• December 19

    Sitefinity File Manager Part 2: Permissions

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: C# Sitefinity

    After reading part 1 of this SiteFinity File Manager series, you should now have the file manager in Sitefinity's RadEditor dialog set to load in a default folder. The only thing left is to restrict access to other folders. Additionally, we need to set the default upload folder for incoming files.

    FileManager Permissions

    By default, the RadEditor provides full access to the entire file system for your website. This means that users can navigate outside of their folder and wreak havoc on your site. So although we have already set the editor to open in their folder by default, ...

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  • December 17

    Sitefinity: File Manager Default Folder

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: C# Sitefinity

    One of the toughest roadblocks I've had to deal with while training and supporting users of sitefinity is the issue of uploading files and images through the editor. The default behavior is to start the user in the root of the site, allowing them access to all files and folders, possibly even granting them the ability to delete the whole site! Having trustworthy users is certainly a plausible workaround, but unfortunately not a guaranteed one. And besides that, having to navigate into images -> department -> subfolder1 -> subsubfolder2 -> newimages gets old quickly, especially if you have more than ...

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  • October 24

    Custom Javascript Banner Rotator - Part 2: jQuery!

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Javascript jQuery

    As I suggested in part 1 of this series, I recently discovered the wonderful world of jQuery, the "write less, do more javascript library". And sure enough, this is one tool that really lives up to its name! Not only can you do all sorts of neat (even useful!) javascript effects and events, but they are suprisingly easy to do! I had put learning this on the backburner a while back, but after publishing my Banner Rotator, I figured it was about time to bring that sucker front and center and start cooking!

    The banner rotator script I ...

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  • October 23

    Custom Javascript Banner Rotator - Part 1

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Javascript

    These days, a feature that city websites should never be without is the banner rotator, that is, an image up at the top of the site that cycles through various featured photos. The City of McAllen naturally was no exception, as you can see for yourself. The problem was that, being relatively inexperienced in Javascript, I've never made my own 'slideshow' type application before. Usually I will either download an existing script (or [[shudder]] a FLASH object...) and modify it to fit my needs.

    In my search to find the perfect rotator, I went through dozens, including the Teleirk ...

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  • October 09

    Sitefinity: Rss Feeds for Generic Content - Part 3: Podcasts!

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Sitefinity Rss

    To wrap up this series of posts, I’m going to briefly show you how to extend the Rss Feed Classes to enable support for podcasts. This is the exact same process I took to create my own Dark Synthesis Podcast, which is publishing entries from the the Generic Content Module.

    The Generic Content module doesn’t have native support for uploading or associating files. This isn’t such a big deal for me anyway, however, since my files are hosted on Boxstr. So I figured the best way to accomplish this was to store a LINK to the enclosure file as ...

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