Users and Custom Module relations
Hello,
I need to develop relations between users and custom modules. It could be one-to-one or one-to-many relations. Special user can manage this relations and can query custom modules by user.
What are the best practices of doing this?
Thanks,
Denis.
Hello Denis,
For one to one or one to many (users) relationship you need a field in the module that will be user selector field and will select the ID of the user thus using the module API you can query the module to get the user field and read the GUID value and determine which user is selected. I am attaching a sample user selector field. It is following the approach from this blog post
If you are using many selector control in the module you may encounter a problem caused by opening several field controls with RadWindowManager.
When multiple selectors are in the form RadWindowManager behaves unexpectedly. The solution applied to the Sitefinity modules when this is happening remove RadWindowManager and use just RadWindow.
<telerik:RadWindow ID="userSelector" Width="600" Height="400" NavigateUrl="~/Sitefinity/Dialog/SelectUsersAndRolesDialog" runat="server" Modal="true" VisibleStatusbar="false" Behaviors="Close" Skin="Sitefinity"> </telerik:RadWindow> <---------- Instead of ------------------> <telerik:RadWindowManager ID="windowManager" runat="server" Skin="Sitefinity"> <Windows> <telerik:RadWindow ID="userSelector" Width="560" Height="600" NavigateUrl="~/Sitefinity/Dialog/SelectUsersAndRolesDialog" runat="server" Modal="true" VisibleStatusbar="false" Behaviors="Close"> </telerik:RadWindow> </Windows> </telerik:RadWindowManager>protected virtual RadWindow RadWindowManager get return this.Container.GetControl<RadWindow>("simplePageSelector", true); Hi Stanislav,
this control would have been very useful to me, but somehow when following your advice i can't get it to work. The compile Js file also needs to be modified to replace WindowManager with RadWindow but whatever code I try I get no where. Do you have this exemple that works with a RadWindow. I have multiple selectors in my dynamic content module and can't use the RadWindowManager.
Thanks in advance,
Ivan
Hi,
Here is the updated selector.
Greetings,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team
Hi Stanislav,
you example doesn't work, because all you've done in it is hide the Window manager, but both the class UserSelectorField and the javascript "UserSelectorField.js" continue referring to the window manager and trigger naturally a bunch of errors since there is no longer a window manager (removing the window manager is the easy part, I was able to do that much), but where I have problems is with 3 other related issues:
1) Fixing properly the Class UserSelectorField to support the window instead of the window manager
2) Fixing the javascript file accordingly.
3) Making sure I can have multiple users and multipe roles selected and correctly persisted with my dynamic module object.
You field is defined as a text field (it isn't a big problem - although it would have been great if it was a Guid array, collecting users and roles). Doesn't it require an interface inheritting from IFieldControlDefinition to work with Dynamic Modules?
Thank you in advance for all the help you can provide here.
Ivan