Adding blocks to a page programmatically?

Ørjan Horpestad

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Is it possible to programmatically add blocks to a page?

I would assume that you would have to to something like this

make a writabel clone of the page
create an instance of a block
add content to the block (set property values)
add the block to the page/clones content area
save/publish the page/clone.

#91552

Oct 08, 2014 15:22

Petter Klang

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var rep = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();
var newBlock = rep.GetDefault();
newBlock.YouProp = "Cool stuff";
rep.Save((IContent)newBlock, SaveAction.Publish)
writableClonePage.ContentArea.Items.Add(newBlock)

Just writing from memory here so could be a bug or two in there. But something like it. =)

#91566

Oct 08, 2014 17:05

Ørjan Horpestad

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Thanks Petter. But it seems ContentArea.Items.Add() expects a ContentAreaItem object?

#91605

Oct 09, 2014 12:13

Per Magne Skuseth

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            clone.MainContentArea.Items.Add(new ContentAreaItem()
            {
                ContentLink = myReference
            });

#91607

Oct 09, 2014 12:46

Per Magne Skuseth

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There is a forum post with similar code that you could use: http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=86474

#91608

Oct 09, 2014 12:54

Ørjan Horpestad

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Thanks a bunch!

Here's what I ended up with:

                var writableClonePage = (LandingPage)CurrentPage.CreateWritableClone();
                var rep = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();

                var newBlock = rep.GetDefault(ContentReference.GlobalBlockFolder);
                newBlock.ButtonLink = "http://www.episerver.no";
                newBlock.ButtonText = "My button text";
                IContent icontentBlock = (IContent)newBlock;
                icontentBlock.Name = "Some name";
                var savedReference = rep.Save(icontentBlock, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);

                var myContentAreaItem = new ContentAreaItem();
                myContentAreaItem.ContentLink = savedReference;

                writableClonePage.MainContentArea.Items.Add(myContentAreaItem);
                rep.Save(writableClonePage, SaveAction.Publish, AccessLevel.NoAccess);

#91610

Oct 09, 2014 13:11

Per Magne Skuseth

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NP.

In case you would rather use the "for this page" folder, you could simply add:

                var contentAssetHelper = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance();
                ContentAssetFolder folder = contentAssetHelper.GetOrCreateAssetFolder(myPage.ContentLink);
                var newBlock = contentRepository.GetDefault(folder.ContentLink);

#91612

Oct 09, 2014 13:18