Hi Gopinath,

Did you try this:

http://www.theoutfield.net/blog/2012/07/creating-custom-applications-and-trees-in-umbraco-48plus

http://www.nibble.be/?p=71

Thanks, Alex

Thanks for the reply. I've tried those links too, but that doesn't work on umbraco 6 and above. It works well in umbraco 4+.

Hi,

When learning how to create custom sections in Umbraco 6 I found the following two blog posts rather helpful in regards to that matter...

http://www.robertgray.net.au/2011/5/10/creating-a-custom-content-tree-in-umbraco

and

http://www.robertgray.net.au/posts/2011/5/creating-custom-multi-level-trees-in-umbraco#.U1j9FPm2h8H

the same author also posted all his code on GitHub which was extremely useful for me in understanding how everything fitted together: https://github.com/robgray/f1speedguides/tree/master/src/atomicf1/cms/presentation

While the content does refer to Umbraco 4.x and mentions the umbracoApp and umbracoAppTree tables like some of the above examples, these have now been moved to config files within the config directory and can be automatically populated by your application and tree classes by using the Application and Tree attributes to decorate the class (as referenced by theoutfield.net example.

The following two code samples should create an application and a tree in Umbraco6 - from this you should be able to expand using the numerous examples above.

For Application class

[Application("myApplication", "My Application", "icon.jpg", 0)]
public class MyApplication : IApplication { }

and for Tree class

[Tree("myApplication", "myApplicationTree", "My Application", FolderIcon, FolderIconOpen, "", false, true, 0)]
public class MyTree: BaseTree
{
    public MyTree(string application) : base(application) {}

    protected override void CreateRootNode(ref XmlTreeNode rootNode)
    {
        rootNode.Text = "My Tree";
        rootNode.Icon = FolderIcon;
        rootNode.OpenIcon = FolderIconOpen;
        rootNode.NodeType = TreeAlias;
        rootNode.Menu = new List<IAction>() { ActionRefresh.Instance };
    }

    public override void Render(ref XmlTree tree)
    {
        foreach(int i=0; i<5; i++)
        {
            var treeNode = XmlTreeNode.Create(this);
            treeNode.NodeID = i.ToString();
            treeNode.Text = String.Format("Item {0}", i);
            treeNode.Icon = FolderIcon;
            treeNode.OpenIcon = FolderIconOpen;
            treeNode.Action = String.Format("javascript: UmbClientMgr.contentFrame('Plugins/MyPages/MyPage.aspx?Id={0}');", i);
            treeNode.Menu = new List<IAction>() { ActionRefresh.Instance };
            tree.Add(treeNode);
        }
    }

    public override void RenderJS(ref StringBuilder Javascript)
    {
        // Add any javascript needed here...
    }
}

I hope that helps...

Kind regards,

Tim

Thank you Tim! The declaration on the MyTree class is exactly what I was missing!

On the custom tree, how can I hide the context menu? Some posts have said to use node.Menu.Clear() which kind of works, it removes an item from the menu, but when I right click on the node I get an empty context menu still. How can I hide that? 

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