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Programmatically created non-editable page

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I need to instantiate a page programmatically, where the editor cannot move it or change the url. Basically I need a specific url pattern and a custom instance.

 

How would I go about that?

 

Thanks

#85951
May 09, 2014 9:48
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Sounds like you need to hook up to MovingPage and SavingPage events and cancel out or reset UrlSegment if it's "dirty".

An example post for EPi6 

#85957
Edited, May 09, 2014 11:41
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That or just not give Editors access to the page.

#85960
May 09, 2014 11:45
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Petter, most probably editors would need to change other properties, that's just a guess. So as Johan said - I would hook on events and inspect that page's data during its lifecycle and prevent some of actions.

#85961
May 09, 2014 11:56
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Yes that is why I was poiting to Johans solution too. But from the topic and the fact that it wasn't specified, I thought I would advice to try with no editor access as well..

#85962
May 09, 2014 12:09
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You can use an editor descriptor to hide or make a property ready only. Use this in combination with specific a model type or an attribute to control this:

 

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.Shell.ObjectEditing;
using EPiServer.Shell.ObjectEditing.EditorDescriptors;

namespace Samples
{
[EditorDescriptorRegistrationAttribute(TargetType = typeof(ContentData))]
public class SiteMetadataExtender : EditorDescriptor
{
public override void ModifyMetadata(ExtendedMetadata metadata, IEnumerable<Attribute> attributes)
{
foreach (ExtendedMetadata property in metadata.Properties)
{
if (property.PropertyName == "iroutable_routesegment" && true)//Whatever logic you want to control this by, perhaps an attribute on the model class or the type of the model class)
{
//either this:
//property.ShowForEdit = false;
// to hide the URL or
property.EditorConfiguration["readOnly"] = true;
//to make it read only.
}
}
}
}
}

#85967
May 09, 2014 12:59
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Nice, so final solution would be to prevent editing URLSegment by UIDescriptor and preventing moving around page tree by hooking to events?

#85968
May 09, 2014 13:12
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I didn't know of the readOnly setting. Thanks Linus!

#85970
May 09, 2014 13:20
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@Johan: I must admit that I had to browse the source code to see how it was done ;)

#85972
May 09, 2014 13:23
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@Valdis: Yes, that sounds reasonable. Perhaps an attribute on the model class that could be used to control both of these limitations...

#85973
May 09, 2014 13:39
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Clever... Combined with this code in a startup Sequence its perfekt :-)

 

 

public void CheckLoginControllerExists(object sender, EventArgs eventArgs)
{
var serviceLocationHelper = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<ServiceLocationHelper>();
var pageTypeRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<PageTypeRepository>();
var repository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<IContentRepository>();
var siteDefinitionRepository = ServiceLocator.Current.GetInstance<SiteDefinitionRepository>();
var site = siteDefinitionRepository.Get("SiteName");
if (site == null) //site is not defined, bail out...
return;

var defaultStartPage = repository.Get<PageData>(site.StartPage);

var criterias = new PropertyCriteriaCollection //set a search criteria
{
// Find pages of a specific page type
new PropertyCriteria()
{
Name = "PageTypeID",
Condition = CompareCondition.Equal,
Required = true,
Type = PropertyDataType.PageType,
Value = pageTypeRepository.Load(typeof(LoginPage)).ID+"" //find the id of the type of page
}
};

PageDataCollection newsPageItems = serviceLocationHelper.PageCriteriaQueryService().FindPagesWithCriteria(defaultStartPage.PageLink, criterias);

foreach (var pageData in newsPageItems)
{
var o = pageData as LoginPage;
if (o != null) //we found our login page
{
//is it a child of startpage?

if (o.ParentLink == defaultStartPage.ContentLink && o.Name == "login")
{
return; // we found the page, everything is ok.. move along
}
}
}

//there is no login page, make one
var loginPage = repository.GetDefault<LoginPage>(defaultStartPage.ContentLink, pageTypeRepository.Load(typeof(LoginPage)).ID);
loginPage.Name = "login";
loginPage.URLSegment = UrlSegment.CreateUrlSegment(loginPage);
repository.Save(loginPage, EPiServer.DataAccess.SaveAction.Publish, EPiServer.Security.AccessLevel.NoAccess);
}

#85983
May 09, 2014 15:01
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