Displaing Tags in DownloadList - Sitefinity - General Discussions

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Posted by Community Admin on 02-May-2011 00:00

Hello,
I'm tring to add a column to a DownloadList (table view) for showing the tags I've added to a document... how can I add it? clicking on the right to Tags gaves me

<sitefinity:FlatTaxonField ID="FlatFieldControl" DisplayMode="Read" runat="server" WebServiceUrl="~/Sitefinity/Services/Taxonomies/FlatTaxon.svc" AllowMultipleSelection="true" TaxonomyId="CB0F3A19-A211-48a7-88EC-77495C0F5374" TaxonomyMetafieldName="Tags" Expanded="false" ExpandText="ClickToAddTags" BindOnServer="true" />

Where should I put this?
Thanks
Paolo

Posted by Community Admin on 04-May-2011 00:00

hello,
can anyone please help me on this?
Thanks
Paolo

Posted by Community Admin on 05-May-2011 00:00

I need exacly to do what you do in the Document & Files

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

heeeeeelpppppp ... anyone can give me a feedback please?

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

Hi Paolo,

There is a way to display tags for each document, however it involves custom code and is not so trivial. The steps you need to follow:

Override the Table master view
Change its template and implement the binding of the custom column
Register the new view with DownloadList configuration
Use the new view in DownloadList control on a page

I've attached an archive with the implemented custom view, which contains:

CustomMasterTableView.cs - our custom view
CustomMasterTableView.ascx - the template for the view (we've added one more column to the grid)

Extract those two files in the root of your web project. To use this view, you need to register it in the definitions of the DownloadList control. To do so, go to Administration -> Settings -> Advanced -> ContentView -> Controls -> FrontendDocuments -> Views -> MasterTableView. Copy all values somewhere, because we'll need to duplicate them.
Then click the parent Views node in the tree and CreateNew -> DownloadListViewMasterElement. This will create another item in the tree. Input the values we copied in the previous step, with only two differences:

For View name, specify "CustomMasterTableView".
For View type, specify "Sitefinity.Samples.CustomMasterTableView"

Click Save.

Now that your view is registered, the rest of the work is just instructing DownloadList to make use of our new master view. This can be achieved by setting the MasterViewName property of the DownloadList control, and currently can only be done through code. The following snippet creates a new instance of DownloadList, tells it to use our new master view, and puts it on a page called "Documents", which you should create before running it:

var pageId = App.WorkWith().Pages().Where(p => p.Title == "Documents").Get().FirstOrDefault().Id;

var downloadList = new DownloadListView();

downloadList.MasterViewName = "CustomMasterTableView";

App.WorkWith().Page(pageId).AsStandardPage().CheckOut().Control().CreateNew(downloadList, "Body").SaveChanges().Done().Publish().SaveChanges();

You can change the above code to either get a control you've already put on a page, or put a new instance on another page. Once you open this "Documents" page, you should see a new column in the grid displaying documents, which shows what tags they've been tagged with.

Regards,
Slavo
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