Using Fluent API to see check if current page is homepage

Posted by Community Admin on 06-Dec-2010 00:00

Hi,

Need to check whether the current page is the homepage... can't work out how to do this using the fluent API.

Has anyone got a sample?

Thanks,

Seth

Posted by Community Admin on 06-Dec-2010 00:00

Hello Webinsite,

You can use

PagesConfig conf = new PagesConfig();

var id = conf.HomePageId;

Then you can use Pages facade and get the page by Id.

Kind regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 06-Dec-2010 00:00

Thanks Ivan for such a speedy response.

So is this reasonably efficient:

public bool isHomepage()

SiteMapNode currentNode = SiteMapBase.GetCurrentProvider().CurrentNode;

PageSiteNode node = (PageSiteNode)currentNode;

PagesConfig conf = new PagesConfig();

if(node.PageId == conf.HomePageId)

return true;

return false;

Cheers,

Seth

Posted by Community Admin on 07-Dec-2010 00:00

Hello Webinsite,

This code should be siffucient.

Regards,
Radoslav Georgiev
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Posted by Community Admin on 09-Dec-2010 00:00

Hi Ivan,

Sadly, I didn't have as much luck with this code, the following code always seems to output an empty Guid, 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

PagesConfig pageConfig = new PagesConfig();

Response.Write(pageConfig.HomePageId.ToString());

I have "Set as homepage" on a page within the Sitefinity admin and checked to see if there was any permissions that might prevent it from returning the actual homepage id. Everything seems in order.

Digging a bit deeper, i have looked at the /app_data/sitefinity/configuration/pagesConfig.config, and the homePageId attribute appears to be set.

<pagesConfig homePageId="fcf21816-64c5-4890-8bee-146dc3fceb31" defaultFrontendTemplateId="7aee4a2a-1d1e-4a03-97bb-2159e6a71bae" xmlns:config="urn:telerik:sitefinity:configuration" xmlns:type="urn:telerik:sitefinity:configuration:type" config:version="4.0.910.0" />

Additionally, when trying the following code.....

PagesConfig pageConfig = new PagesConfig();

Response.Write(pageConfig.DefaultFrontendTemplateId.ToString());

// Outputs : f669d9a7-009d-4d83-bbbb-000000000003

Which suggests to me that the PagesConfig() does not nessasarily load data from /app_data/sitefinity/configuration/pagesConfig.config?

Any ideas what could be going wrong?

Note: am calling the above code from a User Control embedded on a page.

Many Thanks

Haydn

Posted by Community Admin on 09-Dec-2010 00:00

Hi Haydn,

There is a method in PageFacade called - SetAsHomePage() which we use and it explicitly sets the homepage id to the configuration. You can perform the following query

var configManager = Config.GetManager();

var config = configManager.GetSection<PagesConfig>();

var id = config.HomePageId;

Best wishes,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 13-Dec-2010 00:00

Thanks Ivan,

That seems to work :)

Kind Regards

Haydn

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