In Sitecore 7 MVC, my understanding is that partial views are represented by using Razor declarations such as #Html.Sitecore().Placeholder("some_thing") in a .cshtml file.
In this context, what does the argument "some_thing" actually represent - is it something located in the Sitecore instance? If so, how can I locate the thing that "some_thing" represents within the Sitecore database?
In the shortest way: Sitecore Placeholder is a place where you can add your components.
The argument some_thing in #Html.Sitecore().Placeholder("some_thing") is the name of the placeholder.
You can have multiple placeholders on your page. When you add a component to a page, you tell Sitecore "Put in in placeholder some_thing and that's how Sitecore knows where to place it.
Read Presentation Component Reference for more information (yeah this document is years old, but the idea is still the same).
#Html.Sitecore().Placeholder("some_thing") is typically in a layout page such as your DefaultLayout page. Like Marek said it is a place that you put components. If you log into Sitecore and look into at a page, under the Presentation tab, there is an icon that says Detail. Click that. A pop-up will open (I think it still did in version 7, I dodn't have an instance running. On that popup, select a component or add a new component to the Default Layout. In the settings for the component will be a field called Placeholder. Put the text "some_thing" in there without the quotes. I think this is what you are asking what this is the placeholder representing.
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From this question (Hyperlink inside label field in Vaadin 12) I was able to use Vaadin's HTML component to create custom html code (and it worked fine, including putting in ahref links etc.)
However, Vaadin provides the "Anchor" component which appears to be the far more powerful (and potentially more secure) way of creating links that can be used to navigate to either other classes I built or to external website (or even to download dynamically generated data in a streaming fashion).
However, what if I want to have both normal "label-like" text and an achor link all appear in a single paragraph? For example, in "normal html", I could just do this:
<p>
This is my normal text.
Download <a href="/resources/excelTemplate.xlsx" download> this Excel file</a>
and follow the instructions therein
</p>
and it would create the link somewhere within my <p>...</p> paragraph. How can I do this in Vaadin with the Anchor object? The best I came up with thus far is to use Horizontal Layout and then add a label, an achor, and then another label -- but that is really really ugly and doesn't technically have the same effect (it won't wrap properly.) The other option is to NOT use "Anchor" but instead just use "HTML" component and just create ahref links everywhere, but that seems a tiny big ugly too (though I suppose it's an ok workaround.). (I'm assuming I can call any UI I build by sticking the url links in the ahref calls....) Thoughts on the "right Java Vaadin" way to do this?
Paragraph p = new Paragraph("para");
Anchor a = new Anchor("go", "www.go.com");
p.add(a);
p.addClickListener(e-> UI.getCurrent().navigate(a.getHref()));
Vaadin 10+ offers you (atleast) three ways to handle this kind of case. You mentioned two of the..
Make composition of components in Java. Instead of VerticalLayout you could wrap the content in Div and using Text component also in Div instead of Label. You can make this kind of custom component by extending Composite.
The second alternative is to use HTML component as you mentioned.
The third alternative is to create custom html polymer template and connect to it with PolymerTemplate class. That will result in custom component that behaves like the custom component of the first option. It is just different way of implementation.
Which one of the three is a correct way. From framework perspective all of them. Which one is correct for you depends on your preference and application.
This is my first time round using Umbraco and I have created Document Types / Pages using the wrong naming format and now this has transpired into my page URL's, for instance /about-page/. How would I go about changing them to /about as I have searched the back-end admin panel and there dose't seem to be an option to change their link to document values.
Would anyone be able to provide a simple code based example using umbracoUrlAlias or umbracoUrlName how I could change this preferably in Razor.
Thanks
Editing #run yards Solution by digbyswift help in comment
Correct Solution:
Create Property on in Document Types which applies to all pages you want to change the URL
Call the name anything you want e.g Page URL and Possibly give it a new tab.
Call the alias umbracoUrlName
Type as text sting
Should not be Mandatory (As when you start replacing .Url with .umbracoUrlAlias within the views it will need to be present)
Tab as Generic
Click Save on top right on the page
Added screenshot for starter kit on Umbraco v7.2.5
Unless I'm very much misunderstanding your issue, you should just be able to change the name of your page and republish. This doesn't need an additional field, just change the value in the "Properties" tab and republish the page. This will automatically change the URL of the page.
You can also create a property called umbracoUrlName using a TextString property editor. If this has a value then it will generate the URL fragment for the page using this value, rather than the page name. This changes the URL for the page, rather than creating an alias, like umbracoUrlAlias.
Solution:
Create property on in Document Types which applies to all pages you want to change the URL
Call the name anything you want e.g Page URL and Possibly give it a new tab.
Call the alias umbracoUrlAlias
Type as text sting
Make it required (As when you start replacing .Url with .umbracoUrlAlias within the views it will need to be present)
Go into all your pages and rename them using the property you just created
Now with your code, say with the navigation where you have used .Url change it to .umbracoUrlAlias and the new URL's will be used.
Note if you don't use .umbracoUrlAlias the links will still be active i.e. they work but they won't be displayed in the address bar as .Url spits out the original ones associated with the page.
You can apply on URL names in web.config:
In section find:
<add key="umbracoUseDirectoryUrls" value="false" />
this will set url names for new created items to name.aspx
If you set this to 'true' then new items will be named like /name/
Additionaly you might want to avoid of Handling some urls by Umbraco pipline, just use this setting - add URLs which must be bypassed:
<add key="umbracoReservedUrls" value="~/config/splashes/booting.aspx,~/install/default.aspx,~/config/splashes/noNodes.aspx,~/VSEnterpriseHelper.axd" />
I have around 10 tables in my database. Building CRUD’s for these are easy with ie. reverse engineering in Netbeans, and with Netbeans 8 the pages look great thanks to primefaces.
So now I have 4 pages per entity; list, create, edit and view. Create and edit are similar except they bind to a new respective an existing entity. View is similar to edit, except it is readonly. The available buttons change too, of course, and there are probably other minor differences.
What I would like is to keep it down to 2 components per entity; 1 for the list and 1 for an instance. The latter should come in 3 flavours; editmode, createmode and viewmode. These components should be includeable in other pages, preferably both as dialogs and “raw” imports.
Anyone have an idea whether this is possible? Do I need to create my own set of renders, which can ie. render an inputText-component and a selectOneMenu as an outputText? As an example my first try with an inputText was just to write disabled=”true”, which renders the inputtext as non-editable. It becomes too greyish, but I guess that would be fixable by overriding the style. But preferrably it should render as a real outputText would when in viewmode. Maybe some clever use of css could do the job instead of renders.
Maybe the easiest way would be to store the viewmode of the composite component in the componenttree. Is this possible? I guess any component would have to look up in the tree in the render phase, to see how it should render.
For the buttons I could maybe do with just the rendered attribute.
Is it possible to go this route, or has anyone already made a framework for this? Or is it stretching JSF too far?
This view suppose to show a list of hyperlinks, each pointing to an external URL. The goal is for the user to click one of these links and have their browser open a new tab with the selected URL.
Currently I have the following markup:
#Html.ActionLink("SomeSite", "http://subdomain.mydomain.com/SomeSite")
This markup produces:
http://localhost:58980/AccessInstance/http%3a/subdomain.mydomain.com/SomeSite
instead of :
http://subdomain.mydomain.com/SomeSite
What can I change in my markup to make this work as I expect?
You don't need to use #Html.ActionLink for that. Just use a plain A tag:
SomeSite
Html.ActionLink is specifically for generating links to actions defined in MVC controllers, in the same app. Since you're linking to an absolute URL, you don't need any of the functionality that Html.ActionLink provides.
Two ways :
1. update the database column with full link:
eg SQL:
update ProductTable set ProductLink='http://www.example.com/Product/Mobiles' where ID=123
In asp mvc view
View
2. Hardcode the http part and list from model
View
Hope helps someone.
While a ViewBag is overused and not the best choice most of the time this is something that I had done when inheriting someone else's mvc app to do a quick fix for a URL that I needed to redirect to with a specific dynamically changing querystring parameter
<a target="_parent" href="http://localhost:56332/services/#ViewBag.factory">View Service</a>
Using .NET Core 6
This seems to be the most correct answer:
Link
This will generate the following result:
As you can see at the bottom left corner of the window before clicking the link, the URL address was rendered as it is (NOTE: The cursor was recorded out of place for some reason, that's a ShareX problem, ignore it).
Than link will be directly saved as a nvarchar(750) type (probably any character like type will do the work). No changes to the original link were made before saving it or on reading:
You need to take into account your RouteConfiguration.
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}"
because you are specifying the action link as the entire link that you want to redirect.
I would recommend that you use the #rossipedia answer because you can make tricky things like putting a span inside the link
Here to display link that are clickable in index page
<td>
#Html.ActionLink(item.FileName, "../Uploads/Catalogue/"+item.FileName)
</td>
We have a bit big blocks of C# code within our cshtml files which must be presented in cshtml and nowhere else (obviously it's not a brilliant case but it's another question).
How we can collapse or hide these blocks of code in order to let our designers work more smoothly? We also want to hide these blocks of code during the demos of the progress with markup.
The real issue is that we also must save the visual representation into SVN.
Is there any native VS 2010 functionality for this or plugin? Maybe there is an opportunity to use "partial" cshtml pages where all the markup will be in one file and all C# code will be in another?
Unfortunately VS isn't going to collapse C# blocks of code within #region directive in such files.
Ultimately there is a similar question Regions In ASP.NET Views? but it gives no answer on how to save the collapsed representation when "Collapse Tag" context menu action item was used.
Try using Visual Studio's collapse functionality. By default I believe the keys are:
[Ctrl+M,Ctrl+H] to hide an arbitrary selection, and
[Ctrl+M,Ctrl+U] to unhide the same ( while collapsed ).
This should allow you to temporarily hide any code. More details available on MSDN
Is this what you were looking for?
Having read a little further you wish to save them collapsed, and apparently .cshtml doesn't support #regions. I guess a hacky solution might be the old:
#if(false){
<div>
<!--/*{your long code}*/-->
</div>
}
Or something to that effect, but you get the idea :)
Just select your code, right click and select Collapse Tag
The way that I see it is that cshtml files are meant for a "user control" side of a presentation layer. If you have too much code in your view files, then I would refactor the code and move re-usable components into partial views. I would then include these partial views through
#Html.RenderPartial("PartialViewName", Model.propertyToRender), or I would use
#{ Html.RenderAction("ActionName", "ControllerName") ;}