Extending internal General Link dialog with Checkbox in SPEAK

Question

I followed these instructions to add a text field to the internal General Link dialog which works fine.

But now I need a checkbox instead of a text field (anchor) but it still should add a tag with text in the link field like this in raw value view (data-name="teaser_a"):

<link text="Test" data-name="teaser_a" linktype="internal" class="" title="" target="" querystring="" id="{819BFAC1-A563-49DA-9C2C-E88D0B397618}" />

while teaser_a is the item name, which should automatically be added.

So instead of textbox rendering I would add a checkbox rendering to /sitecore/client/Applications/Dialogs/InsertLinkViaTreeDialog layout.

But after that I'm not entirely sure. I'll probably have to update the ReadQueryParamsAndUpdatePlaceholders method in InsertLinkDialogTreePageCode class and somehow get the item name.

The code in the example looks like this:

private void ReadQueryParamsAndUpdatePlaceholders()
{
    Original implementation
    {
        this.Anchor.Parameters["Text"] = GetXmlAttributeValue(element, "anchor");
    }
}

And than respectively alter the rule in MakeInternalLinkFromTreeView since it is not a textControl anymore. Code in example:

 ... anchor target name to [targetAnchorID,,,textControl6]'s text property ...

I'm new to SPEAK and the rule engine. Can someone point me into the right direction?

Answer 1

Just a thought... Add a hidden textbox as described in the blog post and populate/clear it when the checked state of the checkbox changes. The other way around, check the checkbox if the hidden textbox isn't empty.