Kentico global webpart usage

Question

We're moving from a pure portal to a portal/aspx development model. So I've been working on getting my .Master pages working and so far so good, except i need a way to have a Editable Text webpart applied globally.

Imaging a block of copy that sits in the header and appears on each page.

So, in portal, the copy is entered, and this is used through out the site, regardless of the template. I know i can add static copy to the parent .Master page, but this needs to be editable by an admin.

I've tried registering the Editable Text webpart on the ASPX page, but this doesn't seem to work correctly in the portal.

Answer 1

I believe the way to accomplish this is to create a single page template that has only the editable text webpart on it and does not inherit any other content. Then on your master page, add a page placeholder which uses that editable text webpart page template. This should then display that on every page. I've not done this approach before but hypothetically speaking it should work.

Answer 2

You could set up a Custom Setting.

The Kentico documentation has a great How-To guide for that.

After that, you can then just reference it using a macro like {% Settings.MyCustomSetting %} on each page - this also allows you to then control how the text is rendered on each section, in case some sections have specific markup you need to apply to the text block.

Answer 3

What is the reason of converting to Mixed mode? Is it better control over the basic page markup or something else?

Are you aware that you can customize CMSPages/PortalTemplate.aspx or replace it by your custom base page completely?

You may consider to use this approach, and if you need that because some pages are more complex, so it makes more sense to hardcode them, you can also implement them as some larger custom web parts.