Helt Blank

This tutorial show how to add a desktop app to Umbraco for adding multiple nodes to a given parent.

First the front end usercontrol:

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeBehind="BulkAddContent.ascx.cs" Inherits="HeltBlank.Packages.dashboards.BulkAddContent" %> <%@ Register Namespace="umbraco.uicontrols" Assembly="controls" TagPrefix="umb" %> <umb:Pane ID="Pane1" runat="server" Text="Bulk add content"> <umb:PropertyPanel ID="PropertyPanel3" runat="server" Text="Parent node"> <asp:PlaceHolder ID="ph_contentPicker" runat="server" /> </umb:PropertyPanel> <umb:PropertyPanel ID="PropertyPanel1" runat="server" Text="Content type"> <asp:DropDownList ID="drpType" runat="server"> </asp:DropDownList> </umb:PropertyPanel> <umb:PropertyPanel ID="PropertyPanel4" runat="server" Text="Semicolon seperated list of pagenames"> <asp:TextBox ID="txt" runat="server" TextMode="MultiLine" Style="width: 400px; height: 300px" mce_Style="/width: 400px; height: 300px"></asp:TextBox> </umb:PropertyPanel> <umb:PropertyPanel ID="PropertyPanel2" runat="server" Text=" "> <asp:Literal ID="status" runat="server"></asp:Literal> <p> <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="create" Text="Create" /> </p> </umb:PropertyPanel> </umb:Pane>

Then the codebehind

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.UI;

using System.Web.UI.WebControls;

using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;

using umbraco.BusinessLogic;



namespace HeltBlank.Packages.dashboards

{

    public partial class BulkAddContent : System.Web.UI.UserControl

    {

        public umbraco.controls.ContentPicker cp = new umbraco.controls.ContentPicker();



        protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)

        {

            base.OnInit(e);



            //Add the content picker for the parent node

            ph_contentPicker.Controls.Add(cp);



            //List of DocumentTypes

            drpType.DataSource = DocumentType.GetAllAsList();

            drpType.DataTextField = "Alias";

            drpType.DataBind();

        }



        protected void create(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            //You could fix some better error handling, but I don't bother :-)

            try

            {

                //Find the document type

                DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias(drpType.Text);



                int parent = !String.IsNullOrEmpty(cp.Text) ? int.Parse(cp.Text) : -1;



                //Pares the nodes (seperated with ;

                string[] nodes = txt.Text.Trim().Split(';');

                int counter = 0;



                //Run trough each node

                foreach (string s in nodes)

                {

                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(s.Trim()))

                    {

                        //Create it as a document

                        Document d = Document.MakeNew(s.Trim(), dt, User.GetCurrent(), parent);



                        d.Save();

                        d.Publish(User.GetCurrent());



                        umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(d.Id);



                        counter++;

                    }

                }



                //Clear and status

                txt.Text = string.Empty;

                status.Text = "Added " + counter + " nodes";

            }

            catch (Exception err) { status.Text = "Error: " + err.Message; }

        }

    }

}

At the end you should update your dashboard.config with the new usercontrol:

<section> <areas> <area>content</area> </areas> <tab caption="Bulk add content"> <control>/usercontrols/heltblank/dashboards/BulkAddContent.ascx</control> </tab> </section>

And the control is up and running :-)

Idea from blog4umbraco desktop app

Source files