placeholder doest work with the dictionaryitem - Using Umbraco 7

David 28 posts 156 karma points

Nov 14, 2014 @ 12:41

Placeholder does't work with the Dictionaryitem

Using Umbraco 7

Hello Guys,

I've wrote a contact form in Visual Studio and I need to translate the placeholder in the textboxes.
I am using Umbraco 7.1.8 and I created there a Dictionary Item which is called Vorname.

My Textbox:

<asp:TextBox ID="BoxTelefon" runat="server" class="display" placeholder="?" /></asp:TextBox>

I tried the following placeholders :

placeholder="<umbraco:Item field="#Vorname" runat="server" />"

placeholder="{umbraco.library:GetDictionaryItem('Vorname')}"

placeholder="<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetDictionaryItem('Vorname')" />"

And nothing has worked.

Would be really nice if someone could help me.

Sincerely David :)

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Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib

Nov 14, 2014 @ 12:48

HI David,

If you are using Umbraco 7 and MVC try this:

placeholder="@Umbraco.GetDictionaryValue('Vorname')"

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

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David 28 posts 156 karma points

Nov 14, 2014 @ 12:57

Hi Dennis,

thank you for your fast answer.

Yes, I'm using Umbraco 7.
No, I'm using Webforms and the Placeholder still doesn't works. :(

The output of my placeholder is: @Umbraco.GetDictionaryValue('Vorname')

Sincerely David :)

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 10x admin c-trib

Nov 14, 2014 @ 13:22

Hi David

You should be able to use umbraco.library.GetDictionaryItem("UserControl_Details") in your placeholder.

So this really should work placeholder="umbraco.library.GetDictionaryItem("Vorname")"

Make sure you reference umbraco.BuisnessLogic in your using statements.

Hope this helps.

/Jan

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 10x admin c-trib

Nov 14, 2014 @ 13:23

Could you show us your entire code instead of just the snippets you have been trying?

/Jan

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David 28 posts 156 karma points

Nov 14, 2014 @ 13:34

Hi Jan,

it still doesnt work.
Ok sorry. Here is my ascx file :

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Kontaktformular.ascx.cs" Inherits="Controls_Kontaktformular" %>

   
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-lg-8 col-md-10 col-md-offset-1">
         
                <div class="row control-group">
                    <div class="form-group col-xs-12 floating-label-form-group controls">
                         <label>Name</label>
                        <asp:TextBox ID="BoxName" runat="server" placeholder="Vorname"></asp:TextBox>
                        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator6"
                            ControlToValidate="BoxName"
                            Display="Dynamic"
                            Text="Ein Vorname ist erforderlich."
                            runat="server" />
                        <p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="row control-group">
                    <div class="form-group col-xs-12 floating-label-form-group controls">
                        <label>Email Address</label>
                        <asp:TextBox ID="BoxEMail" runat="server" class="display" placeholder="Email"></asp:TextBox>
                        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator5"
                            ControlToValidate="BoxEMail"
                            Text="Eine gültige E-Mail Adresse ist nötig."
                            runat="server" />
                        <br />
                        <%-- MailBox bezieht sich auf textbox ID!! Dieses Feld wird überprüft!  --%>
                        <asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="regexEmailValid" runat="server"
                            ValidationExpression="\w+([-+.]\w+)*@\w+([-.]\w+)*\.\w+([-.]\w+)*" ControlToValidate="BoxEMail"
                            ErrorMessage="Ungültige Email"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
                        <p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="row control-group">
                    <div class="form-group col-xs-12 floating-label-form-group controls">
                        <label>Ort</label>
                        <asp:TextBox ID="BoxOrt" runat="server" class="display" placeholder="Ort"></asp:TextBox>
                        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator4"
                            ControlToValidate="BoxOrt"
                            Text="Ein Ort ist erforderlich."
                            runat="server" />
                        <p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="row control-group">
                    <div class="form-group col-xs-12 floating-label-form-group controls">
                        <label>Phone Number</label>
                        <asp:TextBox ID="BoxTelefon" runat="server" class="display" placeholder="umbraco.library.GetDictionaryItem("Vorname")" ></asp:TextBox>
                        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1"
                            ControlToValidate="BoxTelefon"
                            Text="Eine Telefonnummer ist erforderlich."
                            runat="server" />
                        <p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <div class="row control-group">
                    <div class="form-group col-xs-12 floating-label-form-group controls">
                        <label>Message</label>
                        <asp:TextBox ID="BoxNachricht" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" placeholder="Message"></asp:TextBox>
                        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator3"
                            ControlToValidate="BoxNachricht"
                            Text="Eine Nachricht ist erforderlich."
                            runat="server" />
                        <p class="help-block text-danger"></p>
                    </div>
                </div>
                <br>
                <div id="success"></div>
                <div class="row">
                    <div class="form-group col-xs-12">
                        <asp:Button runat="server" text="text" ID="btnSend" >
                            
                        </asp:Button>
                        <umbraco:Item field="#Deutsch" runat="server" /> 
                    </div>
                </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

And this is the ascx.cs file:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Mail;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using umbraco.BusinessLogic;
using umbraco;

public partial class Controls_Kontaktformular : System.Web.UI.UserControl
{
    /// 
    /// Beim Laden der Seite wird btnSend_Click initalisiert.
    /// 
    ///
    ///
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Page.EnableViewState = true;
        btnSend.Click += btnSend_Click;
    }


    /// 
    /// Wenn auf den btnsend geklickt wird.
    /// wird eine nachricht per email versendet.
    /// 
    ///
    ///
    void btnSend_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    { 
        MailMessage message = new MailMessage(
           "[email protected]",
           BoxEMail.Text,
           "Quarterly data report.",
           GetMsgTxt()
           );
        message.IsBodyHtml = true;

        SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient("localhost");


        client.Send(message);
    }

    /// 
    /// Das ist der Textinhalt der Email
    /// 
    /// 
    public string GetMsgTxt()
    {
        string msgtxt = "";
        msgtxt += "Von: " + BoxName.Text + "\n";
        msgtxt += "Nachricht: " + BoxNachricht.Text + " " + Environment.NewLine;
        msgtxt += "Ort: " + BoxOrt.Text + " " + Environment.NewLine;
        msgtxt += "Ort: " + BoxEMail.Text + " " + Environment.NewLine;
        msgtxt += "Telefonnummer: " + BoxTelefon.Text+ Environment.NewLine;
        return msgtxt;
    }
}

I recieve an Error where my control should appear.

Error loading userControl '~/usercontrols/Kontaktformular.ascx'

Sincerely David :)

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Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib

Nov 14, 2014 @ 13:38

Hi David,

Perhaps, this blogpost from Tim can help you http://www.nibble.be/?cat=7&paged=2

Look at the middle of the page. .net usercontrols and the umbraco dictionary 10

Hope this helps,

/Dennis

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 10x admin c-trib

Nov 14, 2014 @ 13:39

Hi David

If you look in the /app_data/logs file can you then see some further details related to this error? it should be marked with "ERROR" in the log.

I suspect you might need to reference the umbraco.dll in order to be able to call umbraco.library methods. But I'm not sure :)

This blogpost http://www.richardsoeteman.net/2009/04/01/AutoAddDictionaryItemsAnotherApproach.aspx from Richard Soeteman is 5 years old, but I think it's stille the same concept for fetching the Dictionary items when using Webforms.

/Jan

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David 28 posts 156 karma points

Nov 14, 2014 @ 15:38

Thanks for your answers!

I've found a solution.

I just added a attribute in the codebehind.

BoxName.Attributes["placeholder"] = umbraco.library.GetDictionaryItem("Vorname");

Sincerely David :)

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