Bluegenegeek

Code is also available on Github here .You can read more about the widget from Steve Miller's post on sitefinity.com here

Venkata

Sitefinity 4.4 has been released today. I am really excited about Module Builder. The release also introduces product variations for the Ecommerce module and a ton of bug fixes.

Check it out at http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/general-discussions/sitefinity-4-4-released.aspx

Venkata

In my previous post I explained how to use Disqus in a development environment.

In this post I will talk about how to use Disqus comments in Sitefinity Blogs.

Getting started with Disqus is pretty simple, go to Disqus.com and signup, all you need is to provide Site information (site where you will use Disqus comments) and your moderator information. 

Now navigate to Disqus developers section where you will find an universal code that you can embed. Copy that code and paste it into a user control in your Sitefinity Web Application. 

Below is how how your user control will look like - 

You would need to change "disqus_shortname" to your disqus short name. This is how your control setup will look like - 

Now navigate to Sitefinity's backend and go to Design-> Widget Templates and look for "Full Blog Post Item" template and edit the template. 

At the top of the Widget Template add the below lines to register your Disqus Comments control. 

Now scroll to the end of the template where you will find a section where Sitefinity's default Comments controls can be found. Below image will show you where they are -

replace these controls with the disqus comments control that has been registered above, below is how it would look like -  

Reload your comments page and you should now see Disqus comments as your comments system in Sitefinity Blog Post.

To download a sample of code used in this post Click here and if you want to see a running sample, well if you are reading this post, this is a running sample :) 

Hope this helps

Cheers

Venkata

Sitefinity 4.3 has been released. Lots of new features and huge number of bug fixes.

I am really excited about a lot of new features in Ecommerce, to read more head to release notes here

 Cheers

Venkata

You can change the default route of products in 2 ways

1. 1. Using the urlFormat in the backend of Sitefinity
2. 2. Extending OpenAccessCatalogDataProvider in your application

Using urlFormat in the backend of Sitefinity –

This option will let you extend the detail to not to have the date in the URL. To attain this URL format you would need to navigate to Backend-> Administration-> Settings-> Advanced-> Catalog->Providers-> OpenAccessProvider-> Parameters and then create a new parameter with the name urlFormat and value /[UrlName], this will change product detail URL to not have date. Please also note that new products added to the system will get new URL format by default but already existing products doesn’t change the URL by default. You will have to republish the existing products toget the new URL format. Below is a screenshot on how the new URL would look like -

Extending OpenAccessCatalogDataProvider -

This option will let you extend the route of product detail in any way you want. You have complete control over the route that leads to the detail page. Here is how you would do it –

1.  You will need to change the ProviderType to a custom class in your own application.
2.  Add the code to extend the route. (see example below)

 
  
 
 
using Telerik.Sitefinity.GenericContent.Model; 
 
 
 
using Telerik.Sitefinity.Modules.Ecommerce.Catalog.Data; 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
namespace SitefinityWebApp 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
public class CustomProductRouteHandler : OpenAccessCatalogDataProvider 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
public override string GetUrlFormat(ILocatable item) 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
return "/[DetailRouteKey]/[UrlName]"; 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
protected override string GetUrlPart<T>(string key, string format, T item) 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
if (key == "DetailRouteKey") 
 
 
 
{ 
 
 
 
return "Detail"; 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
return base.GetUrlPart<T>(key, format, item); 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
} 
 
 
 
 

Above is an image on how the changed URL format would look like, please note that you can get the "DetailRouteKey" in any way you want and feed any string into the URL at this moment.

Also, as above note that new products added to the system will getnew URL format by default but already existing products doesn’t change the URLby default. You will have to republish the existing products to get the new URLformat.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Venkata