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Remko 118 posts 283 karma points

Aug 16, 2019 @ 09:21

How to call url (so not an (angular)view) with action in tree?

Hi all,

We created a method to download media folder as zip. To use this, we added a Download surface controller with an action, so simply this url is enough to download the folder: /download/downloadaszip?id={nodeid}

Now I would like to add an action to the media section, so a user could simply click Download as zip and the download url is called.

I already created a component to add the action, this is quite simple, but I cannot get the url to work.

I now have this code:

    // the event listener method:
    void TreeControllerBase_MenuRendering(TreeControllerBase sender, MenuRenderingEventArgs e)
    {
        // this will add a custom menu item for all admin users
        // for all media tree nodes
        if (sender.TreeAlias == "media"
            && sender.Security.CurrentUser.Groups.Any(x => x.Alias.InvariantEquals("admin")))
        {
            // creates a menu action that will open /umbraco/currentSection/itemAlias.html
            var i = new Umbraco.Web.Models.Trees.MenuItem("downloadMediaAsZip", "Download als zip");

            i.AdditionalData.Add("actionUrl", $"/download/FolderAsZip?id={e.NodeId})");

            // sets the icon to icon-wine-glass 
            i.Icon = "download-alt";

            // insert at index 5
            e.Menu.Items.Insert(5, i);
        }
    }

Could anyone give advice in how I could get this url called when clicking the action?

Thank you!

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Marc Goodson 2155 posts 14406 karma points MVP 9x c-trib

Aug 18, 2019 @ 07:47

Hi Remko

Looking here:

https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/853087a75044b814df458457dc9a1f778cc89749/src/Umbraco.Web/Models/Trees/MenuItem.cs

you have two options on a MenuItem

LaunchDialogView and LaunchDialogUrl - which will either trigger an angular view to be loaded in a dialog, or a Url to be loaded via an IFrame.

i.LaunchDialogUrl($"/download/FolderAsZip?id={e.NodeId})")

I'm not sure if the IFrame option will 'just work' with your download url, I expect it may not! and will leave an empty iframe on the screen.

So what I think you might have to do is have a simple accompanying angular view + controller, that the menu item calls that then has the download option available... have done something similar in V7 in the past:

i.AdditionalData.Add("downloadUrl", $"/download/FolderAsZip?id={e.NodeId})");
i.LaunchDialogView("/App_Plugins/ZipDownload/Download.html", "Zip Download");

and then have a confirmation step in your download.html

<div class="umb-dialog umb-pane" ng-controller="ZipDownload.ZipDownloadController">
    <div class="umb-dialog-body" auto-scale="90">

        <p class="umb-abstract">
            Are you sure you want to download <strong>{{currentNode.name}}</strong> ?
        </p>

        <umb-confirm on-confirm="performDownload" on-cancel="cancel">
        </umb-confirm>

    </div>
</div>

and in the controller have something like:

function zipDownloadController($scope,
    $filter,
    $http,
    $routeParams,
    editorState,
    contentResource,
    notificationsService,
    navigationService,
    appState,
    $timeout) {

    $scope.currentNode = appState.getMenuState("currentNode");

    $scope.performDownload = function () {
        var dialogOptions = $scope.dialogOptions;
        var downloadUrl = dialogOptions.currentAction.metaData.downloadUrl;

        navigationService.hideDialog();
        document.location.assign(downloadUrl);
    };

    $scope.cancel = function () {
        navigationService.hideDialog();
    };
};


angular.module("umbraco").controller('ZipDownload.ZipDownloadController', zipDownloadController);

hopefully that gives you the gist.

regards

Marc

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Tom Madden 253 posts 455 karma points MVP 4x c-trib

Mar 16, 2020 @ 14:09

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Massive thanks for this Marc,

I struggled for a while trying to find where $scope.dialogOptions.currentNode went

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