I recently needed to create a custom designer for a Sitefinity MVC Widget that would allow a property to be filled in programatically (such as clicking an option in a list). Populating the field was simple enough using jQuery, and here is a very simple example demonstrating the desired behavior: Clicking the button does indeed […]
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Sitefinity allows you to easily create a custom configuration setting for storing and managing properties for your site. For the most part, you simply need to inherit from ConfigSection and add your properties. Once registered your settings will be automatically added to the backend Sitefinity Configuration page (Administration > Settings > Advanced). The documentation for this feature explains that there are […]
When working with the new Web Services module or WCF services in Sitefinity, you want to be able to allow the requesting clients to properly respond to and handle a failed request.This is generally simple enough, as a failed request would usually be accompanied by an HTTP status code that indicates something went wrong. The […]
Whether you’re setting up your very first Sitefinity website or upgrading to the latest version, at some point you’re probably going to need to hunt down one or more of these items. Hopefully this post can serve as a quick guide (or reminder!) to where you can find these important Sitefinity Resources. Note: Things change […]
Sitefinity provides the ability to index all of your content so that it is easily searchable by your visitors. You can also partition the contents of the search into separate indexes based on the different content types, such as News, Blogs, Events, etc. However, what if you have multiple blogs but want your visitors to […]
The Code Reference of the Sitefinity Module Builder makes it simple to get started building custom widgets and components to interact with your Dynamic Modules. However, the generated code is specific to each module and type, requiring that you pass in the full type as a string, resolving the type at runtime. But what if […]
The Sitefinity Module builder allows you to create custom types on the fly for use as custom modules. In the 5.0 release back in February, a two new field types were added to the module builder: Guid and Array of Guids. These allow you to “link” content items using their Id properties, adding support of […]
Falafel Dashboard now available on NuGet The Falafel Dashboard has been updated today with new widgets, and better still, is now easily downloadable via NuGet! This release brings a few new widgets as well as some new features that will hopefully help developers more easily develop and add their own widgets to the dashboard. New […]
When working with the Sitefinity API and its various Content Managers, you need to make sure and consider the fact that after version 5.1, users have the ability to disable modules. Attempting to access the content manager of a disabled module will result in an exception such as this: [Exception: The configuration ‘EventsConfig’ is not […]
With all the new features in the latest 5.2 release of Sitefinity, it’s easy to almost miss Sitefinity Lightning. And after finally taking the time to play with it today, you surely do not want to miss it! This little gem is a brand new content authoring application built by Sitefinity, for Sitefinity. It requires […]