Sitecore: Detect user in Page Editor mode

Asked 13/11, 2013 at 18:41 Answered 7/6, 2016 at 12:2

Can I know how to detect user is in page editor mode using code? This is because, I have a component, when user browses from page editor, it will search in master_index folder instead of web_index folder.

Silva answered 13/11, 2013 at 18:41 Comment(0)

Please check with : if (Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsPageEditorEditing)

also is working on Sitecore 6.6, it not depends on Sitecore 7.

Please check also this Sitecore blog post by Martina Welander.

To check if is normal page use: if (Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsNormal)

To check if is preview mode use: if (Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsPreview)

Also are others PageMode:

IsPageEditorClassic
IsPageEditorDesigning
IsPageEditorEditing
IsPageEditorNavigating, etc

If you are curious you can check with Reflector or dotPeek this class: Sitecore.Context.PageMode from Sitecore.Kernel assembly.

Hammad answered 13/11, 2013 at 19:50 Comment(1)

Sitecore 8 switched to "Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsExperienceEditor". And if you're using Glass, you can shorthand to "@IsInEditingMode" in the view. – Nonresistance 22/8, 2017 at 19:35

Rather than checking the page mode, I think you just want to piggyback on the context database name -

var indexName = Sitecore.Context.Database.Name + "_index";

Bandbox answered 15/11, 2013 at 21:23 Comment(1)

I tend to agree. Although it doesn't answer the original question, it's a better solution to the underlying problem. – Easterly 27/10, 2016 at 20:36

I am using this syntax in view to add a class for JS detection, same code can be used for back-end detection with bit modification:

<html class="@(Sitecore.Context.PageMode.IsPageEditor ? "inexpeditor" : "notexpeditor")">

Inge answered 7/6, 2016 at 12:2 Comment(0)

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