List PageFiles for each page in a PageList

Petter Topp

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I would very much appreciate any ideas on how to show a list of PageFiles for each page in a PageList.

Petter

#59673

Jun 20, 2012 13:46

Petter Klang

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You could add a ItemDataBound event and then check the pagefiles for each item and list them if you so wish.

See: http://antecknat.se/blog/2008/12/19/episerverpagelist-with-itemdatabound/

#59674

Jun 20, 2012 14:34

Petter Topp

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Thanks Petter.

Tried to download the source code for the original project for your link, but it seems that this was removed.

Being av newbie I found this a bit over my head and solved the problem in a less elegant way...

Petter

#59693

Jun 22, 2012 8:15

Anders Hattestad

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The good old <%#GetListOfFiles(Container.CurrentPage)%> ?

#59694

Jun 22, 2012 9:04

Petter Topp

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Hi Anders.

This would be very nice and simple, but GetListOfFiles does not exist inside the ItemTemplate of the PageList - At least not here...

Any suggestions?

Petter

#59695

Jun 22, 2012 9:12

Petter Topp

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Hi Anders.

My previous answer really place me as an EPiServer developer...

At first glance, I thought that you came up with an EPiServer solution to a known problem...

But I think that you are implying that I need to write my own method (GetListOfFiles).

If I should do this, I would like to display the files in a list with the filename as a hyperlink, the time it was uploaded, and the name of the user that uploaded. How would you solve this as opposed to write a method that returns a string to be diplayed inside a lebel control?

Petter

#59696

Jun 22, 2012 11:16

Anders Hattestad

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You are correct. I meant that you had to make the method yourself, or use this as a base:

public string GetListOfPageFiles(PageData page)

{

    string result = "";

    var dir = page.GetPageDirectory(false);

    if (dir != null)

    {

        foreach (var fil in dir.GetFiles())

        {

            string name = fil.Name;

            if (fil.Summary != null && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(fil.Summary.Title))

               name = fil.Summary.Title;

            result += "<li><a href=\"" + fil.VirtualPath + "\">" + name + "</a></li>";

        }

    }

    if (result != "")

        result= "<ul>" + result + "</ul>";

    return result;

}

#59697

Edited, Jun 22, 2012 11:50

Anders Hattestad

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The fil.Summary attributes gives you some data about the fil, and the fil object have some others

#59698

Jun 22, 2012 11:51

Petter Topp

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That's great Anders.

I have been working with EPiServer/asp.net for 6 months now with no prior experience what so ever with c#/Visual Studio (I've worked with Delphi the last 10 years).

What I find the most frustrating with asp.net is that there are sooo many ways to solve a given task....

Thanks for the help - this will solve the task, and I will probably understand the code some time in the future.

#59701

Edited, Jun 22, 2012 13:05