Custom Generic Content - Sitefinity - Front- & Back-End Development

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Posted by Community Admin on 25-Nov-2010 00:00

In 3.7 it took me some time to create a Generic Content Item with my own wrapper and an extra field...basically my Generic Content User Control will contain a title and a HTML Editor...My class looks like:

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

[Category("Rogue Data")]

public string Title get; set;

[Category("Rogue Data")]

public string Content get; set;

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

TitleLabel.Text = Title;

ContentLabel.Text = Content;

Simple...So if I go to my Page Editor and drag the control onto the page and Edit I will see two user configurable fields Title and Content...but my problem is Content is just a text box and I would love to be able to specify in the code behind to use the WYSIWYG Editor instead? Is there an easy way to do this or do I need to create a Custom View Template like in 3.7?

Posted by Community Admin on 25-Nov-2010 00:00

Hello Jerami,

You can use ContentBlock control which wraps RadEditor control. If you want to use a user control you cannot use the RadEditor in the context of a ControlDesigner. In this case you will need a custom control with a custom control designer. The control should inherit from SimpleView( if you do no intend to reuse one of the built-in controls as a basis). The control designer should inherit from ControlDesignerBase.

All the best,
Ivan Dimitrov
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