Question

[I realise this might seem like a stupid question but I am lost.]

Using umbraco 4.9 I have a multi-lingual site where I have made an event handler to replicate content nodes to all languages as they are created in the back office to all languages. I am now trying to attach this to a custom context menu item(umbraco.interfaces.IAction) to give the creator a choice.

In the context menu item it is only possible to call a javascript function as a string. I shouldn’t touch the umbraco code itself so how can I pass a value to a web service? Where do I include the reference?

This is what I have at the moment:

public string JsSource
{
     get 
     { 
         return "function AddItem(){" +
                 "var multiLang = confirm('Create for all languages?');" +
                  //"$.ajax({" +
                  //"type: 'Post'," +
                  //"url: 'TryAgain.aspx/' + SendMultiVal" +
                  //"data: multiLang})" +
                  //"PageMethods.SendMulti(multiLang);}" +
                  string.Format("{0}.actionNew()", ClientTools.Scripts.GetAppActions)+"};"; 
     }
}

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

So the first thing that you need to do is to store the boolean value in a variable called boolvalue and then call the callservice function once you have the value.For eg:

  CallService("POST", "YourServiceUrl",boolvalue,
        function (data) {
            alert("Service Call Success");
        },
        function (result) {
            alert('Service call failed: ' + result.status + '' + result.statusText);
        });   

This will make a service call and get data from service if it returns some data.

   CallService = function (method, serviceUrl, value, successHandler, errorHandler) {
    $.ajax({
        type: method,
        url: serviceUrl,
        contentType: "application/text; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        data:JSON.stringify(value),
        success: successHandler,
        error: errorHandler
    });
};

Modify the dataType and dataType fields depending upon the type of data that you send and receive from the service.
Look into this if you need more information:
http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

Let me know if this works out for you.