How to Customize Blogs

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

Hello Everyone,
I want to customize the fields of Blogs for Comments,I am having an sitefinity4.2 Application including an Login Control Page to Login the registered User, I want only to Use 'Name(Optional)', and the 'Loggedin UserId' Field during Posting the Comments and also to send an Email notification to the Admin about the Comment Posted. Please Provide a demo code to do that..

Thanks,
Ankit Rastogi

Posted by Community Admin on 22-Aug-2011 00:00

Hi Ankit,

To achieve this you should map a template for comments implementing a logic that will take the username and fill the textbox. Here is the template for CommentsDetailsVeiw

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.Fields" TagPrefix="sf" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="telerik" Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Namespace="Telerik.Web.UI" %>

<asp:Panel ID="authenticatedUserContainer" runat="server" CssClass="sfcommentsFormWrp">

<asp:Panel ID="moderationContainer" runat="server" Visible="false">

<p class="sfNeutral">

<asp:Literal ID="Literal1" runat="server" Text="<%$Resources:ContentResources, CommentMessageModeration %>" />

</p>

</asp:Panel>

<h2 class="sfcommentsTitle"><asp:Literal ID="Literal2" runat="server" Text="<%$Resources:ContentResources, Comment%>" /></h2>

<fieldset class="sfcommentsForm">

<ol class="sfcommentsFieldsList">

<li id="authorNameControlWrapper" runat="server" class="sfcommentsField">

<sf:TextField

ID="authorName"

runat="server"

DisplayMode ="Write"

Title="<%$Resources:ContentResources, YourName%>"> CommentsDetailsView

<ValidatorDefinition

Required="true"

RequiredViolationMessage="<%$Resources:ContentResources, NameCannotBeEmpty %>"

MessageCssClass="sfError" />

</sf:TextField>

</li>

<li id="emailControlWrapper" runat="server" class="sfcommentsField">

<sf:TextField

ID="email"

runat="server"

DisplayMode ="Write"

Title="<%$Resources:ContentResources, EmailOptional %>">

<ValidatorDefinition

RequiredViolationMessage="<%$Resources:ContentResources, EmailCannotBeEmpty %>"

ExpectedFormat="EmailAddress"

Required="false"

MessageCssClass="sfError" />

</sf:TextField>

</li>

<li id="websiteControlWrapper" runat="server" class="sfcommentsField">

<sf:TextField

ID="website"

runat="server"

DisplayMode ="Write"

Title="<%$Resources:ContentResources, WebsiteOptional%>">

<ValidatorDefinition

RequiredViolationMessage= "<%$Resources:ContentResources, WebSiteCannotBeEmpty %>"

ExpectedFormat="InternetUrl"

Required="false"

MessageCssClass="sfError" />

</sf:TextField>

</li>

<li id="contentControlWrapper" runat="server" class="sfcommentEditor sfcommentsField">

<sf:HtmlField

ID="content"

runat="server"

DisplayMode="Write"

EditorToolsConfiguration="Minimal"

HtmlFieldEditModes="Design"

Title="<%$Resources:ContentResources, Comment%>"

EditorContentFilters="DefaultFilters"

EditorStripFormattingOptions="AllExceptNewLines"

Height="200"

IsToOverrideDialogs="false">

<ValidatorDefinition

RequiredViolationMessage="<%$Resources:ContentResources, CommentCannotBeEmpty %>"

Required="true"

MessageCssClass="sfError" />

</sf:HtmlField>

</li>

<li id="captchaWrapper" runat="server" class="sfcommentsField sfcommentCaptcha">

<telerik:RadCaptcha ID="captcha" runat="server" ErrorMessage="<%$Resources:ContentResources, PageNotValid %>" Display="Dynamic" Skin="Sitefinity" />

</li>

</ol>

<div class="sfcommentsSubmitBtnWrp">

<asp:Button ID="submitBtn" runat="server"

Text="<%$Resources:ContentResources, Submit%>" CommandName="submitComment" CausesValidation="true" class="sfcommentsSubmitBtn" />

</div>

</fieldset>

</asp:Panel>

<asp:Panel ID="anonymousUserContainer" runat="server" Visible="false">

<p>

<asp:Literal ID="Literal3" runat="server" Text="<%$Resources:ContentResources, PostingCommentsIsNotAllowed %>" />

</p>

</asp:Panel>

Set the template build action to embedded resource. To add it to your project go to Administration->Settings->Advanced->ContentView->Controls and choose where you need it for example NewsContentFrontend->Views->CommentsDetailsView and in the field ViewType enter the path to code file(namespace.class).
The code file:
The code file should be a .cs document inheriting from ViewBase. There you should provide a logic that will take the name of the currently logged user and pass it to the textfield or asp:Label. Here is a forum topic providing the API code for getting the current user.
In the code file specify the template used like this:

protected override string LayoutTemplateName

get

return null;

public override string LayoutTemplatePath

get

return Test.layoutTemplate;

private const string layoutTemplate = "~/VppPrefix/SitefinityWebApp.MasterView.Comments.ascx";

Note when adding the virtual path and new View restart the application by making a dummy change in the web.config.

For e-mail sending functionality you should subscribe to the event that is fired when commens are posted and use Emailsender

EmailSender.Get().TrySend(new MailMessage(new MailAddress("mail address"), new MailAddress("mail address")));

This will send e-mail to the target mail in the code using Sitefinity SMTP settings(Administration->Settings->Advanced->System->Smtp). Here is related documentation.

Greetings,
Stanislav Velikov
the Telerik team

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