I have two custom modules (module1, module2) and I have a page/view with the same name (view1) in both the modules. If I access view1 in module2, I see view1 from module1.
It works if I rename the files or if disable module1.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug with Orchard?
Thanks.
By design, templates can be overridden, so the system needs to be able to find them in lots of different places, by name. Does one of your modules depend on the other? If not, this should not happen. If yes, the system thinks your module1 view is an override for the one in module2. Give your views unique names that contain the module name, or remove the dependency.
Also, you can put your views under a folder that has the name of your controller (which should be easy to make expressive and unique). For example if your controller is ProductAdminController, you can put your views under Views/ProductAdmin/actionname.cshtml
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I often have the situation where the wording of specific strings from various modules or core features needs to be changed for specific tenants & themes in Orchard CMS.
For example, I may have a client that prefers to have the shopping cart checkout button say "Checkout Now" rather than "Go to checkout" which is a string contained within a view in a shopping module.
I can simply override the razor view in my theme and change the string, however views often are quite complex, and it doesn't feel right overriding a view just to change one string.
Another approach I have tried is to define a po translation file within my theme to override the string from the module. This works because the strings in the module are defined using the T() syntax. However, I've noticed that as soon as I define an override for a string within my theme, this override effects all tenants, instead of just the one tenant that has this theme enabled. I'm inclined to think that translations within modules/themes should be ignored from tenants where they are not enabled.
So I'm left wondering what the best approach for this scenario is?
The localisation/po file approach would be ok if tenants ignored po files from themes that aren't enabled, but then again, it would be really nice if there was a module or feature in core that allowed you to specify string overrides via the admin interface. I guess it's more of a "rewording" task than a "translation" task.
The preferred way of doing this is through template overrides. If you don't want to do that, you can actually break shapes down, and delegate the rendering to smaller templates that are easier to override. This is done by simply refactoring the part of a template that you want to be able to override individually into a separate template. This post explains how to do that: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/creating-shapes-on-the-fly
If you're not willing to do that, you can use this module to get strings from the database instead of po files: http://gallery.orchardproject.net/List/Modules/Orchard.Module.Q42.DbTranslations It should be possible to modify it to fit your sceanrio.
I have been following the steps outlined here: https://dev.liferay.com/develop/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/6-2/importing-resources-with-your-themes
My custom structures and templates are being imported. The problem that I have is that I also want to define an ADT to be imported. Nothing happens when I create the directory structure outline here:https://dev.liferay.com/develop/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/6-2/creating-plugins-to-share-structures-templates-and-more
Is the "templates-importer" standard deprecated? Can the "resources-importer" and "templates-importer" not be used at the same time?
I don't see any exceptions in the log and there's nothing to indicate why the ADT is not being imported. I have checked in the site template that is generated and in the global site.
Suggestions? Do I really need to create a hook to import the ADT?
You can use only one of those two, but they share common code and functionality (here are if...else statements responsible for chosing one of). If you use Resources Importer already, you can add your ADT's to resources-importer folder (in the same way it is done within templates-importer) and it will be imported as well.
I have a hook project which resources-importer which contains (among others) 4 ADTs. They are located in the following folders:
resources-importer/templates/application_display/asset_category
resources-importer/templates/application_display/asset_entry
First one is imported as ADT for Categories Navigation portlet and second for Asset Publisher portlet.
I'm quite stuck on an unexpected problem. I'm trying to use Wayfinder to generate a sitemap for a project. The output of the navigation items is as expected, but I need to include a number of documents in addition to the primary navigation elements.
To do this, I have used the includeDocs parameter.
[[Wayfinder? &startId=`0` &includeDocs=`17,18,19,20`]]
When I do this, I get no output at all. Remove includeDocs and I get the standard nav (expected). Use the param and the output is completely empty.
No idea what I'm doing wrong or what (if any) other setting must be defined in order to make this work.
The includeDocs parameter is very misleading. It should rather be named "onlyIncudeDocs" or "restrictTo", since that is what it does. It also requires the docs you include to be directly accessable from your startId, alternatively have the entire path "included".
I would suggest you create weblink resources directly under your startId, and link them to the resources you want to include. That way wayfinder will pick them up by default. (Note that you may need to handle this in your rowTpl for wayfinder, since a weblink stores the actual link in it's content field)
If you also want to include the children of the id's you specify, you would probably be better of slightly revising your resource structure.
I love using the Node Reference URL module but in the case of my current project I need something similar and with a slightly different effect.
I have a node type called Event which needs to have exactly 3 webforms referenced to each event I create.
With node_reference_url the configuration means I will setup the node reference fields in the webform node type with my Event type selected as the target.
However, I need to find a way of reversing that. I'm looking for code tips (or a module if it exists) which will allow me to configure the Event type so that I can have links on each event page to create a total of 3 webforms and their NIDs to be saved as references to the parent event page.
I am using entity reference to do such a thing. It allows you to add one or more reference fields to your content types. These references can be to nodes, profiles, etc.
If you would add these to your Event you could probably select the webforms from there.
I know this plugin also integrates with views (under advanced > relations), allowing you access the fields of the referred content. (Incuding the title and link to node options.)
Want to take it a step further?
Have a look at reference dialog. This module allows you to build similar reference fields combined with Add, Edit and Delete buttons. If the content you are referring to is not yet created, you can do so in an overlay.
I would like to know if it is possible to use kentico macros (not necessarily coding a custom one) to access part of the rewritten URL's Path.
Example: http://www.mysite.com/Category/Subcategory/
I would like to get the last part (Subcategory) so that I may then filter content dynamically. The reason I want to use the macro is to simply not have to have 20+ different page templates only so I can have different web part properties.
Assuming you are using Portal templates, and you don't want an 'all items in all subcategories' list on the parent:
Create an Article List web part on the parent page — parent to all the sub-categories.
Set the web part Path to /{0}/{1}/{2}/% (if your path was /Home/Parent/Subcategory for example) or something similar for your environment.
Use the default setting of Inherit for the page template for all subcategory pages.
This will not show anything on the parent page, and the sub-categories will show only the documents under themselves. Note: If you want the subcategory items to have their own views when user digs down to /{0}/{1}/{2}/item, you may need to filter by changing template inheritance, or Document Types on the web part, or something like that if you don't want the whole sub-category list to also show on the item-specific pages.
You can create a custom macro or, you can also use the string operations which are allowed within macros. Please see http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/6_0/devguide/available_macro_methods.htm#string_methods (and you can e.g. use the EndsWith or TrimStrart or something similar).
However, I think the best way would be to create a custom macro which will exactly fit. There might be some combination of macros and macro functions - but I think it is faster just to code a custom one which will cover your need 100%.
Also, you can take a look on the K# if there is something that will fit - http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/6_0/devguide/ksharp_syntax.htm