November 2010

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Match EPiServer properties and Page Type Builder properties (Updated)

2010-11-10 in EPiServer, PageTypeBuilder, Plugins | 3 comments

Updated: 2011-09-21, Lee Crowe has updated this plugin. Please check out his blog post: Introducing Page Type Builder UI

Updated: This can now be found on GitHub: https://github.com/eriknordin/PTB-Helpers

Updated: 2010-11-10 16:23, see more at the end of this post!

Using PageTypeBuilder when creating EPiServer web sites?

Then you’re probably aware of when removing properties in code, they won’t change in EPiServer. Same thing when changing a property type in PTB, it won’t change in EPiServer.

In larger projects with a lot of inheritance between page types this can be really annoying, going through all page types and remove/change properties. So I created a plugin that displays miss matches between EPiServer and PTB-properties. In the plugin you can also delete unwanted properties, but for now you can’t convert them to another property type.

The plugin will appear in admin-mode:

And looks something like this.

Don’t forget to put the plugin in a secured folder (or remove it in production environment).

This plugin is tested with EPiServer CMS 6 and Page Type Builder 1.3.

Download the plugin at: http://world.episerver.com/Code/Erik-Nordin/Match-EPiServer-and-Pgae-Type-Builder-properties/

Update

Fixed a bug reported at the code section and also added a link to the page type, and also added a link to edit the property if there was a mismatch.

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Make your PropertyNumber a bit wider

2010-11-04 in Custom Properties, EPiServer | No comments

The default style for PropertyNumber in EPiServer is often a bit short if you have number larger than 999 and it also aligns the text to left. An easy way around this is to use EPiServer PropertyControlClassFactory.

Just create a “PropertyNumberWideControl” that inherits PropertyNumberControl and override CreateEditControls to modify the style as you feel like.

namespace Some.Web.SpecializedProperties.Controls
{
public class PropertyNumberWideControl : PropertyNumberControl
{
public override void CreateEditControls()
{
base.CreateEditControls();

base.EditControl.Style.Add("width", "100px");
base.EditControl.Style.Add("text-align", "right");
}
}
}

There are now two ways to make this control override the default PropertyNumberControl.

1.
In Web.Config, find <episerver.baseLibrary><classFactories>. In that node you might find this <add type=”EPiServer.Core.PropertyControlClassFactory, EPiServer” id=”PropertyControlFactory”>, if not add it. Then you have to register your new control and that it should override the old one: <register type=”EPiServer.Core.PropertyNumber, EPiServer” mappedType=”Some.Web.SpecializedProperties.Controls.PropertyNumberWideControl, Some.Web” />.

<episerver.baseLibrary>

<classFactories>
.....
<add type="EPiServer.Core.PropertyControlClassFactory, EPiServer" id="PropertyControlFactory">
<register type="EPiServer.Core.PropertyNumber, EPiServer" mappedType="Some.Web.SpecializedProperties.Controls.PropertyNumberWideControl, Some.Web" />
</add>
</classFactories>
</episerver.baseLibrary>

2. You can also override the control with code. To do that, take a look at this post from Ted Nyberg.

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