Inline edit blocks

The inline edit dialog box is designed to be simple while still allowing editors to edit the most common properties of a block.

This is the reason why we introduced the InlineBlockEditSettings configuration attribute. You can apply it to your block content type and hide/show the Name and Categories properties. Additionally, you can also use this attribute to hide specific groups to make the editing form cleaner.

The attribute contains three properties:

Change settings for a specific block content type

To turn on the Name property for a specific block content type:

[SiteContentType(GUID = "67F617A4-2175-4360-975E-75EDF2B924A7",
    GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
[SiteImageUrl]
[InlineBlockEditSettings(ShowNameProperty = true)]
public class EditorialBlock : SiteBlockData
{
    [Display(GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
    [CultureSpecific]
    public virtual XhtmlString MainBody { get; set; }
}

And below is to display Name and Categories properties and Settings group:

[SiteContentType(GUID = "9E7F6DF5-A963-40C4-8683-211C4FA48AE1")]
[SiteImageUrl]
[InlineBlockEditSettings(ShowNameProperty = true, ShowCategoryProperty = true, HiddenGroups = "")]
public class AdvancedBlock : SiteBlockData
{
    [Display(Order = 1, GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
    public virtual string Text1 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 2, GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
    public virtual string Text2 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 1, GroupName = Global.GroupNames.Products)]
    public virtual string Text3 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 2, GroupName = Global.GroupNames.Products)]
    public virtual string Text4 { get; set; }
}

To hide more than one group:

[SiteContentType(GUID = "9E7F6DF5-A963-40C4-8683-211C4FA48AE1")]
[SiteImageUrl]
[InlineBlockEditSettings(HiddenGroups = "Advanced, Contact")]
public class AdvancedBlock : SiteBlockData
{
    [Display(Order = 1, GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
    public virtual string Text1 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 2, GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
    public virtual string Text2 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 1, GroupName = Global.GroupNames.Products)]
    public virtual string Text3 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 2, GroupName = Global.GroupNames.Contact)]
    public virtual string Text4 { get; set; }
}

Change settings for multiple block content types

If you want to show Name for several block content types, you can configure the setting in their base class, like this:

[InlineBlockEditSettings(ShowNameProperty = true)]
public abstract class SiteBlockData : EPiServer.Core.BlockData
{}

[SiteContentType(GUID = "9E7F6DF5-A963-40C4-8683-211C4FA48AE1")]
[SiteImageUrl]
public class AdvancedBlock : SiteBlockData
{
    [Display(Order = 1, GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
    public virtual string Text1 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 2, GroupName = SystemTabNames.Content)]
    public virtual string Text2 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 1, GroupName = Global.GroupNames.Products)]
    public virtual string Text3 { get; set; }

    [Display(Order = 2, GroupName = Global.GroupNames.Contact)]
    public virtual string Text4 { get; set; }
}   

Override auto-generated name for inline-creating blocks

Because the Name property is hidden by default, blocks created from an inline edit dialog (which is inline create) get an automatically generated name. The name is generated using ILocalAssetNameGenerator, and the default format is PageName BlockType AutoIncrementId.

To override the default auto-generated name format, you just need to implement ILocalAssetNameGenerator.

Last updated: Jan 19, 2021