Editing UI should reload the entire page if property rendering result contains "<script" string.

As a workaround you could render empty script tag in block template in edit mode. Something like this:

if (PageEditing.PageIsInEditMode)
{
    // Hack: output "<script></script>" to reload

}

As far as I know this is the the only one way for now. Is it what you need?

I second your questions Joel. They somewhat relates to my questions here http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=65075&epslanguage=en

Thanks Dmytro, I'm using the client resource handling to put the scripts in header/footer but the edit-mode-only hack I can certainly work with.

Damn, it didn't actually solve my problem. Instead it produced an odd result.

If I don't have a script tag in the view for the block the block gets added but the JS isn't executed. If I do have an empty script tag the page gets reloaded but the block isn't rendered in the content area. The block has been added though, as I can see it in the list if I click on the content area. It's also rendered correctly if I hit refresh in the browser.

Thoughts?

OK, so, here's a bug for you Dmytro. Sorry about this ;)

Adding a script tag to a block DOES force a full refresh of the page.

If there is only a single version of the page it always works.

If there is published version of the page (or maybe just an older one, I don't know) it DOES force a full refresh of the page but the block is NOT rendered in the content area. My theory is that an older version of the page is loaded.

IF the script tag does something that takes a fair amount of time, for instance contains an alert which the user is slow to dismiss, the correct version is loaded and the content area is rendered with the block inside.

IF the script tag contains a setTimeout, like the one below, it loads with or without the block inside depending on the timeout value. For instance on my machine with a 100ms it never loads the updated content area while with 1s it almost always load the updated content area.

@if(PageEditing.PageIsInEditMode)
{
    <script> setTimeout(function() {
        var supernastyhacksuperduper = 42;
     }, 100);
    </script>   
}

How bout that ;)   

Line 5.

What is the officially recommended timeout value by EPiServer? 

:P

If you are working on published version, the first change you made would create a new version. Meanwhile, your change has triggered a full page reload. Both of these actions force the edit mode to do some re-initializations. I guess that we have some mis-synced promises over there. However, I have no clue why a timeout would help. I will investigate a little bit more and let you know if a bug is filed.

Nice steps to reproduce, Joel :)

There's a reason I opted to write here rather than to post a bug. Sorry ;-)

Dmytro and Duong,

I just ran into something really annoying that I believe is related to this. I have a scheduled job that imports pages from another site. It either creates new pages or updates existing ones. The imported pages has a ContentArea property. For existing ones I clear this property and populate it with new values. This doesn't work. I can add new values to the content area but I can't clear it's values. I've tried everything I can think of including clearing it in different ways such as .Prop = new ContentArea(), .Prop = null, .Property["Prop"].Clear() and about 10 other ways. I've also experimented with different SaveActions but nothing works.

What does work though is first clearing the property and then waiting for a little while before saving the page.

Again I don't have good steps to reproduce but I think/hope this makes sense to you guys. This bug has just cost med three hours and nearly depleated my WTF quota for the week :)

I'm running Patch 1.

Was there any traction made on this issue?  I am experiencing something similar as well.  

We are using a slightly modified version of the Itera.Multiproperty library to create, in this instance, a list of key-value pairs ("ConfigProperty") on a particular page type ("KeyValuesPage") which uses the legacy editor.  This is rendered via a Repeater.  I surrounded the Repeater with a div ("divWrapper"), and on page load I use the following snippet to add on-page edit:

divWrapper.ApplyEditAttributes<KeyValuesPage>(p => p.ConfigProperty);

this.EditHints.AddFullRefreshFor(x => x.ConfigProperty);

// Code to databind repeater...

The first time I edit the page and make an update, I hit save in the legacy editor modal and the page refreshes.  The updated data, however, is not reflected in the repeater.  Re-opening the legacy editor DOES show the updated values. If I publish the page my updates are reflected.

Another odd quirk:  If I don't publish the page after the first refresh "fails", and I try updating the property a second time, it works as expected.  The problem is just the first full refresh.

I would also like to have an answer...

Full Refresh seems really buggy. Works sometimes. Im rendering a date to the preview page and the date gets updated, but sometimes no new data is loaded. Sometimes the data is empty for the property with full refresh (most often a content area).