Order of pages (multilingual) nightmare!!

Posted by Community Admin on 28-Mar-2012 00:00

I know Sitefinity is a great product!!

But If the project is stopped at the stupidity like Page order in multilingual site then I wander how far we came from the times where we had perfectly working CMS named Sitefinity 3.7.

Please help anybody… with any suggestion!!

Posted by Community Admin on 28-Mar-2012 00:00

Sorting is broken pretty bad everywhere, not just multilingual

It's a MAJOR thing to be broken as it prevents the "Managing of Content" :) So I'd expect it to be fixed for the service pack...I think there'll be a SP for 5, but this is just based on some forum posts I've been reading, no actual info on 5.0 SP1 vs 5.1.

Posted by Community Admin on 02-Apr-2012 00:00

Hi guys,

After further investigation we came to the conclusion that this unacceptable behavior is related to the hierarchy of Pages, Lists and Taxonomies. Our developers team is working on the problem already. The issue has been escalated to the highest priority. The fix will be deployed with Service Pack 1. Excuse us for the inconvenience.

Greetings,

Stefani Tacheva

the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 02-Apr-2012 00:00

Hi All,

After an in-depht analysis of the problem we determined that fixing the issue will require more development time than the initially planned one. As we want to ensure that checking in this fix will not impose any regression potential on other related functionality, the changeset will undergo extensive testing. I apologize for misleading you with the initial promise of delivering the fix for the upcoming Service Pack, we'll do our best to integrate this fix for the upcoming major release (Sitefinity 5.1) and ensure that it has passed all the internal testing and verification procedures to ensure that issues like the current one do not reoccur.

Thank you in advance for your kind understanding, and please excuse us for the inconvenience this problem has caused.

Kind regards,
Stefani Tacheva
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 30-Aug-2012 00:00

Hi

We're using Sitefinity 5.1 an are still experiencing this issue within a mutlilignual site. Could you confirm whether or not the fix was included in the 5.1 release?

Is there a workaround for this?

Brin

Posted by Community Admin on 30-Aug-2012 00:00

Hello,

It seems that this bug is really serious and fixing the issue will require more time. We want to make sure that checking in this fix will not impose any regression potential on other related functionality. We will need to make a lot of tests and we will do our best to integrate this fix soon. At the moment I can suggest you to fix the ordinals of existing pages and items. Please review the following KB article.

All the best,
Stefani Tacheva
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 30-Aug-2012 00:00

Dear Stefani

I do understand that this is might be a complex and serious thing. But adding the new stuff in 5.2 won't make it any better. The bug has been know for at least 5 month!!!!. Stop adding new stuff and fix what's out there.

April 2nd - escelated to the highest priority????

Whenever I show the CMS to clients I am careful not to do to much drag and drop - so I wont have to fish for an excuse.

Look at the screenshot and tell me how easy it is for a client to find the right library.

While you at it. Can you fix the bug that the backend languages changes according to frontend langauge when editing :-)

Markus

Posted by Community Admin on 02-Sep-2012 00:00

Hi Markus,

To solve the ordering of libraries when uploading a new image/document/etc. just go to

Administration -> Advanced -> Controls -> ViewMap -> Create new

and add a new mapping for this:

HostType - Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Libraries.Web.UI.UploadDialog
LayoutTemplatePath - ~/Templates/UploadDialog.ascx

Then simple create the UploadDialog.acsx with the following contents:

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" TagPrefix="sitefinity" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" TagPrefix="telerik" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Fields" TagPrefix="sfFields" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ContentUI.Views.Backend.Detail" TagPrefix="sfDetail" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Validation.Definitions" TagPrefix="sfvalidation" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Workflow.UI" TagPrefix="sitefinity" %>

<sitefinity:ResourceLinks id="resourcesLinks" runat="server">

<sitefinity:ResourceFile Name="Styles/Ajax.css" />

</sitefinity:ResourceLinks>

<sitefinity:ClientLabelManager id="clientLabelManager" runat="server">

<Labels>

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="OneItemHasBeenSuccessfullyUploaded" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="MultipleItemsHaveBeenSuccessfullyUploaded" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="YouMustSelectLibraryNameInWhichToUploadItemName" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="WhichItemNameToUpload" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="Uploading" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="UploadDone" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="YouHaveUnsavedChangesWantToLeavePage" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="LibrariesResources" Key="YouHaveUnuploadedItemsWantToInterruptUploading" runat="server" />

<sitefinity:ClientLabel ClassId="Labels" Key="YouWantToLeavePage" runat="server" />

</Labels>

</sitefinity:ClientLabelManager>

<fieldset class="sfNewContentForm">

<asp:LinkButton ID="backButton" runat="server" CssClass="sfBack" OnClientClick="return false;" />

<h1 id="dialogTitle" runat="server"></h1>

<sfFields:FormManager id="formManager" runat="server"/>

<div id="mainForm" runat="server">

<div class="sfForm sfFirstForm">

<sfFields:FileField id="fileUpload" runat="server" DisplayMode="Write" CssClass="sfFormIn" />

</div>

<sitefinity:PromptDialog ID="createLibPrompt" runat="server" Mode="Input" ShowOnLoad="false"

Title="<%$Resources:Labels, CreateAParameter %>" TextFieldTitle="<%$Resources:LibrariesResources, LibraryNameText %>"

TextFieldExample="<%$Resources:LibrariesResources, LibraryNameExample %>">

<CustomTemplate>

<sitefinity:TextField ID="libraryTitle" runat="server" DisplayMode="Write"></sitefinity:TextField>

</CustomTemplate>

<Commands>

<sitefinity:CommandToolboxItem

Text="<%$ Resources:LibrariesResources, CreateThisLibrary %>" CommandName="createLibrary" CommandType="CreateButton" WrapperTagName="LI"></

sitefinity:CommandToolboxItem>

<sitefinity:CommandToolboxItem Text="<%$ Resources:Labels, Cancel %>" CommandName="cancel" CommandType="CancelButton" WrapperTagName="LI"></sitefinity:CommandToolboxItem>

</Commands>

</sitefinity:PromptDialog>

<sitefinity:Message ID="messageControl" runat="server" RemoveAfter="-1" CssClass="sfUploadedImgMsg" />

<div id="librarySelector" runat="server" class="sfForm">

<div class="sfFormIn">

<asp:Label ID="librarySelectorTitle" runat="server" CssClass="sfTxtLbl" AssociatedControlID="librariesDropDown" />

<asp:DropDownList ID="librariesDropDown" runat="server">

</asp:DropDownList>

<sitefinity:GenericCollectionBinder id="librariesBinder" runat="server"

TargetId="librariesDropDown"

DefaultSortExpression="Title ASC"

ServiceUrl="~/Sitefinity/Services/Content/ContentService.svc/"

BindOnLoad="false">

<Containers>

<sitefinity:BinderContainer runat="server" RenderContainer="false" ContainerTag="OPTION" TemplateHolderTag="SELECT">

<option sys:value="Id">Title</option>

</sitefinity:BinderContainer>

</Containers>

</sitefinity:GenericCollectionBinder>

<span id="libraryCreationPanel" runat="server">

<asp:Literal ID="orLiteral" runat="server" Text="<%$Resources:Labels, or %>"></asp:Literal>

<asp:HyperLink ID="lnkCreateLibrary" NavigateUrl="javascript:void(0);" runat="server" Text="<%$Resources:LibrariesResources, CreateNewLibrary %>"></asp:HyperLink>

</span>

</div>

<sfDetail:SectionControl id="taxonomiesSelector" runat="server"

WrapperTag="FIELDSET"

CssClass="sfForm sfExpandableForm"

Expanded="false">

</sfDetail:SectionControl>

</div>

<sitefinity:WorkflowMenu id="workflowMenu" runat="server" CssClass="sfButtonArea sfMainFormBtns" />

<sitefinity:CommandBar id="successCommandBar" runat="server"

WrapperTag="div"

WrapperCssClass="sfButtonArea sfMainFormBtns"

Displayed="false">

<Commands>

<sitefinity:CommandToolboxItem runat="server"

CommandName="viewAll"

CommandType="NormalButton"

CssClass="sfPrimary" />

<%--<sitefinity:CommandToolboxItem runat="server"

CommandName="batchEdit"

CommandType="NormalButton" />--%>

<sitefinity:LiteralToolboxItem runat="server">

<ItemTemplate>

<asp:Literal ID="Literal12" runat="server" Text="<%$Resources:Labels, or %>"></asp:Literal>

</ItemTemplate>

</sitefinity:LiteralToolboxItem>

<sitefinity:CommandToolboxItem runat="server"

CommandName="uploadOther"

CommandType="CancelButton"

CssClass="sfAddOther" />

</Commands>

</sitefinity:CommandBar>

</fieldset>

<asp:HiddenField ID="dialogInstanceId" runat="server" />

<script type="text/javascript">

$("body").addClass("sfFormDialog");

function createDialog(commandName, dataItem, self, dialog, params, key, commandArgument)

$find('<%= dialogInstanceId.Value %>').prepareDialog(commandName, dataItem, self, dialog, params, key, commandArgument);

</script>

This the default template from 5.1.3270 and the only difference is the addition of

DefaultSortExpression="Title ASC"

to the <sitefinity:GenericCollectionBinder id="librariesBinder" runat="server"> definition. Recycle the app and the libraries will get sorted by title.