PageController with multiple Views

PageController with multiple Views - inline editable?

Peter Jensen

Vote:

When a single PageController has multiple methods that return different Views, these views does not seem previewable in preview mode in the CMS system, when clicking an actionlink to the view in edit mode I am returned to the Index page. The content is not inline editable.

So e.g. if I have a class:

class EntityController : PageController {

  ActionMethod Index(){... return View("~/Views/Entity/Index.cshtml")}

  ActionMethod Edit(Guid id){... return View("~/Views/Entity/Edit.cshtml")}

  ActionMethod Create(){... return View("~/Views/Entity/Create.cshtml")}

}

And in the Index.cshtml view:

@Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id = row.Id })

This works fine in the non edit mode, but clicking the button in edit mode does not load the Edit page but returns to the index page and the content is not inline editable.

How do you deal with this? Do I really hav to make PageTypes and PageControllers for each view?

#191902

Edited, May 02, 2018 14:42

Mattias Olsson

Vote:

My guess is you have to manually add custom page edit routes to RouteCollection. The default page edit route looks like this:

routes.MapEditRoutes(
    "editpageroot",
    RouteCollectionExtensions.CmsHomePath + "{language}/{nodeedit}/{partial}/{action}", 
    new
    {
        action = "index"
    }, 
    null
);

RouteCollectionExtensions.CmsHomePath is unfortunately private and contains this:

private static string CmsHomePath
{
  get
  {
    return VirtualPathResolver.Instance.ToAppRelative(VirtualPathUtility.AppendTrailingSlash(ModuleResourceResolver.Instance.ResolvePath("CMS", "Content"))).Substring(1);
  }
}

#191912

May 02, 2018 16:27

Vote:

Yes you need a PageType or BlockType for it to be manageble in the CMS.

#191924

May 02, 2018 19:57

Peter Jensen

Vote:

Thanks for the responses. Maybe I can reuse the same controller class for multiple Page/Blocktypes?

#191932

May 03, 2018 8:28

valdis

Vote:

theoretically you can if contnet types are "compatible". look for TemplateDescriptors keyword in documentation.

#191977

May 03, 2018 12:13

Peter Jensen

Vote:

Thanks. I ended up just creating a page for each controller. With a baseclass for shared properties.

#192120

May 08, 2018 6:52