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Placing a web user control inside a pagelist
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This one is driving me mad as I feel I've tried everything. However there must be something (hopefully something simple!) that I'm missing.
Basically I have a pagelist that contains amongst its properties a url for an image and a url for a flash object. Depending on what is set for each item, I want to be able to produce code for either an image or a flash object at that point.
I've been attempting this using a web user control within which I make visible the appropriate chunk of html depending on the values of the image and flash properties. This approach works well outside of a list, but within one I'm having difficulty accessing the appropriate property. I could ramble on, so if anyone has any ideas about how to best achieve this I'd like to hear them. My current fix is to call a function within the list that passes the properties along and returns the appropriate string, but I don't like having the html in the codebehind at all and would definitely prefer a solution that will allow our interface people to edit it.
Mar 08, 2006 22:59
Query your parent recursively for the IPageSource interface. Inside a pagelist, IPageSource.CurrentPage returns the page you're currently iterating. On a page, it will return the page itself (PageBase.CurrentPage).
This is how the Property control knows how to render a property from a page in a list, or the page, depending where you put the property control in your markup.
/Steve
#14470
Mar 09, 2006 9:11
And here is some code from a user control that sometimes is showed on a template control and sometimes on a ordinary page.
#14471
///
/// If there is a control implementing the IPageSource
/// interface higher up in the control hiearchy
/// the actualPage will be set to the current page of that control.
/// If no such control is found the actualPage will be set to
/// the CurrentPage of this control.
///
/// If a control is found this would imply that a templated control
/// is using this user control (for example a page list). Then we
/// are interested of the page currently being iterated in the
/// templated control, not the page containing
/// the templated control.
///
///
private void SetActualPage(Control control)
{
if ((control.GetType().GetInterface("IPageSource") != null))
_actualPage = ((IPageSource) control).CurrentPage;
else if (control.Parent == null)
_actualPage = CurrentPage;
else
SetActualPage(control.Parent);
}
private void Page_Init(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
SetActualPage(this.Parent);
}
Mar 09, 2006 15:00
It always makes me happy when I see people use the IPageSource interface. This means that they have understood how a lot of things works, both in ASP.NET and in EPiServer.
The future is bright, keep up the good work, and have a great weekend :-)
/Steve
#14473
Mar 10, 2006 13:40
