Hi i need some help with umbraco to define dynamic block template. I've the structure described in the image below
i want to create a dinamic structure for the investor area like in the next screenshot
i try to create benefit template as child of investor template and investor template child of Investors template. In that way my customer can dinamically add or remove benefit from investor and investor from Investors. I watched all umbraco tv videos but i don't know how to solve this problem! I'm searching in something similar to:
#foreach(var page in CurrentPage.Children){
<li>!!!#RenderChildTemplate(page)!!!</li>
}
I found a way! Simple i don't need any template! only partial view that contains block code! and then i can use #html.partial to render them! it was really simple and in the correct mvc way!
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So I'm within a Razor view in an Asp.net Core app. I need to set links within the page. The problem is that this view belongs to a ProductController and the result of the link below is https://localhost:44390/product/test
Name
The links need to be like this: https://localhost:44390/test/ and not https://localhost:44390/product/test Which is the best way to achieve that?
So writing the link this way produces the output I want to:
Name
This has been asked before but I'm going to be more precise with my question to hopefully get a better answer:
I have figured out how to add views to the PageNames class:
public const string WorkOrders = "WorkOrders";
and then to the projectNavigationProvider class to get them in to the navbar:
.AddItem(
new MenuItemDefinition(
PageNames.WorkOrders,
L("WorkOrders"),
url: "WorkOrders",
icon: "business",
requiredPermissionName: PermissionNames.Pages_WorkOrders
)
To get my main views added to the main navbar and working properly.
However, I have not figured out how to create a totally new menu to be used elsewhere. In the app I'm working on we have several pages that display all of the records in a particular table, Work Orders for example. But each record in each table should have several links to other pages for create, edit, details and delete.
One of my partners seems to have solved this problem on other pages by using modals and ajax calls to the controllers endpoints. It works fine for the Customers, which only require name and contact info., but I don't think a modal will work for creating, viewing or editing a Work Order becuse it requires adding line items and the associated data for each one of them etc... There's a lot to it. Lastly, it doesn't seem like the template is set up to be used that was as he wrote a lot of his own js to get it working.
Currently, the create, edit, and details views exist and I have links to them next to each record but I get errors when I try to use the link. Maybe I don't understand how the routing works? In the normal mvc template from VS the links have properties for specifying the controller and method and mvc handles the rest.
<a asp-action="Edit" asp-route-id="#item.WorkOrderID">Edit</a> |
<a asp-action="Details" asp-route-id="#item.WorkOrderID">Details</a> |
<a asp-action="Delete" asp-route-id="#item.WorkOrderID">Delete</a>
I'm getting the same error I had when trying to get the Work Orders page to load but had not added it to pagenames or navigationprovider, which makes me thing I just need to add the links to the navigationprovider class but I don't want a link the the WordOrders create page on the main menu, I want it on a mini menu next to the corresponding record. I have added the page to the pagenames class but am not sure how to create a separate menu for my main page.
public const string CreateWorkOrders = "CreateWorkOrders";
In reviewing the navigationprovider class I see:
context.Manager.MainMenu
and I'm thinking I must be able to create another menu and add items to it like this:
context.Manager.NewMenu.AddItem(....
but it looks like MainMenu is referenced in a class that I can't find or edit. Should I be creating another class defining the NewMenu so I would be able to configure it in the existing navigationprovider class or should I be creating a separate navigationprovider class for it?
Hopefully I've convinced everyone who looks at this that I have done plenty of research before reaching out for help. Even a link to some more detailed documentation would helpful.
You can add a new menu like this:
context.Manager.Menus.Add(WorkOrders, new MenuDefinition(WorkOrders, L(WorkOrders)));
Usage:
context.Manager.Menus[WorkOrders].AddItem(...)
I'm new to Orchard CMS and MVC so please forgive my ignorance. I've done a search and not found anything apparently relevant....
In one of the Footer Quad zone on my Orchard site I want to show the 5 most recent blog posts, just by title. At present it show the title, post, tags etc all in their unformatted state(Ive not style the blog yet).
Using the tracing tool I've created an alternate view called;
Parts.Blogs.RecentBlogPosts
However the only content in this view is;
#Display(Model.ContentItems)
Which -unlike other installed widgets Ive edited alternate views for- doesn't give me anything to play around with to create the layout I'm needing to create.
Have I selected the wrong shape / view, or do I need to get stuck in with some coding???
As I say, I'm new to both MVC and Orchard but very keen to learn. Any help on this will, as always, be greatly appreciated.
I got the exact same problem while trying to differentiate recent blog posts layout from blog summary posts. I followed this concept
http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2011/07/31/so-you-don-t-want-to-use-placement-info.aspx
and created Parts.Blogs.RecentBlogPosts alternate. Then while navigating through the model using shape tracing tool I found all elements I was looking for and put them in my new shape. I know that my approach might not be the most appropriate one but it works. Maybe it would be a starting point for someone who would need to do similar thing:
<div class="last-news">
<ul>
#foreach (var item in Model.ContentItems.ContentItems.Items)
{
var max = (item.ContentItem.BodyPart.Text.Length > 100) ? 100 : item.ContentItem.BodyPart.Text.Length;
<li><header>#Display(item.ContentItem.CommonPart.PublishedUtc.ToShortDateString())</header></li>
<li><h1>#Display(item.ContentItem.TitlePart.Title)</h1></li>
<li>#Display(Html.Raw(item.ContentItem.BodyPart.Text.Substring(0, max)))</li>
}
</ul>
</div>
It does deserve an explanation. Model.ContentItems here really is a List shape. When you call Display with it, it will locate the most appropriate template for a list shape (and that can be an alternate) and renders it. The default List rendering just renders UL/LI and in each LI calls Display on the individual Content shape for the list element, but with the Summary display type. When that in turn gets rendered, the system locates the most relevant Content template, which usually renders a bunch of zones, inside of which the parts get pushed according to placement. So there is a lot going on, in quite a few nested levels.
Still, it is possible to override the whole thing at any level. The difficulty is to know what to put there. The easiest for this is to explore the Model in shape tracing and see what you can use.
This article shows how to override list rendering in a particular situation and take it over entirely:
http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2011/03/27/taking-over-list-rendering-in-orchard.aspx
The Parts.Blogs.RecentBlogPosts view displays Parts_Blogs_BlogPost_List shape (Parts.Blogs.BlogPost.List.cshtml) which displays BlogPost content items. (You can see it in RecentBlogPostsPartDriver.cs). BlogPost content type consists of TitlePart and BodyPart parts which has their own shapes and views (or templates in Orchard terminology).
So to make some corrections for those templates you could try to alternate Parts_Blogs_BlogPost_List, Parts_Common_Body_Summary and other shapes.
Please see the following instructions on Orchard docs page especially:
Alternates
Accessing and Rendering Shapes
I have a page object and various template objects in my application. pages have names, descriptions urls etc and each have a relationship with a template. templates have different numbers of content boxes and relationships with other controllers (like blogs, galleries etc.).
When I am rendering a page I can work out what template is attached to the page, and what the relevant content is based on that. but I am not sure what the best way is to render the nested Items.
Are you meant to somehow render the templates view from within the other view? Or would you have to just rewrite the view altogether? In this case would I have to create an extra template view for each different template, bundle it with the page views, and then only include it if it is the right one?
Would this be the same for galleries and blogs? do they all need to be bundled with the page? Or can it be called from its proper location?
I'm not sure what the best practice is here and haven't had any luck googling it. I'm suspecting that the key words im using aren't correct. Or this is common knowledge that isn't worth documenting.
You can use shared partials to render views. Check out this guide.
In the views, you can render the partials based upon whatever condition you want.
For example:
- if params[:page] == "my_page"
= render "shared/my_page"
Naturally, you will still need to set up the needed data in the controller.
Shared logic for this can be placed in the Application Controller.
I am new to MVC . I am creating a bookstore webpage application using aspx, and mvc. I have a database of books that says available or sold out. When a user clicks a dropdownlist they choose a book, it shows an image next to the book that is either supposed to show a green check mark if it is available or a red X if its not available. That information is all pulled from a database. My question is how do I change the image once a book becomes available. By the way my images are stored in my Content folder under imgs.
I have been searching for a while and haven't found a good answer. Any help or any websites you can suggest would be great thanks.
My image says this
<asp: Image ID = "Book_Availability" runat = "server" />
-----------Update----
When I mean change, I mean change the ImageURL so that it points to a different picture. On the server side I have value of 0 or 1. When I get a 1 i want to update the image URL to point to a different ImageURL from the controller, so that its from a X to a check mark. I am not sure how to accomplish this using MVC
Check out this link on Razor syntax. You could achieve what describe with something like:
#{
string availableImage = Url.Content("~/Images/availableImage");
string unavailableImage = Url.Content("~/Images/unavailableImage");
}
<img src= "#(Model.IsAvailable ? availableImage : unavailableImage)" alt="" />
You could perhaps add an click event handler onto the dropdown using jQuery. This could in turn do a $("#myimagewrapperexample").load() event against an action on some controller i.e BooksController
The action could return a partial view containing the books current image for example. Or it could return true, false depending on the books availability and you toggle the image in your javascript. All the action would need to be passed would be the id of the book and you could then look it up to determine it's status.
I've never used asp tags in a MVC project so can't comment on your usage there. AlexC suggestion of looking into the Razor syntax if your using MVC 3 is a good idea. Otherwise you might want to look into creating views using MVC 2. This Microsoft link might help you out on that front.