In Sitecore MVC, FieldRenderer.Render(Item, "Field Name") automatically checks its field type. In another word, all XSLT extensions (sc:text, sc:image, sc:date, …) is affected by the RenderField pipeline.
But, I couldn't find sc:checkbox information and it doesn't show "CheckBox" in page edit mode. It just shows the value of the check box.
How can I make it show as like input type=checkbox in page editor?
Sorry for the link only answer but the general approach here is to use a Field Editor Button.
This will open a pop up window with the content editor style control for the field.
If using a custom experience button is not an option for you, you can output different markup (i.e. your input button) to the client when the page mode is in 'Edit' mode.
This will allow you to present the author with the controls you wish to display, but still output the normal output values for end users.
If you are able to use controller renderings, you can use the controller to load a different view to make this easier, but otherwise you can use if statements within your View to output different markup.
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I have an App called "Features"
In Features, I have these fields:
Heading
Text
Image
The app has two separate razor templates. One of the templates displays an image, and the other one does not.
How can I hide the "Image" field from Template B, but still display it in Template A? Is this possible with Formulas? If so, how?
Yes, this can be done with formulas ;)
Best check out the current Content Templates, the basic-content (text/image) templates have exactly this implemented.
If you open it from a template which doesn't show images, the images-field is hidden (but the editor can reactivate it). So this is quite sophisticated, you can also do simpler implementations.
Basically the steps are:
Create an ephemeral field which just serves as a temporary variable to determine if it should be shown by default or not - we usually call it something like VarShowImage - probably default to true (so if it's not set, it's true when the form loads) https://docs.2sxc.org/basics/data/fields/ephemeral.html
In the toolbar where it should be hidden, prefill this like VarShowImage=false
On the field which should be hidden, create a formula to control visible based on this field
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...
I am building an ExtJS4 Web Application and there's a part where the user is shown a "Search Panel". It's basically a floating panel with textfields and a gridView. The textfields allow the user to put his or her input for first name and last name filters. There's also a combo box that the user can use to filter the search. The results are shown in the gridView. The search functionality works well.
However, when the floating panel is hidden and then shown, the fields are reset and the user would have to enter the input once more.
What I want to happen is for the textfield and combobox values to persist even though the panel is hidden then shown again. I have tried using setVisibility(false) then using setVisibility(true) but that did not work for me.
How can I persist values of fields when their parent view is hidden/shown?
The fields should have retained the value as you are just hiding and showing the search panel. It seems there is a bug in your program, but I cannot ascertain that without seeing some code. Assuming that your search panel includes a close button, I would suggest you to use closeAction: 'hide' on the panel instead of using setVisibility(). Also make sure that you are not creating multiple instances of search panel, use a single object of search panel.
Here is a quick fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/DirtyParadoxx/gL9aekzz/
If you want to use cookies, then as Nikolay Lopin suggested, stateful: true would be a nice way of doing it.
I have to implement a wizard, where each step is a single input field.
Everything is wrapped inside an accordion with section headers.
The user, after filling the input and pressing Enter, should navigate the wizard field by field. Only the current field is editable, while the other ones are readonly (the user can anytime change a previously filled input, by clicking it, moving the current pointer to it).
I was wondering what could be the best approach to design this system, considering that the whole wizard structure changes in dependence of different user inputs.
I have found a tutorial using ui-router (http://scotch.io/tutorials/javascript/angularjs-multi-step-form-using-ui-router), with a fixed number of steps, but my requirements are to show the current input edit box inside the accordion, not in a fixed "ui-views" placeholder.
Take a look at https://github.com/JustMaier/angular-autoFields-bootstrap
It's a module that allows you to render forms from Metadata. So essentially, you can change the Metadata you provide dynamically to change the forms.
I was wondering if there is a way to override the native functionality of the lookup field in Salesforce and replace it with a visualforce page. The reason I'm trying to override this button is because when the user does a look up, the look up returns everybody with that name. What we want to return is a list of all the contacts by account for the contact being searched.
Here's what I'm trying to achieve:
When the user clicks the lookup button my visualforce page will launch and allow the user to see the account and all the contacts of that account.
Is this even possible? What other ways would you suggest going about this?
Here's a screen shot of what I'm trying to change:
Thanks for all your help!
It sounds really like you just need to customise the columns on the lookup to make it better suited to your needs. If you go to Setup -> Customize -> Contacts -> Search Layouts, you'll see entries for Lookup Dialogs and Lookup Phone Dialogs, there you can edit the columns displayed in the lookup windows.
If you really need a custom solution:
You can't override the lookup page itself, but you could create a new visualforce page for your account, using <apex:detail> and other similar tags to make your life simpler. Then you could include a search section underneath, where a user can enter various search terms which you put into a dynamic SOQL query and then render the results for them to choose from.
yeah its possible by javascript as i did by visual force page that will show the records of related lists and upon selection id of that record passed to parent window by jscipt. and performed same functionality ..
As far as I know - NO.
As a workaround you can use JavaScript.
What we did in our situation? We implement everything in JavaScript. We created an inputText and right on the right of this inputText we placed image with this lookup icon. On image click we create ExtJS popup window (I think you can simply create VF page and show this page in popup window). After window was closed you fill in the inputText field.
There's no out-of-the-box override for this button, last I checked, so something custom would be required. If you're set on having a popup and do not want an inline solution, I'd recommend reviewing this tutorial to get familiar with some of the issues with popups in Visualforce.
But considering what you are looking to accomplish, you could also have your account and filtered list of all contacts associated with that account appear inline on your page when the user clicks a new, custom search button. Of course that page would itself be in Visualforce (or inline Visualforce in a standard page layout) - which you may or may not want to have to code and maintain.
The AJAX Toolkit might also be a good place to start if you want to go with a custom JavaScript button placed on a standard page layout.