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Mohammed Syam
Mohammed Syam

Reputation: 525

Adding sublayout to Item specific device programmatically

For one of a project requirement I suppose to add a sublayout to item at runtime, and this sublayout should be added to devices ( Default , Printer ), So I used the following code:

                Item item = GetDatabase().GetItem(Sitecore.Data.ID.Parse(itemId));
                if (item != null)
                {
                    LayoutField layoutField = new LayoutField(item.Fields[Sitecore.FieldIDs.LayoutField]);
                    LayoutDefinition layoutDefinition = LayoutDefinition.Parse(layoutField.Value);

                    string[] targetedDevices = new string[] { "{FE5D7FDF-89C0-4D99-9AA3-B5FBD009C9F3}", "{46D2F427-4CE5-4E1F-BA10-EF3636F43534}" };

                    foreach (var device in targetedDevices)
                    {
                        DeviceDefinition deviceDefinition = layoutDefinition.GetDevice(device);
                        RenderingDefinition renderingDefinition = new RenderingDefinition();
                        renderingDefinition.ItemID = sublayoutId;
                        renderingDefinition.Placeholder = "column-content";


                        deviceDefinition.AddRendering(renderingDefinition);
                    }
                    // Save the layout changes
                    item.Editing.BeginEdit();
                    layoutField.Value = layoutDefinition.ToXml(); ;
                    item.Editing.EndEdit();
                }

My Question is, Is there another way of selecting the presentation devices like sitecore API? As I am hardly coded the IDs of the targeted devices.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 771

Answers (1)

Martin Miles
Martin Miles

Reputation: 2096

I have not seen any specific API a far as I have navigated though Sitecore.Kernel.dll unfortunately. Maybe there is some third party sitecore extension that warp and extend this functionality, but again, I am now aware about that.

Important point to note: I noticed from the code mentioned above: You are accessing 

item.Fields[Sitecore.FieldIDs.LayoutField]

and that is valid for Sitecore version up to 7. But as Sitecore 8 introduced Versioned Layouts you should use

item.Fields[Sitecore.FieldIDs.FinalLayoutField]

instead. Hope that helps.

Upvotes: 4

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