One of the difficulties the content editors have had is identifying from the tree if the item has a version in their regions language or not. To help with this I suggested a new gutter rendering that would display the flag of the currently selected language for each item that had a version in that language. It turned out to be a very simple process.
To create a new gutter rendering you start by creating a new class that inherits from Sitecore.Shell.Applications.ContentEditor.Gutters.GutterRenderer. (Hint: Sitecore Rocks can help out here!)
Then override the GutterIconDescriptor method to create your own rendering. Just create a new GutterIconDescriptor object and populate the Icon and Tooltip properties. For our purposes I wanted to render the current language flag if the item has a version in that language. So we test for a version in the current language:
if (item.Versions.Count > 0)
If we have a version, create the GutterIconDescriptor object and get the flag icon, we can get this from the item.Language.GetIcon(item.Database); method.
So here is the final code listing for the renderer:
namespace RichardSeal.SitecoreBlog.Exstensions
{
using System;
using Sitecore.Data.Items;
using Sitecore.Shell.Applications.ContentEditor.Gutters;
public class MyLanguageVersion : GutterRenderer
{
protected override GutterIconDescriptor GetIconDescriptor(Item item)
{
if (item.Versions.Count > 0)
{
var descriptor = new GutterIconDescriptor
{
Icon = item.Language.GetIcon(item.Database),
Tooltip = String.Format("There are {0} versions in your language", item.Versions.Count)
};
return descriptor;
}
return null;
}
}
}
The final thing to do is add the gutter menu option in the core database. This is located in /sitecore/content/Applications/Content Editor/Gutters. Create a new Gutter Renderer item in that folder and add your assembly type.
And thats it! You will now get the menu item in the right-click of the content editor gutter.
Example screenshots:
en-GB
pt-BR
