Custom MVC Routing with EPiServer 7

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Hi all

Really hoping someone can help me with this one. Im working on a version 7 MVC site. I have a page which it has its own template, but that page can also be loaded from else where in the site through a modal window, in this case it will have different HTML markup, there are also two options for the data that is displayed on that page, this option will toggle between a couple of properties available on the page.

So what I am trying to do is add a custom route to do two things:

Call a seperate method from my controller in order to call a different view
Pass a variable in another segment in the URL to control the toggling of properties

The perfect URL structure would give me a URL structure like the following (where node is the page name alias from EPiServer):

www.mysite.com/{node}/{variable}/{method}/

Although I would still be very happy just with:

www.mysite.com/{node}/{method}/{variable}/

With the default routing in EPiServer the following works:

www.mysite.com/{node}/{method}

However as soon as you add the variable to the end, I get a 404. I have tried adding the following custom route to the RegisterRoutes override in the Global.asax file:

routes.MapRoute(

"ModalLayout", // Route name

"{node}/{action}/{myvariable}/", // URL with parameters

new { controller = "MyController", action = "Index", myvariable = "defaultvalue" });

I have tried several variations of the above including adding the controller to the URL but I get 404 errors with everything I try. Can anyone recommend the best way to approach this?

Many Thanks
Kind Regards

Dave

#73441

Jul 22, 2013 10:35

Chris Sharp

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#73455

Jul 22, 2013 19:27

Chris Sharp

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If you want to keep your routing within the EPiServer context, you'll need to use MapContentRoute instead of the standard MVC MapRoute. I think for your particular case, I'd suggest keeping it in the EPiServer context.

I'm guessing you've checked out Joel's article on custom routing (http://joelabrahamsson.com/custom-routing-for-episerver-content/). There's also this forum post that I've found helpful (http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/thread.aspx?id=65422).

What other things have you tried?

#73456

Jul 22, 2013 19:27

dave@merchantmarketinggroup.com

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Hi Chris

Thank you very much for your response. It rurned out when I changed to use:

RouteTable.Routes.MapContentRoute

Instead of the RouteCollection it started working straight away. In case anyone else comes across this with a similar problem, my solution was:

RouteTable.Routes.MapContentRoute(
     "ModalLayout", 
     "{language}/{node}/{action}/{variable}", 
     new { action = "modal" });

Many thanks for your help Chris

Kind Regards
Dave

#73465

Jul 23, 2013 11:43