Sitecore 6.6 Update 4
We're using CustomItemGenerator 1.0 and I was using this to help build a primary navigation menu for a site. This worked as expected and everything was rendered properly.
My problem is when I attempt to edit the menu via Page Editor; I don't even see the menu.
I use a repeater and repeat over a list of links to include in the nav. Due to the way the HTML was created, each LI element needs to have its own, specific ID ("Nav Id" Field in Sitecore) that ties into the CSS. Code inside of my repeater's ItemDataBound event:
// Cast the item using CustomItemGenerator-generated class
GenericContentPageItem navItem = (GenericContentPageItem)e.Item.DataItem;
liMenuItem.ID = navItem.NavId.Rendered; // I tried "navItem.NavId" by itself as well
So while this renders properly in the browser, it doesn't when I'm in Page Editor:
<li id="<input id='fld_B72EB6696DCF41A49671972D5EA5DEB8_2163B90C08AB4A18970A7F3ECE79DCFC_en_1_f71bd37d18d146c19e222e89fcffe278_3' class='scFieldValue' name='fld_B72EB6696DCF41A49671972D5EA5DEB8_2163B90C08AB4A18970A7F3ECE79DCFC_en_1_f71bd37d18d146c19e222e89fcffe278_3' type='hidden' value=" Home?="">
... instead of it rendering like this:
<li id="Home">...</li>
Now, that having been said, I can change my code to not use the CustomItemGenerator and it works fine in the browser and Page Editor as follows:
GenericContentPageItem navItem = (GenericContentPageItem)e.Item.DataItem;
Item nav = Sitecore.Context.Database.GetItem(navItem.ID);
liMenuItem.ID = nav.Fields["Nav Id"].ToString();
I would like to avoid having to hardcode field names in my code, which is why I am using CustomItemGenerator. Is there something that I'm doing wrong with my code that it doesn't want to work in Page Editor?
Thanks!
If you need the actual value out of the field regardless of if you are in the page editor or not, you want to use the Raw property:
liMenuItem.ID = navItem.NavId.Raw;
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I am trying to make a NameValueList collection editable with GlassMapper and I don't seem to be able to get to the bottom of this.
We have a list of validations that can be attached to a field and I would like to have the validation message editable in ExperienceEditor.
The collection is pre-processed when GlassMapper is retrieving the item:
Validations = glassItem.GetValidations();
#foreach(Validation validation in Model.Validations)
{
<div id="#validation.Identifier" ng-message="#validation.AngularKey" ng-cloak class="mtg-validation-msg">
#Html.Glass().Editable(validation, e => e.ErrorMessage)
</div>
}
Error that I am getting:
Failed item resolve - You cannot save a class that does not contain a property that represents the item ID. Ensure that at least one property has been marked to contain the Sitecore ID. Type: MyAssembly.Models.Validation
It is not possible to directly edit certain types of complex fields in the Experience Editor, such as Treelist, Multilist or Name Value Collection.
Instead, you should set up and use an Edit Frame. This will pop up a modal dialog allowing you to edit the field, it is not inline but means you do not need to leave the Experience Editor. This is the recommended approach to this problem.
Since you are using Glass Mapper, since version 4 you can declare Edit Frames all directly from code and now have to declare/set them up in the Core database first.
#if (Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsExperienceEditor)
{
using (Html.Glass().BeginEditFrame(Model, "Edit", x => x.Validations))
{
<div>Edit Validations</div>
}
}
You might be interested in this blog post I wrote about adding a wrapper around the Edit Frame to make the UX more friendly.
I am having problems understanding the token system for the output of query / projections.
If I leave the property as is it displays the text content with HTML formatting intact.
But I need to wrap it with a tag, the html tags get displayed as text.
Rewrite Results -> Rewrite output
<div class="collapse" id="toggle_{Content.Id}">
{Content.Fields.CaseStudy.ClientChallenge} </div>
I am trying to create a collapsible text area, I already have a button that hides/unhides the content.
Why is it displaying as text instead of rendering the tags properly.
I think this is because I don't know how replacement tokens work.
Another example problem is up one level on the edit Layout, I want to set the item class to work-item {Category}, Category being the name/title of a property, which I am using for grouping.
Right above the projection: I want to include some html that lists all the Categorys in a ul i.e. data-filter=".experiential" I have tried things like: work-item {Category} and work-item {Content.Fields.CaseStudy.Category}. Category is a "term" (?) from a taxonomy.
I feel like I am failing to understand how it all works.
Submitted as a bug https://github.com/OrchardCMS/Orchard/issues/7355
Will edit and post if it is fixed. In case anoyong else comes across this issue.
I have a component that includes a single Rich Text field. In the sublayout, the field is rendered as an Html.Editable with Glass so that it can be edited on the page in PageEditor. It looks like this:
public override void Initialize()
{
litBodyContent.Text = Html.Editable(GlassItem, item => item.Body);
}
<div style="min-height: 38px">
<asp:Literal runat="server" ID="litBodyContent" />
</div>
However, when I insert links using the Rich Text editor, when the page is rendered (in normal view after being published, not in page editor), the links are rendered with the item ID rather than the user friendly path, like this:
Go to another page
I am pretty sure that this is an issue with Glass. How can I keep the field editable in the Page Editor but make it render the link correctly?
You can check if you have proper attribute in the model.
If you have SitecoreFieldSettings.RichTextRaw attribute, it will NOT pass through render pipeline and returns the RAW HTML. Instead if you use Default (SitecoreFieldSettings.Default), rich text content will go through render pipeline and url will be in friendly format.
http://docs.glass.lu/html/d44739b2-5f0e-d862-f62c-86c50f0b262f.htm
Can you try to change it from using literal to use Editable() method directly, Something like:
<%= Editable(GlassItem, x => x.Body) %>
I think Initialize() is too soon in the page life cycle. Try moving it further along, like to Page_Load() or so.
I want to achieve the following in a django form, for a models.ImageField:
do not show the standard <input type="file"> button ("choose file" button)
show a preview of the current image, for already populated models
for empty (new) models, show a custom button
clicking on the image preview or the custom button will open a file dialog to select the image from the user's file system
selecting a new image replaces the custom button or the old image preview with the preview of the new image
This seems to me like a normal workflow to select images in a form, but I do not seem to find any fully working solution. All I can find involves hacking around several parts:
styling the label and hiding the standard "choose file" button: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p2gTDZKS9Y
use a widget instead of the standard for forms.FileField.
I have tried to use:
class ImagePreviewWidget(Widget):
def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
return mark_safe('<img src="/media/%s" width="100px"/>' % escape(value))
For the widget, and I am using this in the form like this:
class DesignCampaignForm(ModelForm):
brand_logo = FileField(widget=ImagePreviewWidget)
This is properly showing the preview of the existing image, but I am unable to click on it to select another file, and even if I was that would not update the preview.
Is there an already available solution for this simple use case?
I haven't been able to find a complete solution, so I have done the following:
use a widget to render a modified ClearableFileInput, rendering an image and an <input> element
style the <input> in the element with CSS, to hide it
make sure that clicking in the image triggers the hidden <input> element, wrapping the <img> in a <label> and using the for attribute
add some javascript to replace the image preview whenever the selection in the <input> element changes
whenever the selection is cleared, show the original preview
A gist can be found here.
In my final solution (not yet in the gist), I have added a button for when the image is not yet selected.
edit: Gist only works for Django before version 1.11.x.
class ClearableFileInput has since been gutted and changed
I have 2 data template fields "title" and "id", used for the HTML page title and the id attribute in the body tag respectively. When the page is viewed using Page Editor, Sitecore attempts to render editor controls on these items and because they are outside of the main form tag, controls don't get rendered correctly. I don't need these to be editable in the Page Editor.
What's the best approach/solution to handle fields like these?
Is hiding these 2 template fields from the Page Editor a solution?
If so, how do you hide the fields from the Page Editor and still have it available on the Content editor (so we can still edit it within the Content editor)?
In Page Editor, all you should need to do is render their values without a FieldRenderer. e.g, bind the field values to a standard .NET control. Or use a scriptlet -- <%=Sitecore.Context.Item["Title"]%>