Sharepoint: Custom SiteMapProvider for custom list - asp.net

I need to customise the title property for SiteMapNodes.
I am using WSS, and have created a custom document library. While navigating through this library I want to change the names of the nodes in the breadcrumb displayed above the list name.
So far I have:
created a class inheriting from
System.Web.SiteMapProvider,
added my class to the web.config,
changed the sharepoint
default.master page sitemappath (in
PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb) to point
to my new site map provider.
I then overwrote the CurrentNode property to edit the CurrentNode.title with the desired name.
My problem is all the previous nodes (parent nodes) revert back to their original names. How do I edit the breadcrumb so that all the nodes navigated through keep their new title?
Any advice or direction would be appreciated.

The way I've done this before isn't by creating a new SiteMapProvider, but by replacing the sealed SharePoint AspMenu control with MossMenu (the same as AspMenu but open sourced by the SharePoint team). I then overrode OnMenuItemDataBound with the behaviour I needed.
If you need/prefer to use SiteMapProvider, have you tried using Reflector or the new .NET Framework debugging support to see how it works? There must be somewhere in the SiteMapProvider code where your overridden changes are, in turn, also being overridden. :-)

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How do I tie a Drupal template to a webform with multiple environments?

Disclaimer: I inherited a Drupal 7.44 site with no experience in Drupal at all.
The business is trying to make a new webform and they want it to look exactly like an existing one. After looking around I found that the webform has a template tied to it. From the docs it seems I'm supposed to create more template files with the format webform-form-[nid].tpl.php where [nid] is the webform node id.
We have multiple environments that all changes must go through - dev, test, and finally prod. Wouldn't the node id be different in every environment for newly created webforms? Also, if I want to apply the same template to multiple webforms, do I really need to make multiple identical template files?
I also found some CSS styling for the existing webform and it looks like .webform-client-form-25 button.webform-submit and such. That 25 is the node id. I have little CSS experience, but this feels really bad. I don't want to copy blocks of CSS, changing node ids over and over. What's the proper way to assign generic, reusable CSS classes to webforms? I saw "Custom classes" under "Manage Display" when editing the form, but it didn't seem to change the actual HTML of the form. Was I on the right track though, should I just read some docs about it?
You are absolutely right, these detailed selectors do not make sense for reusable layouts.
Each webform HTML form gets a default class of .webform-client-form (that's generic) and an id including the webform's nid #webform-client-form-<nid>.
So, you could change #webform-client-form-25 to the class mentioned above. Please be aware, that this will affect all webforms then.
To set layout settings to several, but not all webforms, you need to give these webforms some class to distinguish them from the rest. Sadly, the Webform module itself doesn't provide an option to do that, but you can add a form alter hook in your theme's template.php:
function mytheme_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
$affected_forms = array('webform_client_form_25', 'webform_client_form_37', [...]);
if (in_array($form_id, $affected_forms)) {
$form['#attributes']['class'][] = 'my-custom-class';
}
}
With .my-custom-class you can then define CSS just for the group of webform forms listed in $affected_forms.
As for the template files, Webform itself states:
This file may be renamed "webform-form-[nid].tpl.php" to target a specific webform on your site. Or you can leave it "webform-form.tpl.php" to affect all webforms on your site.
So, again, it doesn't provide an option out-of-the-box, but you can create theme suggestions in your template.php by extending $vars['theme_hook_suggestions'] in a page preprocess function.

Plone setuphandler- In a setuphandler, how can I programatically add/create a folderish content type at root of Plonesite?

I have have made a folderish content type called supplier_folder, which displays a list of suppliers that can be added under it, and their information. I can add it through the navigation bar, but I would like to add it programatically during setup.
I have been following the tutorial on custom installer code (http://docs.plone.org/develop/addons/components/genericsetup.html#custom-installer-code-setuphandlers-py) and have looked at creating objects programatically (http://docs.plone.org/develop/plone/content/creating.html).
Unfortunately, the second article says I need to have a folder created. How can I get around this and add the supplier_folder object at the Plone Site outside of a folder?
IIRC, only users with role Manager or Site Administrator can add content to the root of the site; you can overcome this limitation in two ways:
by using the _constructInstance method as it bypasses the permissions when creating an item
by switching roles inside your code with plone.api.env.adopt_roles
I personally prefer the second one.
you can see an example of a pretty complex setuphandlers.py in interlegis.portalmodelo.policy package.
When you create a new Plone site, it's also creating some default content types.
Look at how Plone do: https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/1471828ee97a8dd84396bad4a3286be514819869/Products/CMFPlone/setuphandlers.py#L119
There are a couple of ways to achieve this. The buildin mechanism is to use GenericSetup in combination with "structure" folder as described here: http://koansys.com/tech/create-plone-initial-content-with-generic-setup
In short you need the following:
Create a folder "structure" in your Generic Setup profile (in general, under profiles/default)
Create a .objects file with the following content: "suppliers,supplier_folder"
in "structure" create a folder "suppliers" with a .properties file and content:
[DEFAULT]
title = Suppliers
description = Some usefull description text
As far as I remember this is ok for simple structures likes your. If you have complex structures with folders and sub-folders and want more specific control you probably need to write python code. I made some stuff here: https://github.com/collective/zettwerk.setup/blob/master/zettwerk/setup/structure.py
But zettwerk.setup is not yet released, but you should be able to integrate the structure.py right into your project. Than you can the handle_structure method into your setuphandlers.py and passing a structure dict like this:
handle_structure(portal, [{'id': 'suppliers', 'portal_type': 'supplier_folder'}])
The advantage of this method is, that you can also control metadata like workflow state, default page setting, portlets, local roles and some others.

Plone 4 EEA Faceted Navigation - How to register a custom view

I have installed eea.facetednavigation and it works fine so far. But I want to register a new result view and don't know how to hook here.
Do I have to use a non-grokked view? Or is there a special interface that could be used for grok.context (This is what I've tried so far with IFacetedNavigable, but no success)
Update
As recommended, I declared my view with faceted:view in my configure.zcml
It does not work at all. I am on Plone4.3. I'm pretty shure that I declared the view as described in the example, but cannot select it in the dropdown. When I construct a request that tries to set my custom view, I get an Invalid view id error.
I can test the view, by appending the view name to a url with a folderish content. It works. Just the registration is not done entirely. I get some kss errors too, when I reinstall the affected addon. There may be a relation.
Update II
After deactivating and activating facetednavigation, the view appeared.
Look in eea.facetednavigation.views there is an example. Basically you'll need to register your view with zcml faceted:view meta directive.
I customized the eea.facetednavigation view only once, but it was really simple by using z3c.jbot (no need of ZCML or grok in this case).

How to customize dexterity-through-the-web-content view?

I created a content in my Plone 4.3 site (no grok here) with the very nice Dexterity through-the-web editor. Now I'd like to customize the default view for this content.
I've read Martn Aspelli's book but the problem is that through-the-web content does'nt have a specific interface (so I can't use it to create my specific view).
If you want to do this all through-the-web, then do the following:
Create a template for your view in the "custom" folder of
portal_skins (through the ZMI). You'll probably want to start with a
copy of something like the page template
(portal_skins/plone_content/document_view). Give it a name like
your_content_type_view. Test it by appending /your_content_type_view
to the URL for a sample object.
Edit the Factory Type Information (portal_types/your_content_type/Default
view method) to be your_content_type_view.
What you will have done is create a skin-level view for the type. This is different from the browser views that Martin is discussing, which do indeed require a class. The Dexterity development team is working on a way to provide TTW maintenance of browser views, but that's for a later version of Plone.
Meanwhile, if you later transfer your Dexterity content type to a Python add on, you'll be able to use your template, possibly unmodified for a browser view.

XPM / UI : Creating new pages based on Page Type with copied components

I relatively simple question regarding XPM this time. It's about creating Page Type which editors could use to base their new website page on. When defining a Page Type, you can use an exisiting page to enable this as an example page, including its components. You can copy these components to enable editors to edit these freely without tampering with existing pages using these components as well.
On the SDL Live content docs they explain the following:
Change the setting from Include this Component Presentation to
Include a Component Presentation that contains a copy of this
Component. If you use this Component in multiple Component
Presentations on this Page, then saving the Page causes all of those
Component Presentations to have the setting you configured last for
any of those Component Presentations. A number of new controls appear.
This means that whenever an editor clicks 'new page' within XPM, this page type is available and the components that are defined inside it are copied with user-specific prefixes. You can define this inside the page defined as a Page Type itself, by clicking on the component presentations tab, then clicking on a component and selecting Page Type settings. note the following:
As you can see, the copy of the content is being created in 050 - Web - Global, which is, in our blueprint, the wrong publication. However, in the popup you cannot select the correct content location, only the one where the page type is residing.
I've tested this, also with the UI -specific blueprint context settings, where you should define where content and pages are created. However, when creating a new page, the components are copied inside 050 - web - global; the wrong publication. As we're moving to a training, I'd imagine that dynamically created components like this might clog the CMS with content in the wrong location, making it unusable for other publications. Is there a reason for this behaviour, and if so, a way to make this work properly?
If you set the BluePrint Context for Components to the Publication where you want them to be created, it should work as you expect.

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