Hi Guys,
I am about to embark on creating a new Admin Section for an Umbraco site I am building. I am wondering if I should do this differently than described in all the blogs.
I see that the Tree controls will be changed in 4.1. Will that impact the way I should create my Custom Admin Section?
farmcode.org/.../...ew-Controls-in-Umbraco-41.aspx
I have tried creating a custom admin section once before, but the project never took off because it wasn't needed after all. So I don't remember much from it. But I am sure I followed this blog post.
http://www.nibble.be/?p=71
Should I use a 4.1 Beta? And is the one available for download the right one to use? Does it contain these new tree controls?
Also, I was wondering one more thing. My plan was to create a custom.config to place in /config and save all my settings there and avoid the web.config all together. Is that the "proper" way to store any specific settings?
/RasB
HI RasB,
From what I've heard there should be no issues using your own tree in 4.1. I have yet to test my packages against Umbraco 4.1 but if it doesn't work I assume it's a bug. If you are building a site for a client right now I suggest to stick with 4.0.3 since that's a stable release and upgrade it later..
Cheers,
Richard
Hi Rasb, custom sections from v4 should still work on v4.1 in 4.1 however it will also be possible to have some control of the tree (like if you want to refresh the tree from an edit page)
Pretty much all the code which Shan talked about in that blog post has been developed after beta 1 was released.
The changes *shouldn't* cause anything to break between 4.0 and 4.1. I state that it shouldn't as it can't be guaranteed :P
The controls are all about making things a shit load easier to work with, if you're going really crazy (ie - wanting to custom implement your own popup with a tree in it, etc).
Thanks guys!
I will just do this in 4.0.3 then :-)