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 […]
Category: Sitefinity 3
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 […]