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Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
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Posted on 16/05/2013 14:54:17

Hi there,

 

How do you provide a custom description (and name) for an ItemEntry when using Code First? Is there an attribute I need to apply to the class? I tried a few but none seemed to work.

 

Or do you have to go into Management Center and set the name and description there?

Imar

 


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Morten Bengtson
Posted on 20/05/2013 22:12:12
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You can set the name by using ItemAttribute, like this...

[Item("My friendly item type name")]
public class MyItem : ItemEntry
{
...
}

 

I don't think that there is any way to specify the description :/

 

It would also be great if we could specify both a system name and a display name for the field groups. Right now we can only use the GroupAttribute to specify the display name which is then transformed into a system name for use in e.g. template tags. This makes the system name unpredictable.

 
Lars Larsen
Posted on 29/01/2015 12:20:20
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I am looking for the opportunity to set a custom description for an ItemEntry too. Does anyone know if it's possible now?

 
Vladimir
Posted on 30/01/2015 07:48:19
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Hi Lars,

yes, it is possible now :)

[Item("My friendly item type name", "My description")]
public class MyItem : ItemEntry
{
...
}
 
 

Kind regards,

Vladimir

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Lars Larsen
Posted on 02/02/2015 11:22:39
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cool thanks smiley

 

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