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So far we have seen all the major ways in which one can map embedded templates to use external ones, however, we did not talk about one of the special cases - ContentViewDesigner templates.
ContentViewDesigners are controls which provide users with a user friendly and dynamic way of setting up numerous properties of ContentView based controls. Following three controls have their implementations of ContentViewDesigners and they will be the focus of this article:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><controlsConfig> |
<viewMap> |
<!--Provides user interface for setting up the BlogPosts control designer in the blogs module.--> |
<viewSettings hostType="Telerik.Blogs.WebControls.Design.BlogPostsDesigner" layoutTemplatePath="~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Blogs/BlogPostsControlDesigner.ascx" /> |
<!--Events View Designer Template--> |
<viewSettings hostType="Telerik.Events.WebControls.Design.EventsViewDesigner" layoutTemplatePath="~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Events/EventsViewControlDesigner.ascx" /> |
<!--Provides user interface for NewsViewDesigner control which allows modifications of NewsView designer.--> |
<viewSettings hostType="Telerik.News.WebControls.Design.NewsViewDesigner" layoutTemplatePath="~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/News/NewsViewControlDesigner.ascx" /> |
</viewMap> |
</controlsConfig> |
By doing so we have successfully mapped all designers to external templates and are now able to modify them.
<sf:PresentationMode ID="listPageMode" runat="server" |
ModeTitle="List & page EXTERNAL" |
ModeSettingsId="ModesSettings1" |
MasterTemplateName="Telerik.Blogs.Resources.ControlTemplates.Frontend.Modes.ListPageMaster.ascx" |
DetailTemplateName="Telerik.Blogs.Resources.ControlTemplates.Frontend.Modes.ListPageDetail.ascx" |
CssClass="pageListMode" |
SelectedCssClass="selectedOption pageListMode" |
> |
<Template> |
<asp:RadioButton ID="listPageRadio" runat="server" /> |
<p>A list of all posts plus separate pages for each post.</p> |
</Template> |
</sf:PresentationMode> |
<sf:PresentationMode ID="listPageMode" runat="server" |
ModeTitle="List & page EXTERNAL" |
ModeSettingsId="ModesSettings1" |
MasterTemplatePath="~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Blogs/Modes/ListPageMaster.ascx" |
DetailTemplatePath="~/Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/Blogs/Modes/ListPageDetail.ascx" |
CssClass="pageListMode" |
SelectedCssClass="selectedOption pageListMode" |
> |
<Template> |
<asp:RadioButton ID="listPageRadio" runat="server" /> |
<p>A list of all posts plus separate pages for each post.</p> |
</Template> |
</sf:PresentationMode> |
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