A very simple question for experienced sharepoint developers I think.
Inside a PortalSiteMapProvider I can access the RootNode this way:
(PortalSiteMapNode) RootNode
My Question is, how can I access this node from other places, without a reference to the provider? Is there something like
SPContext.Current.Web.RootNode (just an example, this doesnt work)
Thank you very much!
I'm not quite clear on what you are trying to achieve, however, you cannot access any nodes of a site map provider without referencing that provider. A simple reason for this is that the sitemap may have a totally different structure to that of your SharePoint site collection.
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I have a Web Resource that is working fine, except for one major headache.
I need to be able to click on a link and open an existing entity record. These two methods both almost get me there, but are blocked by different reasons:
1. Calling it directly with a link like this:
window.open('http://OurCRM/main.aspx?etc=10088&id=%7bc1d0db62-aa9e-e911-80e0-0a94ef08472f%7d&pagetype=entityrecord', '_self');
The problem with this one is that it doesn't work due to CRM saying
"Sys.InvalidOperationException: Sys.InvalidOperationException: Service Xrm.Interfaces.Services.IMostRecentlyViewedService already has an implementation"
note : If I take out the '_self' it works but then that defeats the purpose of what we're trying to do (need to keep it in the same tab).
2. using the Client API:
parent.Xrm.Utility.openEntityForm('ourentity', guid, '', '');
This one is blocked due to Cross Origin Frames being blocked by browsers.
Does anyone know how to do this?
Below snippet should work: (this will be onclick of button or link)
onclick="window.location.href='http://OurCRM/main.aspx?etc=10088&id=%7bc1d0db62-aa9e-e911-80e0-0a94ef08472f%7d&pagetype=entityrecord';"
To help others out, this was resolved in another, similar question
accessing the logged in CRM user from custom page
Basically we were looking at two different ways to handle the same problem of working with webforms inside CRM.
I'm working with Sitefinity CMS and trying to figure out how to save the data from a "Forms Module" form to a separate database in the backend. Currently all the responses are saved into a table that is created when the form is built. What I want to do is re-route the save request to go through my code behind instead and save the data to Azure table storage. Is there a way to do this or by using the Forms Module am I stuck to saving the data to the table that is auto-created when the form is built? I've tried creating my own FormsSubmitRouteHandler as explained here (http://docs.sitefinity.com/for-developers-submit-forms-using-ajax-call#register-a-form-submit-route-handler) but I must be doing something wrong cause my code doesn't ever get hit.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I didn't explain myself well please let me know.
You should create a new provider that implements the FormsDataProvider class.
Currently Sitefinity uses OpenAccessFormsProvider - so you can use JustDecompile to see how that was implemented and probably do something similar.
Then you need to register your custom provider in the Administration > Settings > Advanced > Forms
If you don't mind having the form responses in the Sitefinity database and in your custom storage, then you can subscribe to the IFormEntryCreatedEvent and in your event handler you can write the logic of saving the form respose somewhere else.
See this article for more details: http://docs.sitefinity.com/for-developers-forms-events#iformentrycreatedevent
Have in mind that this will result in form responses being saved in both, the SF datbase and your custom storage. Also, you won't be able to manage the entries stored in the custyom storage through Sitefinity backend. If that's your goal, then Vesselin's answer is the correct way to go, but more complicated.
I'm having a problem when trying to A/B test certain nodes in my node-tree in Umbraco.
What I want to do is to copy a node in the node-tree to a specific spot and use that B-structure to see which of the structures works best, using Google analytics.
For example we have two node structures, let's call them "Private" and "Sweden".
Their structure with childnodes and properties are exactly the same. The only difference between them is the propertyvalues (content). The "Private"-URL is www.mysite.com/Private and the "Sweden"-URL is www.mysite.com/Sweden.
What I would like to do is to change every link on the B-structure, so that it points to its match at the A-structure. The problem is that since it's two different structures, it will have two different alternative links.
With other words, it should be a coinsidence that it enters the B-structure, then be moved back to the A-structure in the next click.
We manage what page it should load (either the A-node or the B-node) with scripts, so that it has a 50% chance for each node, and if it lands on the B-node, Google analytics will save data. What we can't manage is that every link on that page will be to the A-node.
I'd appreciate any help I can get.
Regards,
David
There's a couple of ways that seem likely to give you a start at least.
The /config/urlrewriting.config file allows you to set up multiple redirect rules within umbraco so a section like the following might work in sending all requests (whether (/sweden/pagename/ or /private/pagename/) back to the private structure. Not sure how GA will handle it:
rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="http://www.mysite.com/private/$1" redirect="Domain" redirectMode="Permanent" ignoreCase="true" />
Secondly a simple httpmodule (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307996) can process all page requests and redirect as required - you could do a gaq_push here directly or indirectly.
I'd be interested to know how you get on - it seems a good area for extension to Umbraco.
I'm not sure I have understood perfectly what you need to do, so please excuse any assumptions that may prove mistaken. Here's what I think:
Since A & B nodes should share the same html content (besides the links of course), why don't you make the link href attribute dynamic by using a bit of razor in the template or macro:
#{var isANode = CurrentPage.Parent.Name == "Sweden"; }
A similar approach would work if you are using web forms.
We finally came to the final decision to use the alternative template-solution. Since there seem to be no generic solution for my case of this problem we had to create an alternative template with specific macros to render the different information for every documenttype we're using.
Creating dynamic links for every page is a hell of a job in this stage in the project, since there are so many pages and links. Also some links are made in javascript, so there's another problem.
I copied the a-structure to another node, only for the reason to be able to change propertyvalues. There might be a problem logging and track the information with Google Analytics though, so that's the next step for us in this project. In our alternative templates we're getting the propertyvalues from the b-structure.
Still, if anyone have some better solution I'd highly appreciate it!
Regards,
David
I need to create a workflow that would break permission inheritance in a sharepoint subsite.
I am building a sharepoint 2010 site that is highly modular and can expand based on clients needs. The project requirement is that the client must be able to expand the website and add subsites from templates with as little interaction as possible. To this end I have created a list and attached a workflow to this list that creates a new website based on the information supplied in the list fields. The workflow I am using is a solution I found online http://www.ilovesharepoint.com/2011/02/create-site-action-sharepoint-designer.html
After the website is created I need to create security groups (another workflow I found online helps with this).
The problem is that the subsite must inherit security groups from the parent site and then I need to add new ones. In order to do this I need to break inheritance from the parent site and than I can create new groups. Currently my client has to do this manually - very bad thing. So I need create a workflow that would do just that.
The problem is that I am completely clueless as to how to go about doing this.
Ideally, I would like to create some sort of workflow action that would take a site url as input and then break permission. From what I've been able to find I need to use BreakRoleInheritance function to do that. but how do I create a workflow that takes input and how do i convert the string input into an actual site?
Like I said, I don't know anything about coding for sharepoint so please be as specific as possible.
Thank you very much.
P.S. maybe I am mistaken and i don't need to break inheritance to create additional security groups that would work only for a given subsite. If so, please tell me how to do this without breaking inheritance.
I've been away from SharePoint development for quite a while now, and I'm trying to access the information in a SharePoint 2010 blog (from one of our users, within their "MySite") from a C# webpart which will reside on the homepage of the site. The idea is to be able to highlight a certain user's latest post on the home page.
Can anyone help me to reference the blog (in dev it is located at http://myServer/my/BillsBlog) from our homepage. I've tried the following...
Reference an SPSite giving the URL as a constructor parameter, then get the correct web from there. This fails. (I'm guessing the blog is a web, rather than a site collection, but am open to being corrected there)
Get the current context from SPContext.Current, and access the AllWebs collection from there, but this doesn't inculde the /my web.
Once I find the appropriate container (SPSite or SPWeb) I can access the list to pull out the items I need, but I don't know how to get to that point. In a console App, I have it working by using the method in the first bullet abouve.
I'm really pretty much stuck now, and I simply don't know enough about what I'm looking fro to be able to search Google for answers. Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
OK, my mistake. The webpart project was set up as a sandboxed one, so the approach in bullet 1 wouldn't work. Changing that switch meant it is now OK and working as per the console app.
Thanks for reading.