Alexey Rusakov on Sitecore development - Get Sublayout Parameters in Sitecore 6

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Getting sublayout parameters in Sitecore 5

One of the popular questions about Sitecore is how to get sublayout parameters. Sitecore 5 way of doing that involves advanced API – parsing layout definition for the current item, finding the rendering item, etc.

Sitecore 6 makes this simple enough to remember – the parameter string is stored as a “sc_parameters” attribute of the sublayout.

string rawParameters = Attributes[“sc_parameters”];
NameValueCollection parameters = Sitecore.Web.WebUtil.ParseUrlParameters(rawParameters);

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 1:07:29 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Comments [5]
Sitecore | Crestone

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:32:41 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Hi and thanks for a great blog.

That sounds really good.
But i have one problem.

I use a sublayout two times on a template.. and give them diference parameters...
Each time my sublayout is called.. the above lines you mention, gives me only the first sublayouts parameters.
How can i get the correct paramters for both my uses of the sublayout?

I have a layout where where i need to render som boxes on both left and right side of the content. So i made a sublayout to render boxes.. it takes some parameters to which side it used, so i know which field of in the item to get the content for the boxes. But when i use the above lines.. i only get the first sublayouts parameters.

I tried using the old way to get the values, but the problem is the same.

/Brian

Brian Kenneth Nielsen

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:20:49 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Brian,

This does sound like a bug, thanks for letting us know. If you have access to Sitecore support system, you should register a ticket and hopefully support team will be able to find a workaround, and we'll be able to fix it in the product later.

Alexey Rusakov

Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:24:17 AM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Thanx Alexey

I will open a ticket.

/Brian Nielsen

Brian Kenneth Nielsen

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:57:08 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Hi Alexy

Thanks for the quick fix of the error.

Is there a way to get the DataSource instead of the old way, as you image shows?

/Brian :-)

Brian Kenneth Nielsen

Monday, December 08, 2008 5:53:26 PM (FLE Standard Time, UTC+02:00)

Hi Alexy,

Does this work with registered Web Controls too? Or is there another way to access the parameters from within a Web Control? I ask only because after attending a Sitecore 6 certification class and passing, I wanted to change a sublayout into a web control. The sublayout was able to correctly get the parameters, but the web control is not. Attributes["sc_parameters"] returns null.

Thanks for any assistance you might lend.

Pete

Pete Navarra

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