This is exactly the things i want to know. Im strugling with the views for the backend. I can create trees in custom sections but i can't figure out when i click a node how to show the information in this node.

Everything I've seen seems to focus on creating your own tree from scratch. I'd like to modify the actions a little depending on DocType and still use the main content tree...if that's possible.

Jordy, have you seen this? https://github.com/perploug/UkFest-AngularJS-Demo

Hi Both,

Have you found the "extending Umbraco" documention here? There is quite a lot of details for v7, such as trees, sections assets etc in there.

Jeavon

Hi,

I'm in the same boat in that I'd like to create a context menu that would appear only when a certain document type is selected.  However, the documentation for Menu Items is not available (coming soon).  

I've also had a look at http://umbraco.github.io/Belle/#/api but the treeService does not seem to have any way of adding a custom menu entry.

Ver.

Hi Veronica,  

It sounds like you have a custom tree with lots of child nodes - I don't have this but I do have a custom tree with a few different parent nodes that work like a menu. 

If this helps you then this is how I have a different set of custom menu options. Each option only has a single menu option but they do different things.  I hope this helps.

Here's my tree controller - the "route" is to different back office angular pages, be very careful to match the case

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http.Formatting;
using System.Web;

using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Web.Models.Trees;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Trees;


/// <summary>
/// Summary description for CustomSectionTreeController
/// </summary>

[Tree("CustomSection", "CustomSectionTree", "My Custom Section")]
[PluginController("CustomSection")]
public class CustomSectionTreeController : TreeController
{
    protected override TreeNodeCollection GetTreeNodes(string id, FormDataCollection queryStrings)
    {
        // check if we're rendering the root node's children
        if (id == Constants.System.Root.ToInvariantString())
        {
            // add nodes to tree
            var tree = new TreeNodeCollection
            {
                // routepath HAS to be /appsection/treealias/htmlview/ID 
                CreateTreeNode("1", "-1", queryStrings, "View Quotes", "icon-dollar-bag", "/CustomSection/CustomSectionTree/quotes/-1"),
                CreateTreeNode("2", "-1", queryStrings, "View Sales Leads", "icon-handshake",  "/CustomSection/CustomSectionTree/salesleads/-1"),
                CreateTreeNode("3", "-1", queryStrings, "View Applications", "icon-mailbox", "/CustomSection/CustomSectionTree/applications/-1"),
                CreateTreeNode("4", "-1", queryStrings, "View Complaints", "icon-iphone", "/CustomSection/CustomSectionTree/complaints/-1")
            };

            return tree;
        }
        // this tree doesn't support rendering more than 1 level
         throw new NotSupportedException();
    }


    protected override MenuItemCollection GetMenuForNode(string id, FormDataCollection queryStrings)
    {
        // create Custom Section menu items e.g. "Delete Quotes"
        var menu = new MenuItemCollection();

        var m = new MenuItem();

        switch (id)
        {
            case "1":
                m.Alias = "deletequotes";
                m.Name = "Delete Quotes";
                m.Icon = "settings-alt";
                break;
            case "2":
                m.Alias = "deletesalesleads";
                m.Name = "Delete Sales Leads";
                m.Icon = "settings-alt";
                break;
            case "3":
                m.Alias = "deleteapplications";
                m.Name = "Delete Applications";
                m.Icon = "settings-alt";
                break;
            case "4":
                m.Alias = "deletecomplaints";
                m.Name = "Delete Complaints";
                m.Icon = "settings-alt";
                break;
        }

        menu.Items.Add(m);

        return menu;
    }
}

Hi Steve.

I don't have a custom tree.  However, I'd like to add a custom menu entry for certain document types in the content tree. For example, I have a Sitting document that can have children of type Ruling Issued, Ministerial Statement, BillStatus and Motion.  I'd like to offer my users a custom menu option that will allow them to copy the Sitting document and only the children of type BillStatus and Motion.  The other document types (i.e. Ruling Issued and Ministerial Statement) should not be copied to the new Sitting. I also do not want to show them the relate option as this is not required in this case.

Will have a look at this and see how I can customise to use with content tree.

Thanks for your help,

Ver

Hi Veronica,

That is an interesting idea - afraid I don't know if that is possible and I doubt my custom section code will help much. Hopefully someone from the core team can advise. This area definitely needs some more documentation. Hopefully questions like this will help flesh it out. 

Steve

You may find this part of the documentation usable: https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/Extending/Section-Trees/trees-v7

You could set this up in an ApplicationEventHandler in an overridden ApplicationStarted-method.

public class MyAppEventHandler : ApplicationEventHandler
{
    protected override void ApplicationStarted(
            UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, 
            ApplicationContext applicationContext
        )
    {
        TreeControllerBase.MenuRendering += (sender, e) =>
        {
            if (sender.TreeAlias == "content")
            {
                e.Menu.Items.Add(new MenuItem("tweetLink", "Tweet this"));
            }
        };
    } 
}

This should add the menuitem to the menu of the content-tree (you may have to push the "Do something else"-button in the menu to get to this custom menuitem - along with other menuitems).

Note that this event is triggered for all nodes in all sections but not all treenodes has an alias (actually not many of them has) so you might have to find other means of identifying which treenode you are dealing with.

Thanks Jan,

I never posted the 'finished' code. It's very similar to yours but I placed it in its own method as I may add more custom entries later on. My menu calls a plugin I wrote to display a custom screen and handle the actual copying of sitting type documents and their selected children.

    void TreeControllerBase_MenuRendering(TreeControllerBase sender, MenuRenderingEventArgs e)
    {
        var u = umbraco.helper.GetCurrentUmbracoUser();

        //get doc type alias for current node 
        if (sender.TreeAlias == "content")
        {
            IContent doc = sender.Services.ContentService.GetById(int.Parse(e.NodeId));
            if(doc != null && !doc.Trashed) { 
                if (doc.ContentType.Alias == "Sitting")
                {
                    MenuItem mi = new MenuItem("CopySitting", "Copy Sitting");
                    mi.Icon = "icon-screensharing";
                    mi.LaunchDialogView("/App_Plugins/HoRSitting/views/copy.html", "Copy Sitting with children");
                    e.Menu.Items.Add(mi);
                }

            }
        }
    }

Ver

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