I'm struggling with API calls of Kentico forms using ASP.NET MVC, so that I can use AngularJS to display the return data (JSON format).
Specifically, my client is using Kentico on their server to create data using "Forms" on Kentico and I want to get the records stored in these forms via API calls using ASP.NET MVC. What I'm thinking is that in the general section of the "Forms", I see the "Form code name" showing that "Code name is a string identifier of the object that can be used by developers in API calls or URLs". But it seems to be there's no good example of it on internet. Keep trying to search it but no luck. I also tried to access data directly in SQL Server in which kentico stores the data. But the table's name that Kentico uses in SQL Server to store the data is different from the ones in "Forms" or "Custom tables" in Kentico.
Hope someone can show me how to do it and I really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
There is a very good example in the official documentation of Kentico.
Please note that Forms have been renamed a few times in the past (they were called BizForms and On-Line forms) that's the reason why the code below references CMS.OnlineForms and uses BizFormInfoProvider. It might also very well be the reason why you didn't find any good example :)
The example below shows how to retrieve Form's definition (metadata), get all the data and iterate through it.
using CMS.OnlineForms;
using CMS.DataEngine;
using CMS.SiteProvider;
using CMS.Helpers;
...
// Gets the form info object for the 'ContactUs' form
BizFormInfo formObject = BizFormInfoProvider.GetBizFormInfo("ContactUs", SiteContext.CurrentSiteID);
// Gets the class name of the 'ContactUs' form
DataClassInfo formClass = DataClassInfoProvider.GetDataClassInfo(formObject.FormClassID);
string className = formClass.ClassName;
// Loads the form's data
ObjectQuery<BizFormItem> data = BizFormItemProvider.GetItems(className);
// Checks whether the form contains any records
if (!DataHelper.DataSourceIsEmpty(data))
{
// Loops through the form's data records
foreach (BizFormItem item in data)
{
string firstNameFieldValue = item.GetStringValue("FirstName", "");
string lastNameFieldValue = item.GetStringValue("LastName", "");
// Perform any required logic with the form field values
// Variable representing a custom value that you want to save into the form data
object customFieldValue;
// Programatically assigns and saves a value for the form record's 'CustomField' field
item.SetValue("CustomField", customFieldValue);
item.SubmitChanges(false);
}
}
UPDATE:
The example above assumes that you're using the API from within the running Kentico instance. If you want to use Kentico API (DLLs) from an external application please follow the steps I described in another answer.
You also asked about the site identifier (siteId or siteName params of the BizFormInfoProvider.GetBizFormInfo() method). They refer to the SiteInfo object in Kentico (DB table CMS_Site). You can find site name if you navigate to Site->Edit site->General->Site code name.
If you don't want to use Kentico DLLs there is another option - using Kentico REST endpoint.
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I have a solution with 2 projects:
Contains the API
the module where i can select data (combobox etc...)
in the second module i select the API as reference that way i should be able to use data from the first module (my API) using Mollie.Api;
The First thing i want to do is fill a combobow with all the issuers, they should be in issuers.data:
Issuers issuers = mollieClient.GetIssuers();
foreach (Issuer issuer in issuers.data)
{
comboBox1.Items.Add(issuer.name);
}
the problem i have is: mollieClient does not exist in current context
i want to fill another combobox with methods but when i try to do it how they say i should do it doesnt work:
Method methods = new Method();
methods = Mollie.Api.Method.all();
however when i do:
Mollie.Api.Method.* the helper gives me then all the possible methods at *, but how can i get them automaticly in my combobox?
The second thing is when the method and issuer is selected i want to send that data back to the API. The API should be able to proces this and send me a message back that the transaction was a succes.
It appears like you're using mollie-api-csharp. You've written mollieClient, but according to the source Mollie.Api.MollieClient should start with a capital letter.
EDIT: Looks like you're following the how-to-use tutorial from the repo.
I think you forgot to create the MollieClient instance before getting the issuers.
MollieClient mollieClient = new MollieClient();
mollieClient.setApiKey("your_api_key_here");
This is a noob question but I'm searching for some time and can't find any useful information.
I need to develop a rotine (console application) that will read and write content into a umbraco site. I've already read that you can do that with web forms and mvc application.
But I need to use umbraco like an external source. I need to do something like we do with Word documents. For example: open the file, read the file, write some things and save it.
I've already installed the API using
PM> Install-Package UmbracoCms -Pre
Some things I've already read:
http://nishantwork.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/umbraco-create-custom-content-node-in-umbraco-by-c/
https://github.com/sitereactor/umbraco-console-example
What is the best to achieve that? I don't know how to do it exactly...
You can create an Umbraco node (document), write to it and save it from a console application. Umbraco is basically a bunch of .Net libraries:
//Get the type you would like to use by its alias and the user who should be the creator of the document
DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias("Textpage");
User author = User.GetUser(0);
//create a document with a name, a type, an umbraco user, and the ID of the document's parent page. To create a document at the root of umbraco, use the id -1
Document doc = Document.MakeNew("My new document", dt, author, 1018);
// Get the properties you wish to modify by it's alias and set their value
doc.getProperty("bodyText").Value = "<p>Your body text</p>";
doc.getProperty("articleDate").Value = DateTime.Now;
//after creating the document, prepare it for publishing
doc.Publish(author);
//Tell umbraco to publish the document
umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(doc.Id);
See:
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheatsheet/creating-a-document
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheatsheet/modifying-document-properties
Just to help anyone with the same issue. I'm find out a web service in umbraco and i'm currently using that (until now for reading information only, but as far as I know we can write infomation also). Altought there's little documentation is easy to use.
But to use that you need to set <webservices enabled="False"> in umbracoSettings.config . This fie is in the folder Config inside umbraco.
We have to set user rights into the webservices node also to allow the user to use the web service
DocumentServiceReference.documentServiceSoapClient client = new DocumentServiceReference.documentServiceSoapClient();
client.WebservicesEnabled();
DocumentServiceReference.ArrayOfDocumentCarrier documents = client.readList(parentId, username, password);
foreach (DocumentServiceReference.documentCarrier doc in documents)
{
DocumentServiceReference.ArrayOfDocumentProperty properties = doc.DocumentProperties;
foreach (DocumentServiceReference.documentProperty property in properties)
{
string key = property.Key;
string value = property.PropertyValue.ToString();
}
}
I need to get the url of the site so that I render a user control on only the main page. I need to check for http://foo.com, http://www.foo.com, and foo.com. I am a bit stumped as to how check for all 3. I tried the following which does not work.
string domainName = Request.Url.Host.ToString();
if (domainName == "http://nomorecocktails.com" | Request.Url.Host.Contains("default.aspx"))
{ //code to push user control to page
Also tried
var url = HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + "/";
Any thoughts?
You need to check if the Request.Path property is equal to / or /Default.aspx or whatever your "main page" is. The domain name is completely irrelevant. What if I accessed your site via http://192.56.17.205/, and similarly, what if your server switched IP addresses? Your domain check would fail.
If you utilize the QueryString to display different content, you'll also need to check Request.QueryString.
Documentation for Request.Path:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.path.aspx
Documentation for Request.QueryString:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httprequest.querystring.aspx
If you need the user control to only appear on the main page (I'm assuming you mean home page), then add the code to call the user control to the code behind of that file.
If this code is stored in the master page, then you can reference it like:
Master.FindControl("UserControlID");
If you are only using the one web form (ie. just Default.aspx), then you can check that no relevant query strings are included in the URL, and display only if this is the case:
if (Request.QueryString["q"] == null){
//user control code
}
However if you are using this technique then I would recommend using multiple web forms using master pages in the future to structure your application better.
The ASP.NET website has some good tutorials on how to do this:
http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/master-pages
We create a discussion board in Sharepoint 2010 without much effort, but I am looking for a solution where discussion board and all its replies are added to the certain zone automatically. That is end user do not need to add discussion board, through the process of entering page into edit mode and then adding web part. But instead, once user create a discussion board, all discussions and message are added to the page automatically (to certain zone in page).
Thanks.
Add this code the a web event handler (ListAdded) in order to run this code automatically. In that code you will need to check if the list type is of Discussion. In the event receiver you will need get a reference to the SPWeb in which you want to add the web part, and to the list you want to use (in this example the Contacts list). Next you create an instance of the ListViewWebPart class, in which you can set the ZoneID, the ListName and the ViewGuid. This is the tricky part, the ListName property should contain the ID of your list (a GUID), not the name of your list!! But the ListName property is of the type string, so you need to convert the List GUID to a string using .ToString(“B”).ToUpper(). The same goes for the ViewGuid. Finally you need to get a reference to the WebPartCollection for the page in which you want to add the web part (in this example the home page, being default.aspx). Now you can add the web part using the Add method.
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
using Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages;
// Get a reference to a web and a list
SPSite site = new SPSite("http://localhost:8000");
SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();
SPList list = web.Lists["Contacts"];
// Instantiate the web part
ListViewWebPart wp = new ListViewWebPart();
wp.ZoneID = "Left";
wp.ListName = list.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper();
wp.ViewGuid = list.DefaultView.ID.ToString("B").ToUpper();
// Get the web part collection
SPWebPartCollection coll =
web.GetWebPartCollection("default.aspx",
Storage.Shared);
// Add the web part
coll.Add(wp);
Using the Asp.net Report Viewer in VS2010 in Remote mode we need to allow the user to use the default controls on the report viewer for entering in the parameters before running the report.
As permissions need to be set on the data we have a UserId hidden parameter on all the reports and the plan was to allow the user to enter in the parameters as normal and then we would add [programmatically] the userId parameter before the report is run.
The data in the report would then return the data that the user had permission to view.
[We use the SSRS web service to populate a treeview with a list of available reports for the user to select.]
I guess I'm having trouble with whats the best approach for this. I need to pass the userId parameter value to the ReportViewer and not to the server report.
I'm aware that you can use the web service to manage the parameters completely outside of the control but its not an option for us at the minute.
So in summary:
User Selects Parameters in the Report Viewer.
Code behind adds the UserId parameter value either as the report is run or initially when its loaded and the viewer passes all the parameters to the server.
I'd appreciate any help that you could give.
Liam
Found the answer and it was simple enough after and maybe didn't justify the question but here it is in case anyone is running on a low baud rate like I was yesterday.
Add the following event to the report viewer
onsubmittingparametervalues="Viewer_SubmittingParameters"
and in the handler
protected void Viewer_SubmittingParameters(object sender, ReportParametersEventArgs e)
{
Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ReportParameter userIdParameter =
new Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ReportParameter();
userIdParameter.Name = "UserId";
userIdParameter.Values.Add(this.Username etc);
// Add to existing parameters
e.Parameters.Add(userIdParameter);
}
Liam