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[This post is part of the developer's manual preview published on this blog. You can find temporary TOC here.]
[This article requires Sitefinity 3.6 hotfix to be installed]
ControlsConfig file is a new configuration file introduced in Sitefinity 3.6 which allows developers to
*** NOTE ***
If you are unfamiliar with Views and Subviews, please refer to the articles giving Architectural Overview and explaining what are Views.
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Controls configuration is defined by a special file named
Telerik.Sitefinity.Configuration.ControlsConfig.xml
which needs to be placed in the ~/App_Data/Configuration folder of your site. The name of the file and its location are crucial for the configuration to work.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> |
<controlsConfig> |
<viewMap> |
<!--Provides user interface for displaying a list of bloggers in the blogs module. --> |
<viewSettings |
hostType="Telerik.Blogs.WebControls.BloggersList" |
layoutTemplatePath="~/Sitefinity/ControlTemplates/Blogs/BloggersList.ascx" /> |
</viewMap> |
</controlsConfig> |
For this purposes, in your Client.net account you can find zip files named “Version_ExternalTemplates.zip”, where Version of course is the name of the version for which you wish to download External templates.
*** NOTE ***
External templates zip file is available from Sitefinity 3.6 1870 version.
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Once you download and extract the file, you will notice that you have two folders inside:
*** WARNING ***
Do not simply copy the ControlsConfig files in your App_Data/Configuration folder because you will effectively map all the templates to external ones. Map only the controls for which you wish to make modifications, because this will greatly simplify your upgrade process on the next releases.
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In Sitefinity folder, on the other hand, you will find all the templates we have embedded in version Sitefinity 3.6, which you can use as a starting point for your modifications.
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