Extending Forms Control - Control Designer Empty - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 20-Apr-2012 00:00

Hi All,
I have extended the forms control to send email notifications. I've followed the advice here
http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/general-discussions/forms-module-notification.aspx#0

Now I want to extend the Control Designer Simple view to add the to address property in but have run into problems.

I have followed examples here
http://www.sitefinity.com/blogs/joshmorales/posts/11-09-01/anatomy_of_a_sitefinity_4_widget.aspx
And here
http://www.sitefinity.com/documentation/documentationarticles/developers-guide/how-to/how-to-create-a-coverflow-control/creating-an-empty-silverlight-based-control/creating-a-custom-control
To create a simple view.

I can do this without problems in a simple widget i've built but when trying the same steps with the extended forms widget I've made all I get is a box with no controls.(see attached image)

Here is some code widget code
inherits from FormsControl

[ControlDesigner(typeof(emailFormDesigner))]

public partial class emailForm : FormsControl

My Control Designer

public class emailFormDesigner : ControlDesignerBase

protected override void InitializeControls(Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.GenericContainer container)

base.DesignerMode = ControlDesignerModes.Simple;

public override string LayoutTemplatePath

get

return _layoutTemplatePath;

set

_layoutTemplatePath = value;

protected override string LayoutTemplateName

get return string.Empty;

public override IEnumerable<ScriptReference> GetScriptReferences()

// get script collection

var scripts = base.GetScriptReferences() as List<ScriptReference>;

if (scripts == null) return base.GetScriptReferences();

scripts.Add(new ScriptReference(_scriptReference));

return scripts.ToArray();

private string _layoutTemplatePath = "~/Sitefinity/UserControls/emailFormTemplate.ascx";

private string _scriptReference = "~/Sitefinity/UserControls/emailFormDesigner.js";

template:

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

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

base.OnInit(e);

template javascript

Type.registerNamespace("SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailForm");

SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner = function (element)

SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner.initializeBase(this, [element]);

SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner.prototype =

initialize: function ()

SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner.callBaseMethod(this, 'initialize');

,

dispose: function ()

SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner.callBaseMethod(this, 'dispose');

,

refreshUI: function ()

var controlData = this._propertyEditor.get_control();

// bind widget properites to designer

//jQuery("#txtName").val(controlData.Name);

,

applyChanges: function ()

var controlData = this._propertyEditor.get_control();

// bind designer properties back to widget

//controlData.Name = jQuery("#txtName").val();

SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner.registerClass('SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner', Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.ControlDesign.ControlDesignerBase);

if (typeof (Sys) !== 'undefined') Sys.Application.notifyScriptLoaded();

Any help would be appreciated

Damo

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jul-2012 00:00

instead of Type.registerNamespace("SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailForm"); Try: Type.registerNamespace("SitefinityWebApp.Sitefinity.UserControls.emailFormDesigner");

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