Developing my Property Authoring Server Control I run into the issue that using the Calendar control during Authoring time caused the “Are you sure to navigate away from this page?” dialog to show up. As it would have been an ugly idea to force the user to disable the warning message completly using the EnableLeaveAuthoringWarning console […]
A common question I received from customers is that they would like to edit property values during authoring time similar to editing placeholder content. I have previously provided a solution for this but this needs to do some coding for every property. A better solution would be to have a server control similar to the […]
Today I wrote a generic routine which should work on all kind of sites. Unfortunatelly this specific code needed to behave differently for site where the “Map Channel names to host header names” feature of MCMS is enabled or not. So I had to find a way to identify this. MCMS does not expose this flag […]
In a previous article I have discussed how to create an RSS feed for a MCMS site. So the next logical step is to discuss how a RSS feed can be agregated in a MCMS site – and it should be possible that content authors can configure the Feed Url and other parameters while authoring […]
MCMS Site Deployment API does not have a method to export Resource Galleries. Only resources (and related galleries) which are bound to an exported posting can be exported using the API. A workaround for this is to create a helper posting that links to all resource gallery items which should be exported. After the export is […]
A problem I have been confronted serveral times is that authors have problems to save pages because the content of the page is refering to a resource gallery item that has been deleted in the past. Usually deleting such resource gallery items should not happen as this means that the site contains broken images or […]
I received some feedback about my CmsSslHttpModule. Some tried to use this module together with my CmsNiceUrlHttpModule. The result: when the CmsSslHttpModule switches between http and https the URLs did not change to the friendly URLs. I analyzed the problem and found a workaround. The code below is an adjusted version of the CmsSslHttpModule which […]
I have already posted two articles about how to solve the “ugly” URL problem. In the last article I discussed a solution based on a custom http module which does all the necessary checks and adjustments. But one issue is still unsolved: Internet Explorer on Mac has an ugly bug then whenever the “action” property […]
Have some of you have also been bothered by the fact that MCMS does not provide an enumeration method for Posting and Channel properties? Or for some of the other MCMS objects like Resources, Resource Galleries, Template or Template Galleries? Such a feature would be pretty interesting if you (e.g.) create a generic server or […]
MCMS allows editing of placeholder content by shipping placeholder control. But to edit property content it is necessary to first save the page and then open the property page and modify the content manually. In addition using the property page will allow to modify all properties and not only a subset which might be preferable […]
I have seen several posts in the newsgroup where people suggested to use the DataSource.RawContent property to access the content of a placeholder. This method is highly not recommended! It completly bypasses the internal processing if the actual placeholder implementation which means that the content received relies on the current implementation of the placeholder. If […]
Today I played around a little bit more with HttpModules and implemented a more elegant solution for the problem as discussed in my previous post. Especially the second problem – normal postback caused by ASP.NET controls – was not properly solved as it required to do the modification on every template file. Using an HttpModule avoids this overhead. Here […]
