Jeroen,

If you extend the media picker to create a folder in de media section if not exist. May be thats a solution!

Not any help to you, but I really think Umbraco should go back to the old "name-your-node-before-creating" concept.

Every time I have had new editors in for training, they forget to name their nodes before saving.

Jeroen,

You can also hookup to the ContentService_Saving event and check the HasIdentity property on the entity.

Something like this:

void ContentService_Saving(IContentService sender, global::Umbraco.Core.Events.SaveEventArgs<IContent> e)
    {
        foreach (var item in e.SavedEntities)
        {
            if (!item.HasIdentity)
            {
                var mediaService = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.MediaService;
                var f = mediaService.CreateMedia(item.Name, Constants.System.Root, "Folder");

                mediaService.Save(f);

            }
        }
    }

@Søren If you try to save nodes without a name in Umbraco 7 you will get a required message in the field where you typed the name of the page. So to me you can´t save a page without giving it a name right if you are using the Umbraco backoffice?

/Dennis

You are right Dennis. Its just an annoyance for the editors I have trained.

@Jeroen, can you create the folder with the new content id as a name, and then rename when you have the name?

Thanks for all the suggestions, but I'm afraid none of them will work.

The ContentService_Saving is called after all mandatory fields have been filled which includes the media picker that needs the folder. 

Naming the media folder the id also won't work because that also isn't available in the created event.

I could create a folder with just a temp name (not based on the id or name) and rename that later. The problem is that I would like to rename it as soon as possible. I'll do some experimenting to see if I can change the folder name after the node name has been changed. So that will probably need a custom ajax call in the backoffice.

Jeroen

He Jeroen,

A you need to create the folder on the same moment you create a new page.

May be you can move/kopie the selected media items to the correct folder after saving te new page.

Marcel

Creating the folder at the same moment as creating a new page is the whole problem. When the page is create the name and id aren't available yet in Umbraco 7 (it was in Umbraco 6) so I don't know what to name the folder. 

The move/copy option of the selected media items isn't a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion :-).

Jeroen

Maybe generate a Guid as a temporary folder name?

The problem is when you create a folder on the create event than what to do when you leave the page and not hitting save/publish.. At the create event there is nothing saved to the database so i think it's not the right please to create the folder..

Good luck

Marcel

That's what I'm currently doing, but in that situation the user doens't know what that folder is. For example:

Content:

- Home
-- new content page that doesn't have a name yet

Media:

- Home
-- Guid folder which the user doesn't know is the folder of the content page he's currently creating

So I somehow need to rename the folder at the moment that the content name is available. 

Jeroen

I'm now trying to insert some javascript which should run each time a content page is loaded. You can insert javascript into the backoffice like this: https://github.com/leekelleher/umbraco-environment-indicator/blob/master/src/App_Plugins/CmsEnvironmentIndicator/package.manifest

Does anyone know what I need to do for my code to run each time a content page is loaded? 

Jeroen

Jeroen,
If you're using jquery then set the methods inside the js file with a domready function call:

$(function(){
var myFunction = function(){
//you're code
});
});

However if you're using vanilla javascript you can set the methods with a window.onload call like this:

window.onload="myFunction()";

OR

myFunction()

Please make sure Lee's manifest helper loads the scripts at the bottom of the html no matter what:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/forum/your/path/FileName.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

I'm already using Warren his example: https://gist.github.com/warrenbuckley/07d21b682c8e076cb5e2

As he suggested on Twitter I need to find an event which I can use so my code runs each time a content page is loaded.

Jeroen

Jeroen,
I see what Warren has done, however as Shannon says you shouldn't mix serverside with clientside? If you're trying to load a javascript function into any page as soon as the html parser reaches the script call it's fired? This is why it's advised to move scripts to the bottom of the html or to use the domready functionality of jquery - to stop the parser from pausing while the script its run and therefore pausing the pageload; or am I missing the whole point?

J 

With the package.manifest solution Umbraco handles adding the javascript file. So I've already got a javascript file that runs, but the problem is that I need to run some custom javascript when a content page is loaded.

Jeroen

Hi, the thread is quite old, but the problem is still current. Content editors still have to create folders themselves to keep the media section tidy. However, Dedicated Media Folder package solves the problem.

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