Questions tagged [webforms]
For questions related to Sitecore using .NET Webforms. This tag is not meant for general .NET Webforms questions.
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How can I get the datasource of a personalized sublayout (webforms)?
I'm working on enabling sublayout caching for personalized sublayouts.
public class ContextCacheableSublayout : Sublayout
{
public override string GetCacheKey()
{
var cacheKey = base....
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ASP.NET Webforms with Sitecore 10.2
Last year we have upgraded our Sitecore instance to version 9.3. We still have some renderings developed in ASP.Net Webforms (otherwise we are using ASP.Net MVC). Now we want to upgrade to Sitecore 10....
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Sitecore 9.0 Dynamic Placeholders in WebForms
I've got a Sitecore 9.0.2 site that will migrate from WebForms to MVC in the near future. First, we are componentizing the site and are building reusable components for a Two-Column container.
The ...
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Submit WFFM via javascript ajax post without reloading the page?
I have a WFFM form on a page that has a lot of dynamic content. When the form is submitted, the page reloads (as a postback) to display the success message, which also reloads all of the content on ...
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Upgrading from Site core 7.2 to 9 - What would be breaking
We are maintaining one Sitecore 7.2 installation with
Lots of ASCX / Web Form
Lots of custom code hooked into Sitecore using configuration / patches
SOLR Search
We plan to migrate these system to 9....
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Render anchor tag with content in web form and Experience Editor
I am looking to Render a General Link Field in Sitecore 8.2 with Webforms. I also have the content inside the anchor <a> tag which needs to content editable in Experience Editor. Also, I want ...
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8.2 - override WFFM submit button text on one page
My site uses WFFM and my client wants the ability to override the Submit button text on specific pages - some of the forms are used across many pages, and my client wants to be able to change the text ...
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webforms editable sc: fields not rendering
I'm working in a webforms project and I'm trying to add fields that are editable in Experience Editor but they're not showing up on the page. I'm basing this off of other pages that currently ...
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Modify Output of Image Field During Display
This is on a webform based (not MVC based ) solution. I want to change a content / adding additional mark up (let us say add additional attribute in as Image element )in the sub layout at runtime for ...
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On-premises to PaaS while not using MVC (WebForms implementation)
We have a project which is running on Sitecore 9.0.2 however this was build using traditional form rendering rather than MVC rendering. We would like to move this project on cloud - Sitecore PaaS.
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how to tell how many times a user control is used and where is it used?
I would like to know how many times a user control is being used in a sitecore site. If possible, I would like to get the list of pages that use a specific user control. Googling doesn't seem to ...
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WFFM - Custom validation class on form not being hit
Using Sitecore 8.2
I have a form and I'm trying to add custom validation to the email field to block forbidden domains. I created the validation item in Sitecore and added it to my field:
and I ...
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How to render a web form Sublayout in MVC layout?
I am trying to render an Ascx page from an MVC View Rendering in Sitecore. For example, in old Web Forms / Ascx to put placeholders you'd use
<sc:Placeholder runat="server" key="placeholder-key" /&...
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How to make Sitecore.Context.Item.Fields work in a web control in an external project
I have a Web Forms page and it uses Sitecore.Context.Item.Fields.
This works when I publish to the local Sitecore instance. But in my project that is external to the Sitecore instance, Visual Studio ...
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What are the references needed to support Web Forms and User Controls
I know the 3 references necessary for MVC are Sitecore.Kernel.NoReferences, Sitecore.Mvc.NoReferences, and Sitecore.Mvc.Analytics.NoReferences.
But I have a legacy project I need to work on and need ...
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WFFM web form errors on first submission but succeeds on second try every time; 'Sequence contains more than one matching element' [closed]
I have a form that I'm using on several different language pages. The English page with the form works without issue. I also have the form on a Dutch and Spanish page, and I've created corresponding ...
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Security Roles required for Web Forms For Marketers email save action
I have been trying to tidy up permissions on our Sitecore install. My admin account has every permission haphazardly applied which causes all kinds of issues, but I can create WFFM forms with email ...
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Dynamically change placeholder at runtime
I have a web page with two placeholders, A and B. In Sitecore I inserted a WFFM form in placeholder B.
Based on a the value of a checkbox in Sitecore, I want the WFFM form to be inserted into either ...
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sc.variable in web.config file
I am currently using this https://elearning.sitecore.net/Public/ContentDetails.aspx?id=7B781B1C3510447BBA22D7B0BF3251A2
In which in the setup step, it is said that on have to add a sc.variable in the ...
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Glass Mapper generates an Empty Link Text for General Link Field that has a Media Link with an Empty Link Description
I've have a General Link field. Using 'Insert media link' I have it pointed to a Media Item under the Media Library.
When the page is rendered in the Experience Editor Mode, Link correctly display ...
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WFFM MVC and WFFM Webforms in the same instance
Has anyone tried this? Is this possible?
Do they interfere with each other in any way?
We have a legacy Sitecore instance with many sites on it. The plan is to move them to MVC one by one. But WFFM ...
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Capturing errors on Web Forms site
In the past, you could capture global errors in the Application_Error function of the Global.asax. But since that has been made private, and lets be honest its not best practice. Is there a way to ...
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Components duplicating on front end
We have a strange issue where components seem to be duplicating on the front end (web DB) but everything looks correct in the experience editor. I have checked the presentation details on both shared/...
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Upgrading from 7.2 to 8.2
We are upgrading from Sitecore 7.2 to 8.2. In 7.2, we have many sublayouts (.ascx controls). What's the best practice on upgrading those? Should we just migrate the site with the sublayouts or do we ...
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Could not resolve type name: Utility.HttpContextPerRequestStorage following WFFM install
I'm trying to install WFFM into Sitecore XP 8.1.
Following installation, the WFFM options appear in the desktop as expected. However, if I then do a clean and rebuild in Visual Studio, I then get the ...
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Putting web forms sublayouts on MVC layouts during transition (or vice-versa)
We're working to convert a site from web forms to MVC. There's a desire to replace the web forms sublayouts with MVC renderings as we go along, until the site is completely converted. I found this ...
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Clicks in one UpdatePanel affects other UpdatePanels on same page
I am using WFFM webforms rendering with Sitecore 8.1. I don't want to do a full page reload on form post so added an update panel. The challenge is the update panel is affecting click events of ...
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Sitecore 8 Webforms - Calling RenderControl() on Sublayout returns null
I'm currently having some issues, while trying to render a sublayout programatically on the server-side. Basically, I want to render a sublayout found on the item myItem, that has a single rendering (...
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