Thanks Doug. This works nicely. I used the umbracoRedirect feature. Ideally I would like a couple of my doc types to automatically redirect to their parent so I don't need to set the redirect manually for all of these nodes. Is this possible? I had a quick look at a couple of the redirect packages but they didn't mention this functionality.

Regards

-Daniel.

Hi Daniel,

You can create a new template for your child doc type, name it something like 'RedirectToParent' then on this template add a macro where the xslt redirects to the parent node (you will need a little xslt extension for this but I don't have the code here).

Your child nodes will then all call this macro as they will default to this template. 

Hope that makes sense.

Rich

The idea is to set the 'redirect to parent' template as the default template for QAPair document type in your example. Any document type that should default to displaying its parent instead of itself would work this way. Then editors won't need to select a template or do anything special... it will just work.

Here's how I've done the 'redirect to parent' option in the past. This uses a bit of c# in an xslt macro but you could (and probably should) use a .net macro or an xslt extension instead.

TEMPLATE

<%@ Master Language="C#" MasterPageFile="/umbraco/masterpages/default.master" AutoEventWireup="true" %>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolderDefault" runat="server">
  <umbraco:Macro Alias="RedirecttoParent" runat="server"></umbraco:Macro>
</asp:Content>

XSLT MACRO

<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="parentId" select="$currentPage/@parentID "/>

<!-- =========================================================== -->

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:value-of select="ps:redirect(umbraco.library:NiceUrl($parentId))" />
</xsl:template>

<!-- =========================================================== -->

<msxml:script language="CSharp" implements-prefix="ps">
<msxml:assembly name="System.Web" />
<msxml:using namespace="System.Web" />
 
<![CDATA[
public void redirect(String url) {
  HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
  HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", url);
}
]]>

</msxml:script>

cheers,
doug.

Thanks Doug.

I'm getting:

System.Xml.Xsl.XslLoadException: Prefix 'ps' is not defined. An error occurred at C:\Users\Public\Documents\wwwroot\cms\v4.5.1\build\xslt\634254993016626971_temp.xslt(18,3). 
at System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform.LoadInternal(Object stylesheet, XsltSettings settings, XmlResolver stylesheetResolver) 
at umbraco.presentation.webservices.codeEditorSave.SaveXslt(String fileName, String oldName, String fileContents, Boolean ignoreDebugging)

So do I need something like this in the header?:

xmlns:ps="???"

-Daniel.

Sorry about that, Daniel, I didn't put two and two together when I posted my example from another project and you ended up with two "ps" extensions - one for XSLTsearch and one for the redirect script block. You can't have two different things with the same name.

All you need to do is pick a new name for the redirection code (how about 'Daniel' :) ) and update the reference in three places:

<msxml:script language="CSharp" implements-prefix="Daniel">

  <xsl:value-of select="Daniel:redirect(umbraco.library:NiceUrl($parentId))" />

And at the top of the redirect xslt file you'll need to reference this new name. I don't think we mentioned that before. You need to declare the 'Daniel' block like so. Just add your 'Daniel' entry to the list of xmlns's and also to the exclude-result-prefixes list. It will look something like this:

<xsl:stylesheet
  .
  .          
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library"
  xmlns:Daniel="urn:Daniel:xslt"    

  exclude-result-prefixes="umbraco.library . . . Daniel">

cheers,
doug.

Thanks for continuing to help. This now compiles but when I save Umbraco tells me "XSLT file could not be saved".

When I removed <xsl:value-of select="Daniel:redirect(umbraco.library:NiceUrl($parentId))" /> it could be saved.

Looking at http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst8720_Xslt-file-could-not-be-saved-anymore.aspx, I removed the redirects that I had set up but that didn't help. I then removed the umbracoRedirect  from doc type and republished the site to be sure. That didn't help.

The 'skip testing' checkbox does of course work.

And once I set up the template, the redirection macro worked too. So I'm not sure why the macro didn't save, but the desired redirection result has been achieved.

Thank you Doug once again for you help.

Regards

-Daniel.

Daniel,

Add this test around your line of code to this and it will save fine

<xsl:if test="$parentId !=''">
        <xsl:value-of select="Daniel:redirect(umbraco.library:NiceUrl($parentId))" />
</xsl:if>

Rich

Thanks Rich, but it didn't work. Here is my code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [ <!ENTITY nbsp "&#x00A0;"> ]>
<xsl:stylesheet 
  version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
  xmlns:msxml="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
  xmlns:umbraco.library="urn:umbraco.library" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltCommon="urn:Exslt.ExsltCommon" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes="urn:Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltMath="urn:Exslt.ExsltMath" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions="urn:Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltStrings="urn:Exslt.ExsltStrings" xmlns:Exslt.ExsltSets="urn:Exslt.ExsltSets"
  xmlns:turtle="urn:turtle:xslt"
  exclude-result-prefixes="msxml umbraco.library Exslt.ExsltCommon Exslt.ExsltDatesAndTimes Exslt.ExsltMath Exslt.ExsltRegularExpressions Exslt.ExsltStrings Exslt.ExsltSets turtle">

<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="currentPage"/>
<xsl:variable name="parentId" select="$currentPage/@parentID "/>


<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:if test="$parentId !=''">
    <xsl:value-of select="turtle:redirect(umbraco.library:NiceUrl($parentId))" />
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

   
<msxml:script language="CSharp" implements-prefix="turtle">
<msxml:assembly name="System.Web" />
<msxml:using namespace="System.Web" />
<![CDATA[
public void redirect(String url) {
  HttpContext.Current.Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
  HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("Location", url);
}
]]>
</msxml:script>
    
</xsl:stylesheet>

Note that I have changed the Daniel namespace to turtle.

Regards

-Daniel.

Hi Daniel,

Hmm, doesn't save for me either actually.

Hopefully someone will reply with the reason, otherwise just tick the box and like you say it'll work.

Rich

I know you've only just got this working but it might be worth reading Dougs great post on moving the extension into the app code directory http://blog.percipientstudios.com/2010/11/12/make-an-app_code-xslt-extension-for-umbraco.aspx#

Depending on your set up it may not be a problem but well worth a read.

Rich

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