Iterating Page Controls in the Order they are displayed

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

I'm trying to use the API to iterate over the controls on a page in the order in which they should be displayed. I'm using the following code:

PageManager pManager = PageManager.GetManager();
PageData page = pManager.GetPageDataList().Where(pD => pD.Title == pageName).FirstOrDefault();

foreach (var ctrl in page.Controls)

//Do stuff here

Unfortunately what I'm finding is that there seems to be no reason in the ordering of the control collection. How can I determine what order the controls should appear on the page?

Thanks.

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

Hello Shawn,

Can you try something like this:

var postsPageControl = currentPage.Controls.Cast<PageControl>().OrderBy(c=>c.PlaceHolder).ToList().Sort((x, y) => x.SiblingId.CompareTo(y.SiblingId));

Regards,
Radoslav Georgiev
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Posted by Community Admin on 26-Sep-2017 00:00

Tried this but cannot get the correct order which the controls are displayed on the page

var controls = currentPage.Controls.Where(ctrl => ctrl.Caption.Equals("Job Profile Section"))
.OrderBy(c => c.PlaceHolder).ToList();

controls.Sort((x, y) => x.SiblingId.CompareTo(y.SiblingId));
foreach (var control in controls)

var item = pagemanager.GetControl<ObjectData>(control.Id);
var controlData = pagemanager.LoadControl(item);
var widget = controlData as MvcControllerProxy;
if (null != widget)

var values = widget.Settings.Values["Title"];
var one = values;

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