How can I added custom controls to the back office.
I suspect this question is answered her in the forums someplace, but not sure what keywords to search for. I have written plenty of custom controls in asp.net for use on my front-end (i.e. contact forms), but now I would ike to develop a custom control that is used for data-entry (with strict validation/formatting requirements) from the back-office. I want anyone that is a content-editor to be able to enter data into these new 'forms' (which will store data into custom tables which will then be used on the front-end via another set of custom controls).
Question is, where/how do I add custom controls to the back-end? Perhaps just a few pointers on what I should be searching for - I can do all the legwork myself, just need someone to point me in the right direction.
Perhaps you can have a look at dashboard controls ? In short, a dashboard control allows you to render a custom usercontrol in a tab in Umbraco. Here are some urls for further reading:
How can I added custom controls to the back office.
I suspect this question is answered her in the forums someplace, but not sure what keywords to search for. I have written plenty of custom controls in asp.net for use on my front-end (i.e. contact forms), but now I would ike to develop a custom control that is used for data-entry (with strict validation/formatting requirements) from the back-office. I want anyone that is a content-editor to be able to enter data into these new 'forms' (which will store data into custom tables which will then be used on the front-end via another set of custom controls).
Question is, where/how do I add custom controls to the back-end? Perhaps just a few pointers on what I should be searching for - I can do all the legwork myself, just need someone to point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
Sorry, make that "How can I add custom controls to the back office"...forums wouldn't let me edit after I saved for some reason...
Perhaps you can have a look at dashboard controls ? In short, a dashboard control allows you to render a custom usercontrol in a tab in Umbraco. Here are some urls for further reading:
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/files-and-folders/dashboardconfig
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/967464/extending-the-umbraco-dashboard
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