Forums

Home / Developer Network / Forums / Sitefinity Older Versions (3.x): Developing with Sitefinity > Problem Adding Custom Metadata during News Content Creation

• Peter

  Posted on Dec 19, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi.
  
  I need help with a problem.
  
  On the page where new news items are getting created (Sitefinity_Admin_ControlTemplates_News_NewsItemNew) I have a title field, the text area for adding content, and then the rest is wrapped in:
   
  <sf:ContentMetaFields ID="MetaFields" runat="server">
              <ItemTemplate>
  etc...
  
  I cant wrap the entire page in the ContentMetaFields tag because I want to avoid dumping the actual article text content into a metafield.
  
  The problem is that the "Title" field is "above" the content area. So, how do I set the Title metafield along with all the others when the form submits? It has been referenced in the config file.
  
  I hope I have explained myself well. This is deadline work so, any fast suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks.      
  
  
  

  Reply

• Radoslav Georgiev Radoslav Georgiev

  Posted on Dec 22, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi,
  
  By default the Title field is set automatically by the control responsible for managing this. Since the textbox for setting it is not the ItemTemplate of the ContentMetaFields control we explicitly look for this control when the form is posted and set the respective field. What you can do in a similar scenario is to add a OnClick event to the save button. Then when the button is pressed you can take the value of a similar field and pass it to a hidden field with the ID of the metafield located in the ItemTemplate of the ContentMetaFields control.
  
  All the best,
  Radoslav Georgiev
  the Telerik team

  Do you want to have your say in the Sitefinity development roadmap? Do you want to know when a feature you requested is added or when a bug fixed? Explore the Telerik Public Issue Tracking system and vote to affect the priority of the items

  Reply

Home / Developer Network / Forums / Sitefinity Older Versions (3.x): Developing with Sitefinity > Problem Adding Custom Metadata during News Content Creation