* xslt macros works on server, javascript on client.

* macros can create javascript, or hidden fields which can be used by js

I read your previous post, and I think what you need is a combination of an ASP.net library, base, and ajax calls.

Base allows you to call methods from a DLL, where the path of the URL is converted to variables, like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/base/namespace/methodname/variable1/variable2.aspx

Here is an example from my project:

http://www.mydomain.com/base/ws/deletenote/1015.aspx

where ws is the namespace in the DLL, deletenote a method that takes 1 argument: the ID of the database row or the note ID which is 1015 in this case.

Here is more information on base: http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/introduction-to-base

And my project which is relying on base: http://our.umbraco.org/projects/webstickies

I second Lens suggestion about using a combination of a .NET library (a dll-file), base and ajax. There's a more expanded explanation on umbraco /base in the wiki here:

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-base

Regards
Jesper Hauge

Thanks for the replies!

At the moment in time i think i may have solved the issue using user-controls. Not a great way but i need to explore it a bit more. However thanks for the suggestions and the reference, I will know by the end of the day if i can achieve it my way or not so fingers crossed i guess!

+1 for both, useful references ftw!

Alec

Ok, my method is terrible, i get so got so far and suddenly realised "how am i going to load the nodes"

I hate to keep asking for help as i dont want to annoy but if someone could point me in the direction of what i should be coding it will be much appreiciated!

I have done the introduction and created the hello world but i dont see how this could solve my problem. Apologies for my naievity.

Alec

Hi,

A combination of jquery and a .net library would work well to load nodes, you could even get this with XSLT.

* Create your library of methods you plan to call (getAllNotes for example?), example library for base can be found here: http://webstickies.svn.beanstalkapp.com/webstickies/trunk/WebStickies/webstickies/baseLibrary.cs

* Enable base: http://umbraco.org/documentation/books/introduction-to-base/simple-base-samples

<ext assembly="/bin/clark" type="kent.clark" alias="superman">
    <permission method="getAllNotes" allowAll="true" />
  </ext>

* Load jQuery in your pages and start building and calling the URLs with Ajax calls:

        /* Example from my app
         * get the all notes for this page, with ID 200 
  *
   * /getNotes/pageID.aspx
     */
   jQ.get("/base/ws/getnotes/"+jQ.fn.websticky.pageID()+".aspx?date="+new Date().getTime(),function(xml){
    jQ("ws-notes ws-note",xml).each(function(){
        jQ("body").websticky({id:jQ(this).attr('id'),xPosition:jQ(this).attr('xPosition'),yPosition:jQ(this).attr('yPosition'),text:jQ(this).text()});
      });
  });

The resulting XMl, or text can be parsed with jQuery, or you can write your own javascript functions.

* You can test base by loading the URL in a browser: http://mydomain.com/base/superman/getAllNodes/startnodes/uptolevel/documenttypealias.aspx

the method would accept the following arguments: 

 public static XPathNodeIterator getAllNodes(int startnode, int uptolevel, string documenttypealias){ code goes here ...}

The method above should return a list of all nodes starting from a certain node, down to a certain level and show only those nodes with a specific documenttype.

Hope this clearer,

Len. 

Hi,

Thank you very much Len. I'm sorry you had to go out of your way to help a newbie but it really is appreicated! I shall let you know how it goes!

Many thanks,

Alec

+1 for awesome help!

I've used jQuery/AJAX to make calls to pages in Umbraco that load HTML-content snippets and inserts them into the current page without reloading the page. Take a look at:

http://www.arosarkitekter.se/sv/arkitektur

If you click on any of the headlines with the orange icons, the content that is "dropped down" is loaded from Umbraco using jQuery/AJAX. In Umbraco I use an XSLT- script to generate the HTML-code that is served. An example of a page that serves a particular snippet of code is found here:

http://www.arosarkitekter.se/sv/arkitektur/bad-och-idrott

These HTML-snippet serving pages don't take any arguments, but you could easily pass parameters via jQuery/AJAX:

$("#myElement").load( "/contentServingPage/myPage.aspx", {name:"John",id:"100"}).

Parameters are passed as name/value pairs (name and id with the values "John" and "100").

Please ignore this if I my answer is totally out of context - I haven't followed the discussion in the previous thread you mention.

/Thomas Kahn

New to Umbraco, hopefully I'm just missing something, and someone can help me out.

Using the admin backend, I get javascript errors on every CWS stylesheet opened up.  Error is "sys is undefined".  When I edit stylesheets, I get the following error upon saving:  'Umbraco is undefined".  I can, however, make changes through FTP.

I'm using IE8, Vista, Umbraco 4.0.4.2, runway was installed before adding CWS.

Thanks, Douglas

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