Modifying page editor buttons

What do you do if you wan't to add a button to the page editor default toolbar? I wanted to find out and here is what I found.

Find the page edit buttons:

Core: /sitecore/system/setttings/html editor profiles/rich text default_old/webeditButtons/ (weird that they use default_old but thats what they do - and that took me a while to figure out)

Duplicate an item there and you have a new button. In the datasection on the new item you find 3 options:

Icon - self explanatory

Tooltip - selfexplatory

Click: A call to a javascript function, f.ex.:

Striketrough: javascript:Sitecore.WebEdit.execute("strikeThrough", true, true);

Italic: javascript:Sitecore.WebEdit.execute("Italic", true, true);

Etc. All the standard javascript execute commands should work: (I found a list here from a google search: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rich-Text_Editing_in_Mozilla)

Here is my result adding a strikeThough button:

Settings:

Click field: "javascript:Sitecore.WebEdit.execute("strikeThrough", true, true);"

Icon field: found an strike through icon in the standard sitecore image library.

Tooltip field: "Strike through"

The javascript-file with functions are found here : website/shell/applications/webEdit.js

Regarding calling sitecore functionality. There is only created 2 functions in the js file:

Insert image:

javascript:Sitecore.WebEdit.insertImage($JavascriptParameters)

Insert Link:

javascript:Sitecore.WebEdit.insertLink($JavascriptParameters)

So if you wan't to make something more that that we would have to write new functions for that.

PS: I did this on Sitecore.NET 6.0.0 (rev. 081022) (the nicam demo site)

Get collection of Sitecore Weblogs in Netvibes

I have been using Netvibes as my starting page. I like that more than iGoogle. Here is my collection of Sitecore RSS feeds. Collection contains about +25 blogs, Sitecore corporate news and Sitecore Developer Network articles and forum posts in RSS. There is also Google Custom Search for Sitecore on Sitecore related blogs.

If you have a Sitecore Blog or another useful resource that is not listed here. Please let me know

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Some sample code how to manage workflow on Sitecore.

Sitecore Developer Search

I was playing around with Google's Co-op and Netvibes API (cool services both of them!) and I drafted out simple a little Netvibes module that searches through few Sitecore Sites and Blogs.
If you have a Netvibes account give a try and if you want some more sites into the index drop me a mail at jp at addition.dk.

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Read image attributes from media library images

This is nice when you need to know what is the size of the image.
sc:fld('height',sc:item(concat('/sitecore/media library', sc:fld('banner',.,'mediapath')),.))
Returns height of the image in "banner" field.

using Sitecore.Kernel.Webutils

Webutils functions can be used as helper functions as well. In order to get the url of the server, we can use it as follows:

install it in web.config:

<xslExtensions>
...
<extension mode="on" type="Sitecore.Web.WebUtil, Sitecore.Kernel" namespace="http://www.sitecore.net/webutil" singleInstance="true" />
</xslExtensions>


declare it in your xslt:

xmlns:webutil="http://www.sitecore.net/webutil"


then use it (example from a "print page" footer):

<xsl:text>Artiklens placering: </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="webutil:GetServerUrl()" /><xsl:value-of select="sc:path(.)" />


util:GetString

It might be not obvious but is common practice to use util:GetString(string, default).

A xsl:choose used to display the title of an item can be replaced as follows:


<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="sc:fld('menutitle',.)">
<xsl:value-of select="sc:fld('menutitle',.)">
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="sc:fld('title',.)">
<xsl:value-of select="sc:fld('title',.)">
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="./@name">
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>


simpler call:


<xsl:value-of select="util:GetString(util:GetString(sc:fld('title',.), sc:fld('menutitle',.)),@name)"/>


Sitecore performance - xslt NONO !

Fyi -> speed problems could be caused by one single line in xslt ( impressive that you can kill a dual core P4 64bit 4Ghz with 8 GB mem in one single code line ).

Never compare nodeset´s unless you really have to .. what you typically need is to figure out if current node is thye same as home node … do NOT do like this :
xsl:if test=”$home=$sc_current” …. < -- no no no .. verboten !!!! STOP !

The line above will loop all nodes under $home and compare every node with every node in $sc_currentitem.

Ofcourse what you DO want to do is :
xsl:if test=”$home/@id=$sc_current/@id

If you experience speed problems, this could be why !