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Thomas Schroll
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Posted on 20/09/2014 12:00:01

Hi

I'm setting up new forms used on landingpages. I need to place different snippets of text in the form. I prefer to place all the text at the right place instead of manipulating the position with css. The site is multi lingual which mean that I can't just use multiple templates (there would be to many). I can't use the submit label in the forms module because I need to insert event based tracking codes in the submit tag.

As I see it, it leaves me with creating page item fields. My problem is that I can't figure out how to insert page item fields in the module template like area item fields. I previously used snippets in the page template but with many snippets of text (4 or more) I would like to insert the page item fields directly in the (forms) module template.

Does anybody know if that is possible and how I can do that?

Regards Thomas


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Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 20/09/2014 17:09:59
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If you are using an item type to exten the page properties, you have a tag called Item.Page.fieldname that can be used all over. Is that what you mean?

Nicolai

 
Thomas Schroll
Posted on 20/09/2014 17:42:45
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Hi Nicolai

Yes I'm extending the page properties.

I have tried @GetString("Item.Page.FormSubmitLabel") in the form template, but dw doesn't render anything?

Regards Thomas

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 21/09/2014 16:52:33
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Hi Thomas

Is the value available in the layout template on that page?

Nicolai

 
Thomas Schroll
Posted on 21/09/2014 20:15:05
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Hi Nicolai

Yes, it is available in the page layout template.

Regards Thomas

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 22/09/2014 08:27:13
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Ok, the tag is not available in the forms template context.

But the form is being rendered on a page, and therefore you have a pageview context. And since your template is Razor, you can simply get the value from there:

@Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView.Current.Page.PropertyItem.Item("FormSubmitLabel")

BR Nicolai

 
Thomas Schroll
Posted on 22/09/2014 09:23:52
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Hi Nicolai

Thanks, but I get an error: 

'Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView.Current()' is a 'method', which is not valid in the given context

What am I doing wrong?

Regards Thomas

 
Mikkel Ricky
Posted on 22/09/2014 10:40:01
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You have to write

@Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView.Current().Page.PropertyItem.Item("FormSubmitLabel")

i.e. with () after Current. However, in a Razor template you can also just write

@Pageview.Page.PropertyItem.Item("FormSubmitLabel")

which is shorter (@Pageview is the same object as @Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView.Current()).

Best regards,
Mikkel

 
Thomas Schroll
Posted on 22/09/2014 11:49:53
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Hi Mikkel

I think I've tried every possible combination. If I insert

                <p>@GetString("Item.Page.FormSubmitLabel")</p>
                <p>@Dynamicweb.Frontend.PageView.Current().Page.PropertyItem.Item("FormSubmitLabel")</p>

I get the error:

'Dynamicweb.Content.Items.Item' does not contain a definition for 'Item' and no extension method 'Item' accepting a first argument of type 'Dynamicweb.Content.Items.Item' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

If I comment out the second line, it's working fine.

If I insert

                 <p>@Pageview.Page.PropertyItem.Item("FormSubmitLabel")</p>

I get the same error.

Regards Thomas

 

 

 
Nicolai Høeg Pedersen
Posted on 22/09/2014 11:56:37
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Hi Thomas

It is because we mixed up VB examples with C# and you are using C#. .Item is a default property and is not needed in C#, and we use ("") which is VB syntax, [""] is C# syntax

@Pageview.Page.PropertyItem.Item("FormSubmitLabel") in VB is @Pageview.Page.PropertyItem["FormSubmitLabel"] in C#

Nicolai

 
Mikkel Ricky
Posted on 22/09/2014 12:00:16
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You have to write

@Pageview.Page.PropertyItem["FormSubmitLabel"]

and before doing that you shoul check that @Pageview.Page.PropertyItem is not null:

@if (Pageview.Page.PropertyItem != null) {
  @Pageview.Page.PropertyItem["FormSubmitLabel"]
}

You can get some help with using stuff like this in your Razor templates by using Visual Studio to edit your Razor templates. See https://github.com/dynamicweb/razor/wiki/Editing-Razor-templates for details.

Best regards,
Mikkel

 

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Thomas Schroll
Posted on 22/09/2014 12:00:46
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Great. Now it's working. Thanks :)

Regards Thomas

 
Thomas Schroll
Posted on 22/09/2014 12:05:31
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Hi Mikkel

Yes, but I haven't had the right setup (yet), but I will need to look into it.

Thanks for your help.

Regards Thomas

 

 
Mikkel Toustrup Olsen
Posted on 01/04/2015 08:15:52
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Hi Mikkel,

Are you able to get item label from the Pageview object as well? I have tried several methods, however with no luck :(

Regards,

Mikkel TO

 

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