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• Ian Johnson

  Posted on Jan 13, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi,
  
  I am looking at using the sitefinity CMS to make a system that will allow a website to have a members area that has a specific blog for each user (ie. client) that is only accessible by that user (client). This way the site owner could create updates for each of the clients to their specific blog to give them updates relevant to them.
  
  Looking through the sitefinity admin, the only way I can see to do this is..
  1. Create a new role eg. client1_role
  2. Create new user eg client1
  3. Apply client1 to client1_role
  4. Create new page eg. client1_page
  5. Drop blog posts control onto client1_page
  6. Create new blog eg. client1_blog
  7. Apply client1_blog to client1_page
  8. Apply user role client1_role to allow - view on client1_page
  9. Deny anonymous access on client1_page
  
  My questions are:
  1. Can a tool that would simplify this drawn out process by included in the admin system options somewhere programatically- if so, where is an example of adding a tool to the admin system.
  2.Are there any other examples of performing any of the required actions above to save me development time.
  
  Many thanks in advance!
  
  Regards
  Ian
  
  

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• Ian Johnson

  Posted on Jan 14, 2009 (permalink)

  Excuse my newbie questions.
  
  I just looked a little into it. I am trying to get the firstname from the field to create a role as a starting point.
  
  How do I reference the value of the firstname field through the control.. this doesn't seem to work....
  
  

   

  Control container = manageUsers.GetCurrentContainer();
  

   

   

  HtmlGenericControl FirstName = container.FindControl("FirstName") as HtmlGenericControl;

   

   

  UserManager.Default.CreateRole(FirstName.InnerText); 
  
  Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. (Firstname.InnerText)
  
  

   

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Jan 14, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello Ian Johnson,
  
  Give a try ti the snipped below
  
  

  // check whether there is a role

  if(Roles.GetAllRoles().Length == 0)

  // create a role using the UserName of the user

  Roles.CreateRole(user.UserName);

  Roles.AddUserToRole(user.UserName, user.UserName);

  
  Let us know if there is anything else that we can do for you.
  
  Greetings,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

  
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• Ian Johnson

  Posted on Jan 18, 2009 (permalink)

  Hey Ivan,

  From what you said, I tried the following in the users.aspx.cs file. "user.username" as you suggest below produces.. "The name user does not exist in the current context"., so I used manageUsers... but manageUsers.UserName is null in that context. I want a way to access the value of the username field from the insert mode of the user form when they create a new user. Can you suggest anything?

   

   

   

   

   

  public void SaveButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

   

  {

   

              if (manageUsers.Mode == ManageUsers.Modes.Insert)

   

  {

   

              // check whether there is a role

   

   

   

   

   

  if (!Roles.RoleExists(manageUsers.UserName))

   

  {

   

  // create a role using the UserName of the user

   

   

   

   

   

  Roles.CreateRole(manageUsers.UserName);

   

  }

   

              Roles.AddUserToRole(manageUsers.UserName, manageUsers.UserName);

   

              }

  }

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Jan 19, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi Ian Johnson,
  
  Below is the code that you could use:
  
  

  // create user using CreateUser method

  MembershipUser user = Membership.CreateUser("USER_NAME", "PASSWORD", "EMAIL@ADDHERE.COM");

  ProfileBase profile = ProfileBase.Create(user.UserName);

  profile.SetPropertyValue("FirstName", user.UserName);

  // assign user to role

  Roles.CreateRole(user.UserName);

  Roles.AddUserToRole(user.UserName, user.UserName);

  // save user

  profile.Save();

  
  All the best,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

  
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• Ian Johnson

  Posted on Jan 20, 2009 (permalink)

  Hey Ivan,

  Thanks for the help, I am getting closer now. I just need some coding help to add a blog to a page programatically. I can add generic content...
  Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.GenericContent gcContent = new Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.GenericContent();
  gcContent.Content = "<strong>Hello world!</strong>";
  pageFromDb.Staged.AddControl("SideBarContent", gcContent);
  
  but cannot get a blog to display. Can you give me some sample code for programmatically adding a blogposts control to a page and making it only display posts from a specific blog.
  
  Many Thanks
  Ian

   

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Jan 20, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi Ian Johnson,
  
  Here is a sample that demonstrates  adding BlogPosts control on a page:
  
  

  CmsManager manager = new CmsManager();

  IPage page = manager.GetPage(cmsPage.ID, true);

  page.Staged.AddControl("HERE NAME OF PLACEHOLDER", typeof(BlogPosts), 0, "ID OF PLACEHOLDER");

  cmsManager.SavePage(page);

  
  Here is the code that will return the content of all blog posts
  
  

  // create new instance of BlogManager

  BlogManager blogManager = new BlogManager();

  IList listOfAllBlogs = blogManager.GetBlogs();

  foreach (IBlog blogItem in listOfAllBlogs)

  if(blogItem.Name == "MyBlog")

  {

  IList allposts = blogManager.GetPosts(string.Empty, blogItem.ID);

  foreach(IContent post in allposts)

  Response.Write(post.Content + "<br />");

  }

  
  I hope this helps.
  
  Sincerely yours,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

  
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• Ian Johnson

  Posted on Jan 29, 2009 (permalink)

  Hey Ivan,
  
  I can get blog posts control to display on the page now, but how do I limit it to displaying a certain blog.
   
  ie.When I 'edit' the resulting blogposts control on the page.. under "Which blogs to display?" it says "All Blogs".  I want it to change to "Selected blogs only" and then have one blog eg. client1_blog ticked. How do I do this programatically?
  
  Even if I pass the BlogPosts page of a specific blog (clientBlog) to the page, it seems to display all blogs... eg.
  

  pageFromDb.Staged.AddControl(

  "Content", typeof(Telerik.Blogs.WebControls.BlogPosts), 0, clientBlog.PostPage);

   

  Can it be done when adding the control or does it need to be done after the control is added through LoadControl() function of ICmsWebControl?
  
  Thanks
  
  Regards
  Ian

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Jan 29, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello Ian Johnson,
  
  Here is an example where BlogPosts control will show all posts for a given blog (MyBlog)
  
  

  BlogManager blogManager = new BlogManager();

  IList listOfAllBlogs = blogManager.GetBlogs();

  Guid[] blogIDs = new Guid[1];

  if (listOfAllBlogs.Count > 0)

  {

  foreach (IBlog blog in listOfAllBlogs)

  if (blog.Name == "MyBlog")

  {

  blogIDs[0] = blog.ID;

  }

  }

  Telerik.Blogs.WebControls.BlogPosts blogPosts = (Telerik.Blogs.WebControls.BlogPosts)control.LoadControl();

  // blogPosts.DisplayMode = Telerik.Cms.Engine.WebControls.ContentView.DisplayModes.Auto;

  blogPosts.ParentIDs = blogIDs;

  manager.SaveControl(control);

  
  I hope this helps.
  
  Regards,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

  
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• Ian Johnson

  Posted on Feb 2, 2009 (permalink)

  Hey Ivan,

  Thanks for your help so far. I am using the default membership provider. I am stuck trying to allow a single role "view" access to a single page programatically.
  
  
  Thanks
  Ian 

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Feb 2, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi Ian Johnson,
  
  Check out the code below:
  
  

  protected void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

  {

  SiteMapNode sNode = SiteMap.Provider.FindSiteMapNode("~/MyBlogPage.aspx");

  SetPage(((CmsSiteMapNode)sNode).CmsPage);

  }

  private void SetPage(ICmsPage _pg)

  {

  // new instance of CmsManager

  CmsManager cManager = new CmsManager();

  // cast to ICms Page

  ICmsPage pg = cManager.GetPage(_pg.ID, true) as ICmsPage;

  //set permissions for our role "editors"

  pg.CmsProvider.SecurityManager.SetPermissions((ISecured)pg, (int)PageRights.View, (int)PageRights.Delete, "custom");

  cManager.SavePage(pg);

  }

  
  
  Sincerely yours,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

  
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• Hafeez

  Posted on Jan 27, 2012 (permalink)

  i  developed an asp.net page i want to secure this page by login (that will get username and password). can i make the  login on asp.net page in sitefinity? i will be grateful if anyone can help me.

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Jan 30, 2012 (permalink)

  Hi,
  
  You can add your page as "external page" in Sitefinity and protect it by the login, or you can create Sitefinity's page and use the built-in security functionality.
  
  Greetings,
  Ivan Dimitrov
  the Telerik team

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