PageManager to change page titles?

Posted by Community Admin on 08-Jul-2011 00:00

Hey all,

Our client has set all of their pages to very basic titles, such as Home, About us, etc. They want to change all of the pages (250+) that they have to include their business name, followed by what they already have, such as "Acme Corp | Home."

I'm attempting to work with the pageManager calls right now to do so, but am having no such luck. Current code is below that I assumed would do the trick for a single page for testing.

var pageManager = PageManager.GetManager();

var page = pageManager.GetPageNodes().Where(p => p.Title == "changetitles").SingleOrDefault();

page.Title = "Acme Corp | " + page.Title;

pageManager.SaveChanges();

Thanks!

Posted by Community Admin on 09-Jul-2011 00:00

Hello Brad,

Please find below a code sample that does this exact functionality for all frontend pages.

var fluent = App.WorkWith().Pages();

var mypage = fluent.LocatedIn(Telerik.Sitefinity.Fluent.Pages.PageLocation.Frontend)

.Where(p => p.Page != null)

.ForEach(p => p.Page.Title = "Telerik | "+ p.Page.Title)

.SaveChanges();

All the best,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 11-Jul-2011 00:00

Boyan,

Thank you - I changed your code just slightly to modify only the HtmlTitle attribute, rather than the title attribute (since we use that for the navigation links).

var fluent = App.WorkWith().Pages();

var mypage = fluent.LocatedIn(Telerik.Sitefinity.Fluent.Pages.PageLocation.Frontend)

.Where(p => p.Page != null)

.ForEach(p => p.Page.HtmlTitle = "Acme Corp - " + p.Page.HtmlTitle)

.SaveChanges();

The only issue we're running in to is that sometimes it throws an error such as the following:

Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.SecurityDemandFailException: You are not allowed to modify this page: Contact Us

Which stops the whole loop and nothing saves. Is this just a permission issue, or some random problem with the page itself? It is not locked by anyone at the time of running the snippet.

Thanks again!

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jul-2011 00:00

Hello Brad,

It looks like a permissions issue to me, can you, please make sure you are running the code when logged in with an administrator account when running the code?

Best wishes,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jul-2011 00:00

Boyan,

Tried and tried again when I made sure I was logged in as administrator - I happened to have the page open (the page with our Change Titles code on it), so I closed it, re-published, logged out, logged back in and that seemed to do the trick - all of the page titles now have what the code was supposed to do.

I don't know if something was being stuck in the cache system or what was going on, but as soon as I re-published and logged back in, we've had 0 issues with changing the titles multiple times, and changing other attributes like the description as well.

Thanks!

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jul-2011 00:00

An update to the code above.

Using the pipe character, "|" in your page titles/HTML Titles like the code above changes, will not allow you to save the page within Sitefinity once you run this snippet because the pipe is considered an illegal character. You can change the pipe to a hyphen and everything will run correctly, as well as you will be able to save the page's Title/Properties with the hyphen.

Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jul-2011 00:00

Hello Brad,

Actually the code was running fine on my side, can you please check the regular expression for allowed characters int he page title, and if necessary add the pipe symbol as allowed. The problem might be coming from the fact that we are using the page title to for the HtmlTitle as well (used for SEO purposes) so you might want to check this regex as well. Please find attached a screenshot demonstrating the location for this setting in Sitefinity backend -> administration -> Settings-> Advanced.

Regards,
Boyan Barnev
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Posted by Community Admin on 19-Aug-2011 00:00

Hello Everyone,
I have the same Problem , i want to change the Page title according to the user Logged in . The Page Title will be 'Company Name' - Home etc and Company Name I am retriving from another database . Please send me neccessary code regarding this.

Thanks
Ankit Rastogi

Posted by Community Admin on 19-Aug-2011 00:00

Hi Ankit,

Can you please let us know where do you expect to see the dynamic page titles according to the logged in user - on the frontend or in the site's bakcend. Please have in mind that changing the Title property of a page would not be a plausible solution if your site has several concurrent users, and also this is not advisable performance-wise. What I'd suggest you, since I guess you'd like to implement this solution on the frontend, is to create a custom navigation, and bind it to our SitefinitySiteMapDataSource control. You'll be displaying all pages as they are arranged in the sitemap, but you can customize the way page titles are rendered according to the desired functionality.

Kind regards,
Boyan Barnev
the Telerik team

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