Category: experience editor

WebEdit.AffectWorkflowForDatasourceItems – collect datasource children items

This feature appeared in Sitecore 8.2, which is changing the workflow state value for datasource items together with the context page item (only in Experience Editor). Here is a great summary article related to these improvements.

I was not fully satisfied with this because by default this only collects the datasource items and does not the children items of a datasource. This is an issue when you have something like a list component which shows the children items. What I have found is:

<command
name="webedit:workflowwithdatasourceitems" type="Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.WebEdit.Commands.WorkflowWithDatasourceItems, Sitecore.ExperienceEditor" />

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Glass Mapper – Edit Frame for all fields dynamically

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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