One of the more interesting challenges I’ve encountered with Sitefinity has been how to handle error pages, specifically the 404 error that should be returned if a page is not found. Sitefinity uses the built in ASP.NET error handling mechanism, which allows you to redirect to a specific page based on the error code returned […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
In part 1 and part 2 of this series, I discussed how to create a simple News Rotator for Sitefinity. Everything is working great until you try to visit the page with Javascript disabled. Since we’re using link buttons that navigate through the various news items, they require the __dopostback javascript command to initiate the […]
In my last entry (AJAX News Rotator Part I), I described how I used the NewsManager in Sitefinity to create an AJAX news rotator that dynamically fetches news content using AJAX. Using the linkbuttons in the repeater, users can jump to different items in the list. However, this isn’t exactly a “rotator”, because to me […]
I’ve recently been developing a control to display recent news in a rotating fashion. Originally, I was using the RadRotator control from Telerik. This is a powerful control that takes a lot of the guesswork out of displaying and rotating news. However, I decided to build my own for two reasons. First, I didn’t like […]