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Hi Grzegorz 

It seems you have stumbled on a bug in the system.

it is not currently possible to edit parameters for custom providers unless they inherit from the BaseProvider - if you simply implement the ISource and/or IDestination interfaces, it will not work. This is a bug, and I will have it fixed for the next hotfix.

If you cannot wait for the next release, there is a workaround:

inherit from the BaseProvider class, instead of the ConfigurableAddin class.

if you do so, there are a few other changes you have to make, in order for it to work.

• add attribute AddInIgnore(false)  - this is needed, since the baseProvider is ignored, but the inherited provider should not be ignored.
• implement interface INotSource - this is needed in order to hide the provider from the source selector, since the BaseProvider implements both ISource and IDestination interfaces.

additionally, you may need to add "Override" to some of the methods, in order to make sure that the base provider implementations are not used.

If you have any more questions, please let me know.

Regards, Jonas

Hey again,

The file seems to be missing - I'm not sure what has gone wrong. If the following doesn't work for you, feel free to mail me the file, and I'll take a look. my adress is: jkd at Dynamicweb.dk

you need to implement two methods - Serialize and UpdateDestinationSettings. I have pasted examples for these methods  below, from the quick test I made to verify the bug. Note the the names of the nodes should match the addinNames you have in your decoration:

public string Serialize()
 {
 XDocument document = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", string.Empty));
 XElement root = new XElement("Parameters");
 document.Add(root);
 root.Add(CreateParameterNode(GetType(), "Input Field delimiter", SourceFieldDelimiter));
 return document.ToString();
 }
 protected static XElement CreateParameterNode(Type t, string name, string value)
 {
 XElement ret = null;

if ((t != null) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(name))
 {
 if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
 return new XElement("Parameter", new XAttribute("addin", t.FullName), new XAttribute("name", name), new XAttribute("value", value));

return new XElement("Parameter", new XAttribute("addin", t.FullName), new XAttribute("name", name), new XAttribute("value", ""));

}

return ret;
 }

 

 

public void UpdateDestinationSettings(IDestination destination)
 {
 ExampleDestinationProvider1 newProvider = (ExampleDestinationProvider1)destination;
 SourceFieldDelimiter = newProvider.SourceFieldDelimiter;
 }

I believe this should be enough to both save and load the settings to the edit page.

Regards, Jonas