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Jonnymaboy
Jonnymaboy

Reputation: 543

Orchard CMS widget Display Type

I have a widget which is using a query to display details. Is it possible to specify the display type of the widget (the query is using Summary and all is displayed as i want) because the header of the widget has a display type of Detail and i want it to use summary so i can override the shape when i place it in different sections (mainly the header text), but when in the content zone i would want it to be details. I am using the bootstrap theme. So basically if i stick my widget any where other than content i want it to use summary

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1194

Answers (1)

mdm
mdm

Reputation: 12630

Ah, we meet again.

Widgets are built and injected into the layout in a class called Orchard.Widgets.Filters.WidgetFilter. There doesn't appear to be any way to modify the display type used for a widget (the default WidgetFilter uses the default value of "Detail").

To get around this, you can use your own implementation of WidgetFilter. Copy the existing code into your own class, and add an [OrchardSuppressDependency("Orchard.Widgets.Filters.WidgetFilter")] attribute to your class. This will make sure that the existing WidgetFilter isn't used, and yours is.

If you read through the OnResultExecuting method, you'll see that right near the end there is a call to BuildDisplay. The second argument to this method can be a display type. You can check widgetPart.Record.Zone to see where the widget has been placed, and pass in different values for the displayType parameter accordingly.

I'm not sure if this is the most elegant way, but it's where I'd start. Perhaps someone else might have a neater solution.

Upvotes: 3

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