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This chapter describes how to customize the administration interface and website functionality in the way which is safe for future system updates and compatible with the import/export functionality.
Please note that a certain level of user interface customization can be achieved using UI personalization.
System events (Groups)
There are several groups of system events that can be handled by your custom code. There are predefined custom methods that allow you to influence default page cycle of the system pages/controls and customize the administration interface. These classes are located in ~/App_Code/Global/CMS folder.
There are following system events that can be customized:
| • | CMSApplication.cs – Global application events (Start, End, …) |
| • | CMSSession.cs – Session events (Start, End, …) |
| • | CMSRequest.cs – Request events (Start, End, …) |
| • | CMSPageEvents.cs – Page events (Init, Load, …) |
| • | CMSUserControlEvents – User control events (Init, Load, …) |
These events are fired on standard Application (Session, Request, Page, Control) cycle and provide you with the methods that are fired before and after each of these events.
CMSCustom.cs – Common custom events. Special events that are raised from the system. Binding of these events is initialized within the Init method of this class.
Available methods to customize
CMSApplication.cs
| • | BeforeApplicationStart - Fires before the application start event |
| • | AfterApplicationStart - Fires after the application start event |
| • | BeforeApplicationEnd - Fires before the application end event |
| • | AfterApplicationEnd - Fires after the application end event |
| • | BeforeApplicationError - Fires before the application error event |
| • | AfterApplicationError - Fires after the application error event |
CMSSession.cs
| • | BeforeSessionStart - Fires before the session start event |
| • | AfterSessionStart - Fires after the session start event |
| • | BeforeSessionEnd - Fires before the session end event |
| • | AfterSessionEnd - Fires after the session end event |
CMSRequest.cs
| • | BeforeBeginRequest – Fires before the request start event |
| • | AfterBeginRequest – Fires after the request start event |
| • | BeforeEndRequest – Fires before the request end event |
| • | AfterEndRequest – Fires after the request end event |
| • | BeforeAcquireRequestState – Fires before the acquire request state event |
| • | AfterAcquireRequestState – Fires after the acquire request state event |
| • | BeforeAuthorizeRequest – Fires before the request authorization event |
| • | AfterAuthorizeRequest – Fires after the request authorization event |
| • | BeforeAuthenticateRequest – Fires before the request authentication event |
| • | AfterAuthenticateRequest – Fires after the request authentication event |
CMSPageEvents.cs
| • | BeforePagePreInit – Fires before page PreInit event |
| • | AfterPagePreInit – Fires after page PreInit event |
| • | BeforePageInit – Fires before page Init event |
| • | AfterPageInit – Fires after page Init event |
| • | BeforePageLoad – Fires before page Load event |
| • | AfterPageLoad – Fires after page Load event |
| • | BeforePagePreRender – Fires before page PreRender event |
| • | AfterPagePreRender – Fires after page PreRender event |
| • | BeforePageRender – Fires before page Render event |
| • | AfterPageRender - Fires after page Render event |
CMSUserControlEvents.cs
| • | BeforeUserControlInit – Fires before UserControl Init event |
| • | AfterUserControlInit – Fires after UserControl Init event |
| • | BeforeUserControlLoad – Fires before UserControl Load event |
| • | AfterUserControlLoad – Fires after UserControl Load event |
| • | BeforeUserControlPreRender – Fires before UserControl PreRender event |
| • | AfterUserControlPreRender – Fires after UserControl PreRender event |
| • | BeforeUserControlRender – Fires before UserControl Render event |
| • | AfterUserControlRender - Fires after UserControl Render event |
Examples
Following examples just briefly show how to customize the solution with your own functionality. If you need to customize certain page of the interface, you should see the code of the page so the customization matches the page structure.
Using the Page event to add tab (CMSPageEvents.cs) – This custom code will add a new tab to the main page of the E-commerce module:
[C#]
using CMS.UIControls; using CMS.Controls;
/// <summary> /// Fires before page Load /// </summary> /// <returns>Returns true if default action should be performed</returns> public static bool BeforePageLoad(object sender, EventArgs e) { // Add your custom actions CMSPage page = (CMSPage)sender; switch (page.RelativePath.ToLower()) { case "/cmsdesk/tools/ecommerce/header.aspx": BasicTabControl tabControl = (BasicTabControl)page["TabControl"]; // Add tabs string[,] tabs = BasicTabControl.GetTabsArray(1);
tabs[0, 0] = "Google"; tabs[0, 2] = "http://www.google.com";
tabControl.AddTabs(tabs);
break; }
// Return true to allow the default Page_Load event return true; } |
Using the Custom event to resolve custom macro (CMSCustom.cs) – This custom code will handle the macro {#CurrentTime#} in all the modules that support custom macros.
[C#]
/// <summary> /// Custom macro handler /// </summary> /// <param name="sender">Sender (active macro resolver)</param> /// <param name="expression">Expression to resolve</param> /// <param name="match">Returns true if the macro matches (was resolved)</param> public static string ResolveCustomMacro(MacroResolver sender, string expression, out bool match) { match = false; string result = expression;
// Add your custom macro evaluation switch (expression.ToLower()) { case "currenttime": match = true; result = DateTime.Now.ToString(); break; }
return result; } |
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