Is page in Edit mode

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:40:54 GMT

I’m writing an account registering control. This control needs to show the user how to register for a new account. But when modifying this control the pages editors must be able to see the hole flow. So I went looking for a smart way to display the control in two ways depending on the context it’s being viewed in. I found Jacob Khan’s blog post in EPiServer labs that seemed nice but I didn’t get it to work.

The thing I ended doing was to get the id from the query string, and parsing it to a PageReference to check if it contains a workID. The ID in the QueryString has both the pages ID and the current version being edited, for example 1563_1234 where 1563 is the pages ID and 1234 is the current version.

If the QueryString contains a work page ID it means that I'm currently looking at a draft, not the published page, hence I´m in Edit mode.

When getting the WorkID of a PageData object that's published you will get 0 as a result, and that's what I'm testing against.

Here is the code

public bool IsPageInEditMode
{
    get
    {
        PageReference pageVersionReference = PageReference.Parse(Request.QueryString["id"]);
        if (pageVersionReference.WorkID > 0)
            return true;
        return false;
    }
}

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