For a while now I have been flirting with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Very early on, I learned the hard way to stick to the ‘Rails way’, especially when you don’t yet understand the technology. I have however, often found myself fighting both rails and wha…

I was having a look through the Umbraco 4.9 database a while ago and made some notes, thought I’d share them here. It has changed for V6.

[dbo].[cmsContent]

Relates content nodeIds to contenttypeIds (doctypes) (So tells each content item to which doc…

Often we’ll need to send out email from websites containing notifications etc. Traditionally I installed the MS mail service (an open relay mail server) on the server and cracked on. That probably isn’t best practice and its difficult to give the clien…

.. but it was right? That MNTP was showing it’s children and now they’ve all disappeared. Well it’s probably due to a node that would show in the picker not being published. It may even have a URL of ‘#’. Well you can find that node by running a query …

I needed to add a custom button into the menu bar shown on each tab in the content editor in Umbraco.

Firstly you need to hook onto the page load event within the backoffice via a class implementing IApplicationStartupHandler.

public class CustomButton : IApplicationStartupHandler
{
public CustomButton()
{
umbracoPage.Load += UmbracoPageLoad;
}

private void UmbracoPageLoad(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
}
}

Right so now we have a place where we can manipulate the tab menu. There are a few null reference checks we could do with throwing in but we’re essentially going to run the following. Our button needs to be added to each menu in each tab.

private static void AddButton(umbracoPage page)
{
var tabView = (page.FindControl(“body”)).FindControl(“TabView1”) as TabView;

if (tabView == null) return;

foreach (TabPage panel in tabView.GetPanels())
{
var menuButton = panel.Menu.NewImageButton(1);
menuButton.AlternateText = “My custom button rocks”;
menuButton.ImageUrl = “~/images/cms/myimage.gif”;
menuButton.Click += CustomButtonClicked;
}
}

As this is an image button we can handle the click in the usual webforms way.
Here’s the full implementation:

namespace DetangledDigital.Demo.StartupHandlers
{
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using umbraco.BasePages;
using umbraco.interfaces;
using umbraco.presentation.masterpages;
using umbraco.uicontrols;

public class CustomButton : IApplicationStartupHandler
{
public CustomButton()
{
umbracoPage.Load += UmbracoPageLoad;
}

private void UmbracoPageLoad(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var page = sender as umbracoPage;

if (page == null)
return;

if (!page.Page.Request.Path.ToLower().Contains(“editcontent.aspx”))
return;

AddButton(page);
}

private static void AddButton(umbracoPage page)
{
// Js fix for toolbar, may be required dependant on menu setup.
// page.Page.ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(GetType(), “cssfixtoolbar”, “<style type=’text/css’>.mceToolbarExternal{left:108px;}</style>”);

var tabView = (page.FindControl(“body”)).FindControl(“TabView1”) as TabView;
if (tabView == null) return;

foreach (TabPage panel in tabView.GetPanels())
{
var menuButton = panel.Menu.NewImageButton(1);
menuButton.AlternateText = “My custom button rocks”;
menuButton.ImageUrl = “~/images/cms/sendToEditor.gif”;
menuButton.Click += CustomButtonClicked;
}
}

private static void CustomButtonClicked(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
{
var nodeId = int.Parse(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString[“id”]);

// Do some bits

// Show the user a notification
BasePage.Current.ClientTools.ShowSpeechBubble(BasePage.speechBubbleIcon.success, “Success”, “The content has been sent for approval.”);
}
}
}

This script will clear old document revisions ensuring the current revision isn’t removed.

Due to the way the Umbraco schema works if you have one doctype with 10 properties then publish that document 10 times you will have added 100 rows into the cmsPropertyData table and a number of rows into other tables through the CMS.