Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview 1.1.0

Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview

Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview enables easy to use rich HTML backoffice previews for the Umbraco Block List and Block Grid editors.

Installation

The Umbraco 10.4+ version of this package is available via NuGet.

To install the package, you can use either .NET CLI:

dotnet add package Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview --version 1.1.0

or the older NuGet Package Manager:

Install-Package Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview -Version 1.1.0

Usage

This package installs a custom Angular preview for both the Block List and Block Grid editors in the backoffice.

When setting up a block to be part of the List or Grid, setting the 'Custom View' property to block-preview.html will generate preview HTML based on the respective partial view found in /Views/Partials/blocklist/Components or /Views/Partials/blockgrid/Components.

How to select the custom views when creating a Block List/Grid:

Before and after of how components look within the Block Grid:

Grid-specific setup

When using the new Block Grid, replace the references below in your Grid template partial views

All of these extensions can be found in the namespace Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview.Extensions. This ensures that the grid editors correctly load in the back office.

Preview mode

This package adds an IsBlockPreviewRequest() extension to HttpContext.Request, similar to IsBackOfficeRequest() and IsFrontEndRequest() so you can add custom code to your views that only appears in the back office.

For example:

@using Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview.Extensions
@inherits UmbracoViewPage<BlockGridItem>

@if (Context.Request.IsBlockPreviewRequest())
{
    <p>This content will only be shown to content editors in the back office!</p>
}

Credits

This package is entirely based on the amazing work done by Dave Woestenborghs for 24days in Umbraco 2021. His code has been extended to support the new Block Grid editor in v10.4/v11 and turned into this package.

Matthew Wise also wrote a great article for 24days in Umbraco 2022 which added the ability to surface ViewComponents and has allowed his code to be contributed.

License

Copyright © 2022-2023 Rick Butterfield, and other contributors.

Licensed under the MIT License.