Control over Link Text in Hyperlink Manager

[Marco]

I need some help getting the LinkText set;

I'm trying to create a product selector that returns a hyperlink. I've created my own content provider, based on the ProductBrowserContentProvider. It's shows a list of products whom I generate in the ResolveDirectroy function shown in the code below. This works quit nice.
What is returned is a link to my product. It shows the link in the HyperLink Manager window, in both the URL and the LinkText fields.
But I would like to show the productname in the Linktext. 

public override DirectoryItem ResolveDirectory(string path)

{

// category

DirectoryItem[] directories = GetChildDirectories(path);

return new DirectoryItem(GetName(path), EndWithSlash(GetDirectoryPath(path)), path, "", _permissions, GetChildFiles(path), directories);

}

private FileItem[] GetChildFiles(string path)

{

List<FileItem> products = new List<FileItem>();

long categoryid = GetLastIdFromPath(path);

if (categoryid > 0)

{

ProductFilter filter = new ProductFilter(0);

filter.Category = CategoryManager.FindCategory(categoryid);

foreach (Product product in ProductManager.FindProducts(filter))

{

string url = "http://${baseurl}/productdetails.aspx?id=";

url += product.ProductID.ToString();

url += "&username=${username}&password=${password}";

// the linktext should be product.TitleActiveLanguage

FileItem product_item = new FileItem(product.GetTitle(Framework.ActiveLanguage, true, true, false, false),"", 0, "location", url, product.TitleActiveLanguage, _permissions);

products.Add(product_item);

}

}

return products.ToArray();

}

Is it at all possible to control the link text from something inside a FileItem object?
If not, what do I do to get the linktext to show what I want?

thanks

[Lini]

Hi Marco,

You can try customizing the DocumentManager.ascx (http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/externaldialogspath/defaultcs.aspx) control and writing some custom JavaScript code to populate the link text textbox.

In the DocumentManager.ascx, modify the _setLinkManagerItem() function and in addition to setting the link.href attribute to item.get_url(), set link.innerHTML to the product name - item.get_name().

All the best,
Lini
the Telerik team

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