Hi Istvan,

I don't know if this can be at any help for you building your custom section. But Markus Johansson, have created to blogposts about who to create a custom section for Umbraco 7.

http://www.enkelmedia.se/blogg/2013/11/22/creating-custom-sections-in-umbraco-7-part-1.aspx

http://www.enkelmedia.se/blogg/2013/11/22/custom-sections-in-umbraco-7-%E2%80%93-part-2-the-views.aspx

As I said I hope this can be a help in the right direction

/Dennis

Hi Dennis!

The above blog posts are excellent starting points. I have created my customsection and tree based on them. However Markus creates the view using AngularJS, so the posts does not provide complete solution for what i'm looking for!

Thanks, Istvan

Hi Istvan

There is no other approach than using AngularJS for the view integration in Umbracos backend. Everything is based on REST calls and the backends frontend itself is a single page application. When you have a closer look at the URL you will notice the hashtag (#) followed by specific page information. That's the URL routed by angulars ng-route module which will also be used to inject your view definitions (controllers, views, services).

Regards
Andreas 

Hi Andreas!

There must be a way to do it. If you check the HTML source of the Umbraco back office Users - Edit User page: an .aspx file is loaded, using iframe.

<div ng-controller="Umbraco.LegacyController" id="legacyContainer" style="width: 100%; height: 100%;overflow: hidden;" class="ng-scope">
    <iframe name="right" id="right" ng-src="/umbraco/users/editUser.aspx?id=0" src="/umbraco/users/editUser.aspx?id=0"></iframe>
</div>

Also, in the discussions (http://www.enkelmedia.se/blogg/2013/11/22/custom-sections-in-umbraco-7-%E2%80%93-part-2-the-views.aspx#comment-1271427126) Markus mentions: "The content and media sections are build with the new "Angular"-approach while other parts is just wrappers around the "old" V6-webforms."

This is where my idea came from.

Thanks, Istvan

Hi Istvan

You are right concerning the backwards compatibility that exists for the old trees (legacy forms). But those are obsolete so you should use the new tree controllers instead. It's just my suggestion for now, but you are free to integrate any HTML form at the moment. Just have a look how an existing section has been integrated.

Andreas

Hi Istvan,

Did you ever get this to work for aspx web forms?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to re-use a load of existing Umbraco customisation without my client having to pay to re build the hole thing.

My hope is that Umbraco will allow any valid web based technology via the iframe approach - that way people can develop any way they see fit and proper.

Thanks

Rob

Hey,

I have added another post today asking for some help.

I nearly have a working example but need to work through some issues first.

Will share with you when I get it nearly there.

Ta

Rob

It should just be possible, the only thing that you need to take into account is that the new way of doing trees in v7 only allows angular pages, but if you create your tree the old way it should still be possible to use webforms/mvc

Check out the sourcecode for Optimus,that adds a tree and webforms edit page https://github.com/TimGeyssens/BundlingAndMinificationForTheMasses

So your tree has to be created in the following way https://github.com/TimGeyssens/BundlingAndMinificationForTheMasses/blob/master/BundlingAndMinificationForTheMasses/Umbraco/Trees/BundlingAndMinificationTree.cs

Tim,

Thanks for responding.

Could you have a quick look at my post from earlier today please?

Any ideas would be greatly received.

Thanks

https://our.umbraco.org/forum/umbraco-7/using-umbraco-7/73384-legacy-tree-problem-latest-version-7-umbraco

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