Linking to an Image in Edit Mode?

Dylan McCurry

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Hi,

I have a custom field type with a Dojo editor associated with it. The field revolves around imagery. I am trying to generate a link to take the content author directly to an image asset for editing, as we have stored Alt Text on image assets.

In a nutshell, I am trying to render this from my dojo editor (where 146 is the ID of a Media asset):

<a href="/EPiServer/Cms/Home/Index/#context=epi.cms.contentdata:///146&viewsetting=viewlanguage:///en">Click Here to Edit Image</a>

However, when following this link by clicking on it, you receive this error when trying to publish changes to the image:

widgets.js:2 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'contentData' of null
  at Object._isOpenSetter (widgets.js:2)
  at Object.set (epi.js:2)
  at Object.onOpen (widgets.js:2)
  at Object.open (widgets.js:2)
  at Object.advice (dojo.js:15)
  at Object._264 [as open] (dojo.js:15)
  at Object.openDropDown (widgets.js:2)
  at Object.<anonymous> (widgets.js:2)
  at dojo.js:15
  at Object.loadAndOpenDropDown (widgets.js:2)

However, if I use the Assets gadget and navigate to the image in this way, then everything is fine.

What is the proper way to generate the editing link to a media asset? Should I be using some epi api to perform the navigation? I notice when you navigate via the Assets gadget there is no server reload- so something special is happening to perform this navigation correctly.

Thanks!

#228337

Sep 23, 2020 20:37

Dylan McCurry

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Here's the trick: https://world.episerver.com/documentation/Items/Developers-Guide/Episerver-CMS/9/User-interface/Context-sensitive-components/

dojo.publish("/epi/shell/context/request", [{ uri: "<id-of-asset>" }]);

#228555

Sep 29, 2020 14:41