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Hi DW,

I'm playing around with ribbon extenders and items, and it seems that it isn't completely supported yet. But i did some hacking around anyway, and i found a few quirks, that i hope theres a workaround for.

Here are my findings:

1. Dynamicweb.Controls.Extensibility.RibbonBarAddInTarget.General doesn't contain ItemAsPageEdit and ItemAsParagraphEdit (Or what ever the names should be). To get it working i had to add [AddInTarget("/Admin/Content/Items/Editing/ItemEdit.aspx")] to my class.
    
2. base.Ribbon.DataContext.DataSource is null and this makes it harder to get access to the item you're editing
    
3. PopUpWindows don't open above page. Opening a PopupWindow looks like this:
   
   It seems the popup window is created in the wrong frame

This is my extension class that provoked the above mentioned issue

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Dynamicweb.Content;
using Dynamicweb.Controls;
using Dynamicweb.Controls.Extensibility;
using Dynamicweb.Extensibility;
using Dynamicweb.Content.Items;

namespace MyNamespace.Ribbon
{
    [AddInTarget("/Admin/Content/Items/Editing/ItemEdit.aspx")]
    [AddInDescription("Tilføj Åbningstider")]
    [AddInName("OpeningHours")]    
    public class ParagraphEditAddInOpeningHours : RibbonBarAddIn
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the ParagraphEditAddInOpeningHours class.
        /// </summary>
        public ParagraphEditAddInOpeningHours(RibbonBar ribbon)    : base(ribbon)
        {
        }

        public override void Load()
        {
            // Create new group in ribbon
            RibbonBarGroup group = base.CreateDefaultContainer();

            // Datasource is null - So no access to the element we're rendering
            Item item = base.Ribbon.DataContext.DataSource as Item;
            
            // Workaround because we have no datasource
            var querystring = base.Page.ClientQueryString; // contains something like "PageID=62"
            var itemID = querystring.Split('=')[1];        

            // Create popup window
            PopUpWindow window = new PopUpWindow();
            window.ID = "OpeninghourWindow";
            window.AutoReload = true;
            window.ShowHelpButton = false;
            window.ContentUrl = string.Concat("/CustomModules/OpeninghoursEditor/OpeninghoursEditor.aspx?ID=", itemID);
            base.AddWindow(window);

            // Add button to ribbon
            RibbonBarButton button = new RibbonBarButton();
            button.Size = Dynamicweb.Controls.Icons.Icon.Size.Large;
            button.Text = "Åbningstider";
            button.Image = Dynamicweb.Controls.Icons.Icon.Type.AddDocument;
            button.OnClientClick = Dynamicweb.Controls.PopUpWindow.GetClientMethodCall(window, Dynamicweb.Controls.PopUpWindowMethod.Show);
            group.AddItem(button);
        }
    }
}

If i can fix any of the bullets above, please let me know :-)

Also, when do you think that you will support Ribbon extensions for Items?

// Martin.