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Adding records to Umbraco Contour programmatically

Rasmus — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:18:03 +0000

I just had to programmatically add records to an Umbraco Contour Form. Since I couldn’t find any documentation on how to do this, I thought I would post how I did this.

I have an input box (tbEmail) and a button (btnSubmit). On the click event of btnSubmit I got the following code, that adds a record to the form.

btnSubmit_Click

protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var recordStorage = new RecordStorage();
var formStorage = new FormStorage();
var form = formStorage.GetForm(new Guid("my form guid"));
var recordService = new RecordService(form);
recordService.Open();
var record = recordService.Record;
record.IP = Request.UserHostAddress;
record.UmbracoPageId = umbraco.presentation.nodeFactory.Node.GetCurrent().Id;
recordStorage.InsertRecord(record, form);
foreach (var field in recordService.Form.AllFields)
{
if (field.Caption == "#Email")
{
var key = Guid.NewGuid();
var recordField = new RecordField()
{
Field = field,
Key = key,
Record = record.Id,
Values = new List<object>() { tbEmail.Text }
};
var recordFieldStorage = new RecordFieldStorage();
recordFieldStorage.InsertRecordField(recordField);
record.RecordFields.Add(key, recordField);
}
}
recordService.Submit();
recordService.SaveRecord();
recordService.Dispose();
}object>

New Umbraco Package

Rasmus — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:21:25 +0000

I’ve just made a new Umbraco Package. What it does is, that it automatically creates canonical meta tags, if the url used is not the one found by Umbracos NiceUrl. Especially useful if you use umbracoUrlAlias or umbracoUseDirectoryUrls

To use the extension, download the package and install it to your Umbraco solution. When done, just add the [DI]Canonical macro to your templates. If you have a page, that uses that template and uses umbracoUrlAlias and the user/search enginge came via that link, the canonical meta tag will be present in the header.

You can download the source and package at codeplex

nemhandel.dk on Umbraco

Rasmus — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:44:49 +0000

How did I forget about this. Last week we launched nemhandel.dk. Nemhandel.dk is build on Umbraco and is, what I think a nice implementation of a public sector site.

validateRequest in Umbraco v4

Rasmus — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:08:16 +0000

In Umbrao v4 validateRequest=false in web.config has no effect. Instead you should on your user control in Page_Init do the following:

((umbraco.UmbracoDefault)Page).ValidateRequest = false;

For more see this post on the Umbraco Forum:
http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst7313_usercontrol-and-ValidateRequest.aspx

Even nicer URLs in Umbraco

Rasmus — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:17:19 +0000

A lot of people like to have nice URLs in their website. That’s quite understandable, since it makes them easier to understand and also easier for search engines to read. Umbraco have a build in nice URL engine that makes URLs almost as nice as I would like to, except for the .aspx extension

To remove the .aspx extension from Umbraco solutions you need to do two things

I) Set the umbracoUseDirectoryUrls to true in web.config

II) Set up IIS to accept wild card mapping

1) Right click your website in IIS and choose properties
2) Go to the Home folder tab
3) Click configuration

In IIS5 (W2K)
4) Click the Add button
5) Add the following values:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll
.*
Limit to: GET,HEAD,POST,TRACE
Uncheck the verify file exists

In IIS6 (W2K3)
4) Click the Insert button in the “Wildcard application maps” area
5) Add the following values:
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll
Uncheck the verify file exists

myebag.dk launched

Rasmus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:35:07 +0000

So now we launched another site at Designit. A cool thing about this site is that it’s entirely Umbraco based. We haven’t developed a single usercontrol, hardcoded anything or other shortcuts to manage this website.

See the website at: http://www.myebag.dk

Stacktrace in Umbraco

Rasmus — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:38:47 +0000

This is a good one for debugging Umbraco solutions…

You can show the stacktrace by adding ?umbdebugshowtrace=true onto the end of the URL.

Recursive Property

Rasmus — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:31:59 +0000

Af en eller anden årsag kan man ikke i Umbraco (eller også har jeg ikke fundet ud af hvordan) fra codebehind få fat i en property, som ikkeer på selve noden, men på en parent node. Man kan sagtens fra designview der angiver man blot recursive=true.

Jeg har derfor lavet en lille funktion, som kan kaldes hvis/når man har brug for at få fat i en property fra en parent.

GetRecursiveProperty

public static Property GetRecursiveProperty(Node selectedNode, string propertyAlias)
{
Property p = selectedNode.GetProperty(propertyAlias);
if (p != null)
return p;
if (selectedNode.Parent != null)
return GetRecursiveProperty(selectedNode.Parent, propertyAlias);
return null;
}

Den kan du blot kalde med den node hvor du skal bruge property’en og det propertyAlias du leder efter, så finder den din property for dig.

Certified developer

Rasmus — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:17:22 +0000

Today I passed the Certified Umbraco Developer Level 2 certification – hurray for me