the new sitecorelayout editor

URL:http://blog.wojciech.org/?p=34

Hey guys,

while I’m watching the Euro 2008 or Formula 1 I’m writing about the new layout editor in crestone.

If you are a user with page designing features, you get a button in the page editor at the top (first screenshot) and if you click on it; the new page editor opens at the top of your page. As you see in the second screenshot you have a list with all aviable placeholders (and a description and/or an image - if you add a so called “placeholder definitoon”). All of you know the problem, you have to remember the given placeholder key or you have to open the layout and look for it.At the top you can set the layout as well.

Look at the “blue arrow” in the screenshot, you can see where the placeholder is. Pretty nice

You can also set allowed controls for a special placeholder, nobody can add a rendering which isn’t for this placeholder. You can set a description for a rendering / sublayout as well.

All this features are rendered in realtime, you click on add and the rendering gets inserted in the placeholder you selected.

The old school property editor is still alive and is still be used, as you might see in my last screenshot.

I still don’t know I like this feature or not , if you are a smart reader of my blog you might know the placeholder selection for Sitecore 5.3. To be honest, I really love this! In my last days I forgot to write an entry, because I was so interested in building a new site in Crestone instead of writing.

Have a nice weekend, and enjoy the Euro 2008. cheers