QueryUniView

The QueryUniView control displays data from the Kentico database in a hierarchical structure.

Retrieves data using a pre-defined database query assigned through the QueryName property.
Automatically binds the data. You do not need to write any code.
Supports Kentico transformations, including hierarchical transformations.

Queries allow you to display the following types of data:

Pages (Page types -> Edit page type -> Queries)
Custom table records (Custom tables -> Edit table -> Queries)
Other objects (Modules -> Edit module -> Classes -> Edit class -> Queries)

Inherits from: BasicUniView
Web part equivalent (portal engine): Universal viewer with custom query

Tip: If you only need to display page data from a website’s content tree, consider using the CMSUniView control instead.

Getting started

The following tutorial that shows how to display all pages (CMS.Menuitem pages) from the sample Corporate Site in a hierarchical structure using the QueryUniView control:

Create a new Web form in your web project.
Drag the QueryUniView control from the toolbox onto the form.
Set the following properties for the control:
- QueryName: CMS.MenuItem.selectdocuments
- LoadHierarchicalData: true
- IDColumnName: NodeID
- ParentIDColumnName: NodeParentID
- LevelColumnName: NodeLevel
- TransformationName: CMS.MenuItem.ListItem
- HeaderTransformationName: CMS.MenuItem.ListItemHeader
- FooterTransformationName: CMS.MenuItem.ListItemFooter




<cms:QueryUniView ID="QueryUniView1" runat="server" QueryName="CMS.MenuItem.selectdocuments" LoadHierarchicalData="true" IDColumnName="NodeID" ParentIDColumnName="NodeParentID"  LevelColumnName="NodeLevel" TransformationName="CMS.MenuItem.ListItem" HeaderTransformationName="CMS.MenuItem.ListItemHeader" FooterTransformationName="CMS.MenuItem.ListItemFooter" />

Save the web form.
Right-click the web form in the Solution explorer and select View in Browser.

The resulting page displays a hierarchical list of pages.

Configuration

You can set the following properties for the QueryUniView control:

QueryUniView properties	Description	Sample value
AlternatingRange	Indicates how often the AlternatingItemTemplate should be used. (Inherited from UniView)
AlternatingStartPosition	Indicates the item number from which the AlternatingItemTemplate should start being used. (Inherited from UniView)
DataBindByDefault	Indicates whether the control automatically performs data binding during the Init event. (Inherited from BasicUniView)
DataSource	The object from which the list of data items is retrieved. (Inherited from BasicUniView)
DelayedLoading	Indicates whether the control loads data during the Load event instead of the default Init event.
EnablePaging	Indicates whether the built-in UniPager control is used to for paging. If you wish to use paging, LoadHierarchicalData must be set to false (hierarchical data cannot be paged).
HideControlForZeroRows	Indicates whether the control should be hidden when no data is loaded. The default value is False. (Inherited from BasicUniView)
HideHeaderAndFooterForSingleItem	If enabled, the BasicUniView does not render the content of the HeaderTemplate and FooterTemplate for levels that only contain a single item. (Inherited from UniView)
HierarchicalDisplayMode	Sets the hierarchical display mode. Inner generates sub-levels inside the level above, Separate generates sub-levels outside of the upper levels. (Inherited from UniView)	“Inner” “Separate”
IDColumnName	Gets or sets the name of the column that servers as a unique identifier for the loaded objects. The control uses the column to build parent-child relationship together with the column specified in the ParentIDColumnName property. Note: You need to set this property to load data in a hierarchical structure.
ItemSeparatorValue	HTML code that the control renders as a separator between the displayed items. This property has greater priority than the transformation assigned through the SeparatorTransformationName property.	“<hr/>”
LevelColumnName	Gets or sets the name of the column that determines the hierarchical level of items. Note: You need to set this property to load data in a hierarchical structure.
LoadHierarchicalData	Indicates whether the control loads data into a hierarchical grouped dataset. If false, the control binds the data in the default format (flat structure).
OuterData	Data generated in the HeaderTemplate and FooterTemplate. (Inherited from UniView)
PageSize	Sets the number of items displayed per page.
PagerControl	Allows you to access the internal UniPager control used for paging.
PagerDataItem	Gets or sets the pager data item object. (Inherited from UniView)
PagerForceNumberOfResults	If set, the DataSet containing paged items is not modified by the pager, but the pager itself behaves as if the amount of paged items were identical to this value. The value must be set to -1 for the property to be disabled. (Inherited from UniView)
PagerPosition	Sets the positions of the pager (relative to the displayed data).	“Bottom” “Top” “TopAndBottom”
ParentIDColumnName	Gets or sets the name of the column that stores the unique identifier of parent objects. The control uses the column to build parent-child relationship together with the column specified in the IDColumnName property. Note: You need to set this property to load data in a hierarchical structure.
QueryName	Gets or sets an array containing parameters for the used query.
QueryParameters	Gets or sets an array containing parameters for the used query.
RelatedData	Custom data connected to the object. (Inherited from BasicUniView)
SelectedDatabaseColumnName	Gets or sets the name of the column that the control uses to identify the selected item.
SelectedQueryStringKeyName	Gets or sets the name of the query string parameter that determines item selection. If the page is requested with this parameter in the URL, the control selects the item whose value in the SelectedDatabaseColumnName column matches the value of the parameter.
SelectedValidationType	Gets or sets the validation type used for the value of the query string parameter that determines item selection.
ShowEditDeleteButtons	Indicates if the control renders edit and delete buttons next to the displayed pages in editing modes (Page tab in the Pages application and On-site editing mode).
UseNearestItemForHeaderAndFooter	Indicates whether the control provides data to the item templates (or transformations) that display the header and footer content. You can work with the data inside the code of the templates. Header templates use the data of the first item on the given hierarchy level. Footer templates use the data of the last item on the given hierarchy level. The control ignores this property if the OuterData property is set. (Inherited from UniView)
UseHierarchicalOrder	Indicates whether the control organizes the data according to the default hierarchical order. Only applies if LoadHierarchicalData is set to true. The default order value is “NodeLevel, NodeOrder”. If you specify a value for the OrderBy property, the control appends it after the default order expression.
ZeroRowsText	Text shown when the control is hidden by the HideControlForZeroRows property. (Inherited from BasicUniView)	“No records found.”

CMS Base control properties	Description	Sample value
CacheDependencies	List of the cache keys on which the control’s cached data depends. When the specified cache items change, the control clears its cache. Each item (dependency) must be on one line. If you leave this property empty, the control uses default dependencies. See also: Setting cache dependencies, Configuring caching	cms.user\|all
CacheItemName	Sets the name of the cache key used to store the control’s content. If you leave the value empty, the system generates a default name containing variables, such as the control ID, the selected culture and the name of the user who loaded the page. The system cache is shared by all pages in your application, so cache item names representing different data must be unique globally. If you have multiple controls that load the same data, you can share the cache keys between the controls (optimizes loading of content and avoids redundant data in the cache). If the content displayed by the control depends on variables, such as URL parameters, you can set a custom name dynamically in the page’s code behind. See also: Caching the data of page components, Configuring caching	“CMSRepeaterNews” + Request.QueryString[“id”].ToString()
CacheMinutes	Sets the number of minutes for which the control caches content retrieved from the database. 0 indicates that control does not cache content -1 indicates that the control uses the site-level content caching settings Allows you to set up caching of content so that the control doesn’t have to retrieve content from the database on each request. The caching mechanism uses absolute expiration time. This means that cache items expire after a specified time period even if the page containing the control wasn’t requested. See also: Caching the data of page components, Configuring caching
FilterControl	Gets or sets the filter control used to limit the data read by the control.
FilterName	Gets or sets the code name of the filter control used to limit the data read by this control.
OrderBy	Gets or sets the ORDER BY clause of the SQL query that the control uses to load data.	“NewsReleaseDate DESC”
SelectedColumns	Database table columns that the control loads for pages, separated by commas ( , ). If null or empty, the control loads all available columns.
SiteName	Specifies the code name of the Kentico website for which the control loads data.
StopProcessing	If true, the control stops all processing — does not load or display any data or other HTML output.
TopN	Specifies the maximum number of database records that the control loads.
WhereCondition	Gets or sets the WHERE clause of the SQL query that the control uses to loads data.	“ProductPrice > 100”

Defining the output format

You need to define the content rendered by the QueryUniView control through transformations or item templates (inherited from the UniView control).

Use the following QueryUniView properties to assign transformations. Specify transformation names in format: <page type code name>.<transformation name>

Transformation properties	Description
AlternatingTransformationName	Applied to items that have an even position in the listing order. Every level in the hierarchy has its own separate alternation pattern.
FirstTransformationName	Applied to the first item on every level in the hierarchy. Only works for levels that contain more than one item.
FooterTransformationName	Rendered at the end of every level (after the last item on the level). Can be used to close encapsulating elements from the Header.
HeaderTransformationName	Rendered at the beginning of every level (before the first item on the level). Provides a convenient way to visually separate or style individual levels.
HierarchicalTransformationName	Assigns a hierarchical transformation.
LastTransformationName	Applied to the last item on every level in the hierarchy. Only works for levels that contain more than one item.
SeparatorTransformationName	Rendered between items.If hierarchical data is loaded, the separator is placed only between items on the same level (i.e. not between a parent item and its child).
SingleTransformationName	Applied in cases where there is only one item on a level in the hierarchy.
TransformationName	Applied to all displayed items that are not covered by a specialized transformation type (e.g. alternating items, first items etc.).

Setting the location of sublevels

If you are using the control to display hierarchical data, you can add a placeholder that specifies the position of sublevels inside the code of item transformations or templates:

For markup (Item templates and ASCX transformations):




  <cms:SubLevelPlaceHolder runat="server" ID="plcSub" />

For Text transformations:
```
  {^SubLevelPlaceHolder^}

  
```

When displaying items that have descendants in the hierarchy, the placeholder is replaced by the child level under the given item (including the header and footer for the new level). If you do not add the placeholder, the system automatically renders child levels after the code of parent items.

Note: To use the sublevel placeholder, the HierarchicalDisplayMode property of the control must be set to Inner (this is the default state).

The QueryUniView control has a built-in UniPager that you can enable through the EnablePaging property. Define the following item templates within the CMSUniView tags to determine the design of the pager:

Template name	Description	Sample value
PagerCurrentPageTemplate	Template used for the current page in the pager. Use the following in-line code in the template: <%# Eval(“Page”) %> - gets the current page number. <%# Eval(“PageURL”) %> - gets the page URL <%# Eval(“PageLink”) %> - creates a link to the page	`<strong><%# Eval("Page") %></strong>`
PagerDirectPageTemplate	Template used for direct page changing. Use a TextBox or DropDownList control with ID DirectPageControl to register the page change event.	`Page <asp:TextBox ID="DirectPageControl" runat="server" Style="width: 25px;" /> of <%# Eval("Pages") %>`
PagerFirstPageTemplate	Template used for the link to the first page in the pager. Use <%# Eval(“FirstURL”) %> to get the link to the first page.	`<a href="<%# Eval("FirstURL") %>">\|<</a>`
PagerLastPageTemplate	Template used for the link to the last page in the pager. Use <%# Eval(“LastURL”) %> to get the URL of the last page.	`<a href="<%# Eval("LastURL") %>">>\|</a>`
PagerLayoutTemplate	Template that determines the overall design of the pager.
PagerNextGroupTemplate	Template used for the link to the next group of pages. Use <%# Eval(“NextGroupURL”) %> to get the URL of the next group.	`<a href="<%# Eval("NextGroupURL") %>">...</a>`
PagerNextPageTemplate	Template used for the link to the next page. Use <%# Eval(“NextURL”) %> to get the URL of the next page.	`<a href="<%# Eval("NextURL") %>">></a>`
PagerPageNumbersSeparatorTemplate	Template used for the separator between page links in the pager.	` `
PagerPageNumbersTemplate	Template used for page links in the pager. Use the following in-line code in the template: <%# Eval(“Page”) %> - gets the page number <%# Eval(“PageURL”) %> - gets the URL of the page <%# Eval(“PageLink”) %> - creates a link to the page	`<a href="<%# Eval("PageURL") %>"><%# Eval("Page") %></a>`
PagerPreviousGroupTemplate	Template used for the link to the previous group of pages. Use <%# Eval(“PreviousGroupURL”) %> to get the URL of the next group.	`<a href="<%# Eval("PreviousGroupURL") %>">...</a>`
PagerPreviousPageTemplate	Template used for the link to the previous page. Use <%# Eval(“PreviousURL”) %> to get the URL of the next page.	`<a href="<%# Eval("PreviousURL") %>"><</a>`

Getting started

Configuration

Defining the output format

Setting the location of sublevels

Configuring the pager