How do I get the URL's (and Page information in general) which th

How do I get the URL's (and Page information in general) which the user may use to visit a page from a tab in Edit Mode

Kent Larsson

Vote:

Hi,

I'm new to EPiServer and I'm trying to create a module which extends the edit view to include a tab with some extra information about a page. Part of this information should be the URL(s) which the user may use when visiting the page. I am a bit lost and would really appreciate some help from someone more experienced with EPiServer.

My environment is:

Visual Studio 2008
I'm Targeting .NET 2.0
EPiServer 5 R2

What I have done is:

Add new item on the project
GUI Plugin named MyEditTab of type EditPanel

I get this code behind file:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using EPiServer.Personalization;
using EPiServer.PlugIn;
using EPiServer.Security;
using EPiServer.Util.PlugIns;
using System.Web.UI;

namespace MyProductsNameSpace
{
    [GuiPlugIn(DisplayName = "MyEditTab", Description = "Edit panel description", Area = PlugInArea.EditPanel, Url = "~/MyEditTab.ascx")]
    public partial class MyEditTab : System.Web.UI.UserControl
    {
       // TODO: Add your Plugin Control Code here.
    }
}

And this front file after I changed AutoEventWireup to True:

<%@ Control Language="c#" Codebehind="MyEditTab.ascx.cs" AutoEventWireup="True" Inherits="SiteSeeker.MyEditTab" %>

My questions:

How do I "get information" (if there are multiple ways and interesting information I would be eager to know more) about the page which the tab is tied to in Edit Mode from the code behind file?
And more specifically. How do I get the URL(s) which the user will visit when viewing the page from the code behind file? As this is for a module I need it to work regardless of web.config settings.

Many thanks for reading! I hope somone will give me a tip.

#37731

Mar 17, 2010 17:45

Magnus Rahl

Vote:

You could probably get the page ID from Request.QueryString "id" parameter. Get the corresponding PageData and you have your non-FURL in the LinkURL property. You can then use something like this to get the FURL:

UrlBuilder furl = new UrlBuilder(page.LinkURL);
Global.UrlRewriteProvider.ConvertToExternal(furl, page.PageLink, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8);

If the page has a simple address you can get it from the "PageExternalUrl" property.

Of course you'd have to find a way to skip all of this if the page edited is a new page.

#37743

Mar 18, 2010 7:44