A message I received this morning has again caused me to consider if and how we will implement registration keys and licensing for the Umbraco Store.  A search through my Google Mail archives tells me we’ve had at least a dozen inquiries with regard to this feature – all in favor.  While we consider the least intrusive way to implement this, please take a moment to tell us your opinion.

Please vote here

I’ll update this post with our approach as soon as its decided – this week if all goes well.

-Paul

This is a tip that is so simple I’m a little embarrassed to post about it.  But, some of the front-end developers were thrilled by this, so what the heck.

I am lucky to work with a group of very talented external front-end developers that have access to some of our Umbraco installations.  To date, I’ve given them access to the Content, Media, and Settings areas in the UI.  Of these, the Settings area is the most ‘sensitive’ as it allows them to view all templates and document types in the installation and has the risk of inadvertent changes to underling templates.  The goal was to allow them to input their beautifully crafted XHTML without worrying about what Tidy or TinyMCE might do to it.  Of course, using a SimpleEditor or Textbox Multiple data type is an option, but this allowed them to view only a small portion of the code at a time.

As a solution, I’ve used the Textbox Multiple data type and edited the related CSS and created a nearly full-screen view for these developers to work with (see below).  Now, if I can create something similar for CSS and JS files they’ll be eternally grateful!

How To:

1. Create a New Data Type in the Umbraco Developer section
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2. Edit the related style, umbEditorTextFieldMultiple, found in:
   1. …\umbraco_client\ui\default.css

   2. .umbEditorTextFieldMultiple {
          width: 700px;
          height: 700px;
          font-family: Trebuchet MS, Lucida Grande, verdana, arial;
          font-size: 12px;
      }
      

3. Add the Data Type as a property to the appropriate Document Type
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Another example of the incredible flexibility of Umbraco.

-Paul