EPiServer 7 and custom properties

Mats Knutsen-Valen

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Hi,

I am currently researching how to create a custom property with EPiServer 7. The objective is to create a property quite similar to LinkItemCollection, only that the collection holds "objects" with 3-4 fields. For instance:

Name(string) - Role(string) - Email(string) and Image(url)

In EPiServer CMS 6 I would offcourse use ElencySolutions.MultipleProperty to achieve this, but since it isnt available yet I have to come up with something different. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this?

#63704

Nov 27, 2012 10:19

Mats Knutsen-Valen

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Anyone?

#63742

Nov 28, 2012 12:19

Linus Ekström

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Use blocks for this. You can have a property on your page model that is of a block type. Pseudo code:

public class MyBlock

{

//Block properties here...

}

public class MyPageType

{

public virtual MyBlock SomePropertyName{get; set;}

}

#63743

Nov 28, 2012 12:33

Linus Ekström

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Sorry, missed the part that you wanted to have a collection of these "blocks". We still don't have built in support for properties that are a list of some type but this is high up in the priority for the next release.

#63744

Nov 28, 2012 12:35

Mats Knutsen-Valen

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Hi Linus,

that is good news! When do you expect to ship the next release?

-Mats

#63745

Nov 28, 2012 12:49

Linus Ekström

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We are still to early in the process of the next platform release and have not set a date for this yet. We will however, have an update to the CMS user interface in the beginning of next year but collection properties will not be part of this.

#63875

Dec 04, 2012 7:41

vincent.yang@orchardmarketing.com.au

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I am having the same questions and found this thread, as far as I can see the collection of block is not available in the current release of EPi Server 7, what I would like to know is what's the alternative solution to solve this issue in EPi7? Can someone provide some code sample?

Thanks a lot

#64224

Dec 13, 2012 14:16

Jonathan Nguyen

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Any update on this matter?

Cheers,

#70167

Apr 12, 2013 15:05