Is it possible to trigger the "Quick-edit" function using an <a> tag from within a page outside of EPiServer edit mode?

Question

1. Navigate to a page
2. Click the Quick-edit button (a regular a-tag)
3. The users goes into Quick-edit mode

Is this possible and how to achieve?

Note: The question is targeted at EPiServer 6 R2 in this particular case.

Answer 1

Johan is absolutely right. His answer works beautifully.

I wanted to share my final result:

1. Create a personal blog publically. By publically I mean you're really just using EPiServers edit-mode stuff.

   uxCreatePersonalBlog.NavigateUrl = String.Format("{0}EditPanel.aspx?parent={1}&type=82&epslanguage={2}&mode=simpleeditmode",
       UriSupport.AbsoluteUrlFromUIBySettings("edit/"),
       CurrentPage.PageLink,
       CurrentPage.LanguageBranch);
   
   uxCreatePersonalBlog.Visible = CurrentPage.QueryDistinctAccess(AccessLevel.Create);
   

2. Create a blog item publically.

   uxCreateBlogItem.NavigateUrl = String.Format("{0}EditPanel.aspx?parent={1}&type=80&epslanguage={2}&mode=simpleeditmode",
       UriSupport.AbsoluteUrlFromUIBySettings("edit/"),
       CurrentPage.PageLink,
       CurrentPage.LanguageBranch);
   
   uxCreateBlogItem.Visible = CurrentPage.QueryDistinctAccess(AccessLevel.Create);
   

3. Edit a blog item publically.

   uxEditBlogItem.NavigateUrl = String.Format("{0}Default.aspx?id={1}&epslanguage={2}&mode=simpleeditmode",
       UriSupport.AbsoluteUrlFromUIBySettings("edit/"),
       CurrentPage.PageLink,
       CurrentPage.LanguageBranch);
   
   uxEditBlogItem.Visible = CurrentPage.QueryDistinctAccess(AccessLevel.Edit);
   

Notice that I've used mode=simpleeditmode on all three buttons. If you don't use mode=simpleeditmode you will end up with the EPiServer edit-mode interface in the header after saving and publishing your page.

epslanguage is not necessary if you only have your site in one language. I added it just in case sometime in the future we decide to make it multilingual.

type is hard-coded. Is there a way to implement this in a more elegant way?

Answer 2

This gives the URL for Edit Mode with the current page loaded. Compare it to the Quick Edit URL and tweak accordingly.

string.Format(
  "{0}default.aspx?id={1}&epslanguage={2}&selectededitpaneltab=1",
  UriSupport.AbsoluteUrlFromUIBySettings("edit/"),
  page.PageLink,
  page.LanguageBranch)