Looking to understand if it is possible in Umbraco to have a form page, that contains a rich text CMS editor too?
Do I need a plugin?
Umbraco has a paid for plugin called Umbraco Forms (https://umbraco.com/products/umbraco-forms/).
I'm sure there are likely plenty of free plugins for rich text editors if you want to create a custom form.
As mentioned in Bradley's answer, Umbraco Forms package is what most Umbraco Developers would use.
It is not free, but if you are working for an Umbraco Gold Partner company, then it is currently free for your company. If this is your case, then you should be able to generate as many Umbraco Forms licences as you need for your Umbraco projects and use them without any issues, otherwise, you need to purchase it.
After installing the Umbraco Forms package to your Umbraco project, you can create your Forms directly from the Umbraco Backoffice>Forms session:
You use "Answer types" to create your form fields. There is not a Rich Text Editor answer type out of the box at the moment.
Your options could be;
Using a Short or Long Answer answer type.
Using the Title and Description answer type.
Alternatively, you can extend the Umbraco backoffice for Umbraco forms and create your custom answer types by creating your custom Field types as described here . While doing this, you might need some custom workflows, and here is how you can create custom workflows.
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Exploring Umbraco 8 and playing around building a test site etc.
Building document types and content pages via the back office interface, and looking in the code itself I've noticed a files called models.generated.cs.
looking inside, it contains partial classes like public partial class AndyTestPage : PublishedContentModel { } and properties I've given it like
[global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Umbraco.ModelsBuilder", "8.5.5")]
[ImplementPropertyType("andyProperty1")]
public string AndyProperty1 => this.Value<string>("andyProperty1");
my question is, what exactly is the point of this file? what does is do and how are these properties and classes created in here via the backoffice cms.
second question is, how would I go about creating a document type, and properties from code? my noob assumption is to simply add the classes in the this file, but that doesnt seem right?
Thanks,
Andy
It belongs to modelbuilder.
It depends on how you build your umbraco solution. If you use visual studio you can use something called strongly type, it helps building templates with VS.
By default, modelsbuilder is set to "PureLive", which is for users who builds within the umbraco backoffice system.
You can set modelsbuilder to different options, depending on how you build.
You should not edit the file, it is created and maintained by the system.
https://umbraco.tv/videos/umbraco-v7/implementor/working-with-umbraco-data/working-with-models-builder/
https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/templating/modelsbuilder/
elitenet.dk has answered the first question
With regards to your second question Umbraco is database/content first so unfortunately you cant write documenttypes etc. from code first... not that i know of.
I beleive this is because Umbraco was designed to be used by almost anyone with a little html/css knowledge. E.g. You can create templates and views from the cms without having to know anything about serverside development.
Just a little tip if youre starting with Umbraco and plan on using multiple environments take a look at Kevin Jumps Usync package, essentually the package allows for document types/properties etc. to be pushed from environment to environment.Usync
I am new to Umbraco Mvc. A page consists of repeating content -heading and body text. User can be able to add or remove any number of such type of content panel.
How can i implement this?
For this page i added a document type, template and content. I am not sure what to do next?
Please help,
Thanks.
This is an old question but I thought I'd leave a note here.
Umbraco 7
Both Nested Content and Archetype are both great packages for creating repeating content on a page/node in Umbraco. Nested Content is actually so good, as of version 7.7.0, it is included in Umbraco!
Another way to create repeating content is to create the content as nodes/pages in Umbraco, then picking it (using a multinode picker) node/page where you want the data to show.
Umbraco 6
Checkout uComponents as it allows for repeating content too.
Self promotion
My old blog post The best Umbraco packages of 2017 contains a little more information about these specific packages.
This is repeatedly asked many times, however i couldn't find appropriate solution for my problem.
I want to create an Entry Form which will consists of following elements:
Text boxes, drop down fields (auto populated) , check boxes , radio buttons
After my research
i found that i need to create user control, or script file for above form and access it via Macro.
I don't want to use User control as my first preference is to controller-View-Model (i.e. cshtml)
I want to follow MVC approach to create above form. So
1) Do i need to create a seperate project for Add/Edit/Delete/Search Data Entry form?
2) OR i need to create cshtml file for the same(not so clear about this approach)
I'm looking this data entry form with easier for customization and i could use it in other applications as well.
From Umbraco 4.10 up to 6.0.x you can use MVC in Umbraco so there's no need to use an usercontrol. You probably want to use a SurfaceController where you can add any Action you want. The rest is standard MVC (Razor views to build your textboxes, drop downs, ...).
Check out the Umbraco MVC documentation where they explain how to use MVC in an Umbraco project.
I have a project where I need to create a Word document report based on some items which custumer can choose on MVC 3 (Razor) website.
Is it possible in any way? The only solutions I can find is report in Excel.
Do I need to create Word Templates?
I would probably use the: Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office
there are many advantages in doing this like no need to instantiate Word on the web server, probably not even need to have it installed...
I inherited the management of a Symfony site and need to add some HTMl form tags to one of the "static" pages via the CMS. The scenario I have is:
/index.php/splash/welcome pulls up the welcome screen.
We want to be able to add a subscription button on that page.
The HTML has been supplied for us by the company that handles the subscriptions.
The form post method has an action that references a script on a remote site (no lectures on the security implications please ;-).
When I add the <form... and <input... tags via the CMS admin panel, the tags get removed automatically by Symfony.
Is there a way to tell Symfony to allow these tags?
Thanks in advance,
Marty.
This is goign to depend completely on how the developer set up the CMS. Youre using a rich text editor in source mode i would take a look at that editor's config file and documentation because its probably the one responsible for stripping the tags.
If its just a plain text area i would check the submit action for the edit form and take a look at the code... he may be using something to strip them in there.
If youre using one of the Symfony CMS plugins (Diem, Apostrophe, Sympal) i might be able to help further if i know which one youre using. If its something custom we would need to see the code. This isnt really indiciative of the Symfony core, but rather the CMS youre using.