Hello,

I am trying to use Webtends MultiTrack functionality to track the downloading of all PDFs on a site.

This looks like a major maintenance problem, since each pdf link on the site will need special code added to it, and new ones get added regularly, so a web production person would have to very carefully add code each time- something I would like to avoid.

Is there a way to use code-behind at the Masterpage level to programatically add the code to any Hyperlink whose NavigateUrl includes ".pdf". I have changed Hyperlinks in code-behind, but not universally for the site.

Thanks,

Michael

if you are using server controls to create the links it should be possible? for instance if  you used a asp:hyperlink you could do this in the page_load

        If InStr(HyperLink1.NavigateUrl, ".pdf") Then
            HyperLink1.NavigateUrl = HyperLink1.NavigateUrl & "extra_string_goes_here"
        End If

oops, didn't read thoroughly enough  :)

 for doing it on the masterpage level that might be a little tougher.

 
maybe try somethign like this

        For i As Integer = 0 To Page.Master.Controls.Count - 1

        'check the type of Page.Master.Controls(i) here and then check the navigateurl value of each hyperlink
 

        Next

 

Thanks! That makes sense.

Michael

Do you have any more ideas on this subject? I work in C#.

It turns out that Master.Controls does not find controls that aren't in the masterpage. But even if I go down a level into the content pages, I can't figure out how to discover whether a control is a HyperLink

 returns only "System.Web.UI.LiteralControl" even though there is a <asp:HyperLink> in the page.

I think I am missing some concept here.

Thank, Michael

Hi,

The control might be child control of the Page, and it might be grandchild control too..., e.g.

Page

+ ---- HyperLink

+ ---- PlaceHolder

        + ---- HyperLink

mlasell:

<script runat="server">
     protected void Page_PreInit() {
     for (int i=0; i < (Page.Controls.Count - 1); i++)
     {
        Response.Write(Page.Controls[i].ToString() + "<br />");
     }
</script>

 returns only "System.Web.UI.LiteralControl" even though there is a <asp:HyperLink> in the page.

The method only list all of the child control, you need iterate all of them, child, grandchild, grandgrandchild.

hope it help!

Thanks to you helpful people.

 Here is what I got to work on an individual page. It loops through all the image buttons and sets some standard javascript made unique by using the ClientID and also the CommandArgument of each button.Thus the page editor person who wants to add or change a link only has to assign a unique id and put in the PDF location in the CommandArgument without understanding much else. However my original problem still remains. How do I add this to the masterpage code-behind to get it to change every ImageButton on the site? I don't want to have to add a Panel to each page that has PDF links, and I don't want to add it to the code-behind of each page. So I want to add it to every ImageButton control in ContentPlaceHolder "Main"

Thanks for any more help.

In the page/panel a list of these:

in the cs file:

 protected void Panel1_OnLoad(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

       Panel Panel1 = (Panel)sender;

        for (int i = 0; i < (Panel1.Controls.Count - 1); i++)

        {

              ImageButton link = Panel1.Controls[i] as ImageButton;

               if (link != null)

               {

                link.ImageUrl = "/images/download.gif";

                link.Attributes["onmouseover"] = "MM_swapImage('" + link.ClientID + "','','../images/download_f2.gif',1)";

               link.Attributes["onmouseout"] = "MM_swapImgRestore()";

               link.OnClientClick = "dcsMultiTrack('DCS.dcsuri', '" + link.CommandArgument + "', 'WT.ti', 'ImageButton1');MM_openBrWindow('" + link.CommandArgument + "','PDFs" + i + "','toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=800,height=500')";

                }

             }

}

Uh, nevermind...

It finally entered my dim mind that a Masterpage ContentPlaceHolder is a child of the page.

So the code easily converts in the masterpage cs to