Reordering Controls In Sitefinity Page Toolboxes
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Stanislav Velikov
Posted on
January 09, 2014
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This blog post provides a sample of reordering Sitefinity page toolbox controls through the configuration API.
Here is a sample web form that contains this sample code which reverses the order of the toolbox control in the preselected section. A video of how the reordering function works is available here.
The approach is to load all toolbox sections registered in the site, both built-in and custom control sections. This will retrieve an instance of ConfigManager using Config.GetManager()
and then retrieve ToolboxesConfig that contains toolboxes for PageControls, LayoutControls and FormsControls (for the Sitefinity forms module).
The above code will return the names of all toolbox sections in the site.
Once a section is selected, get all controls from this section which are to be reordered:
Once the controls section is retrieved save the retrieved controls in a new variable "originalConfigs" and perform the reordering there (I am reversing the order). After this remove the whole tools collection from the original toolbox and add the reordered controls:
Here is a sample web form that contains this sample code which reverses the order of the toolbox control in the preselected section. A video of how the reordering function works is available here.
The approach is to load all toolbox sections registered in the site, both built-in and custom control sections. This will retrieve an instance of ConfigManager using Config.GetManager()
and then retrieve ToolboxesConfig that contains toolboxes for PageControls, LayoutControls and FormsControls (for the Sitefinity forms module).
var configManager = Config.GetManager(); var toolboxConfig = configManager.GetSection<ToolboxesConfig>(); var retrieveSectionNames = toolboxConfig.Toolboxes["PageControls"] .Sections.ToList<ToolboxSection>().Select(s => s.Name);The above code will return the names of all toolbox sections in the site.
Once a section is selected, get all controls from this section which are to be reordered:
var toolboxItems = toolboxConfig.Toolboxes["PageControls"] .Sections.ToList<ToolboxSection>() .Where(g => g.Name =="NavigationControls") .FirstOrDefault().Tools;Once the controls section is retrieved save the retrieved controls in a new variable "originalConfigs" and perform the reordering there (I am reversing the order). After this remove the whole tools collection from the original toolbox and add the reordered controls:
var originalConfigs = toolboxItems.Reverse<ToolboxItem>().ToList<ToolboxItem>(); //remove all controls from the section while (toolboxItems.Count > 0) { toolboxItems.RemoveAt(0); } configManager.SaveSection(toolboxConfig); //add the ordered controls back to the section foreach (var item in originalConfigs) { toolboxItems.Add(item); } configManager.SaveSection(toolboxConfig);
Stanislav Velikov
Stanislav Velikov is a Tech Support Engineer at Telerik. He joined the Sitefinity Support team in April 2011.
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