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Member	philip-mosquitodigital.co - 6/2/2011 7:44:30 AM Adding a usercontrol into the cms Hi there, im wondering if i can adda usercontrol into the cms somehow? basically in the cms i would like to have a button that downloads a csv to the cms users machine when it is clicked. Any help appreciated!


Kentico Developer	kentico_helenag - 6/2/2011 8:14:50 AM RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms Hi, you can use the .ascx control directly on your template like: User controls on Portal template or register the control as a web part like: Developing web parts. Best regards, Helena Grulichova

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philip-mosquitodigital.co - 6/3/2011 4:45:44 AM

RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms

Hi Helena, thank you for your reply. This shows me how i can add the usercontrol to the front-end of my website: "http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/adding_custom_code_to_the_portal_page_template.htm"

what i need to do is add the user control somewhere in the cms so that it appears to be part of the cms itself.

i.e. i log into the cms www.mywebsite.com/cmsdesk > hit a button somewhere, then a csv file is downloaded to my machine.

is it possible to change the cmsdesk template?

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kentico_radekm - 6/3/2011 4:57:36 AM

RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms

Hello.

Yes, it is possible. CMSDesk (or CMSSiteManager) interface consists of standard aspx and ascx files, so you can modify any of them. For example, CMSDesk interface pages can be found within <project folder>/CMSDesk folder. However, you can add a new tab within CMSDesk UI in a supported way, via UI personalization module. It supports personalizable parts of CMS Desk and you can find more info here: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/ui_personalization_cmsdesk_overview.htm

Best Regards,
Radek Macalik


Member	philip-mosquitodigital.co - 6/3/2011 6:43:04 AM RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms Brilliant! thanks Radek


Member	jkacher-gmail - 9/21/2011 3:01:49 PM RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms I am reading a manual, added a GetTime.ascx as instructed, opened the Home page in Design mode, tried to add a user-control from General to the left zone - the General does not have a User-Control option! Where is it?


Member	jkacher-gmail - 9/21/2011 3:12:18 PM RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms Strange - the Home page does not offer User Control, but other pages do.


Kentico Consulting	kentico_borisp - 9/21/2011 7:20:22 PM RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms Hello, This sounds as you would use a widget zone instead of a web part zone. Please check the zone properties and select widget zone type: none. Please check the first two images in this documentation for more information. Best regards, Boris Pocatko


Member	jkacher-gmail - 9/22/2011 4:01:58 PM RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms It said if I clicked None all customization would be removed. But I got my answer. And I want to congratulate the unknown author who led me by hand step by step, and I tried to fall of the path so many times but he/she carefully picked me and put back on the path by providing minute details :)


Kentico Consulting	kentico_borisp - 9/23/2011 10:43:29 AM RE:Adding a usercontrol into the cms Hello, Yes, changing the region type will result into data loss, however you can re-create the same setup with web parts which are set up the same way as those widget. Just write down the settings you've used on the widgets and use them on the web parts. Best regards, Boris Pocatko

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