Hi Tom, how about using something like facebox to load your form and pass the 'current' page in the URL (then parse it in your control). You'd probably need to extend Contour to create a field that will read the URL var OR, you could use a standard text box and include in your display file some JS to populate by reading the query string. 

HTH,
Nik

Hi Nik,

thanks so much for you reply..

We're using jQuery tools overlay it was mainly just the passing of the value into contour so i was thinking something like

http://domain.com/email-a-friend.aspx?page-id=1111

and then how to get page-id into the email via nice url..

would the bracket syntax work? like how can you retrieve query string values via the bracket syntax?

Hmmm, here's a thought (maybe), how about you have a template that houses your contour form AND an XSLT macro that basically just does the following:

<xsl:variable name="pageId" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('pageId')"/>
<xsl:variable name="pageUrl" select="umbraco.library:NiceUrl($pageId)"/>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function(){
    //set the value of the textbox and include the page URL that we set above...
    $('#idOfTextField').val('Hey! Check out this page:\n\n<xsl:value-of select="$pageUrl"/>');
    });
</script>

Not tested this, but something like that should work (outside of creating a custom field using the contour API. 

HTH,
Nik

Tom, I suggest you use an alternate template for the contour form, instead of calling contour from a content page. That way you get the page ID of the original page in the record. Plain and simple.

However if you go with a separate contour node you can get the page id stored in it by using a custom workflow and update the record page id. You can send the page id in the query string, which you can access through the RecordEventsArg parameter

record.UmbracoPageId = int.Parse(e.Context.Request.QueryString[pageId])

However I would definitely go for the alternate template approach as it requires no extra programming and it will save you a lot of EMailAFriend nodes.

how do i delete that previous post? is there a way i can? or can an admin please delete the xslt markup

Can someone please delete the 5/7/2010 7:33:36 AM post

Tom,

Post has been deleted as per your request.

Cheers,

/Dirk

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