Can't add contentblock to specified placeholder.

Posted by Community Admin on 18-Oct-2011 00:00

I want to create new page from a template and add contentblock at runtime.
TemplateA -> It has 10 placeholder. There are some Sitefinity content in 8 placeholder. 2 placeholder are empty. This two empty placeholder will be filled on the newly created page.
PageA -> It's new page and its parent is TemplateA

The code below creates new page from TemplateA and adds two ContentBlock to page. But not in specified placeholder. I looked at debug and can't see that two empty placeholder. Newly created page has 8 placeholder.
So , contentblock has been added random place at the new page.

01.public void CreateSubPageTr( string pageName, string pageContentHeader, string pageContent)

02.

03. PageTemplate pgTempalate=null;

04. string UrlNameCharsToReplace = @"[^\w\-\!\$\'\=\@\d_]+";

05. string UrlNameReplaceString = "-";

06. Guid pageId = Guid.NewGuid();

07. Guid pageDataId = Guid.NewGuid();

08.

09. PageManager manager = PageManager.GetManager();

10. manager.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;

11.

12. PageData pageData = manager.CreatePageData(pageDataId);

13. IQueryable<PageTemplate> allTemplates = manager.GetTemplates();

14.

15. foreach (PageTemplate item in allTemplates)

16.

17. if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(item.Title.Value) && item.Title.Value.CompareTo("TemplateA") == 0)

18.

19. pgTempalate = item;

20.

21.

22.

23. pageData.Template = pgTempalate;

24. pageData.HtmlTitle = pageName;

25. pageData.Title = pageName;

26. pageData.Culture = "tr";

27. pageData.IsAutoCreated = true;

28. pageData.LocalizationStrategy = Telerik.Sitefinity.Localization.LocalizationStrategy.Split;

29.

30.

31. ContentBlock cb1 = new ContentBlock();

32. cb1.Html = pageContentHeader;

33. cb1.ID = "c001" ;

34. cb1.Visible = true;

35.

36. ContentBlock cb2 = new ContentBlock();

37. cb2.Html = pageContent;

38. cb2.ID = "c002";

39. cb1.Visible = true;

40.

41. PageControl pageControl1 = manager.CreateControl<PageControl>(cb1, "cphPageTitle");

42. PageControl pageControl2 = manager.CreateControl<PageControl>(cb2, "cphPageContent");

43. pageData.Controls.Add(pageControl1);

44. pageData.Controls.Add(pageControl2);

45.

46. pageData.Visible = true;

47. pageData.Status = ContentLifecycleStatus.Live;

48. pageData.Owner = new Guid("9db23d80-8a13-41be-8342-622e867eeaca");

49. pageData.UiCulture = "tr";

50. pageData.TranslationInitialized = true;

51.

52.

53. PageNode parent = manager.GetPageNode(Telerik.Sitefinity.Abstractions.SiteInitializer.FrontendRootNodeId);

54. PageNode pageNode = manager.CreatePage(parent, pageId, NodeType.Standard);

55.

56. pageNode.Page = pageData;

57. pageNode.Name = pageName;

58. pageNode.Title = pageName;

59. pageNode.UrlName = Regex.Replace(pageName.ToLower(), UrlNameCharsToReplace, UrlNameReplaceString);

60. pageNode.ShowInNavigation = false;

61. pageNode.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;

62. pageNode.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow;

63.

64. manager.RecompileItemUrls<PageNode>(pageNode);

65.

66. var draft = manager.EditPage(pageDataId, new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("tr"));

67. manager.SavePageDraft(draft, new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("tr"));

68. manager.SaveChanges();

69.

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Oct-2011 00:00

Hello Volkan Demirpence,

First you need to set up your template which will be used for the pages that are going to be created. Y For your example I have created a template through the UI called 'test'. Then after you create the page you need to to assign a placeholder for your content block which has been previously initialized. Please refer to the attached code sample, which demonstrates the wanted behaviour.

Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 26-Oct-2011 00:00

Hi Victor,

Is there native code? I got "This item is locked" error with that code. I couldn't debug with fluent code.
Error has been given at this step :
"   PageNode newPageNode = App.WorkWith().Page()
                                     .CreateNewStandardPage(PageLocation.Frontend)
                                     .Do(p ..............."

Posted by Community Admin on 26-Oct-2011 00:00

Error has been corrected at previous post.
I've separated the code and debugged it. I used CheckIn() instead of Publish().
But, the same problem continues. ContentBlock is not added to the specified placeholder.
My code is below.

01.public PageNode CreateNewFrontendPage(string name, string title, string urlName, string placeHolderName, PageTemplate pageTemplate, PageManager pManager)

02.

03. var contentBlock = new ContentBlock();

04. StandardPageFacade spf = App.WorkWith().Page().CreateNewStandardPage(PageLocation.Frontend);

05.

06. ControlFacade cfd= spf.Do(p =>

07.

08. p.Name = name;

09. p.Title = title;

10. p.UrlName = urlName;

11. p.ShowInNavigation = true;

12. p.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow;

13. p.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;

14. p.Page.Title = name;

15. p.Page.HtmlTitle = title;

16. p.Description = "";

17. )

18. .CheckOut()

19. .Control();

20.

21. spf = cfd.CreateNew(contentBlock, placeHolderName).Done()

22. .SetTemplateTo(pageTemplate.Id)

23. .CheckIn();

24. spf = spf.SaveAndContinue();

25. PageNode newPageNode = spf.Get();

26. return newPageNode;

27.

Posted by Community Admin on 31-Oct-2011 00:00

Hi Volkan Demirpence,

I have modified my code to match yours, however the behaviour was as expected.

What I have also done is to create a masterpage with a placeholder with an id to the one that is called, and also a page template.

public PageNode CreateNewFrontendPage(string name, string title, string urlName, string PlaceHolderid, string TemplateTitle)

Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Pages.PageManager pManager = new Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Pages.PageManager();

var contentBlock = new ContentBlock();

var manager = PageManager.GetManager();

var pageTemplate = pManager.GetTemplates().Where(tm => tm.Title == TemplateTitle).First();

Guid templateGuid = pageTemplate.Id;

PageNode newPageNode = App.WorkWith().Page()

.CreateNewStandardPage(PageLocation.Frontend)

.Do(p =>

p.Name = name;

p.Title = title;

p.UrlName = urlName;

p.ShowInNavigation = true;

p.LastModified = DateTime.UtcNow;

p.DateCreated = DateTime.UtcNow;

p.Page.Title = name;

p.Page.HtmlTitle = title;

p.Description = "Some description";

)

.CheckOut()

.Control().CreateNew(contentBlock, PlaceHolderid).Done()

.SetTemplateTo(templateGuid)

.CheckIn()

.SaveAndContinue().Get();

return newPageNode;

Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 15-Nov-2011 00:00

Hi Victor,

please, I have some problem with some small modification of this code.
I made me own simple web-control

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="WebUserControl1.ascx.cs" Inherits="SitefinityWebApp.WebUserControl1" %>

<asp:Label ID="Label1" runat="server" Text="Label"></asp:Label>

using System;

using System.Diagnostics;

namespace SitefinityWebApp

public partial class WebUserControl1 : System.Web.UI.UserControl

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

Debug.WriteLine(Label1.Text);

and I tried to add this control to page instead of ContentBlock as in your sample.
instead of :

var contentBlock = new ContentBlock();

I put

var contentBlock = new WebUserControl1();

Creating of page working fine, but when I opened page for preview or in live mode in function Page_load I got error that Label1 is null.(Object reference not set to an instance of an object.). In case I will add this me control to control tree at right and then i will drag and drop this control to page - it working fine. But not from fluent api.

Can you help me with this ?
Thank you
Jiri

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Nov-2011 00:00

Hi Vrabec,

I have answered you in the support ticket you have opened.

Kind regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

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