Custom Header Icon for your items?

Custom Header Icon for your Items?

On many occasions I have thought it would be nice to be able to display a different icon in the header of an item, rather than the one chosen for the template.  For example you might want a different icon based on the some status or perhaps an image relating to the item context.  For example a head-shot of a member of staff.

In this example I will show you how I change the header icon based on an image field on that item.  But hopefully you will see that the possibilities are endless.

The example I am using is based on an import I built, that created faculty/staff items in the content tree, for an educational institution.  I thought it would be a nice touch to display the faculty member's image as the header icon, if there was an image attached to the item.

What am I changing?

This processor will switch out the icon shown top left of the image below with a custom image:

And the end result:

 

How do you do it?

We need to add our pipeline processor to the Render Content Editor Header pipeline, which needs to come before the Add Title pipeline processor:

<pipelines>
	<renderContentEditorHeader>
		<processor type="MyProject.Feature.Image.Processors.GetEditorIcon, MyProject.Feature.Image"
		           patch:before="processor[@type='Sitecore.Shell.Applications.ContentEditor.Pipelines.RenderContentEditorHeader.AddTitle, Sitecore.Client']" resolve="true" />
	</renderContentEditorHeader>
</pipelines>

And here's the custom processor:

namespace MyProject.Feature.Image.Processors
{
	public class GetEditorIcon
	{
		private readonly ISitecoreService _sitecoreService;

		public GetEditorIcon(ISitecoreServiceFactory sitecoreServiceFactory)
		{
			_sitecoreService = sitecoreServiceFactory.CreateInstance();
		}

		public void Process(RenderContentEditorHeaderArgs args)
		{
			Assert.ArgumentNotNull(args, "args");
			var item = args.Item;
			using (var htmlTextWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(new StringWriter()))
			{
				var imageBuilder = new ImageBuilder();

				if (item.TemplateID == Constants.MemberDetailsPage)
				{
					var provider = _sitecoreService.GetItem<FacultyStaffMember>(item.ID.Guid);
                    
					if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(provider?.FacultyMemberProfileImage?.Src))
					{
						var src = provider.FacultyMemberProfileImage.Src;

						var urlString =
							new UrlString(src + "?height=32&width=32")
							{
								["rev"] = item[FieldIDs.Revision],
								["la"] = item.Language.ToString()
							};
						imageBuilder.Src = urlString.ToString();
						imageBuilder.Class = "scEditorHeaderIcon";
						htmlTextWriter.Write("<span class=\"scEditorHeaderIcon\">");
						htmlTextWriter.Write(imageBuilder.ToString());
						htmlTextWriter.Write("</span>");

						//Remove other icon added
						args.Parent.Controls.Clear();
						args.EditorFormatter.AddLiteralControl(args.Parent, 
                        	                    htmlTextWriter.InnerWriter.ToString());
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

The process method does the following:

• Checks the template of the item to ensure that it is using the template we are wanting to update.
• We then get the item (in this case using GlassMapper), but you could just use the Sitecore item
• We then build the image HTML and replace the Sitecore one in the header

This processor gets called every time the item is refreshed in the Content Editor.