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Render page in contentarea on block ContentArea property
Have you tried setting the TemplateTypeCategory = EPiServer.Framework.Web.TemplateTypeCategories.MvcPartial instead ?
Otherwise you might want to look at the TemplateCoordinator from the Alloy sample site.
This allows you to wire up a view to a type with a tag if you have no need for a viewmodel.
e.g. in its Register method.
viewTemplateModelRegistrator.Add(typeof(ContentPage), new TemplateModel
{
Name = "ContentPageWhenTag",
Tags = new[] { "List" },
AvailableWithoutTag = false,
Path = "~/Views/Partials/ContentPage/List.cshtml")
});
It looks like you are passing a viewmodel to your view... but if you can get away with passing the page itself to the view... I would chose the template coordinator method and then you don't need to create additional controllers
regards,
Danny
Edited,
Dec 17, 2015 17:25
I have the following code for my regular ContentPage controller
public class ContentPageController : PageController
{
public ActionResult Index(ContentPage currentPage)
{
return View(currentPage);
}
} and this for rendering in ContentArea
[TemplateDescriptor(TemplateTypeCategory = TemplateTypeCategories.MvcPartialController, AvailableWithoutTag = false, Tags = new string[] { "List" })] public class PartialContentPageController : PageController
{
public ActionResult Index(ContentPage currentPage)
{
return PartialView("/Views/ContentPage/ListItem.cshtml", viewModel);
}
} This is working fine if rendered like @Html.PropertyFor(m => m.MyContentArea, new { Tag = "List" }) in a page view. But, when I have the exact same code in a view for a block. The action on the PartialContentPageController don't get hit. If I set AvailableWithoutTag = true, it hits the action, but I loose the control to choose which view to use for rendering.
Functionality for tags seems to break if a page is rendered inside a ContentArea which is also rendered inside a ContentArea.
Any ideas?