Glass Mapper – Edit Frame for all fields dynamically

.net, experience editor, sitecore 1 Minute

Today I created a rendering component which has around 10 fields but the whole component is not editable in Experience Editor. I decided to use Edit Frame from Glass Mapper. The BeginEditFrame wants all the editable fields as a parameter. But for around 10 fields not that comfortable.

The following code snippet creates an Edit Frame only with 1 field.

@using Glass.Mapper.Sc.Web.Mvc
@model IYourModel
@using (@Html.Glass().BeginEditFrame(Model, "Edit The Component", x => x.Image))
{
// your code
}
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Let’s implement a method which gets all the fields from your model.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
namespace YourProject.Extensions
{
public static class ExperienceEditor
{
public static Expression<Func<T, object>>[] GetAllEditFrameFields<T>() where T : IGlassBase
{
var propertyNames = typeof(T).GetProperties().Select(p => p.Name);
var expressions = new List<Expression<Func<T, object>>>();
foreach (var propertyName in propertyNames)
{
var param = Expression.Parameter(typeof(T), "model");
var body = Expression.Convert(Expression.PropertyOrField(param, propertyName), typeof(object));
expressions.Add(Expression.Lambda<Func<T, object>>(body, param));
}
return expressions.ToArray();
}
}
}
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This method gets the model property names with some reflection magic and creates the lambda expressions dynamically.

You can see that the method has a limitation to allows only IGlassBase interfaces. It is needed to make it more safe as this interface contains all the base properties for a Sitecore item.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Sitecore.Globalization;
namespace YourProject.Models
{
public interface IGlassBase
{
Guid Id { get; set; }
Language Language { get; }
int Version { get; set; }
IEnumerable<Guid> BaseTemplateIds { get; }
string TemplateName { get; }
Guid TemplateId { get; set; }
string Name { get; set; }
string Url { get; }
string FullPath { get; }
}
}
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Let’s use this util method in our view.

@using Glass.Mapper.Sc.Web.Mvc
@using YourProject.Extensions
@model IYourModel
@using (@Html.Glass().BeginEditFrame(Model, "Edit The Component", ExperienceEditor.GetAllEditFrameFields<IYourModel>()))
{
// your code
}
view raw AllFieldComponent.cshtml hosted with ❤ by GitHub

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