How can i render partial to string and assign content to my model attribute?
I now that is not by MVC convetion, but it's easier to predefine some content then
assign same thing from controller to controller
THanks
you should create a helper for that.
A helper is here to provide your views and controllers with those kind of things. It allows your controller to stay thin. And your model to stay a model.
I once included a render_as_html into a model. And it was ugly.
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I was trying to create an action for one of the partials in my rails application, but wondered how to name it. Does it have the underscore at the beginning? Like:
def _my_partial
end
or no underscore? Not mentioned in the controllers guide
A partial is a piece of view which is embedded in the main view or within another partial. The purpose of a partial is typically for re-use or to making view code cleaner.
If you need to use an action to render a partial, then it's probably better to either:
make your partial into a view, or
create a view to embed your partial.
See Rails 4 - passing variable to partial
I would like to use the generic razor helper function Html.Partial to render views that have common html in them.
For instance, I have two views set up in Sitecore Payment Information.cshtml and Agent Payment Information.cshtml. These are rendered using the Sitecore rendering engine. Both of these views have very similar html in them that I would like to put in razor views not set in Sitecore and call them with #Html.Partial as appose to #Html.Sitecore().Rendering() as the latter forces me to set up a view and model in Sitecore which I am not sure is necessary.
My question is, is there anything that Sitecore does behind the scenes that makes it necessary to usethe #Html.Sitecore().Rendering() helper method instead of the #Html.Partial() helper method? Everything seems to work fine and I believe the entire view should get cached since the #Html.Partial call is nested inside either the Payment Information view or the Agent Payment information view set up in Sitecore.
Thanks in advance.
I have Html.Partial working in an MVC solution using Glass for ORM. There are two ways I've used this, one where the assumed model being passed to the partial is the same as the parent rendering and another where we create the model on the fly.
Assumes parent rendering model is passed:
#Html.Partial("~/Views/Components/MyPartialView.cshtml")
Instantiates a new model that is passed in:
#Html.Partial("~/Views/Components/Navigation/SecondaryNavigationRendering.cshtml", new SecondaryNavigation())
The parent view will need to have a mapped model in Sitecore. The secondary view does not have a mapped model in Sitecore but is typed to receive the model being passed (so in my first example that would be my IBasePage model, in my second it would be my SecondaryNavigation model).
Hope this helps.
I'm creating a new class, not a controller, nor a model, nor a mailer, that will act as a sort of controller.
It will have a render method that will need to render an HTML view script and layout associated with this class.
How can I utilize what Rails already provides in my class to render these views?
AbstractController, specifically AbstractController::Rendering is probably what I would look at first. There's likely something you can use there.
How do I associate a PartialView which will be used across the app with a Child Action? For example the PartialView could be a login bar at the top of the page which will need to have some associated logic (loading the model etc) which I would normally put in a ChildAction.
However, I don't know what Controller will be used. I think I could create a base Controller class with the ChildAction and then inherit from that but I was hoping there would be a more elegant solution.
The RenderAction method allows for selecting the controller:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee839451.aspx
I'm trying to embed a small view snippet that steps through a model fragment that works fine when I embed it in a single controller and pass it to a view like so;
Controller:
return View(_entities.formTemplate.ToList());
View:
http://www.pastie.org/666366
The thing is that I want to be able to embed this particular select box in more than just this single action / view, from the googling I've been doing this appears that it should go into a shared view, but I'm not clear then on how I could populate the model within that view from the controller? (or maybe I'm completely missing the purpose for shared views?)
In the other MVC framework I'm accustomed to working with there is the concept of a filter where you can call code before or after any action and mod the model as it passes the controller and goes to the view, is such a thing possible in .net mvc?
Any assistance appreciated.
You'll want to use the HtmlHelper method DropDownList() in order to create a input:
<%= Html.DropDownList("id", new SelectList(formBuilder, "ID", "Name")) %>
You probably want to use a ViewUserControl here.
You have a couple of options if you go that route. If it's model data that is easily available, recreate it at the call site of your RenderPartial like so:
<%=Html.RenderPartial("ViewName", new ModelData())%>
If it's data that is dependent on the current model data, then you'll need to pass that data somehow to your partial view.
ASP.Net MVC also has the concept of before/after controller actions. You decorate your controller method with an Attribute that derives from ActionFilterAttribute. In there, you have access to OnActionExecuting and OnActionExecuted.