadata as part of the article. If that is okay, this would probably be the best way to do it.
By doing that, all you would have to do is select the relevant Image Component from your Image Element in AT-Article.
If you really need the images to be their own content items (rather than components) so that they have their own keywords and other information, then the next "easiest" way is probably to use an HTML Element inside AT-Article. In this HTML Element you will have to use the "Insert Tag" option, and then choose an Element Tag and use "Selected" rather than "autofill" or "current" to navigate to the content item that you want (the one with the image).
The code will look like this:
[Element name="[path]" type="content" context="selected" key="[element]"]
Where [path] is the path to the content item and [element] is the element that you actually want to pull from that content item (such as image, description, keywords, etc.)
context="selected" is the key there. Then you just need to set up your Presentation Template to be able to use this information that you are pulling in from the HTML Element.
WCM 8.5 has the InContext tag.
The InContext tag renders a tag body within a specified context. The new context can be specified as a predefined context by using a UUID, or by path.
For eg. in this case you can use below where key="Image" in InContext tag is the Link element to the CT-Image content item :
[InContext uuid="[Element context='current' type='content' key='Image' format='id']"]
[Element context="current" type="auto" key="Image"]
[Element context="current" type="auto" key="Description"]
[/InContext]
I have a block which is going to display a LinkItemCollection. Each link has an image which belongs to it. Since clickable image isn't supported, I was wondering if anyone had a solution of how to couple the images and links together.
Maybe you could extend LinkItem and add an Url property to an image, any ideas?
This is EPiServer CMS 7 (MVC).
I'd go with a ContentArea property instead of LinkItemCollection, and create a block type with properties for specifying link, image etc. Then add one block per link to the content area.
That also makes it a lot easier to add/remove/rearrange links with drag and drop.
For example, to create or edit an object, when I want to add or change some value to one specific field, I need to refer another website to retrieve some info.In this way, may I add one button or link on the edit page?
The help link of SalesForce is here: https://help.salesforce.com/apex/htviewhelpdoc?id=co_edit.htm&language=en_US
Thanks.
Custom buttons and links don't display on new/edit page layouts so even if you'd make one, it will be visible only on detail view.
Not too invasive option would be to create a URL or text fied, set it's default value to your link, make sure it's displayed on the page but readonly. Haven't tried it but should work (you'll have to test it as somebody other than System Administrator because you'll bypass the readonly property of the page layout).
More invasive option would be to override the new and edit page layouts with Visualforce. More work but somewhat clean solution.
Really crazy option would be to embed a piece of Javascript into section header on the standard page layout or even into sidebar. It's an ugly hack but it works, I've used it for example to disable editing of Name field.
To use method #3:
create new section header, add something to the section (blank space is fine, you need something otherwise headers for blank sections aren't rendered), mark the section as visible on edit pages only.
Section name has limit of 80 characters but can contain code like <script>document.getElementById('Name').disabled = true;</script>. You need longer script though to somehow create an URL at runtime and append it somewhere on the page near your "special" field.
Upload a static resource with your script, then use this as the section header: <script src="filename.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
I'm not too proud of this hack and if you can - go with custom Visualforce new & edit page. It's quick & dirty, probably should be used only when you're not allowed to override pages.. but it works.