Hi Tom

Don't know if you perhaps stumpled upon the articles from Markus on creating custom trees etc.? http://www.enkelmedia.se/blogg/2013/11/22/creating-custom-sections-in-umbraco-7-part-1.aspx

He mentions all the possible actions you could hook into on the context menu of you need it...

Hope this helps a bit.

/Jan

Hi Jan,

thank you for the link. Covers a lot of the things we intend to do. But I still not sure about where to create / save the custom items, based on a DocumentType and get them connected to our custom Treenode...

Best regards -

Tom

Hi Thomas

Glad the link helped a bit - I'm not certain about the remaining questions though. Hopefully some of the other bright minds in here will pick it up :)

/Jan

Hey Thomas

I created the Tag Manager Package and thought I'd try and upgrade to V7.

However I cannot get my project build based on the information in the following link:
http://www.enkelmedia.se/blogg/2013/11/22/creating-custom-sections-in-umbraco-7-part-1.aspx

So I was wondering if you might be able to share your code, and in return, if I make progress and manage to delete my nodes, etc I would be more than willing to share what I find out ?

I look forward to hearing from you - my email address is info 'at' yoyocms 'dot' co 'dot' nz

Cheers, Nigel 

Hi Nigel,

actually we did it just like in the link you posted above.

This code should create a section with four Treenodes:

namespace UmbMyApp
{

    [Application("myAppName", "myAppName", "icon-car", 15)]
    public class myApplication : IApplication { }

    [PluginController("myAppName")]
    [Umbraco.Web.Trees.Tree("myAppName", "myAppNameTree", "myAppName Section", iconClosed: "icon-doc")]
    public class myAppTreeController : TreeController
    {
        String[] sectionNodes = { "myAppNameNode1", "myAppNameNode2", "myAppNameNode2", "myAppNameNode4" };
        String[] nlSectionNodes = { "Subnode1" ,"Subnode2", "Subnode3" };

        protected override TreeNodeCollection GetTreeNodes(string id, FormDataCollection queryStrings)
        {

            if (id == global::Umbraco.Core.Constants.System.Root.ToInvariantString())
            {
                var tree = new TreeNodeCollection();
                tree.Add(CreateTreeNode(sectionNodes[0], id, queryStrings, sectionNodes[0], "icon-calendar-alt", true));
                tree.Add(CreateTreeNode(sectionNodes[1], id, queryStrings, sectionNodes[1], "icon-calendar-alt", true));
                tree.Add(CreateTreeNode(sectionNodes[2], id, queryStrings, sectionNodes[2], "icon-calendar-alt", true));
                tree.Add(CreateTreeNode(sectionNodes[3], id, queryStrings, sectionNodes[3], "icon-calendar-alt", true));

                return tree;
            }


            //create Childnodes for Treenode myAppNameNode1
            if (id == sectionNodes[0])
            {
                var tree = new TreeNodeCollection();
                tree.Add(CreateTreeNode(nlSectionNodes[0], id, queryStrings, nlSectionNodes[0], "icon-globe-alt", false));
                tree.Add(CreateTreeNode(nlSectionNodes[1], id, queryStrings, nlSectionNodes[1], "icon-globe-alt", false));
                tree.Add(CreateTreeNode(nlSectionNodes[2], id, queryStrings, nlSectionNodes[2], "icon-globe-alt", false));     

                return tree;
            }

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

Hi Thomas

Thanks for posting the code.

The problem I am experiencing is that my code is in a separate project (C# class library) within my solution.

The project will not build and outputs errors around missing assemly references. I have added most Umbraco dll's as references to the project but nothing seems to work. 

So I am wondering: it is possible to create the custom tree code in a C# class library ? If this is possible, then are you able to please confirm all the references at the top of your file ?

Thanks

Nigel

Problem solved - my c# project was set to ASP.NET 4.0 - changed to 4.5 and ... away we gooooooooooo......:-)

As so often in progammers life, the solution can be so easy. :)

Hi Thomas,

I know this is an old post, but were you able to achieve what you want?

I dont want to do the exactly same thing as you but I'm in doubt of what to do. I know that if I create all the views and fields for my custom section in the backoffice I'll successfully save the data in my custom database tables, but I would like to take all the potential that Umbraco gives us (with dynamic datatypes and docTypes) and build the views based on docTypes (and save the data accordingly).

If you can give me any input about this - even just your experience working with custom sections - I think that will help a lot.

Thanks. Regards

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