Enable content editor gutter items by default?

Question

Is there any way to enable content editor gutter items by default, ideally for specific roles? I see the gutter items in the core database but none of the fields seem to be indicative of enabling or disabling a given item. Just hiding it.

Answer 1

I don't think that Sitecore provides a setting in Core DB or config entries to enable the "Gutter Items" by default. But You can write your own processors/pipeline to enable all/required gutter menu when the user logging into Sitecore.

Whenever you select/change the gutter items in the Content Editor it will be updated in the Sitecore registry "/Current_User/Content Editor/Gutter Renderers". So you just need to add the gutter item ID which you can see from the folder /sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Gutters in Core DB to the Sitecore registry /Current_User/Content Editor/Gutter Renderers. This will enable the specific gutter menu for the user by default once logged-in.

For Ex - If you want to enable the menu "Cloned Items" you need to add the item "/sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Gutters/Clones" Id to the Sitecore Registry "/Current_User/Content Editor/Gutter Renderers".

May be something like the below:

Just injected the below processor in the "loggedin" group of processors and checking for the Item [/sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Gutters/Clones] id in the existing registry setting, if it's not available then adding it to the registry to make the "Cloned Items" checked for the user all the time.

class CustomLoggedIn : LoggedInProcessor
{
    public override void Process(LoggedInArgs args)
    {
        string gutterItemIDString = "{4DA1472A-9CE8-4709-963D-5DE65FE2885A}";
        ListString existingsettings = new ListString(Registry.GetString("/Current_User/Content Editor/Gutter Renderers"));
        if (!existingsettings.Contains(gutterItemIDString))
        {
            existingsettings.Add(gutterItemIDString);
            Registry.SetString("/Current_User/Content Editor/Gutter Renderers", existingsettings.ToString());
        }
    }
}