Hi Brecht, welcome to Our Umbraco!

As far as I know, no you can't do that in the current version of Umbraco (v4.0.3) ... that's not a definite no, as there's probably a really clever way to do it using jQuery?

The app tree has been completely changed in the next version (v4.1 - due to be released soon) ... which should provide a better API to interface with ... so it should be easier to do what you want here.  I don't have any API details ... maybe someone else on the forum knows more?

If this is for a package, then I'd recommend holding off until v4.1 is release (or at least develop against the beta 2 version) ... if it's in-house for your company, just keep in mind that if you upgrade to v4.1, extra work will be required.

Cheers, Lee.

Hi Brecht,

Have a look at Richard's content maintenance package (from the project section - it comes with source code)  which features a dashboard control that has this functionality (linking from a control to a page in the content tree). Altho I'm not sure if you can create a link to a page in another section??

Cheers,

/Dirk

Hi,

This will take you to the desired item in the content tree, where id is the content item you want to edit:

/umbraco/umbraco.aspx?rightAction=editContent&id=1234

It's a little wonky in some browsers so I ended up rolling my own version:

I created a new dashbood item called root.ascx and added it to the dashboard config file:

  <section>
    <areas>
      <area>default</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Welcome">
      <control>/usercontrols/dashboards/root.ascx</control>
    </tab>
  </section>

Then in the codebehind of the root.ascx I added the following:

        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            var clientScriptManager = Page.ClientScript;
            string qsFunction = @"
                function getQueryString(targetLocation) {
                    var assoc = new Array();
                    var queryString = unescape(targetLocation.search.substring(1));
                    var keyValues = queryString.split('&');
                    for (var i in keyValues) {
                        var key = keyValues[i].split('=');
                        assoc[key[0]] = key[1];
                    }
                    return assoc;
                }
            ";
            clientScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(GetType(), "qsHelper", qsFunction, true);

            string jumpFunction = @"
                    if(getQueryString(parent.location)['j2n'] != '' && getQueryString(parent.location)['j2n'] != undefined)
                        parent.tree.openContent(getQueryString(parent.location)['j2n']);
            ";
            clientScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(GetType(), "jumpeToNode", jumpFunction, true);
        }

You can then link to a content item like this:

/umbraco/umbraco.aspx?j2n=1378

This selects the node in the tree and allows it to be edited.

T

Tim, sounds like a nice solution, does it also work when working from a custom section, and jumping to the content section from there?

Cheers,

/Dirk

First of all, thx for the quick response.

I may have formulated my problem a bit wrong. I don't mean to link to the 'content' section but to another aspx page in my custom section as well. just displayed on the right side of the screen (which i called content). So basicly I have:

root
--page1
--page2
--page3

and from page1 i want to make a link to page 3 (with page3 selected).

I've not tried it in another section but theoretically it would work.

May need to mod this to be whatever is called on click in a custom tree:

parent.tree.openContent()

I'll give it a test!

T

thx, that's what i needed

Hi Brecht,

Did you get it working? Would be useful to know.

If it works don't forget to accept the answer!

T

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